Grace Ormonde Wedding Style February 2023 Digital Issue

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GRACE ORMONDE IN THIS ISSUE

With February being the “Month of Love,” we’re happy to say Grace Ormonde Wedding Style is back on the road producing onsite photoshoots – our first love.

In this issue, we have curated an incredible selection of heart-shaped engagement rings for some diamond inspiration. We also feature Lydia Courteille’s “Love Story” jewelry collection. I am such a fan of this Parisian designer, and her high jewelry pieces are works of art.

For bridal fashion, we’ve included the latest wedding gowns for 2023 – plus the most spectacular looks from the Paris couture fashion shows.

Fabulous wedding décor is back, with extraordinary designers demonstrating how to create an all-encompassing experience for guests. Wedding and event décor is so much more than mere aesthetics; it’s also about the feeling one gets as soon as they walk into the space. Just when we think we’ve seen it all, designers come up with more unique ideas and flawlessly bring those visions to life.

Finally, for dessert, we have some sweet Spring wedding cakes that will add a gorgeous touch to any springtime wedding.

Here’s to the start of a fresh new season filled with love!

Sincerely,

milamoursi.com

Diamond: Graff Wedding Dress: Alon Livne Cake: elizabethscakeemporium.com

> fashion / runway : Bridal Fashion

Eveningwear

> departments : Diamonds

Earrings: Lydia Courteille

Dress: Elie Saab

> features :

Inspiration for a modern wedding in Santorini

> departments : Wedding Decor

Event Design & Production:

Above: Sky Productions

Left: Tantawan Bloom

WHEN PERFECTION IS THE

THING THAT MATTERS.

ONLY PARADISE WILL DO. PARADISECOAST.COM

THE BEST

DIAMOND RINGS HEART-SHAPED ENGAGEMENT

1 Harry Winston Classic Winston Heart-Shaped Engagement Ring with Tapered Baguette Side Stones. harrywinston.com

Photography: Aurora Crowley; Production: L Group Productions, Inc.; Stylist: Cannon; Assistant Stylist: Amber Stolec; Hair: Mako Iijima;

Makeup: Yumi; Location: Contra Studios New York, NY

As Seen in Grace Ormonde Wedding Style

1 Tiffany & Co. Heart-Shaped Diamond Engagement Ring in Platinum. tiffany.com

2 Tiffany & Co. Soleste® Heart-Shaped Halo Engagement Ring with a Diamond Platinum Band. tiffany.com

1 Graff Promise Heart-Shaped Diamond Engagement Ring with Pear-Shaped Side Stones in Platinum. graff.com

2 Graff Promise Heart-Shaped Diamond Engagement Ring with Baguette Cut Side Stones in Platinum. graff.com

3 Graff Paragon Heart-Shaped Diamond Engagement Ring in Platinum. graff.com

1 Chopard Happy Diamonds Icons Ring, Ethical White Gold and Diamonds. chopard.com

2 Chopard For Ever Ring in Platinum and Pavé Diamonds. chopard.com

1 Kwiat Heart-Shaped Diamond Engagement Ring in18k Four-Prong Setting. kwiat.com

As Seen in Grace Ormonde Wedding Style

Photography: Adam Angelides

1 Jean Dousset La Petite Diamond Heart-Shaped Ring in18k White Gold. jeandousset.com

2 Jean Dousset La Petite Diamond Heart-Shaped Ring in 18k Rose Gold. jeandousset.com

LOVE STORY

A symbol of eternal love; a precious memory of historical love stories; fire of gemstones that have kept secrets of forbidden romances; sentimental language of gems; passionate lovers separated by distance or death.

What could exactly represent all the nuances of these feelings ? What is the best way to depict all details – literature, painting or jewellery art?

Fascinated by these enigmatic inspirations Lydia Courteille fell in love again and again with gems, jewels and stories. This is the beginning of long and romantic story as a High Jewellery Collection: LOVE STORY by Lydia Courteille.

TRISTAN and ISOLDE

The celtic legend, Tristan and Isolde was written in the 12 th century. This passionate story beyond adultery and death, between fidelity and great feelings of bravery, characterizes the fatal hold of love !

The hero Tristan goes to Ireland to ask the hand of the princess Isolde for his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. On their return both of them mistakenly drink a love potion prepared for the King and fall deeply in love with each other. After escape and many adventures, they make peace with the King Mark, who ends marries Isolde. The distraught Tristan goes to Brittany, where he marries another noble woman also named Isolde. When he is wounded by a poisoned arrow, he sends for the first Isolde. His jealous wife tells him that his true love has refused to come; he dies just before she arrives, and she dies in his arms.

The story of Tristan and Isolde has inspired many poets, crystallizing the magic of a love reinforced by adultery and which remains indestructible after the lovers' death. Various art forms from the medieval era represented Tristan's story, from ivory mirror cases to the 13th-century Sicilian Tristan Quilt. In addition, many literary versions are illuminated with miniatures. The legend also became a popular subject for Romanticist painters of the late 19th and early 20th century.

HELOISE and ABELARD

Lovers who offended the codes of the 12th century to achieve the highest and deepest points of their feelings.

Héloïse was a renowned "woman of letters“, a philosopher of love and friendship, as well as an eventual high-ranking abbess in the Catholic Church. Her erudite and sometimes erotically charged correspondence is the Latin literature basis and serves alongside Abelard's « Historia Calamitatum » as a model of the classical epistolary genre. Her influence extends on later writers such as Chrétien de Troyes, Geoffrey Chaucer, Madame de Lafayette, Thomas Aquinas, Choderlos de Laclos, Voltaire, Rousseau and Simone Weil.

Peter Abelard is best known for his passionate tragic love affair, and intense philosophical exchange, with his brilliant student and eventual wife, Héloïse. He was a defender of women and of their education. After having sent Héloïse to a convent in Brittany to protect her from her abusive uncle who did not want her to pursue their forbidden love, then he was castrated by men sent by this uncle. Still considering herself as his spouse even though both retired to monasteries after this event, Héloïse publicly defended him when his doctrine was condemned by Pope Innocent II and Abelard was therefore considered, at that time, a heretic.

The story of Abelard and Héloïse has proved immensely popular in modern European culture. This story is known almost entirely from a few sources: first, the Historia Calamitatum; secondly, the seven letters between Abelard and Héloïse which survived (three written by Abelard, and four by Héloïse).

Tristan And Isolde Earrings 18k white gold - 48.82gr; 2 morganites - 50.48cts; pink sappihre - 23.63cts; ruby0.3cts. lydiacourteille.com

CLEOPATRA and MARC ANTOINE

The union that symbolizes love and war passion of two personalities who marked history. The attraction of Marc Antoine and Cleopatra, their loyalty through hardship and time, cultural differences, and their common thirst for conquests.

Firstly divine Cleopatra forged an alliance and a sexual relationship with Caesar for placed herself on the throne of Egypt. After that religious propaganda declared Cleopatra the New Isis or Aphrodite - mythic goddess of love and beauty, in Rome. After Caesar’s death Cleopatra had a culmination of her love affairs - marriage with Marc Antoine. Apart from their undoubted mutual affection, Cleopatra needed Marc Antoine in order to revive the old boundaries of the Ptolemaic kingdom

Marc Antoine was a Roman general. On a mission to Egypt to question Cleopatra about her loyalty, he became her lover. He returned to Rome to settle differences with Octavian and to strengthen his position where he agreed to marry Octavian’s sister Octavia. When relations with Octavian collapsed again, he headed for Syria and sent for Cleopatra for aid. Octavian sent Octavia to him, and, when Marc Antoine ordered her back to Rome, a fatal breach opened. He divorced Octavia, and Octavian declared war on Cleopatra. Antony lost the Battle of Actium, leading him and Cleopatra to flee to Egypt, pursued by Octavian. When resistance became futile, they committed suicide, Cleopatra by means of an asp bite.

Cleopatre And Marc Antoine ear pendants transformable into 2 pendants- 18k gold - 52,58gr; 2 enamel portraits; ruby - 0.02ct; orange sapphire-1.66cts; pink sapphire- 5.06ct; fire opal 5.29cts; morganite- 31,79cts.

The story of Eurydice and Orpheus is the most famous love story in Greek Mythology – the hero descend to hell to find his beloved.

Orpheus and Eurydice got married and were living a happy life until tragedy happened. Eurydice was bathing naked in the river, when a satyr tried to rape her. She tried to avoid him and fell into a nest of vipers and was fatally bitten. Orpheus found his wife's body and due to his grief, started singing the most mournful songs. The nymphs and the gods started weeping upon hearing Orpheus' songs, and advised him to go to the Underworld to bring his wife back.

Orpheus indeed followed their advice and met with the god of the Underworld Hades and his wife Persephone. He pleaded to let him take his wife back, and after singing to them, their hearts were softened so much that they agreed. However, they told him not to look back until they both had reached the surface. They started walking their way back; when Orpheus reached the opening of the cave with his wife following, he looked back, anxious to see if Eurydice was behind him. As she had not yet reached the opening doors though, she disappeared back into the Underworld forever.

ORPHEUS and EURYDICE

Orpheus and Eurydice Ear Pendants

18k white gold - 57.92gr; 2 morganite intailles 43.32cts; pink sapphire 22.97cts; ruby 0.32 cts. lydiacourtille.com

LEDA and THE SWAN

One of the last discovery in the ruins of Pompeii was an erotic fresco depicting the Greek goddess Leda - wife of the king of Sparta Tyndare - with a Swan who is none other than the God of the gods on Olympus, Zeus, transformed himself into the bird.

One of the masterpiece that connected the previous collection La Vie en Rose is a bracelet with a pink gold swan hovering over the mirror of morganite on which Leda appears, carved from the back of the gemstone.

In Greek mythology as told by Homer, Zeus changed into a swan to better seduce Leda during a nocturnal visit. After a night of love two children were born, Pollux and his twin, the famous Helen of Troy, both born after the hatching of an egg spawned by the Spartan Goddess.

The story told by Ovid «The Metamorphoses » is a book written at the beginning of the first century, which relates the transformations of gods and men into animals or plants – including the mortal Leda, queen of Sparta, was loved by the god Zeus.

LEDA and The SWAN BRACELET

pink gold 18k - 123.85 grs, morganite intalle of Leda and the Swan – 354 cts, 1590 pink sapphires 58.03 cts, 2 black sapphires, white diamonds 0.55 ct

JUPITER and GANYMEDE

Ganymede’s myth is more than a simple story. It is yet another piece in the history of ancient sexuality, with particular importance for queer history. If the king of the gods was allowed to have a male lover, then this certainly suggests a lot for the people adhering to that religion. Ganymede’s myth indicates that erotic relations between individuals of the same sex were at the very least tolerated.

Ganymede was a young man from Troy. His beauty was unparalleled and for that reason, Jupiter transformed himself into an eagle. He brought Ganymede to Olympus to serve as his cupbearer and lover. Ganymede’s myth is an important step in the history of homosexuality.

Ganymede’s myth was especially popular amongst the Greeks and the Romans. The first recorded mention of Ganymede is found in Homer’s Iliad dating back to the 8th century BCE. Other notable sources include Hesiod, Pindar, Euripides, Apollodorus, Virgil, and Ovid.

HISTORICAL LOVE STORIES

How could a jewelry piece resemble a real love artefact ? What is the look of love ? How historical love jewelry looks like? It looks like the High Jewellery Collection LOVE STORY by Lydia Courteille. The real couples and love affairs recreated in jewelry masterpieces.

JUPITER and GANYMEDE RING

18k white gold - 40,83gr; Morganite 41.34cts; 2,84 cts diamonds; pink sapphire - 12.16cts. lydiacourteille.com

INSPIRATION FOR A IN

DESTINATION

Photography:

Vangelis Photography

WEDDING MODERN SANTORINI

As one of the world’s most romantic places, Santorini is a dreamy location where the sea, volcanic landscape, and blue sky become an idyllic backdrop for modern destination weddings. Couples who tie the knot in Santorini often refer to it as “paradise on earth,” as it offers such a unique and unforgettable ambiance for celebrating love.

The Greek Isles are famous for their fantastic summer weather, which typically lasts from April through October. For an outdoor wedding, the best time to get married in Santorini is between May and September, as couples and their guests can admire the views and landscape in all their glory.

“Booking your wedding date in high season is the best choice if you want to have the event of your life and combine it with a wonderful summer vacation in Greece,” says Konstantinos C. Deliporanidis, Founder of DW Events in Santorini. “On the other hand, if you want to enjoy a more secluded and traditional side of Greece, we recommend you consider getting married in spring or autumn.”

With so many couples choosing Santorini as their wedding destination, the famed Greek Isle is considered to be the “island of love.” From large-scale weddings to intimate elopements, the island’s landscapes provide the perfect backdrop for weddings and photography sessions.

Konstantinos and his team created some gorgeous inspiration for a modern destination wedding in Santorini, designing a bohemianchic setting for their couple, Milika and Carlos. The entire design was based on a custom mirror element and luxury rentals, and the event took place at Santorini Gem – an exquisite wedding venue with breathtaking views. To complement this concept, the talented team of vendors wanted to take the historic nature of the venue and combine it with modern aesthetics, creating a unique design.

“We are focused on a timeless and romantic aesthetic, utilizing modern elements,” says the team. “Our aim was to design and execute a unique and elegant event, creating inspiring wedding styles. We were inspired by the natural beaty of the island, incorporating our personal aesthetics to create an inspirational design for a destination wedding in Greece. We thought it would be a perfect opportunity to introduce some new and exciting wedding features that would redefine the meaning of luxury destination weddings.”

The contemporary mirrored gazebo served to add to the enchantment of Santorini Gem’s surroundings, reflecting the water and natural light of the caldera view. Floral arrangements consisted of pampas grass accented with gold, fuchsia, and burgundy, popping gorgeously against the luxurious grounds and architecture of the estate.

Following the ceremony, an al fresco dinner reception was designed with crystal chandeliers and carefully selected table details. The color palette was a soft and warm combination of earthy tones, pairing perfectly with the cliffside caldera setting. For a modern destination wedding in Santorini, the key is to design an event that reflects the couple while also serving to highlight the exquisite beauty of the island.

“Some of the most beautiful views that Santorini offers is that of the imposing caldera,” says Konstantinos. “The vastness emitted from this magnificent scenery perfectly harmonizes the endless devotion of a loving couple! Furthermore, Santorini has one of the most beautiful sunsets around the world. So, there is nothing more romantic for your elopement

wedding in Santorini, from the warm light of the setting sun caressing your faces, as you seal your eternal union.”

For those inspired by Milika and Carlos’ incredible photos, Konstantinos offers some advice about planning a destination wedding in Santorini – starting with personalizing the wedding experience as much as possible.

“This can be achieved by choosing a professional wedding planner who will provide a stress-free planning experience with every single detail,” he adds. “At DW Events, our favorite part of the wedding planning process is that it starts with getting to know our couples on a very deep and personal level. We love to create an authentic and custom experience, incorporating their favorite aesthetics while simultaneously delivering seamless execution, cutting-edge design, and personalized planning experience.”

Some other details couples may want to consider, is choosing an outdoor wedding venue so everyone can enjoy the panoramic caldera views. The volcanic beaches of Santorini also make a fantastic setting for pre- or post-wedding parties. Of course, a pre-wedding photo session in the most picturesque spots of Santorini is also highly recommended. Not only does it give couples the opportunity to see the island and enjoy some downtime together; it also gives photographers a chance to flex their creativity and bond with the couple before the big day.

Aside from selecting the perfect Santorini wedding venue and planning out the various events of a couple’s destination wedding experience, Konstantinos maintains that designing the wedding itself is a monumental part of the wedding planning process.

“Wedding design is actually one of the most vital aspects of a wedding event, as it is the expedient to transform the purest feelings of love and devotion to an aesthetic harmony that will perfectly embrace the most important day of your life,” he says. “In other words, wedding design describes the assemblage of all the stylistic elements of a wedding, from the wedding altar decoration to the entire transformation of the venue. Wedding design describes the coordination of all of them in order to create a harmonic outcome that will be perfectly aligned with your wildest dreams and your deepest desires.”

Location: Santorini Gem Santorini, Greece; Planner & Event Design: DW Events

Konstantinos Deliporanidis; Floral: Flowery; Mirror Construction: Santorini Events;

Furniture Rentals: Spicy Bites Catering Events; Hair & Makeup: Julia Popova; Dress:

Primalicia Bridal Designers; Jewelry: Poniros Jewellery; Groom’s Suit: Takis Giannetos

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SPRING WEDDING

WEDDING DECOR

Design & Production: Sky Productions

Ramat Hasharon, Israel; Event Design: Hilit Gordon Hertzeliya, Israel; Photography: Marvin Chichportiche Netanya, Israel

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Planner, Design & Production: MBM Events Design West Palm Beach, FL; Floral Design: Wedded Events Ridgefield, NJ; Rentals: Bubble Collection Miami, FL and Decora Event Rentals Miami, FL; Photography: Reem Photography Deerfield Beach, FL

Location and Lighting: The Breakers Palm Beach, FL; Planner: Posh Parties Palm Beach, FL; Floral & Event Design: Xquisite Events Boynton Beach, FL; Photography: Genevieve de Manio Photography Carlisle, MA

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Productions Ramat Hasharon, Israel; Event Design: Refael Designs Israel; Photography: Eran Be’eri Ramat Gan, Israel

Event Design & Production: Sky Productions Ramat Hasharon, Israel; Event Design: Refael Designs Israel; Photography: Eran Be’eri Ramat Gan, Israel

Event Design & Production: Sky Productions Ramat Hasharon, Israel; Event Design: Refael Designs Israel; Photography: Eran Be’eri Ramat Gan, Israel

Event Design & Production: Sky

Productions Ramat Hasharon, Israel; Event Design: Refael Designs Israel; Photography: Eran Be’eri Ramat Gan, Israel

Event Design & Production: Sky Productions Ramat Hasharon, Israel; Event Design: Refael Designs Israel; Photography: Eran Be’eri Ramat Gan, Israel

Event Design & Production: Sky Productions Ramat Hasharon, Israel; Event Design: Refael Designs Israel; Photography: Eran Be’eri Ramat Gan, Israel

Event Design & Production: Sky Productions Ramat Hasharon, Israel; Event Design: Refael Designs Israel; Photography: Eran Be’eri Ramat Gan, Israel

Location: American Museum of Natural History New York, NY; Event Planner: Gourmet Advisory Services New York, NY; Floral, Event Design & Production: Tantawan Bloom New York, NY; Rentals: Luxe Event Rentals Brooklyn, NY; Lighting: Frost Productions New York, NY;

Photography: Fred Marcus Studio New York, NY

ROMANTIC WEDDING CAKES

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Cake: Elizabeth’s Cake Emporium London, United Kingdom elizabethscakeemporium.com

Cake: MonAnnie Cakes Reading, United Kingdom; Photography: Eva Tarnok Photography London, United Kingdom monanniecakes.com evatarnok.com

Cake: MonAnnie Cakes Reading, United Kingdom; Photography: Charolette Wise London, United Kingdom monanniecakes.com charlottekimberleywise.com

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Cake: Elly’s Cake Indonesia ellyscake.com

Cake: Elly’s Cake Indonesia ellyscake.com

Cake: MonAnnie Cakes Reading, United Kingdom; Photography: Cristina Ilao Photography London, United Kingdom monanniecakes.com cristinailao.com

Cake: MonAnnie Cakes Reading, United Kingdom; Photography: Cristina Ilao Photography London, United Kingdom monanniecakes.com cristinailao.com