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TheWeddingLane -- Great Coco Myles Blog Post (And She's a Former Customer!)

Love this blog post from a former customer. Eileen and her bridesmaids are actually featured on our site. They're the group from Hawaii with those amazing parasols. It was great to find out that three years after using us for her bridesmaids dresses, that Eilenn was writing a great blog post about ability to make great celebrity inspired gowns.

Yikes! Stolen Bridesmaid Dresses.

Feel bad for this bride-to-be who had her bridesmaid dresses stolen. At least the wedding isn't until May 2011.

Hail The Queens!

Although our Custom Couture dresses are more popular for bridal parties, every so often a bride will choose one of our Celebrity Inspired dresses for their party. We think Marie made an excellent choice with these Hail the Queen dresses in Chocolate Georgette for her bridesmaids.

Bridal Party Marathon

Want to get the bridal party to bond before the wedding? How about getting them to run a marathon together as a relay team? Cute story. http://bit.ly/9JKApb

Coco Myles' Facebook Make-A-Friend-A-Fan Contest

Ladies, here's your chance to win a free Coco Myles gown of your choice! Refer your Facebook friends to the Coco Myles fan page and you may be the next winner!

Here’s how:

Simply go to Coco Myles' Facebook fan page and hit the Share button below the relevant post to share the link with your Facebook friends. You can add your own text to ask them for your support by becoming Coco Myles' fans at your recommendation. Once they join the fan page, they'll need to click here: Make-A-Friend-A-Fan Entry to provide your name as the fan who made the referral. The fan who refers the most number of friends by 5 pm (EST) Friday wins. Good luck!!

Coco Myles: Starting the Decade Off Right with Another Brides' Choice Award!

When we won the Brides' Choice Award for 2009 from WeddingWire.com, we were thrilled. Given that the award is based solely on the feedback that WeddingWire receives from brides, we found it to be real testament to our commitment to customer satisfaction and our ability to be the answer the age-old dilemma of bridesmaid dresses.

Well, not sure if it's as satisfying as the first one, but we just found out that we won the Brides' Choice Award for 2010 as well. This year might be even more gratifying since it demonstrates the consistency of our dresses, customer service, and overall customer satisfaction. We never lose sight of the fact that our bridesmaid dresses are going to be in someone's wedding. We don't take that responsibility lightly and, hopefully, given this philosophy, we'll keep winning this award for many years to come.

A big thank you to our customers, both brides and bridesmaids, who continue to have such nice things to say about us.

The International Side of Coco Myles

Being that bridesmaids dresses are our business, we've taken the time to research how the whole bridesmaid dress tradition came into being. Surprisingly, it originated from a need to fake out evil spirits so that they wouldn't know which woman in the bridal party was the bride. Apparently, both the bride and her maids dressed identically back in the day. The tradition of wearing the same color dress remains today (at least for the bridal party) and is still very much part of weddings in the English speaking world. Thus, we particularly love it when we supply a bridal party that's a bit off the beaten parth.

We were thrilled when we heard from Jacqueline, who had worn one of our dresses in an earlier wedding in Prague. [Jacqueline is easily our most international customer!]. She told us she was getting married in Germany, where the same-color bridesmaid dress tradition was not so prevalent and that her bridesmaids were not too keen on all wearing the same color dress. Fortunately, once all the dresses were in-hand, the bridesmaids were thrilled with the result --- as were we. We love the above photos which show off, rather nicely we might add, some of our Pink Georgette dresses. From left to right (in the lower photo) are the following dresses: Bradgelina, Scoop Neck Top/A-Line Skirt with Royalty Beading, Hail the Queen, and Graceful.

Daily Dose of Style Podcasts About Coco Myles

Really great podcast about us on Daily Dose of Style. Totally appreciate their taking the time to review the site and the specifics about our mix-and-match sizing and length alterations.

Ivory Georgette Bridesmaids Dresses . . . Sweet, Simple and Beautiful

As mentioned in previous posts, we've definitely seen a trend towards bridesmaids going with black bridesmaids dresses, but, as the above photograph demonstrates, going the opposite route and using ivory colored bridesmaids dresses also works beautifully. Our great thanks to our friend Shar for sharing this photo of her bridesmaids in our ivory georgette dresses! We know some folks may be hesitant to go this route out of fear that ivory colored dresses may be too close in color to the bride's traditional white dress, but if the bride should decide to do something a little different, as Shar did with her dress, then we think it's an excellent choice.

Coco Myles' Color Sourcing Solutions

When Krystle first contacted us she asked if we'd send some swatches of our yellow satin and charmeuse colors. Unfortunately, neither of the colors was what Krystle had in mind for her wedding. We did some color sourcing and sent her some samples for her and her bridesmaids to review. Eventually they chose one of the satins we had sent and Krystle Gold Satin was born!

Above is a photo of the bride and her happy bridal party wearing their gorgeous Krystle Gold bridesmaids dresses. The featured dresses are three Blueberry Celebrity Inspired Gowns, a Strapless/ Asymmetrical Skirt, and a Strapless/Straight Skirt. Krystle also wrote us a very nice testimonial which is now featured on the Testimonial section of our site. Nothing makes us happier!

The Vibrancy of Charmeuse

We constantly get questions about which fabric is best for bridesmaids dresses. We send swatches free of charge but we still have customers ask us about the difference between our charmeuse and satin. We tell them that the satin is heavier and a bit more forgiving since it's blended with a touch of Lycra. Our charmeuse is lighter and generally more vibrant in terms of color. We think the above photo demonstrates just how vibrant that color can be (please click on the photo so you can see it in all its glory)! These dresses were all made from our Wine Charmeuse and we think they look incredible. We also love that the photo shows such a large variety of our top and bottom styles, including our Jr. Bridesmaid dress and our Pickup Skirt (which is an incredibly popular bottom style right now).

Our heartfelt thanks to the bride, Karrie, for being kind enough to share the photo with us. Also, hats off to Artisan Photography for taking such a beautiful photo! You can read Karrie's kind words about, and review of, Coco Myles in the Testimonials section of our website.

Coco Myles . . . Pleasing Brides and Their Moms!

Besides the bride, the person you want to please the most if the mother of the bride, or the MOH as she's known in the SMS world. In fact, we can only imagine the how joyful it must be for the mother of the bride to know that her little girl and her bridesmaids are thrilled with how the day turns out. It's particularly heartwarming when we receive a kind note from a mother of the bride letting us know how happy she was with our bridesmaids dresses. We thank Kay for her kind note below and for sending us the above photo -- which again demonstrates how black is the new black!

I know this is late.... but we had the most beautiful wedding thanks to Coco Myles. You were a dream to work with - as we had sizes 4-24 in the wedding. Our dresses were of fine quality and quick service was a plus. I think we had the best wedding in the world - but most moms think that too.

Black is Still the New Black

We're hoping it's not a sign of these dire economic times that we're still finding bridesmaids' dresses in black to be so popular, especially since our dresses are pretty affordable even in this tough climate.

In any event, you can't argue with how wonderfully formal and elegant the black dresses are, especially when they're paired with one of our colorful sashes. We thank Heather and Frances for sending us photos from their weddings. We think these photos also show how well different styles -- in both tops and bottoms -- can work in a bridal party.

Coco Myles in In Touch Magazine

Well, we didn't win The Today Show Wedding Giveaway. Though biased, we thought we had the nicest dress. We're chalking our loss up to being paired with the funky, plaid madras groomsmen pants. One of the nice things about being a finalist is that Bobbi Thomas, the Today Show's stylist, wrote a very nice piece about the Coco Myles Reese dress in In Touch magazine. Click the image above to check it out.

Coco Myles Bridesmaids Dress Featured on The Today Show's Wedding Giveaway

We are truly honored to have been selected to participate in The Today Show's Wedding Giveaway. We're competing against three other dresses and hope to be chosen by the public as having the best bridesmaid dress for Leigh's bridal party. Any and all votes for Coco Myles are appreciated! Vote #4!

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Coco Myles Dresses Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders

Here's the first of two segments featuring Miami Dolphin cheerleaders modeling Coco Myles dresses.

African-American Brides Blog

Great write up about us at African-AmericanBrides.com!

Aloha - Coco Myles

Great blog post about us on the Hawaii Bride and Groom website. Hopefully, they'll put it in the print edition as well.

Destination Weddings - Coco Myles

Coco Myles got a great write up in the most recent issue of Destination Weddings & Honeymoons. There really is nothing better than our being featured in the popular bridal mags since we know how the brides devour them. Click on the above image to read the article.