Celebrity Inspired with Your Favorite Color

We think one of the really fun things about our site is the ability to get a great Celebrity Inspired dress but in a color different than the dress that inspired it. For instance, Emmy Rossum made a huge splash when she wore this dress to the Academy Awards. There’s no doubt that the brick red color of this is beautiful. However, as demonstrated by our beautiful customer, Grace (a very appropriate name, no?), our version can look quite wonderful in Royal Satin as well.

Blueberries at the Beach

We’re getting a lot of inquiries about what dress works well for beach weddings. We think our Blueberry dress works really well in this regard especially in bright summer colors. A great example is the dress shown above in our Yellow Charmeuse. We thank Sarah for wearing the dress so well. We love the matching flowers too.

Criss Cross Top/Asymmetrical Skirt

Recently we’ve received a lot of orders for the Criss Cross Top with an Asymmetrical Skirt. We’ve also had a number of requests from folks wanting to see photos of how this dress looks in real life. In the December 12, 2006 post you can see how this dress looks in turquoise charmeuse. And, to the immediate left, we’re especially happy to have the lovely Sarah showing off this dress in our Raspberry Charmeuse with Pearl Ivy Beading. We love how the beading helps to “formalize” the dress. Wicker chair is optional.

Personal Favorite -- The Teri

I think this is my favorite Celebrity Inspired dress. I remember the day we first photographed it and I loved how it looked. It looks even better on our friend Tsz who’s wearing it in Royal Blue Georgette with a White Charmeuse shawl.

Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

Our dresses found their way to San Jose recently. They were graciously worn by the bridesmaids (or at least most of them) of our friend, Nadia. We first heard from Nadia back in January when she requested some turquoise and chocolate satin samples. We soon found out the wedding was to be held on March 17 and didn’t start to receive the orders until the first week in February so we were little bit under the gun on this one. Two of the bridesmaids may not have believed that we could get their dresses to them in time and went elsewhere – although they did wear our turquoise satin sashes. We’re happy that at the end of the day we were able to ship the dresses to everyone in time for the wedding. Nadia was good enough to send us this picture of the happy event showcasing our wares. We love the fact that almost of our tops are featured in this photo; demonstrating that, when it comes to bridesmaids’ dresses, personal style and matched dresses can indeed coincide in this crazy world of ours!

From left to right the dresses are: Strapless Top/Ballroom Skirt; Strapless Top/Asymmetrical Skirt; Sweetheart Top/A-Line Tea-Length Skirt; Scoop Neck Top/Ballroom Skirt; skipping the bride; Strapless Top/Asymmetrical Skirt; Criss-Cross Top/A-Line Tea-Length Skirt; not ours (except for that killer sash); Sweetheart Top/A-Line Tea-Length Skirt; not ours (except again for that sash . . . love the way she tied it, by the way). We wish Nadia and her bridesmaids all the best!

Maternity Dress to the Rescue

Thank goodness for our maternity dress! When we first started, we didn’t even offer the maternity style dress that’s now on our site (in three different lengths). Amazingly enough, we were able to scientifically determine that women who fit the demographic of being part of a bridal party may also get pregnant!

We’ve learned firsthand the difficulties of purchasing a bridesmaid dresses while venturing into motherhood. Our friend Noilyn contacted us back in August. She was particularly fond of our Bronze Charmeuse and, along with her bridesmaids, loved the concept of being able to design their own dresses for the wedding. All the bridesmaids ordered without any issues and the dresses were made and delivered to everyone’s satisfaction. However, in the one of the bridesmaids became pregnant and could no longer fit into her dress. We gladly accepted the original dresses in exchange for a newly produced maternity dress. [We wonder how David’s Bridal would’ve handled this!?] Our generosity was rewarded by the powers-that-be when one of the other bridesmaids determined that she ordered the wrong size and we were able to provide her with the dress originally prepared for the then pregnant bridesmaid.

Even with the two dress exchanges, at the end of the day all worked out incredibly well as is evident by the beautiful photo taken by Jenny Stafford of Red Loft Studios shown above. We think the photo demonstrates how nicely our maternity dress blends in with our traditional bridesmaid dresses. We’re very thankful to Noilyn for writing us and letting us know how much she appreciated our efforts on her behalf. You can read her words below in the comment section to this entry.

We Do Try Harder

This has to be my favorite blog comment about us to date. We love the part about our Avis-like “we try harder” approach to customer service. It was posted on favoridea.com, which, as the name implies, is a site dedicated to wedding favors. The only problem with this review is that the satirical part about us being part of a Nigerian spam operation is what comes up in the Google search synopsis. So unless someone reads the full review they may very well think that General Ubgyama, who, from what I’m told, has recently inherited $15 million and needs a U.S. partner to help collect his money, is now designing dresses for us.

Burnt Orange

Maybe it was just a coincidence, but in the course of one week we had five separate requests for “burnt orange”. We figured coincidence or not, we’d better get on the Burnt Orange bandwagon. Thus, we’re happy to announce that we are now offering this color in both satin and charmeuse. In recognition of our prior post, we figured we’d let you know that these colors bear a strong resemblance to Pantone 17-1353 (“Burnt Orange”).

Color Communication Made Easy

We wanted to sing the praises of the Pantone Color Guide for Fashion and Home which is pictured above. We’re happy to source colors for customers who wish to utilize a shade that we don’t offer in stock. However, we pride ourselves on our speed and the color sourcing is one of the more time-consuming endeavors we engage in. First, the customer has to send us a swatch/sample, then we have to source a few possibilities, then we have to send what we’ve found to the customer for their approval and, finally, procure the fabric. The whole process may take as long as 3 to 4 weeks, which I suppose isn’t that long when it comes down to it. In any event, we’ve found that about a third of this time can be eliminated by using the Pantone Color Guide which is a ready-made resource for color communication. Rather than having the customer send us a swatch, they can simply reference it via the Pantone system. This system has worked really well for us so far.

Custom Couture in Georgette

We’re pleased to announce that we are now offering our Custom Couture line of dresses in our georgette fabric. Previously, these design-your-own dresses were only available in our satin and charmeuse fabrics. Our website should be updated within the next week to ten days to include this option. However, we are presently accepting orders for these dresses in georgette. Just send an email after you order informing us that you want your dress in georgette and we’ll make it happen. You can check out the color range by looking at some of the Celebrity Inspired dresses we offer in georgette (e.g. Teri).

A Few Great Links

Below are a couple of links to sites that have recently said some nice things about us. We’re particularly proud of the first one, which is from an existing customer who just received her dress this past weekend:

Happy Customer!

A Charmed Event

Wedding Tips

Madame Butterfly

Another one of our all-time favorite customers is Andi (a/k/a Mrs. Butterfly on weddingbee.com). Weddingbee.com is a site that allows women to post questions, issues, vendor reviews, etc. regarding their upcoming weddings. What struck us about weddingbee.com is how articulate the posters are. It’s great content for anyone who’s in the process of getting married. Sometimes more popular sites like weddingchannel.com and theknot.com can be a little annoying with their automatically streaming video and slow loads.

In any event, Andi was kind enough to write some really great things about us throughout the whole process – from ordering swatches, to communications about our Jr. Bridesmaid dress (she was the first one to ever order it!), to having her bridesmaids wear our dresses. In fact, her comments about us are so good that we feel compelled to inform you that she was not paid for her words (although we did send her one of our fabulous t-shirts). We're very proud of our A+ vendor grade. Here’s a link to all of Andi’s comments about us which includes photos of her dresses http://www.weddingbee.com/index.php?s=cocomyles. You can click on each post's title to see the full posting and photos.

We’re thrilled she had such a great wedding and we wish her – and Mr. Butterfly – all the best for the future!

New Additions to the Site

We’ve reconfigured our site so that future additions to our Custom Couture can be done in a simpler and faster fashion. We’re excited to formally introduce our Short Sleeved Top and ¾ Length Sleeve Top. We'd received a ton of requests to make some tops that had a little more coverage and we've produced these tops with those requests in mind. The shawls aren’t looking too pretty on the sleeved tops at the moment, but we’re working on that.

We’ve also added purple/violet to our charmeuse color family as a stock color. Based on requests we’ve received over the past two months, purple is a very popular dress color.

We’ve also gotten around to adding a lot more testimonials and have decided to automate this system so that your “kind words” can be shared much faster.

We’re now looking to add a few dresses inspired from the recent Golden Globes awards. At the moment, we’re admiring the dresses worn by Jennifer Hudson, Angelina Jolie and Penelope Cruz. If there’s anything you were particularly fond of, we’d love to hear from you.

Is that Tiffany Blue? No, it’s Ashley Blue

These pictures were sent to us from one of our all-time favorite customers, Ashley, who has to be one of the sweetest people on this planet. Ashley was one of the first customers we had that sourced a non-stock color with us back in June. She had wanted a very light blue satin for her wedding dress and we were lucky enough to be able to source it for her. She chose Chocolate Charmeuse for her bridesmaids. We found it fun to simply name colors after customers once we sourced it for them - - - sort of an homage to those who trusted us to get the right color for their wedding. Lately, people have been asking whether we have any “Tiffany Blue”. We’ll send them a swatch and advise that the color is properly known in these parts as “Ashley Blue”. We're wondering if one day someone will walk out of Tiffany’s with a box and someone will say it looks just like Coco Myles' Ashley Blue.

Different Styles Matching Perfectly

This photo was sent to us recently from Helaine who was kind enough to take a picture of herself and her fellow, beautiful bridesmaids in their Coco Myles dresses. We think the picture provides a really good example of how our dresses can be worn in different styles and yet match perfectly since they’re all cut from the same fabric (Brick Red Satin in this instance). As you can see, some dresses are beaded, some are strapless, and one is being worn with a shawl. Now, as for the footwear . . . we assume this picture was taken either pre- or post-nuptials. Thanks, ladies!

Logistical Assistance from the Bride

Recently one of our customers, Linda, helped us get a dress to one of her bridesmaids who ordered a little late. Through no fault of our own, we needed to rush a dress to the bridesmaid on a Saturday morning for a wedding that night!! After we were able to produce the dress much faster than usual we breathed a big sigh of relief and patted ourselves on the back for another job well done. That was until we found out that neither UPS nor FedEx could deliver the dress to where it needed to go before 1:00 pm Saturday. Linda was kind enough to accept delivery of the dress at approx. 9:30 am and get it into the hands of the bridesmaid that same morning. It was a great feeling coming into the office the following Monday with a kind note and photo from Linda letting us know that everyone loved their dresses and expressing her gratitude for getting everything done in time. Linda is elegantly wearing our Scoop Neck Top with Ballroom Skirt in Navy Satin. The woman looks great and, more importantly, has a great heart!

Baltimore Rules

For whatever reason, the U.S. city we seem to be most popular in is Baltimore, Maryland. We haven’t done anything special in the way of marketing to folks in Baltimore. It just seems that word-of-mouth has spread there quicker than in other cities. Other than the movie “Diner”, I never really had an appreciation for Baltimore – I don’t even like crab cakes. Now Baltimore is one of my favorite cities. The picture posted above is from one of our latest Baltimore customers. Christiane needed a dress in a rush for her friend’s wedding. All of the bridesmaids were given the freedom to buy their dresses from wherever they wanted and we’re thrilled Christiane found us. While you may tend to think we’re selling our dresses to dainty women who write poetry and have nicely manicured nails, you can see that we can also make ladies who participate in roller derby look great! Christiane is a member of the Junkyard Dolls which is one of the teams in Charm City Roller Girls (“Baltimore’s Only All Girl Roller Derby League”). Christiane is on the far-right wearing our “Sweet Emmy” dress in red satin (yeah, as if Emmy Rossum could compete in roller derby). As tough a lady as we’re sure Christiane is, she was a delight to work with and we’re happy she looked great at the wedding. Dig those gloves too!

Seasons Greetings!

Being that it’s the holiday season and that the world has taken a much needed pause to celebrate, we thought now would be a good time to post stories and photos from some of our favorite customers who were kind enough to express their gratitude to us and send us pictures of themselves in their Coco Myles dresses.

Of course, with the way blogs work -- with later entries being published above prior entries -- this little intro probably won’t be read until after you’ve read the other entries. In any event, we hope you enjoy(ed) them! And Seasons Greetings to all, particularly to our customers who have made this such a fun year!

Photo Shoot Results!

As mentioned a little while ago, we had what we think was a really successful photo shoot last month. We think these photos will come in handy for a variety of reasons, including showing our prospective customers how nice our dresses look when worn. We’ve had a good number of emails from people asking for pictures of this sort and we’re happy to now provide them. We decided to post a few of the photos so folks can see them before they’re put on our site and used in our marketing/advertising materials. The dresses are (from bottom to top): Black Satin Strapless Top with a Tea-Length A-Line Bottom with White Satin Sash; Turquoise Charmeuse Criss-Cross Top with Asymmetrical Bottom (Pearl Ivy Beading); “Sweet Emmy” in Red Satin; Hot Pink Satin Sweetheart Top with Ballroom Bottom (Royalty Beading) and Shawl; “BlueBerry” in Royal Charmeuse; and, “Lily” in Eggplant Georgette. We hope you like the photos as much as we do! Please note that you can click on them to enlarge and see more detail.

Shefinds.com Finds Coco Myles

Being an online company, it is always nice when independent bloggers find us and write nice things. We recently got a great review in Shefinds.com, a site who’s self-proclaimed purpose is to “study the trends and surf the web for the best items and then send you a link in the SheFinds weekly newsletter.”

We’re very happy to have been featured this past Wednesday as their “Bargains Week Feature Find”, even though they claimed our sizes only ran up to 16 -- we go to 32. You can check out their kind words right here. Thank you, Shefinds.com!