I want to shout it from the rooftops: “Adorn Brides is having a HUGE SALE starting March 15^th”. How huge? How about so huge that some of our items are up to 70% off!! All of our items that once rented for $200 will now rent for $75 and anything that was from $499-$201 will now rent for $150!! Just think of the savings! You can rent $40,000 worth of jewelry for a fraction of the price!

 

 The Lockwood necklace retails for $24,000, generally rents for $490 and will rent for $150.

   

 

Our Shaye earrings retail for $5,000, rent for $190, and will be on sale renting for $75!

 Not sure what to rent? No problem, you can sign up for a free consultation with one of our stylists here. We’re always here to help you guys. You can’t afford to miss this sale! 

 

 

Adorn Brides is offering 25% discount plus FREE SHIPPING!

Last week Adorn Brides participated in Kansas City’s premier bridal show - the KC Weddings Bridal Spectacular!

Our Adorn team had a wonderful time meeting all the newly engaged brides. It’s always amazing to be able to help new brides-to-be plan their fairytale wedding. All the ladies loved the “Adorn Experience”, receiving professional advice from our team of style consultants along with the ability to try on any of our diamonds!

This stunning model and gown are from Bridal Extraordinaire.


Our model is donning the dazzling new bridal jewelry set:“Bailey Earrings and Necklace”.



Brides loved stopping by our booth and trying on the diamonds of their dreams!





Thank you once again to all the lovely brides who attended – we loved meeting all of you!!

If you missed this great event, no worries, you are cordially invited to “Diamonds and Dresses”. This event will be showcasing the most spectacular gowns from designers such as Ian Stuart, Enzoani, Matthew Christopher and Melissa Sweet. You’ll also be able to try on dazzling real diamonds available for rent from none other than Adorn Brides. So come on down to learn about the newest wedding trend of bringing true red carpet elegance to your wedding by borrowing jewelry.

Date: Saturday August 29th
Time: 10-6pm
Place: Bridal Extraordinaire
12109 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Shawnee, KS 66216.
RSVP here

Care for an individual consultation? Please call Bridal Extraordinaire 913.268.5566

Take the cake. Baker Kimberly Aya opened Cakerentals.com two years ago. She'd planned to start a conventional cake-making business until attending a wedding trade show. "Ninety percent of the brides I talked to asked for fake cakes," she marvels now. "That's where the renting idea was born - and when I researched it I saw how it was a win-win. If you sell them a fake cake, you have to earn the same money, but if you rent it out, you could spread the cost between several brides." Aya now charges $150 per rental for one of the 100 stock cakes that she keeps in a 10,000-square-foot warehouse in Michigan; multitiered cakes and made-to-order designs are obviously slightly pricier. They're shipped in cushioned boxes to ensure they arrive in perfect condition.

A cake usually stays in Aya's arsenal for around a year (she conducts spot repairs after each return) and she's keen to stress why her designs stand apart from other phonies. For one, Aya keeps her baker's skills honed by also making conventional cakes for parties and weddings, and using those same decorating ingredients on her ersatz designs. "There's a frosting on the market called Perma Ice that's normally used on fake cakes, but it's about the same as dry wall. I use all real ingredients, exactly what would be put on a real cake, so the blind eye can't tell the difference," she says.

Aya's signature touch: a wedge of edible cake seamlessly frosted into the fake so the bride and groom can cut and feed one another in full view before the contraption's rolled away. Such a subterfuge isn't always necessary, though. "Half the brides tell and half don't - some want to share because they think it's such a great idea, others don't want anybody to know."

Forty-year-old Bayside native Dana Wagner, an event planner, is an enthusiastic example of the former and is now an evangelist for Aya's concept to clients and friends. She was thrilled with the cake Aya cooked up for her wedding to Michael, 39, last July. "I don't believe in real wedding cakes - I don't think there's a need," she shrugs. Wagner was wowed by a Ron Ben-Israel cake but balked at its $7,000 cost. The solution was commissioning a replica from Aya for a few hundred bucks. "Everyone oohs and aahs over the cake, you make a slice and the cake goes away and no one ever sees it again. Why spend seven grand when you can spend $250?"

Newlywed Christina Joo, 31, from New York agrees entirely with Wagner. But in Joo's case, at her ceremony in the Bahamas in February, it was baubles on loan rather than not-quite-Ben-Israel. With a husband in the finance industry, Joo decided it was both prudent and tasteful to tone down the cost of her wedding after the turmoil of late 2008. "We couldn't skimp on food or alcohol - those things were important in terms of letting guests have a good experience. But one thing we decided was that I looked into different rental jewelry."

She found her dream earrings at www.adornbrides.com with a one-week rental fee of just $100. Unlike subscription services like BagBorroworSteal.com and BorrowedBling.com, Adorn allowed Joo a no-commitment rental with insurance folded into the flat $100 fee. Like Wagner, Joo reveled in telling her guests that her bling had to be returned, Cinderella-style, after the party. "I was proud of the fact that I was able to rent these earrings - a lot of people asked me where I got them. And I said, 'Yeah, I rented them.' To be honest, I was really excited that I got such a good deal."

Joo's smart-thinking is exactly why the business, co-founded by Laura Carrington, is thriving today. "Even if you have something to spend, you probably don't want to spend it on a necklace that you'll wear three times. These days, even wealthy people are not looking to make expenditures like that," she notes.

Carrington, the company's chief stylist, was herself getting married when she spotted the potential in bridal rental jewelry. "We felt like no bride should have to wear fake jewelry on her wedding day - you'd never have fake flowers, for example," she says, noting that the stigma on renting gems has been expunged in recent years as the idea has boomed with celebrities. "At red-carpet events, all those stars are borrowing what they're wearing." And there's plenty of celeb-worth bling on the site, like a splashy yellow diamond necklace that retails for $73,500, as well as more modest but equally glamorous statement pieces like $2,000 drop earrings.

Ask.com's wedding guru, Tatiana Byron Marx, agrees with Carrington's reasoning that the rental wedding is a growing trend, as well as the importance of the cash-curbing credit crisis. But she believes there are other factors, too. "The biggest trend right now is DIY bride, and so everything is about doing things on your own - from invitations to putting together centerpieces. Renting slipcovers or linens is easier and more convenient than purchasing them - you don't have to worry about stains or store them."

Linens, lariats and lemon cake on loan are one thing, but borrowing your wedding dress is an even bolder budget choice. Though many brides might shudder at the idea of a dress someone else has worn, Marx is enthusiastic. "If you go to Tokyo, that's the norm - you don't buy your dress, you rent it, and it's starting to pick up here."

New Jersey boutique bridal designer Johnna Ho (http://www.johnnaho.com/) has started offering her designs on a rental basis. "In this economic climate, I feel that being able to have a champagne wedding gown on a beer budget is the answer for any budget-conscious bride," she says (another local rental option, according to Marx, is the Fancy Wedding Center in Brooklyn, http://www.fancyweddingcenter.com/).

Pre-worn wedding gowns might seem skeevy to some. "But is vintage icky? How do you feel about a vintage Chanel or YSL dress - some people pay top dollar for that?" Marx shrugs off the tradition of deeding a lovingly designed gown to your daughter 30 years from now, too. "Brides want what's in fashion. Nowadays, styles, fabrics and shapes aren't what your mom wore 20 years ago."

But whatever the economic and pragmatic considerations for the rise of the rental wedding, there's also a romantic bonus, at least according to Christina Joo.

"You know how brides want to wear something old, new, borrowed and blue?" she confides. "Well, those earrings were my old and borrowed."

From your engagement to your wedding day—let it all begin with diamonds. AdornBrides.com rents exquisite diamond jewelry to compliment any style. Brides are now able to use this exclusive service that Hollywood red carpet goers have enjoyed for years. Prices range from $90--$1,500 and up depending on the retail value of the pieces you select. 

You can relax—the process is so easy! In fact, renting jewelry from Adorn Brides will be one of the least stressful parts of planning your wedding. Unlike figuring out how to keep your new mother-in-law from crossing paths with your high school ex at the reception, the process is complete in four easy steps and requires no diversion tactics.

1. Go shopping at AdornBrides.com and pick out the pieces you love.
2. Check out using a credit card and reserve the jewelry for your event date.
3. Look amazing wearing the jewelry on your wedding day. (Your photos will last a lifetime…and yes, you can tell when you wear the real thing!)
4. Send it back on the first business day after your event using packaging Adorn provides for you.

Be sure to make your reservation as soon as possible because pieces can book up (reserve at least 3 weeks ahead of time…the more the better.) Questions? Adorn has great personalized customer service and will answer any questions you have via email or phone in a very timely manner.

 

 

 

 

 Adorn Brides is the market leader in renting fine jewelry for weddings and we would like to partner with you and give your clients access to this new and exciting service and show you how to take advantage of great program benefits such as:

* An excellent commission plan
* Customized marketing collateral
* State of the art customer service

There is no cost for registration.   

Adorn will also provide you with free marketing collateral and superior customer service to help insure your partnership with us is successful. For more details, please click  

http://www.adornbrides.com/partnersignup.aspx

 Warm Regards, 

Nadine Zaun, Regional Sales Director

nzaun@adornbrides.com

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