Wedding Hive Meet N Greet January 21st

Come meet the Wedding Hive! And it's upcoming and past shows' vendors, brides to be, friends of the Hive, and the Pitch's Street Team. January 21st at Harry's Bar and Tables in Westport (corner of Westport Road and Pennsylvania). We'll be there from 5 - 8 to mingle and enjoy Harry's happy hour specials. Come have a drink with the Wedding Hive! Make sure to tell all your engaged friends to come meet with us. We'll tell you all about our upcoming wedding exposition taking place on February 25th.

KC Weddings Magazine Features Scarlett Garnet

We are delighted to share with you that KC Weddings Magazine is featuring a Scarlett Garnet necklace in this month's issue!! It's the Asymmetrical Chandelier piece pictured below which uses vintage chandelier crystals combined with antique brass look chain. It's on sale right now online! KC Weddings Magazine approached us because they wanted to include us in their vintage bridal jewelry article. We use a lot of vintage finds in our work and vintage is especially wonderful for bridal jewelry so we were a perfect fit. One of the custom features we offer our customers is that we can take a vintage item, like an old clip on earring or pin or a strand of their grandmother's pearls, and create new, modern jewelry out of it. We use vintage components in non-bridal as well, utilizing things like skeleton keys, military pins, mother of pearl buckles, etc. The Wedding Hive was also mentioned in this issue as well! Double press - yes!!!! They listed the Wedding Hive Blog as one of KC's top 3 local resources for brides to be. Several Hive members were listed in this issue so it's a nice pat on the back for all our hard work creating and maintaining the Wedding Hive.

Melissa Lin Ellis Photography

Melissa Lin Ellis: Stolen From Chicago

We met Melissa about 6 month ago, right after she moved to KC from Chicago. Their loss is truly our city's gain! Melissa Lin Ellis is a talented, up and coming photographer who's name you should remember. Plan on seeing it around town a lot in the near future. This woman is a power house - sometimes I don't think she even sleeps. She's always working away, growing her portfolio and company with each photo shoot.

Scarlett Garnet had the fortunate opportunity to network with her through the Wedding Hive. We knew she would be the perfect fit for the KC portion of our new Scarlett Garnet Bridal Line.One rainy day early this June, we met at the SG studio in the Crossroads to take the photos of the new collection.

Melissa and I were on such tight schedules that I didn't have time to find a model. So, gulp, insert me as model! Scary! I'm the one whose always making the funny face, ruining otherwise perfect photos for everyone. To add more pressure, the results of this shoot were literally going to make or break the success of our new bridal line. I had to figure out a way to put my nerves aside and stop making those silly faces. Impossible!

To help me play the part, I borrowed a wedding dress and veil from Janay-A. Feeling a little more confident in my costume, Melissa and I were ready to go. I was nervous for about two seconds when I realized that there was nothing to be worried about. Melissa put me right at ease with her direction and easy-going personality. I succumbed to her instruction and, alas, actually became a decent model! No funny faces here, just me being myself, you know, hanging out in a wedding dress on a random morning in the Crossroads Art District. Yeah, that's me...

Check out Melissa's amazing work. She loved my peacock tattoo, artwork of Chet Duvenci at the Mercy Seat, and carried the theme into the photo shoot with a few random peacock feathers I had lying around (doesn't everyone have peacock feathers just lying around?) Maybe just me but the photo shoot went off effortlessly, despite the fact that it was raining the entire time. Melissa Lin Ellis, thank you for your contribution to Scarlett Garnet Jewelry. We hope to work with you for years to come. Oh, and welcome to Kansas City!