To Let The Warm Love In

Anthropologie's new bridal range has caused a bit of a stir. If you're remotely interested in anything wedding-y, you'll be be aware of the extent of that understatement. 

It. Is. Stunning.

It's called 'BHLDN', and pronounced 'Beholden', h'appparently. I don't know if I like that. Bit text-speaky for me, but hey. I'm not their PR gal. However, apparently it's inspired by the Dutch word for 'to keep', which is actually a little bit beautiful. 

I knew I would like it from the moment I clicked onto the website and saw some lines from Keats' Ode to Psyche:

And there by zephyrs, streams, and birds, and bees,
The moss-lain Dryads shall be lull'd to sleep;
And in the midst of this wide quietness
A rosy sanctuary will I dress
With the wreath'd trellis of a working brain,
With buds, and bells, and stars without a name,
With all the gardener Fancy e'er could feign.

A literary reference? I'm sold. 

 And what a lovely reference, too. Does he not paint a picture of the most beautiful drowsy summer evening? Does 'rosy sanctuary' and 'wreath'd trellis' and 'buds' and 'stars without a name' not just conjure up images of a glorious midsummer wedding garden party?

I fink it does.

But hey - it's all about the dresses. And then I saw this one and thought, "If I looked remotely like this - EVER - I think I would die happy."

It's not even a wedding dress, people. It's a Dress What You Might Wear As A Guest To A Fancy-Fancy Wedding. But I for one would be happy to walk down the aisle in that little number. 

And isn't the green ribbon just darling?

I tell you, it gave me some dress wobbles for a few minutes there. That was until I talked myself round by muttering things like, "You can have a green ribbon on YOUR dress if you really want one, Laura. There, won't that be lovely?" to myself. 

The real-life wedding dresses are equally fabulous.  My favourite of the wedding-y dresses? This one. I think.

And the shoes. Oh, the shoes. I've picked a couple of favourites here but honestly, this is just a sample of the beauties that await.

Jelly slingbacks, anyone? What's that you say? Something more traditional? Try these...

 And I say who bloody cares if green is unlucky?

Lovely lovey. Have a look. My only warning is that the combined effect of the soft-focus photography and the beautiful models and the artfully-mussed hair might make you hate your own life and everything in it. Just for five minutes or so.