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Guide of Tendencies

In the following information, you’ll find some consumer prototypes. Chose the prototype you get more identified with and have in mind our advices.

Traditional: Each person according to their life style creates its own values and beliefs with a specific attitude to the life and their esthetic. The traditional client is that lover of classic and distinction. Their living reason is to be recognized and accepted trough exclusive objects, for which ones he spends a lot of money, that is to say, a classical bride is the one who should prefer for her wedding a big old Ranch outside of the city, with a carriage pulled by horses, natural flowers, many candles and a exquisite menu with traditional food, classic music live, with a wedding dress that highlights her body, underlining and stylizing her figure.

Jewels used for this time are old and were manufactured with precious stones, undoubtedly pure and crystalline diamonds, settled over old light pink gold, old copper or silver.

Neo traditional: This kind of client is the one who keeps an equilibrium between tradition and innovation and loves stubborn details but justified according to their life style.

This person’s wedding can take place under sobriety and sophistication. Well could be in a design hotel.

Contemporary, with a endless number of antique and modern details that can get perfect equilibrium of a traditional wedding with a few or modernity.

Details for a neo traditional wedding dress: this one must be of a clean cut, with no excess; simple details that harmonize her silhouette, complemented with jewels having a classic and sober design, manufactured with a mixture of diamonds settled over platinum or light steel, showing shapes totally lineal, like concept flowers or fine abstract and delicate forms.

Neo contemporary: this type of client characterizes because of a life attitude like less is more. A client well informed about each product that consumes, choosing the ones of highest technology combining them with others purely naturals.

Surely, its wedding will be on opened space, full of fresh air, with all the comforts of modern life; each one of the details about the wedding will be meticulously studied and analyzed, keeping in mind a wide menu to cover all tastes of their guests and its own. This will be a menu of mixture between multicultural, macrobiotics and organics.

The decoration will be austere, with little color touches, but with a clean desing and exquisitely purifying. Having in mind the information formerly said, the wedding dress must have as a essential characteristic the leisure, with many materials 100 % naturals like cotton, linen and crepe magically mixed to make a esthetic versatile and functional.

The jewelry pieces are simple and dynamic; diverse materials in mixtures of a not so common contrast, like mineral carbon, diamond, zhapire, steel, white gold, platinum. All these materials worked with high technology, cutted with laser to get unique and exquisite pieces.

Avant-gardist: it’s a consumer totally risked, that breaks all the outlines and paradigms, without having in mind the consent of the world. Incorrigible innovator, from which depends all this life style: the furniture, the clothes, its attitude to the life will be designed or modified by him, keeping in mind its own esthetics.

Thinking about all these details, who remarks its personality profile, the wedding will be totally unexpected, on an art gallery, on the terrace of a skyscraper, an old abandoned wine vault or in an ancient convent on the top of a mountain.

As equal as former clients, this one will keep an eye on each one of the details, having in mind that the most important element is the surprise. A non traditional cake, of an unexpected way, with a exotic flavor, decorated with plastic, natural and dry flowers.

The banquet will have style by itself, with great mixture of flavors and colors, therefore, the wedding dress will be the perfect equilibrium between an old design mixed with modern cuts and materials, not so charged but not so simple, combined with little touches of color.

Jewels with totally modern and weird designs, made with endless number of precious and non-precious metals like silver, platinum, zhapires, jade, emeralds, coral, mother-of-pearl.

Exhibitionist: to exhibit, to say, to show itself on public, way to exhibit constantly in order to feed its ego.

This consumer could be one of the most stubborn , having its own perfection point inside itself, no matter how much it costs.

He comes true until the smallest of their wishes, almost to the edge of oddness, simply to get emphasized from the rest of the world.

The wedding of this client will take place on a paradise beach of a Caribbean or pacific island, undoubtedly a totally colorful wedding under the rhythm of an ancient Hindu or Asian culture, with too much color and showiness.

Its probable that the buffet will be on a floating dock, to the side of the beach, decorated with torches and crepes flying with the wind.

A menu typical of the region, having a great covering of the press, photographers and video. If possible, he will make the wedding like a reality show.

Her dress, undoubtedly will have so weird combinations like an Egyptian linen made of 700 thousand threads and a girdle and shoes made of some exotic animal skin.

The jewels, big and colorful, will have the same unimagined mixtures: black diamonds settled over a tiara that ends on a headdress made of leopard skin flowers, looking for the most exotic stones and the most complicated and non-commercial materials, under the shape of the most colorful and strange design generated by its own esthetics.

These are some profiles that we can fin all over the world. Keep in mind by the time to get married a real budget to spend and study until the smallest detail and cost of each one of the parts that conform your wedding.

In such case that you can have a counselor, this wedding must be fixed at your will and estimate. Finally, this is the happiest day of your life, it is your party, not the one of your counselor. A final advice: just look what could be the most practical and put it a little of your own esthetic sense.

Profiles and advices written by the designer and wedding advisor Arael Espinel from the Arturo Tejada School, Bogota, Colombia.