“Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?”

I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom’s passage through their new life together.

It’s hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself – PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.

It’s for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can’t afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it – a little bit of me or a lot of me, that’s what’s important.

I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.

My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

I love a black wedding dress.

I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

The funny thing is that I’m the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who’s traveled with me. Normally, I’m in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.

I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.

I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

Just because you’re from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn’t mean you don’t read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what’s going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.

Just because you’re from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn’t mean you don’t read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what’s going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.

Retire into yourself as much as possible.

Don’t stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Believe in yourself and go for it.

Even if I’m talking about something that’s negative, I look at it as putting my mistakes out there for people to learn from it.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.