Pierre Dumas, artistic director of Hermes, in his editorial in the Printemps-Ete 2011, Le Monde DHermes magazine, reflects on Hermes Paris enrions workshop, its artisans:

You can almost hear their movements.

The rhythm of the workshops

An artisan is nurtured, not invented

So, this is what is at the heart of Hermes and its artisans. Is not this joie du vivre also to be the unique experience of a bride, and at the heart of her wedding process?

Recessing. Reaccessing. Perhaps, taking a different tact; pivoting, if necessary, ones current life direction, and setting a slightly different course, or spinning a compass for an altogether different destination.

This afternoons agenda? An aesthetic discovery journey to establish what it is about you that resonates you.

So I invite you to indulge yourself, in yourself. To view your wedding process with a whole new perspective!

How to embark? Ferret out your sources of pleasure! What gives you that springboard for your creativity? What gets you quiet enough to hear your inner voice? For many, the ordinary: Hostess, or culinary cupcake; a cup of java, or java tea from Southeast Asia; a stack of coffee table books to transport you away to the portal of an extraordinary life and wedding.

There are six senses to visit and pay homage: visual, tactile, auditory, aroma, taste and intuitive. Which one tops your list? What order do they fall? Experience them, then reorder, designating your soul sense. The one that keys into you being you.

Visual, the exceptional Rizzoli books on fashion and lifestyle;

tactile, a stack of Fortuny, or Kravet fabrics, or offerings from nature;

auditory, an iPod loaded with favorites;

aroma, French perfume fragrances from floral to musky;

taste, salty to sweet selections lined up in a row; and,

intuitive, an inner ear to what is not being said, nor seen.

To invent or nurture?

Some invent a wedding; it is clearly someone elses idea, ideal. Its rhythm, pace, movement is rigid, invented. You, and your Signature Style are masked, hidden from view. It is at the opposite end of the continuum. No compromise, no give and take. Whos Who, really?

Consider: As artisans in Hermes workshop, what they do comes from within. Ditto for the bride.

In concert with your Muse: what you do should come from your soul, nurtured not invented, with its own distinct, rhythm, pace, movement: A Bridal March. Nest pas?

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