Love Quotes

Happy Tuesday everyone! This post is just barely squeaking by for Laura's Couture Collection's Tuesday list! So for all of our late night owls enjoy these sometimes romantic, sometimes fun, sometimes fashionable quotes on living a fashionable life full of love. By the way, this weeks Top Ten list is in no particular order of favorites, except for number 1, which is a favorite among everyone at Laura's Couture Collection!

Top Ten Tuesday: Love Quotes 


10. "Great love affairs start with champagne." -Honore de Balzac

9. "I have the simplest tastes. I am easily satisfied with the best." -Oscar Wilde

8. "There is no remedy for love than to love more." -Henry David Thoreau

7. "Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." -Chanel

6. "When you are in love you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr. Seuss

 5. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." -Aristotle

‎4. "To love would be an awfully big adventure." -Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

3. "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman

2. "Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well." -Vincent van Gogh

1. "I love you."

Yumi Katsura

Kansas City, are you ready for the couture, bridal styles of Yumi Katsura!?

Laura's Couture Collection will be holding a trunk show January 26 - 28th, 2012. Call for an appointment to see these couture looks.

This past October, Laura and I attended New York Bridal Market. While we were there we had the pleasure of going to the Yumi Katsura fashion show, held at the Asia Society Museum. After seeing the pieces in the collection we knew we had to book a trunk show and share these couture styles with the rest of our Kansas City brides!

Enjoy some of the runway shots we were able to capture during the show.

Designer, Yumi Katsura greets guests before unveiling her newest collection.

Yumi Katsura - Jackets and belts for wedding dresses.



Yumi Katsura - Architecture in wedding gowns.





Yumi Katsura with Laura before the Yumi Katsura fashion show
held at the Asia Society Museum, in October 2011.



For more information please visit:

Yumi Katsura  &  Laura's Couture Collection

Black Friday Turns White at Laura's Couture Collection

Why not shop for the perfect wedding dress this weekend when the rest of the country is standing in lines at the mall!  Laura's Couture Collection is hosting "White Friday" for brides to find their dream wedding dress at very special prices, both samples and special orders included in the "White Friday" sale.  So find the latest designer wedding dresses for your special day.

Designer Showcase: Monique Lhuillier

A Photo Story on the Beauty of Monique Lhuillier

-bridesmaid gowns currently featured in the salon

available at Laura's Couture

Editorial featured in The Knot

The master behind the designs, Monique Lhuillier, with celebrity stylist, Rachel Zoe.

Summer Sample Sale

Today is the day stop in Laura's Couture and check out some fabulous wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses. All the samples on the floor are  wedding dress designer gowns. You won't want to cheat yourself from wearing a fabulous dress at a great price.


Couture wedding dresses filling the salon



One-of-a-Kind wedding dresses

Fabulous dresses, and as the cliche goes - you really can wear again! Who wouldn't want a Vera Wang sundress!?

Designer Spotlight: Jenny Packham

Hollywood Glamour Reigns in Bridal

The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, Emma Watson, Jennifer Aniston and Sarah Jessica Parker what do these 'A-list' women have in common? They all gravitate for the Hollywood glamour of Jenny Packham.

Vintage, Hollywood glamour - Jenny Packham

Packham "infuses the Hollywood crowd with the glamour they adore (jennypackham.com)," and by doing so they call her for their red carpet looks, which all take a cue from the bridal collection.

Miley Cyrus, taking a Jenny Packham wedding dress to the red carpet
Celebrities wearing Jenny Packham

A Central St. Marks College of Art graduate, Packham has been awarded as the Best Bridal Designer of the Year, for 2011, therefore, regarding her as on the othe UK's top designers.

She has "redefined the image of The Bride. She is glamourous, contemporary, and timeless." Packham designs the structure of the dress with folds and layers of fabrics to create an elegant and ethereal movement. While the fine fabrics gracefully flow as the bride walks the main details in her designs consist of the layers of fabrics and not many embellishments.


Jenny Packham Bridal Collection

Visit our bridal salon in Kansas, to see if Jenny Packham is the gown of yours dreams!
Call for appointments - Laura's Couture Collection

The Platinum Wedding

Luxury Style

Grace Ormonde provides elite brides with the top vendors in the wedding industry.

Love Story - Grace Ormonde Wedding Style

 The Platinum List is where brides can find information on the best and highest-end in the wedding industry. Laura's Couture is proud to be a member of The Wedding Style Platinum list since 2007.

Grace Ormonde, began as a wedding magazine focused fort the New England bride, and has grown so beautifully that Wedding Style is now recognized for it's international "platforms for wedding specialists to showcase their products and services while offering prospective brides and grooms a multitude of choices, ideas and alternatives for planning their wedding. She has consistently made creativity and innovation hallmarks of her enterprises (graceormonde.com)."



We invite you to "experience the elegance" of Laura's with the timeless, romance of being a member of Grace Ormonde's Platinum List. Laura's Couture on Facebook.

The UnBridal Event-The Event Suitable for a Prince!



Your Prince will Come!

 We are excited to be a part of the UnBridal Event at Renee Kelly's Caenen Castle Friday night February 25th with focus shifted to the Groom (Your Prince)!