Russians are back in fashion, perhaps this is the most relevant trend of the current year.

It is not surprising, because the rich Russian culture is an inexhaustible source of creative inspiration and fashion trends. So, more than a year ago, fashion week in Paris turned into a real Russian fairy tale. Where the famous fashion house Valentino presented its collection in the style of the famous Gzhel.

Indescribable patterns and light airy images impress not only with the beauty of the native heritage, but also with the inexhaustible fantasy and subtle veil of the Russian spring. Gzhel painting is applied only by hand, so each creation of the Gzhel master is a real work of art. Whose main motive is to bring people together.

Now Gzhel is not only the original Russian traditions and newfangled ready-to-wear trends, but also an extraordinary holiday. Every couple wants to come up with something extraordinary for their special day. The festive atmosphere, dear, close people and magical surroundings - everything is designed to emphasize the solemnity of the moment.

fabulous wedding ceremony in the Gzhel style is unique, but will be understood by everyone, thanks to its universal language of nobility and beauty. The fates of the spouses converge in one line, just as in wedding dress white and shades of blue are combined, as if sea and sky meet on the horizon. Gzhel patterns emphasize the nobility and airiness of the image of the bride. Embodying the versatility of the female understanding of beauty.

The groom's suit is made in blue imperial colors, and the image, stylized as Gzhel, is complemented by a bow tie. Ideally combined with each other, the images of the newlyweds create such a harmony that is so pleasing to the eye.

Gzhel themed ceremony is an unforgettable cultural journey. And like any fabulous voyage, a wedding celebration begins with an invitation decorated in blue colors- symbolizing the divine sacrament.

In cultures different countries The wedding has a special place, so there are many different traditions. So, in Greek culture, the bride must wear something old, something new, and something borrowed. As an indicator that it is important to remember the past, but look to the future. According to Russian cultural tradition, the groom can see the bride for the first time in all her wedding splendor only during the ceremony. Then the moment of the wedding becomes the most exciting and memorable in the life of the newlyweds. Luxurious dress and irresistible multiply the general delight many times over.

In addition, a lot of pleasant emotions are given by details and various accessories. All recognizable nesting dolls painted under Gzhel will be a great compliment for guests. Gzhel motifs are ideal for decorating the hall. Tablecloths, napkins, candlesticks, as well as dishes and Greek amphoras with countless bluish patterns, in the language of art, loudly speak of aristocracy and endless love.

Love each other and experiment with Nina Ruchkina, your personal guide to the world of unique fabulous wedding ceremonies!

A Gzhel-style wedding can be very stylish and unusual. Such a celebration will look like the most wonderful Russian folk tale saturated with national flavor and amazing traditions. A great advantage of a Gzhel-style wedding is that it will certainly be bright and original at any time of the year. The highlight of this stylized wedding is the use of an exquisite combination of floral patterns and deep blue and solemn white colors.

Wedding dresses of the newlyweds should, of course, be stylized as Russian folk craft. A festive snow-white sundress or a light, airy dress embroidered with blue threads will suit the bride. Instead of a traditional veil, you can wear a painted kokoshnik. The bride's manicure (or rather, nail design) would also be appropriate to decorate with a white and blue floral pattern. Of the accessories, white and blue beads, a bracelet or earrings are perfect, but it is still advisable to opt for one thing so as not to overdo it with details. The groom will suit a white embroidered shirt and pants tucked into stylized blue boots with curved toes.

In invitations designed in the form of painted nesting dolls or plates in the Gzhel style, you should definitely ask guests to follow the dress code, and then the holiday will become even more special and unforgettable.

Great place to hold wedding banquet it can become a Russian restaurant in a wooden design or a country estate with an open area for celebration. With the help of thoughtful details, here you can create the atmosphere of a real Russian fairy tale. The room can be decorated with stylized scarves, kokoshniks, decorative plates and cutting boards, colorful ribbons, felt boots and brooms, bundles of bagels and folk musical instruments.

The Russian feast is famous for its large scale, generous treats and endless fun. It is impossible to imagine tables without a samovar, bagels and lollipops. Serve holiday tables follows dishes, cutlery and napkins in the Gzhel style. Painted plates and cutlery, amazing sets for drinks and serving dishes will make the holiday unforgettable. best gift for such a wedding it will be in gold with a signature in gold letters “On the day of the Wedding, dear newlyweds!”

As for the entertainment program, there will be no shortage of Russian amusements. Guests will be happy to tell fortunes on chamomile, dance and endless “brooks”, braid each other’s braids, paint plates in a blue and white palette, sing ditties, play on wooden spoons, wear yokes with buckets. For a walk, you can ride a troika with bells, and in winter it’s even fun to play snowballs or go sledging down the hill.

A Gzhel-style wedding is a mischievous and unusually beautiful ethnic celebration that pays tribute to Russian traditions.

Wedding fashion is gradually moving away from the classics, stereotypes and patterns. And most of those couples who adhere to the traditional style bring something new to it, in line with modern trends. A Gzhel-style wedding is a fashion trend that is gaining more and more popularity not only in Russia, but also in the West. Colorful Russian blue-and-white motifs have managed to catch the fancy of wedding decorators from all over the world. If you want to make your holiday in the Gzhel style, then first of all take care of the outfits of the young and decorate the banquet hall.

The image of the newlyweds for a wedding in the style of Gzhel

The Gzhel wedding is a celebration made in the Russian folk style. Since her main colors are white and blue, they are indispensable when creating the suits of the bride and groom. When planning a holiday of such a theme, young people should warn the guests in advance so that they have the opportunity to choose suitable outfits, taking into account these requirements. And before choosing costumes with Gzhel motifs, the bride and groom must decide whether they want to recreate old traditional dresses or decorate modern models ethnic patterns.

Dress for the bride

Girls who want to hold a celebration in the Gzhel style should consider not only the options for a dress with embroidery in a white and blue pattern, but also any classic models. They can be supplemented with an accessory suitable for the theme: a scarf, a handbag, a belt. Moreover, a wedding dress can be classic or unique, tailored to order and introducing Gzhel elements into the product. The overall style of the bride should be consistent with all the components of the image, starting with shoes, ending with hair and manicure. However, do not make the costume heavier with a large number of decorative details.

suit for the groom

Traditionally, the bride should be brighter at the wedding, all eyes are riveted on her, but the groom often has a more restrained image. However, having decided on the Gzhel style, young people can deviate from this rule, making both images equally colorful and bright. And yet, a man must cede the right of first choice to his beloved, and choose an outfit to match himself. If the bride preferred a folk style with traditional Gzhel embroidery, then the groom should wear either a shirt and trousers, or a classic suit with a stylized tie or bow tie.

The young man has a much smaller choice of wedding clothes than the bride, but there are always alternative options. A Russian kosovorotka is a great solution if the bride preferred a simple ethnic sundress. If the image of a girl is more formal and solemn, then a man should not dress in a rustic style. Do not be afraid to experiment with images, you can stop at classic suit dark or light tone, white shirt and colorful sleeveless jacket. A watch with a Gzhel ornament will become an appropriate, practical acquisition and will remind you of a happy day.

Wedding decoration ideas in Gzhel style

Wedding in Gzhel style impregnated folk traditions and filled with the colorful atmosphere of Russian villages. For many, the word "Gzhel" is associated with the beauty of porcelain, which was famous for the craftsmen near Moscow. Young people who are close to such a palette celebrate their marriage in white and blue colors. Traditional motifs Gzhel painting - these are flowers (cornflowers, roses, bluebells), herbs, and other plants. Patterns made in white and blue will be the basis of the wedding concept.

Guest invitations

When the young people decide on the wedding day, guests should be invited. To do this, you will need invitation cards that are suitable in style. Since the celebration will be held in a primordially Russian vein, the cards must contain elements of the Russian theme. Cones, nesting dolls, berries, painted scarves, gingerbread, kalachi, samovars with dryers, pancakes, cockerels, etc. are suitable for their decor. good and budget option will be a simple soft postcard made of thin smooth paper, made in the Gzhel style, folded into a tube and tied with a blue ribbon.

Banquet room decor

When choosing a banquet hall for a Gzhel wedding, it is better to stay at an institution made in the Russian folk style - with wooden furniture, samovars, stuffed animals on the walls. Otherwise, rent an ordinary restaurant and take care of its decor. WITH colors everything is clear - Gzhel implies the use of white, blue and light blue colors. Choose suitable tablecloths, vintage tableware, banquet cards, napkins, flowers in vases, and other decor items. Develop a menu, seating plan, arrange table numbers.

If the young people decide to arrange a Gzhel wedding, then the atmosphere in the banquet hall should be appropriate. A celebration made in this style looks very beautiful and original. Thanks to the abundance of traditional details that Russian culture is rich in, your wedding has the opportunity to become very bright and be remembered by guests for a long time. Famous craftsmen created not only dishes, but also decorative panels and dishes. So why not decorate the hall with them? Since festive tables are the epicenter of the holiday, their decoration requires special attention.

Holiday table decoration

For decoration wedding tables traditional Russian souvenirs - samovars, towels, nesting dolls - will come in handy. Remember that the main colors for decor should be white and blue (light blue), so vases, dishes, cutlery and tablecloths must contain Gzhel painting or be thematic colors. It is worth decorating banquet tables with white or blue candles, napkins, vases with colorful wild flowers. Seating cards can also contain Gzhel paintings.

An ideal option for this kind of wedding would be to order Gzhel-made dishes. However, for a holiday, ordinary white porcelain dishes with gold will also be a suitable option. Bottles of champagne (moonshine), glasses, boxes for money, napkin rings, the bride, if she has creative abilities, can paint Gzhel by hand or make stylized decoupage.

The bride's bouquet

A suitable bouquet will be a composition of diverse fresh flowers with a superior amount of field flowers. If a Gzhel-style wedding takes place in winter, it is better to give preference to frost-resistant varieties of flowers or create a bouquet of rowan branches - it will perfectly complement the image of the bride and contrast with her outfit. Artificial buds look original, stylish self made created using marble, clay or paper. They are no less beautiful than natural ones, but they do not fade or break.

A wedding cake

A sweet culinary masterpiece will be the climax wedding celebration. The shape of a cake for a Gzhel wedding can be completely different: round, square, rectangular. Baking can be single-tier or have several steps. The main thing is that the cake should be sustained in the main motives and be tasty. An original alternative to a cake (or an addition to it) can be traditional Russian sugar gingerbread or modern cupcakes decorated with cream of the appropriate color.

Wedding photo session in Russian in Gzhel style

For a photo shoot of the bride and groom who have chosen for their wedding image Gzhel style, you will only need a beautiful winter or summer landscape, because their unusual, stylish appearance does not require additional attributes. However, you can find a more interesting place for wedding photography. In some cities there are specialized institutions representing national culture. They will be an ideal solution for competitions (for example, the ransom of the bride) and photo shoots.

More than a year ago, a young girl Tatyana contacted me. She had an unusual request: she presented her wedding dress with a white and blue ornament in the style "Gzhel"- and she wanted a very modern incarnation of this traditional Russian theme. This is how one of my favorite dresses created within the walls of the fashion house appeared. Nina Ruchkina. I will tell you the story of its creation and share the five most important components of a magical wedding.

Secret #1: Find True Love

Tatyana herself lives in Singapore, and her future husband Dimitri is a Cypriot with Russian roots. He long ago defined for himself the image future wife, and, having met the girl of his dreams, he did not stand on ceremony for a long time: after three months of dating he proposed to her. But he got a sharp no, since Tatiana was going to study in Sweden.

“Somehow I didn’t seriously say that I could think about our joint plans if we move to Asia. In general, I expected the answer “no”, but after a couple of months my man came and said that we could move to Singapore - for me, and he already has a job there. With one condition: I will be his wife,” says the bride.

She agreed.

Secret number 2: find an unusual and nice idea weddings

Themed weddings with onsite registration are the most beautiful, magical, amazing. The wedding of our heroes was supposed to take place in Cyprus, so Tatyana chose the Gzhel style:

“Greek lands attract with their simplicity, soulfulness and magical combination of white and blue colors. I decided not to deviate from the traditions built up over the centuries, but to add a special Russian chic to them, which we all know as Gzhel.

The bride herself was engaged in the concept and design, literally every little thing was thought out:

Secret #3: Come up with a dream and don't settle for less

Tatyana presented her dress in every detail and was looking for someone who could make her dream come true:

“I have been looking for a designer for quite some time. I made sketches, but no one gave me confidence that I would get what I want to see. Here, an extraordinary approach was clearly needed.I knew that this design of the dress - short in front and with a long train - would win my husband's heart. I was looking for a modern solution that embodies youth, grace, sexuality"

Secret number 4: find someone who will make the dream come true

When Tanya turned to me, I was sincerely delighted. is one of our specialties.

Tatyana lived in Singapore, and it was assumed that we would only meet a couple of times in the process of making the dress. We discussed technical issues: style, cut, texture of the fabric, carefully selected fragments of the painting, agreed on color, saturation. The work went very easily, I easily managed to "read" Tanya's thoughts and materialize them.

When our beautiful princess dressed in a ready-made outfit, everyone in the workshop froze. Tanya, like a porcelain doll from a Russian fairy tale, stood in the center of the waiting room - and we couldn't take our eyes off her!

“The result exceeded my expectations. The corset didn't have any laces, but it fit me perfectly, the belt was made of blue velvet, the train was the perfect length, the dress was comfortable to move in and it looked graceful."

This moment in my work is one of the most exciting and responsible. When I see the eyes of my clients shine with joy, and I can admit that the work is done perfectly, I am happy.

Secret #5: Gather People Who Make You Happy

A wedding ceremony is a very personal event for those closest to me, and it was unexpected for me to receive an invitation, although I knew that guests would come from 11 countries. The less time left before the event, the more interesting details about the bride and groom I learned, and the more friendly our relationship became.

I can say from the bottom of my heart that this celebration is one of the brightest, most joyful and sincere. The wedding turned out really fabulous!

When all the guests gathered on the pier, it seemed to me that I was the heroine of a movie. Around the imperturbable, briollined men in expensive suits next to them are very beautiful, elegant women.

Our Tatyana appeared, unrealistically beautiful and infinitely happy.

Time seemed to have stopped ... There was tenderness spilled in the air.

Sergei proposed to me in September - on my birthday. I didn’t want to play a wedding in the fall or early spring, the weather at this time is unpredictable, mostly it’s always cloudy and it often rains, and before the onset of heat it was necessary to wait more than six months, so we stopped in the winter, and subsequently did not regret at all.

Choice of wedding style

In terms of the theme of the wedding, my husband had only one preference - a combination of the three colors of his favorite team: blue, white, light blue and no bias towards the western or East style, all only in Russian traditions! For me, it was important that everything was beautiful, and a specific theme could be traced, and not just a combination of three colors. And already after the proposal, a work colleague gave me a ceramic figurine - a cat, painted in the Gzhel style. The question of the theme of the wedding was decided by itself - here is a combination of blue-white-blue colors, and a focus on Russian folk art, and an excellent color scheme for a winter wedding.

Search for an institution

Finding a place was not easy. We traveled all over the city, all over the city. The Silk Road restaurant was opened not far from our house, but there was little information about it on the Internet, so we went there last and chose it. He did not disappoint us. Everything was great. Service at the highest level. The food is very tasty. A big plus was the presence of a hotel with good, clean rooms, where non-resident guests could stay.

Wedding preparations

There were a lot of ideas for organizing a wedding, but we decided on one thing from the very beginning - the wedding will be for guests. Of course the main actors we will be, but everything should be built in such a way that guests have fun and relax, and are also interested entertainment program, and not just drank and ate, as is often the case.

Advice
Make a wedding not only for yourself, but also for guests, it is very important to think about their comfort.

We decided to take over the preparation for the wedding completely, since this is only our day, and only we know how the first best day in our family life should look like.
In preparation for the wedding, they faced the only problem - the distance. We have been living in Rostov-on-Don for four years now, but we decided to play the wedding in Voronezh, in the city where I have lived almost all my life, my parents live there. In addition, Voronezh is geographically located in a more advantageous position for our guests who came from all over the European part of Russia - from the Crimea to the Urals. Therefore, everything had to be solved at a distance through the phone and the Internet. Only twice we managed to come to Voronezh to see everything with our own eyes, meet people and sign contracts.
Since there was little time for preparation, and distance interfered, we completely trusted our specialists: the presenter, photographer and videographer, who turned out to be professionals with a capital letter and worked for 5 points!
It was difficult to find a wedding decor studio - a hall and exit registration designer in our style. Few people wanted to take on this topic, but nevertheless we found a wonderful studio "KIRA", which specially developed our winter Gzhel fairy tale for us.
All Wedding accessories were made in the Gzhel style.

Wedding invitations were also made in the Gzhel style.

Walk

Due to the January cold, it was not possible to visit as many places as we would like. We took pictures in the lobby and on the observation deck of the Versailles Hotel.

What Russian wedding can do without horses? Therefore, the second point of our route was the private horseshoe stable in the village of Podgornoye.

Despite the terrible cold, the photos turned out amazing, for which special thanks to our photographer Alexander Penkin. From the walk there were only positive impressions.

Advice
If you are planning a walk and a photo shoot before the banquet, think about where the guests will be at this time and how to entertain them. Most importantly, the fun never ends!

Decoration of the hall and exit registration area

The design caused us concern, since everything was sewn to order for us, everything was created from scratch for our wedding. We did not have the opportunity to see how the hall and the place of the ceremony would look like in the end. We completely trusted the designer, which we have never regretted. We breathed a sigh of relief as soon as we crossed the threshold of the restaurant!

Marriage registration

A very exciting moment when only the people closest to us are looking at us at the same time: parents, relatives, friends. You can hardly restrain yourself from crying at the moment when your mother is crying from happiness ...

A wedding dance

We chose the waltz "My gentle and gentle beast." The dance was learned in just three days, it was staged by my friend, a choreographer in Rostov-on-Don. We rehearsed only once - two days before the wedding, we arrived at the restaurant and practiced the dance in an empty hall. We were very worried that we would forget, stumble, or even not be able to dance with a dress (I danced in a dress for the first time already at the wedding itself).