Pink Galoshes is not your typical blog. pinkG is a web-space that connects the most discerning brides with the hippest advice on all aspects of their wedding planning. pinkG is densely packed with savvy and discerning critiques of topics as diverse as types of tequila to ideas on incorporating famous artist’s color palettes. pinkG unites brides with fashion designers, chefs, graphic designers, and artists both inside and outside the wedding industry. Far more than individual critiques, Pink Galoshes weaves these disparate narratives into a cohesive whole that sheds light on the thematic and inspirational process of planning. Pink Galoshes encourages multiple ways to access and peruse our rich content. If you are looking for wedding day help, click directly to our “pinkG recommends” link. There you will find that we have chosen only our closest friends and those we most admire. It is a circle of trust with you at the center. In short, these are the people and artists that we would and do trust with our own special events.

If you are looking for information about a specific item (e.g. Elderflower liqueur, anemones, or hand-rolled cigars), go directly to our page of broad topics and narrow down accordingly. Or better yet, click on any tidbit review and see how an item as obscure as Black Sea Salt can be integrated in a way that ties a margarita station to scallops and ultimately to a table decoration. Pink Galoshes is principally a place for stylized and sophisticated inspiration.

Pink Galoshes is not bound by industry rules, social norms, or any other silly concerns. Instead, Pink Galoshes is the only place to find such a wealth of ideas that can be integrated into your wedding in a way that conveys significance and a general joie de vivre. To this end, we don’t think anyone will ever implement all the ideas in the way we propose, but we write about them in the hopes that these sometimes outlandish ideas will free your imagination to think about weddings in radical new ways. Browse. Imagine. Enjoy!

Like most innovative ideas, pinkG’s origins are humble.

For many brides, talking about rain on their wedding day is tantamount to heresy and it is something that photographers and wedding planners do only with great trepidation. Here I was with an urban, sophisticated NYC bride, about to speak the unthinkable word. I said, “You know, we really should make some plans in case the predicted rains come in.” To my surprise her face lit up and she beamed. Her response (and I quote) was, “Oh don’t you worry. I just bought the most fabulous pair of Pink Galoshes!”

I was stunned and bemused. Here was a woman who was able to take what many brides would find tragic and turn it into a hip fashionable expression of her femininity. She was exactly the type of client that I (and my friends within the wedding industry) were trying to meet.

Thinking more about it, I realized that she was not alone. The vast majority of my brides were of a similar mindset. These weren’t the famed bridezillas I had heard of but honestly had never met or worked with. These were women who were damn sure they were going to have an amazing day. If their mother was in their hair, well they would seat a talkative family friend right next to mom to keep her occupied. If the DJ played the wrong first dance for the father-daughter dance, they would stumble through a swing and laugh about it the next day. They were unshakable.

Then I realized, there wasn’t a place on the Internet catering to these bride’s sensibilities. A place that was pre-screened with informative, helpful, inspiring advice without fluff. A vision of wedding days not drawn from industry mags with an insular view, but with relevance to their own lives. A website driven by simple values of authenticity, effortlessness, and sophistication.

Thus the idea was formed and here we arrived:

Pink Galoshes - Irreverent Hip Tips for the Slightly Naughty Bride.

Pink Galoshes - for all the brides who respond to turmoil or stress by turning it around.

Irreverent - because we make decisions based not on what we are told, but what we think.

Hip - just cuz weddings should be cool.

Slightly Naughty - because for a least a few moments of your day you should be getting away with something you shouldn’t.

We hope you enjoy reading our ideas and find help from those people we recommend to you.