Hello everyone! Lots has been happening wedding-wise, but this week I?m focusing on something not strictly planning related. This past Friday, I was lucky enough to attend Jenny Packham?s 2017 Bridal Collection presentation at New York Bridal Fashion Week in my role (which is, alas, coming to an end) as SYGM?s NYC correspondent. The dresses were, as always, marvelous, the venue packed, and the theme a bit of a departure for Jenny. I have loads of lovely photos from the official collection shoot to share in this post, but if you want to check out some more of the (admittedly not very good) ones I shot myself at the event, check out SYGM?s Instagram feed @soyouregettingmarried.

While you may associate Jenny Packham with English garden parties and ?20s glamour, in 2017 she?s going boho. Sort of. While a few of the new gowns looked at home in the country and western inspired setting?complete with hay bales, wagon wheels, antlers, and a jukebox blaring country hits?just as many were classic English Jenny. And I wouldn?t have it any other way; while it?s fun to see the brand branching out into new territory, I?m such a fan of that classic Jenny Packham glamour. Taylor
 
With a whopping 22 new styles, it?s hard to pick a favourite. But if I?m allowed two, I think I?d have to go for the Taylor?a sweet, demure number harking back to collections past (and, it must be said, looking ever so slightly out of place amidst the hay bales!)?and, to take things in a different directi...