The vision for Maybelle truly blossomed from a place of deep love for design combined with a powerful commitment to sustainability. My Gen Z daughters opened my eyes even further to the urgent need for eco-conscious practices, and this became the guiding principle for everything we do. As both a designer and a mother, my mission is to create a better future. We achieve this by crafting breathtaking pieces that help our clients radiate their most beautiful selves, all while honoring our planet. At Maybelle, we don't just design bridal gowns; we bring dreams to life. We are defined by a commitment to timeless beauty and the art of the 'second act.' Each one-of-a-kind gown radiates a timeless magic, ensuring unparalleled craftsmanship and a truly unforgettable moment for every bride.

A queer, disabled designer, he rejects convention in favor of inclusivity, designing for shape and story—not size or norm. His work has been featured in Loveinc and in national publications, praised for its sustainable vision and deeply personal touch. Westbrook’s debut bridal collection (decades in the making), Genesis, uses post-consumer, repurposed materials—everything from discarded plastics to unusual fibers—to transform the overlooked into the unforgettable. Beyond aesthetics, Timothy brings emotional care to fittings and consultations, understanding that choosing what you wear for one of life’s most important days can also be a process of healing. With over a decade of experience across price points from hundreds to tens of thousands, he holds space for every client's story, ensuring that when you walk out, you feel both seen and radiant.perience-rooted in emotion, intention, and love.

I see clothing not just as something to wear, but as a reflection of who we are. With a focus on conscious, refined design and a distinctly personal touch, I create pieces for the modern bride’s entire wedding weekend.

I source fabrics and trims locally and intentionally, reducing waste while maintain a close connection to every step of the process.

At the heart of my work is a promise: that every woman feels seen, heard, and cherished. I design not only to reflect who she is, but awaken something within her she hasn’t met yet. More than a label, Alexis Levan is a deeply personal experience-rooted in emotion, intention, and love.”

“With years of experience and the happy clientele to prove it, we work with you to create superior fits and custom creations all while reducing apparel waste and preserving the art of tailoring. Tailoress Atelier + Agency is based in Brooklyn, New York - providing services for personal alterations, bespoke and fine tailoring. Including suiting, bridesmaid, bridal, menswear, womenswear & genderless.

Our mission is to restore the art of tailoring and provide superior quality and services while operating our fair-wage fitting space and atelier.

Whether it's the vintage find that has been hanging in your closet or that look you've always wanted but can never find-- Tailoress Atelier is here to construct the fit of your dreams.”

From Fashion Redesign to Sustainable Solutions to Alternations & Tailoring, Carlaesthetics supports crafting and community in the heart of NYC’s Garment District.

A designer and textile artist focused on promoting ethics in fashion and craft, Carla hosts Mending Mondays at Wing & Weft Gloves, a staple of NYC weddings.

AL Sandimir is an indigenous, queer, non-binary refugee and Automic Gold’s founder, CEO, and jewelry designer. They’ve been working in the fine jewelry industry since 2009. They’re obsessed with small details, sustainable quality, and planning better systems for a post-capitalist future.

Automic Gold jewelry was specifically designed to mix and warp the feminine, masculine, in-between, and outside to make fine jewelry that is beyond gender. Truly gender-free jewelry, designed by a non-binary person. Their custom line of wedding rings that are ethically made, size inclusive and customizable.

Since 2004, Catbird’s tiny Williamsburg shop has been a destination for the finest solid gold jewelry and gifts for all, lovingly designed in Brooklyn since 2004 and made from over 95% recycled gold & recycled diamonds. Explore our range of solid gold rings, including signet and stacking rings, all designed to layer and wear over time. You can shop all of our jewelry here, as well as our collection of silver jewelry.

Celebrate love and mark life’s milestones with our wedding ring collection, featuring recycled diamond engagement rings, and lab-grown diamond engagement rings, all sustainably sourced and designed to last a lifetime.

Catbird has grown into a much larger jewelry studio where we create pieces that still make my heart race with excitement. Our kind and lovely customer service team and store teams are devoted to helping you on your quest - whether it is a stacking ring, a wedding ring, or a small gift. Confession: we sometimes cry at the good news we get to be a part of.

“Any great hairstylist can replicate a look in a photo, but it means nothing if it doesn’t suit your lifestyle or work for your hair. With over 15 years in the industry, Chelsey has settled beautifully into her niche creating trendy yet timeless looks specializing in hair extensions and lived in hair color.

Leda is a boutique hair salon specializing in luxury hair extensions, eco conscious hair color, and hair cutting. The team at Leda truly believes in the magic of matrimony. I mean, who doesn’t love a little romance! After being a part of hundreds of weddings, and being featured in some of the most incredible wedding publications, we still get butterflies seeing a look come together.”

Stems Brooklyn is a woman owned small business founded in 2013 offering daily flower delivery services and more to the New York City area. We are dedicated to creating artistically inspired, farm fresh bouquets while striving towards a more kind, sustainable and equitable future in floristry by maintaining our commitment to our earth, community, customers, and team.

We keep Stems eco conscious by:

Composting which reduces our carbon emissions.

• Buying seasonal, locally grown flowers reduces waste and provides a lower carbon footprint. Our flowers are never painted or dyed!

• Sourcing recycled products and environmentally friendly driven products for our store.

• We never use flower foam which is a single use petroleum plastic which harms our oceans.

• Taking care of the people in and around Stems

We also support mutual aid groups and non-profits dedicated to racial/food/environmental/social justice in NYC by hosting a reoccurring event called Solidarity Sunday. As a mission driven business, building inclusivity and giving back to our community is vital.

Specializing in responsible floral and botanical event styling in the greater New York City area, Firecracker Floral Design LLC launched in 2018. My design aesthetic is the product of an educational background in visual arts and work experience in urban landscaping, container garden design, and floristry. With an emphasis on locally sourced material and seasonally available flowers, my sustainably driven wedding and event floral work is rooted in a passion for the natural world of horticultural. Each celebration is unique, and I find great joy in creative collaboration with clients in developing designs that are singular to each event.

I chose the name “Firecracker”  for a couple of reasons: For me, the word evokes a  bit of nostalgia and lighthearted fun. I think of sparklers and the summer holidays of my youth spent with family and friends. In a headier respect, people have marked special occasions with fireworks  for nearly 2,000 years. Flowers have been incorporated into the ceremonial for untold millennia more. Forms common to both flora and pyrotechnics have given us a shared vocabulary: Chrysanthemum, Peony, Dahlia, Palm, Willow, Pistil, Bouquet are all horticultural terms that have been adopted to describe fireworks effects. Between symbolism and my (usually!) ebullient demeanor, “Firecracker Floral Design” seemed to describe my business perfectly.

I look forward to bringing a little floral “Boom!” to your next celebration!”

“I'm a sucker for a love party! It’s a big fucking deal. Seeing my couples gather their most beloved folks together for the celebration of love is magical.

In this really tough world we need to have more beauty,
kindness, and joy.I bring my heart and passion to creating beauty for your event.  When partnering with me you will get my focus and collaboration.  From our initial consultation to the day of your event I will listen and guide you on how best to bring your vision to life.

I call my style wild crafted and asymmetrically designed with inspiration from what is seasonally available. Building relationships with regional flower growers, I strive to bring the freshest and lowest carbon footprint flowers to your event.”

“Mimosa is not your garden variety event design studio. We liken ourselves to interior designers for our client's celebrations, guiding them through the process and designing a customized, cohesive, and transportive event.

Showing every living thing kindness and respect is one of our core values. Mimosa believes that love is a verb, and that belief extends into our relationships with clients, creative partners, and our family of employees.

We are passionate about our environment and committed to maintaining a sustainable, eco-friendly operation by using locally sourced florals, foam-free materials, and composting whenever possible.”

“Founded Fox Fodder Farm in 2011 by Taylor Patterson, Fox Fodder Flowers is floral design studio based in NYC. Known for its merging of the naturally driven aesthetic with fine florals, the studio's work uses seasonal materials and champions lesser known varieties and heritage breeds.

Our services are available for events and installations, residential and commercial accounts, as well as daily deliveries through out the New York City area.

Fox Fodder partners with local farms and renowned growers to source our flowers and materials.”

“Since 2012, we have worked in partnership with regional farmers to connect New Yorkers with the freshest, rarest, seasonal, locally farmed flowers. 

Our goal is to connect you with the simple, sublime beauty of flowers - the most unusual varieties, harvested at peak freshness - while supporting small farm businesses in our region who approach farming with sustainability at the center of their practice.

Whether you’re sending flowers to a loved one, shopping for yourself or need a designer for your upcoming event, we are here to provide an eco-sensitive option. Composting waste, packaging plastic-free, avoiding harmful chemicals and products is how we've operated from Day 1. 

We’ve built our reputation on quality and sourcing transparency, and look forward to helping you learn more about seasonal flowers through our subscriptions, floral design, and retail offerings.”

“I have spent the last years discovering my own voice, which is a mix between a Dutch Masters painting, the Audubon Society, and a Dolly Parton Outfit.  I’m constantly caught between ‘more is more is more’ and minimalism. I find equal beauty in the curve of a single bare branch, a lush, overflowing urn of flowers, and mounds of hot pink baby’s breath hanging playfully from the ceiling. I am inspired by everything around me and love to combine the traditional and more the uncommon together. My signature lush, romantic, organic aesthetic is influenced by nature and the untamed and ephemeral beauty of flowers, and maybe a little disco too.

Part of my desire to start my own venture was to create a workplace where my womanist ideals could be upheld. Wild is an inclusive floral design studio that supports social justice and Black Lives Matter movement with the goal of making the wedding industry and our world a safer, more representative, and more equitable place for all. It’s easy to say, but takes conscious work to uphold. I am actively participating in antiracist education and in community with like minded small businesses to stay accountable to these goals of inclusivity, liberation, and anti-white supremacy.  A portion of the total profits are going to reparations to the Black community and I volunteer at a local community garden that helps address food insecurity issues in my neighborhood in the Bronx. T.”

Rescuing Leftover Cuisine is a national 501(c)3 nonprofit food rescue organization, operating across the United States and headquartered in New York City, that redistributes excess food to people experiencing food insecurity.

As someone who experienced food insecurity as a child, Robert Lee was very familiar with the wasted food and hunger issues facing our society. That is what led him to launch Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC), a nonprofit organization that targets both the prevention of wasted food and putting an end to hunger, in New York City in the summer of 2013. He left his full time job at J.P. Morgan in 2014 to run RLC full-time, using seed money he and co-founder Louisa Chen won at a venture competition during their senior year at NYU, as well as corporate donations from his former employer. In the ten years since, RLC has expanded to nine regions and rescued over 23 million pounds of excess food.

Garbage Goddess was founded by florist Liza Lubell (New York’s Peartree Flowers) in 2019. Liza has spent over fifteen years producing and dismantling events. Disillusioned by the amount of waste that her industry created, Liza realized she could no longer work with florals unless she meaningfully shifted the industry towards earth-supportive practices.

Garbage Goddess is a solution to the trash left behind by traditional event breakdowns. We donate used decor and compost organic waste, diverting trash from landfills.

The Garbage Goddess team relies on a constellation of freelance professionals – including artists, musicians, and teachers – who care for this work and for one another.

“Our community reaches beyond the composting center. What we don’t compost we donate, and over the years, we’ve developed relationships with donation sites like Material for the Arts and schools where event decor becomes fodder for artists, students, and educators. - Liza L.”