Back in 2003, at the National Institute of Technology, Mumbai, I was frantically hunting for textiles for my graduation collection.

Wedding traditions are easy to take for granted once you’ve seen the same rituals performed dozens of times. But just across the pond, key differences exist when it comes to celebrating “I do.” The pre-wedding build-up, of course, consists of stag nights and hen parties, rather than bachelor and bachelorette parties. But did you know that in England bridal showers are quite rare? Luckily for us, Vogue happens to be a melting pot of British expats and their American counterparts. So to gain some insights into what exactly differs between a British and American wedding, we asked some of our better-accented coworkers for their thoughts.

We may be halfway through the summer season, but there are still plenty of soirees to sashay into. Whether it be a chic beach picnic, chill house party or sexy date night, being prepared requires a bit of primping. If you’re feeling uninspired or short on time, fashion and beauty bloggers are an excellent way to get back in the groove.

For more than 12 years, Bachelor and Bachelorette stylist Cary Fetman has done -- and seen -- it all, and dressing JoJo Fletcher this season was no exception.

Fetman opened up to ET’s Lauren Zima on Friday, where he dished all aboutFletcher’s gorgeous finale gown, pre-engagement nerves, and what it takes to dress a Bachelorette.


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“She was so excited!” Fetman said of Fletcher when picking out the stunning Badgley Mischka gown for the finale. “At that point of the year, you are really going down to your top three people, and you don’t know what you’re doing. You’re not sure, and there’s so much going on in your head. Coming back from just having met families and just letting somebody go, and heading to another part of the world where all of a sudden your life is about to change -- it’s exciting and it’s nerve-wracking.”

“She was thrilled, but picking a dress for what’s going to be the day you may get engaged, it’s nerve-wracking,” he added. “It’s like picking out your wedding gown.”

Nerve-wracking seems to be the right word in this case; the 25-year-old picked the stunning gown just days before handing out her final rose.

“That dress was literally found the day after we came home from hometowns, and basically the day before we were leaving for the trip,” Fetman revealed. “I actually had to stay behind two days in order for the tailor to be able to fix it.”

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Fletcher’s last-minute gown choice was out of the ordinary for the veteran stylist, who is used to choosing all the Bachelorette’s looks before each season commences.

“The finale sometimes is done before the first night’s gown,” Fetman shared. “Rarely do we ever have to have another fitting for a finale. This time, it just wasn’t there. We both knew that somehow I did not have the perfect finale dress.”

But once Fletcher laid eyes on the stunning gown, it was a done deal.

"She wanted to go more romantic," Fetman said of Fletcher’s big decision. “It was chiffon, it had movement...This is a beach, and this is something that she wanted to feel soft and pretty, romantic, and just feel different than everything we’ve already done. This dress is the total, 100% opposite of everything we had done all season.”

While Fletcher chose romance for her finale gown, most of the other looks she has worn in this season’s rose ceremonies were tight-fitted and full of sparkle. Fetman chose those pieces with Fletcher before the season even started.

“You do everything the week before. We literally do fittings in two to three days,” he said. “I get to know her a little bit over the phone. I go through some of my questions that give me a little bit of insight into who they are and what they’re about, and how they like to look, and then I go shopping. And then they come and we have a whole little mini store set up for them of things that I have chosen.”

Fletcher has had a few standout looks this season, including the Gaucho-inspired outfit she wore on her date with Alex in Buenos Aires, the show-stopping Jay Godfrey blue dress she wore as she chose her final three, and the sparkly Randi Rahm gown that showed off just enough skin on her first night as the Bachelorette.

“We tried to do a mixture of different things, mixing the fantasy with some things that are realistic, get some things that are sexy, get some things that you would never see unless it was on a TV show,” he said.


But according to Fetman, while the Bachelorettes seem to always look perfectly dressed for each location, they don’t even know where they’ll be visiting.

“They have no clue,” he said. “They’re going into it for the first time, [picking] 10 weeks’ worth of clothes…The most I can I tell you is, ‘This time we’re looking for winter clothes, and this time we’re looking for spring clothes.’ You’re just having to put some faith into the person that you’re with. It’s a little give and take, but a lot of trust that builds up between the two of us.”

Trust is a big aspect of Fetman’s relationship with every Bachelorette he works with, and part of that comes with his approach to styling them.

"I tell all of them, ‘I’m not there to change you. I am merely there to help you," he said. "’This is your life, this is your journey, and this is hopefully going to be your love story. And so you have to feel 100% when you’re wearing the clothes, and it really can’t have anything to do with me….I can pull the clothes. I can’t tell you what you should be doing.’"

Fetman has styled a lot of looks throughout his years working on the ABC reality show, and while he can certainly put together 10 weeks’ worth of looks in several days, he’s not Superman. The stylist spilled on one fashion emergency that he just can’t forget, when a Bachelorette’s gown ripped on a date, and he was stuck hours away.

“She was wearing a ball gown, and she went to the ladies’ room. One of our executive producers went with her to help her, and the whole zipper completely burst. They had nobody there to sew it,” he dished. “They were calling me in this panic, and I was trying to explain to them, ‘You can’t really zip it again. Just pin it, and put a piece of matching tape over it, and you’ll be fine.’ Even if I was there, there’s no way you can hand-sew her back into the gown. That’s how tight this gown was.”

Fetman also spilled on some of his proudest moments -- including dressing season seven Bachelorette Ashley Rosenbaum (nee Hebert) in her stunning Randi Rohm finale look. "She wore a pink dress that had these baby-like single strands of feathers hanging off of it at the bottom," he remembered fondly.


And as for his least favorite? That would be Shayne Lamas’ yellow number in the season 12 finale of The Bachelor. "Instead of evening apparel, we decided we were going to do a cocktail [dress]. I still to this day go, ‘Were you high?’ because how I allowed her to walk out looking like that is just beyond my comprehension," he admitted.

It seems Fetman is his own toughest critic -- until he saw the comments Fletcher received on her Instagram account. The celebrity stylist, who posts all of Fletcher’s looks on his own Instgram, is shocked by some of the criticism the Bachelorette receives.

"I think I would be sitting in the corner crying if I had those comments. I know what Kaitlyn went through last year [and] I know what JoJo is going through this year," he revealed. "People are much harder and much more critical of the girls than they are of the boys."

That’s right -- Fetman also dressed Fletcher’s final two men. And according to the TV stylist, while Jordan Rodgers and Robby Hayes have similar fashion sense, they couldn’t be more different.


"I’ll tell you, it’s amazing that you have two guys who are so completely different, and yet, the one thing you’ll find even in the finale, they’re dressed similarly!” he exclaimed. "They both have a tendency to go to the same outfit -- same color, same outfit, same taste. Shocking!"

Fetman may have chosen what Rodgers and Hayes wore on that fateful day, but it’s Fletcher who will have to choose which man to spend her life with.

The season finale of The Bachelorette airs on Monday, Aug. 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Get caught up on all the drama before Fletcher makes her final pick in the video below.

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Kelsey Anne Claprood and Benjamin James Elefritz were united in marriage on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, at 1:30 p.m. at Christ the King Catholic Church in Columbus, Ohio. The ceremony was officiated by Deacon Peter Labita.

Anyone with loads of female besties and sisters knows choosing a maid of honor for your wedding can be painstaking. Pretty Little Liars actress Lucy Hale has the best way to avoid that issue altogether in her dream Ezria wedding.

Mike and Dave need a better movie. This is a joke that requires almost no thought to throw together, much like the film it is lampooning for laughs (and by laughs I mean brief chuckles and text replies such as “LOL”), but that doesn’t mean it is incorrect in the truth it hopes to reveal.

Lucy Teitler’s new play Engagements, directed by Kimberly Senior at Second Stage Uptown’s McGinn/Cazale Theatre, features a quintet of actors forced to navigate a particularly rocky engagement party season.

Britain has recently lurched from one constitutional and leadership crisis to the next in the wake of its decision to leave the European Union, with morale further damped by a humiliating loss to Iceland in the European soccer championships.So a second Wimbledon championship for Andy Murray was a welcome distraction on Sunday afternoon, with the local hero triumphing over the Canadian Milos Raonic on Centre Court in straight sets.But he was not the only winner. His wife, Kim Sears, seated in the family box, was herself something of an attention magnet for the duration of the tournament.A fixture on the sidelines of her husband’s matches for almost a decade (they married in 2015), Ms. Sears has won more admiring glances this year than any other for her strategic choices in courtside attire.

It is quite understandable that fashions and fads do come and go. But the only constant is the cost that is involved in the purchase of your favorite items. The one area that requires you to keep abreast off, year in, year out, is the latest trends in technology and technological gadgets, like electronics and fashion items.

It might not seem like a big deal that Breanne Rice, former Bachelor contestant and holistic nutritional therapy practitioner from Seattle, stopped wearing so much makeup, but her new look is actually very inspirational.

Last August, a twenty-two-second video posted on Facebook went viral in Pakistan. A young woman, her face obscured by large sunglasses, had recorded herself standing in front of a middle-aged man. “How I’m looking? Tell me how I’m looking,” she says to the man, her gaze never wavering from the camera’s lens.

In the Hot-As-Hell fashion at SwimMiami, little girls paraded down the catwalk in skimpy suits.

A thrifty couple organised their entire wedding for £3,000 using food that was destined for the bin and a second hand wedding graduation gowns from GumTree.

Kim Woolnough, 24, a community nurse from Durham, and her new hubby Dan, 22, a sales executive, even had their rings made from reused metal by an Etsy seller.

Rather than spend thousands on her wedding dress Kim bought a second hand one off Gumtree
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Kim said: ’Some of our guests thought it was a bit weird that we were having out-of-date food for the wedding breakfast but everyone said it was really tasty.

’We didn’t want to waste anything so we had to be quite creative.’

Kim and Dan met in 2014 when they were both on an internship in Durham, and quickly hit it off.

And just a year later in September 2015, Dan proposed to Kim at the top of a mountain in Keswick, the Lake District.

The couple decided to have a low cost wedding and use as much recycled and second hand materials as possible.

Their wedding invitations were made out of 100 per cent recycled paper, and the save-the-date invitations were emailed to save paper.

While most brides spend hours - and thousands of pounds - shopping for their dream wedding dress, Kim bought one from Gumtree for £80.

She said: ’It seemed like fate. I went to pick up the dress and instantly fell in love with it.

’I had a few alterations made so that it fit me, but the lady was so glad that the dress was going to be used again.’

The wedding breakfast was put together by a charity who source food from local supermarkets, bakeries and small businesses which would otherwise have gone in the bin.

The starter was a tomato and red pepper soup, followed by veg curry or pasta and a range of different desserts.

Any food that was leftover at the end was given to the guests to take home.

Kim said: ’The food was all past its shelf life but still perfectly fine to eat. In fact it was delicious!

’We didn’t want to waste a single thing, so everything had been recycled in some way.’

The couple even had furniture made for the wedding out of recycled bits of wood, which they gave back to the carpenters afterwards to use again.

She said: ’That was what made it so special, everyone chipped in and the band were some friends of ours.

’It was a lot more personal than other weddings I’ve been to where the couple have splurged loads of money.

’The team called ReFuse from the Real Junk Food Project were incredible and we’re thankful for their help. They’re an amazing organisation.’

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