With the wedding season coming, bridal show welcomes hundreds

(Photo:blue formal dresses) From customized nails to extravagant cakes, brides- and grooms-to-be relished the wedding plan options offered to them at Monterey’s Wonderful Winter Bridal Show.
An ocean of couples, hundreds of future brides — some with their mothers, others with their future grooms — scoured the lobby at the Embassy Suites in Seaside in search of the perfect gear to make their perfect day complete.
Among the dozens of couples shopping and scanning vendors’s booths Sunday afternoon, Serena Thurston and Cliff Yi looked at photographers’ pamphlets. An important decision, they said, as it will be the photographer that captures the moment marking the rest of their lives as husband and wife.
Thurston and Yi, both 23, met at CSU Monterey Bay.
“We met in our marine biology class. It was the spring semester of 2013,” Thurston said.
Almost two years after their first meeting, Thurston now wears a custom-made engagement ring. The ring follows the design of a DNA double helix, and blue diamonds frost the edges of the DNA strand design.
Yi says he proposed at Disney California Adventure. He brought her inside the Beauty and the Beast-themed library, knelt down and popped the question. They got engaged the day before Thanksgiving last year and are planning to tie the knot May 2016 in Big Sur. On Sunday, they were on the look-out for the best photographer.
Although wedding conventions can be quite thrilling for some people, others may get overwhelmed by the fluff and romanticism of it all.
Beau Griffin and Brian Scott, proudly-wearing a sticker stating their future marital status on their chest, sat in a corner waiting for their future wives. The two, Griffin says, will be each other’s “best man.”
“We’ve been best friends since college,” Griffin said. “The engagement timing just happened.”
Although Griffin and his fiance, Alison Hunter, don’t have a wedding date set just yet. Scott said he is looking to wed Weslee Gegg on June 27. He said he proposed about a year ago on their fifth anniversary.
“We went on a hike, then we went to the aquarium,” Scott said smiling. “It was our fifth anniversary and went to eat at the Chart House. I proposed there.”
With every couple in attendance, came a love story.

“This is my first time at an event like this. It gives you a glimpse of the day you’ve been waiting for so long,” Cara Martin of Seaside who will be getting married in June, said.Read more at:pink formal dresses