As women, since childhood, we are conditioned with every form of media telling us to dream about our wedding.  We are given templates for how to look on our day and told that this is the most important day of our lives.  Well, these choices are ours to make. We don't need a cookie-cutter princess dress or a “traditional” wedding to commemorate our love.  I want us to celebrate in the ways that are only going to make us feel like our most beautiful and truest selves.

As the founder of Beyond The Ceremony, it’s become my mission to help empower women and give them a different point of view. I’ve worked as a professional fashion designer for the last 15 years with extensive design experience in couture houses such as Oscar de la Renta and Monique Lhuillier , but over the past decade, I've questioned deeper why brides were only being offered very impractical looking dresses that look like they haven’t been updated in 200 years?  Why are women given the notion that this is the only way to do it?  Not everyone fits in the “traditional” box. — I am now using all of my design expertise to create beautifully versatile bridal looks for women, that help to highlight their best features, make them feel like the best version of selves, and to do so while looking stylish, unique, and modern.

With love,

Janice Lee

Founder