Freida Pinto discusses her new movie, The Immortals.

ISSUE: Fall 2011

DEPT: Plugged In

HED: Freida Pinto

STORY: Jimmy Lee

How about starting a new job by getting into bed with Superman? That was Freida Pinto’s predicament, when she began work on the new film Immortals: one of the first scenes shot was a love-making sequence with the soon-to-be Man of Steel, Henry Cavill.

“How can you feel bad for Henry?” said Tarsem Singh, the director of the highly stylized, eye-popping 3D epic, to a screaming crowd at last July’s Comic-Con. Truly, being in Pinto’s presence is a divine experience — especially fitting for a movie with a mythological backdrop. There is, of course, the beauty. But she also handles herself with grace and cunning, complimenting her co-stars while slyly addressing the criticisms coming from India about only making movies in the West.

“What’s amazing about the way my career’s been shaped is that there’s been an immense amount of growth,” said Pinto in July. “When people ask me, ‘Was it amazing working with all these handsome men?’ It is, certainly, and they’re also super-talented. Just sharing screen space with Stephen Dorff; having Mickey Rourke in your film. It’s just amazing to have that experience. It’s just really fast growth, which I wouldn’t have had if I was just sitting in [Mumbai].”

Granted, a swords-and-sandals action flick with Greek gods using Mt. Olympus- enhanced kung fu skills might not be the type of film you’d expect to see her in, but Pinto relished it. “It just gets boring if you stick to just one genre, just one kind of film-making,” said Pinto, who plays Phaedra, an oracle helping Cavill stop a power-mad Rourke from damning mankind. “You want to be challenged. And that’s the whole fun and joy of being an actor: to do everything that’s different.”

And being surrounded by male eye candy wasn’t so bad, either. “It’s very rare that you get to be part of a film where men have to bare it all and the women stay covered,” added Pinto. “It’s a damn good treat for me!”

Details In theaters November 11.

— Jimmy Lee

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Returning for its second season, the hit TV drama The Walking Dead, based on Robert Kirkman’s popular comic book series, is set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies. A small group of survivors, including Glenn, played by Korean American actor Steven Yeun (The Big Bang Theory), must fight for survival. Here, we pick Yeun’s brain.

If I were a zombie: I’d go to the nearest steakhouse and pick out a person who had just eaten a nice filet or T-bone. That’d be like eating a steak wrapped in bacon, but human-sized.

In Glenn’s zombie survival pack: Spam, candy and a bunch of hats.

Monster I want to be: I’d love to turn into a Gila monster. All they do is eat, sleep and sunbathe. Sign me up.

— Han Cho

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THE FIRE WITHIN: In Samuel Park’s debut novel, This Burns My Heart, reviewer Susan Soon He Stanton finds the post-Korean War protagonist, the long-suffering Soo-Ja, a complex character whose one mistake leads to a lifelong slow burn.

ISSUE: FALL 2011

DEPT: Plugged In

STORY: Susan Soon He Stanton

Perhaps it goes without saying that much of the recent fiction depicting life in post-war South Korea has been understandably bleak. However, Samuel Park’s This Burns My Heart is an understatedly brilliant tale of middle-class dysfunction told with Chekhovian aplomb. Inspired by incidents in Park’s mother’s life, the story follows the beautiful Soo-Ja, a student activist with a bright future. The day before her wedding, Soo-Ja declines a surprise proposal from an enigmatic doctor and unwittingly chooses a life of stifling customs.

Crippled by her own acute awareness that she is superior to her excruciatingly substandard life, Soo-Ja takes comfort in her only daughter and struggles to find a place in her husband’s household. In a foreboding scene, Soo-Ja’s husband Min whispers his thanks on their wedding night. “‘For what?’ Soo-Ja whispered back. Min turned his back to her. ‘You’ll find out soon enough.’”

From that moment on, the next 20 years of Soo-Ja’s life progress not with a bang but a whimper, and the ambitious girl becomes trapped in a corrosive house where her in-laws administer death by a thousand cuts. Isolated from the world, Soo-Ja watches as the South Korea she wanted to build flourishes without her while her marriage festers under a veneer of polite disappointment.

Although a sympathetic character, Soo-Ja suffers through the novel like an ingénue trapped in a haunted house — just get out of the house! But for one seemingly good reason or another, she does not, cannot, and through the passage of her life, despite great displays of bravery and personal strength, the emotion you will most acutely feel for Soo-Ja is pity. However, the story is not without humor or hope, and Yul, the mysterious doctor from Soo-Ja’s youth, reappears on the horizon like a harvest moon. The introduction of Yul’s wife and Soo-Ja’s abiding honor hinder the possibility of an easy solution.

Park’s narrative has an epic quality although not much happens — ordinary lives fallen apart at the seams. Although well executed, at times one might be left hoping Park would widen his scope to write more extensively about the state of South Korea outside of his cast of characters. Much of the novel is organized around a singular, Jane Austen-esque notion that Soo-Ja’s life would have been perfect if she married the right man. All of her problems — love, money, happiness — hinge on a single mistake made in her youth. It would be fine if Soo-Ja alone naïvely believed this to be true, but the novel asserts this belief as well and the
plot serves as a cautionary tale against a bad match. Nonetheless, Park’s skill with creating fully realized
characters, especially some of the more unlikable ones, such as Soo-Ja’s rivals (her mother-in-law and Yul’s wife), keep the story lively and acerbic. Although Soo-Ja plays the martyr, Park is aware of her flaws and keeps her character complex enough to hold interest. Park’s representation of life and customs in a Korean household, including a visiting matchmaker, religious holidays, and most notably Soo-Ja’s traditional wedding, are appealingly true to life; his economic prose never devolves into the exotic ham-fisted flourishes occasionally found in lesser works of the genre. Although an exciting and potentially unfamiliar world to his reader, Park does not forget he is telling the story through Soo-Ja’s perspective, and she has seen it all. Through Soo-Ja’s eyes, Park beautifully evokes 1960s war-torn South Korea, a country struggling between conflicting impulses to preserve or rebuild.

Written with clarity and elegant restraint, This Burns My Heart is sure to engage.

– Susan Soon He Stanton

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After two seasons on the hit FOX series Glee, Jenna Ushkowitz is hitting all the right notes.

ISSUE: FALL 2011

DEPT: Cover Feature

Photographer: Diana King

Wardrobe: Lyndzi Trang

Makeup: Allie Lapidus

Hair: Gaelle Secretin

Photo Assistants: Kevin Burnstein, Kevin Kozicki

Styling Assistant: Jacqueline Nguyen

Location: Park Plaza Hotel

Story: Janice Jann

Two years ago, when I first interviewed Jenna Ushkowitz, she was in the middle of shooting the first season of Glee, an innovative new show with a lot of promise, hype and a heart-stopping cover of “Don’t Stop Believin.’”

Jenna was excitable and chatty, like any other 23-year-old with her first big break would be. I had asked her then if she was prepared for her impending fame.

Jenna replied, “We can just take it step by step. Do we feel that [the show’s] special? Yes. But I don’t think any of us are thinking, ‘Oh, we’re going to be so famous.’”

Flash forward to the present. How things have changed. If Jenna didn’t think she was heading towards fame back then, she has to face that she is indeed famous now. Glee has become a cultural phenomenon, nominated for 19 Emmys and four Golden Globes, its songs topping iTunes every week. Chris Colfer has been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Important People for his portrayal of gay teenager, Kurt Hummel. And Jenna, along with her on-screen boyfriend played by Harry Shum, Jr., are two of the most recognizable Asians on television.

The now 25-year-old Korean American, raised in New York by her adoptive parents, realized this when the cast headed to the Big Apple to film an episode last season.

“We thought we would go shoot and a couple of fans would be there,” Jenna remembers. “It was insane. Hundreds and hundreds of kids showed up. There were barricades everywhere. It was overwhelming, amazing and kind of wakes you up, going, ‘holy crap, this is my life now!’” For Jenna, life over the past two years has taken her from bartending to singing on Broadway’s Spring Awakening to playing goth-girl Tina
Cohen-Chang on one of the most influential shows on primetime television. And yet Jenna maintains she’s still the same. “Your life doesn’t have to change if you don’t want it to,” she says. I sat down with Jenna at Los Angeles’s exclusive members-only Soho House (one indication of how life has changed — Jenna’s a member),
catching her in between shooting the show’s season 2 finale and the Glee summer concert tour. Just like I would with any girlfriend, we chatted about boys, clothes and Glee.

Audrey Magazine: Life seems to be going very smoothly for you right now. Can you take us back to a time when this wasn’t the case?
Jenna Ushkowitz: In 2007/8, before Spring Awakening, I had just graduated from college and was bartending. I was really unhappy and was like, “I need to be getting a job right now singing and dancing and not slinging drinks,” you know? I was with my friend at lunch in New York one day and he asked, “What do you want to do?” I was like, “I want to be on a TV show and I don’t want to have to give up theatre.” And here I am. It’s weird. I will never forget that.

Because I did it. I don’t understand people who can just sit and be comfortable and not do something about it when they’re unhappy with their lives. I was always, “Get whatever you want, when you want it, and if you’re not happy, change it.” Life’s too short, why not be happy every single day? That’s why I was like, “I have to do this.” Even if it takes years just to get a show.

AM: We’ve heard some of your co-stars’ crazy Glee audition stories. (Lea Michele’s car crash minutes before her Glee audition.) What was yours?
JU: The whole cast [of Spring Awakening] basically went in and read for Glee. AlI I had to do was say “w-w-we’re d-d-d-dooomed” with a little bit of a stutter and Tourette’s. I didn’t realize I had to say another stutter line and they were like, “OK, do the other line.” So I was like, “Uh, yeah ….” I walked out of the audition and was like, “I didn’t get that.”

A month later, Ryan Murphy was in town and they asked me to sing and improvise for them. He asked, “Who do you think Tina is?” I did this whole improv in the stutter about how my mom thought glee club was a really good outlet for me and Ryan said, “I liked how you kept her really positive.” I passed and went to test for the network in L.A. I had to take a red eye and I couldn’t sleep, I was anxious. I had never been to L.A. by myself before. Two hours [after auditioning], they said, “you got it!”

I called my friend and she said that’s amazing [because] her boyfriend had just gotten a [beer bottle cap] and it said “Never flee from glee.” I framed [that]. It’s all about syn- chronicity; it was the right place at the right time. [In] two years I had gone from bartending to Spring Awakening to Glee with no breaks in between. I’m going in the right direction right now, I know that.

AM: I thought one of the breakout moments for Tina in the show was when she made the speech about how there were no Asian sex symbols to look up to, so she wants to become one herself. Did you realize that speech is just as relevant to Jenna Ushkowitz as it is to Tina?
JU: Now that I think about it, yeah! Subconsciously, it’s totally true. When you are a minority, especially in this show, people focus in on that and I’m glad I got that storyline. I never really thought about it, but my idols were Lea Salonga and Sandra Oh and they’re Asian, too! It wasn’t, “they’re Asian so I idolize them.” It’s just that they are amazing and broke barriers and are who I aspire to be. We are the few in Hollywood making a name for ourselves so I do think about young girls who aspire to do what I’m doing now.

We’re acting, but we’re also making a difference and I never thought I would be able to do both at the same time. To make sure that arts in education is pushed and the message that different is beautiful and good. Be who you are and never be ashamed of it. We’re showing the world what most schools are like and what kids in schools are like. Not the Gossip Girls, not the 90210’s, with more of the glamorous lives. I love those shows, but kids are more like, “you were me in school, you’re representing me.” So it’s cool we’re lucky enough to do that.

AM: You seem to get along well with the rest of the cast, always saying, “We did this and we did that.”
JU: We’re a family. We came up creating this thing with Ryan and we did it for ourselves, basically. It’s our baby and now we’re sharing it with the world. We really do love each other. We all hang out, we all go to dinners. We have wonderful relationships outside the show.

AM: Has the dynamic changed now?
JU: We’ve only gotten closer. We now know each other really well. We know how we work, we know what clicks. We’ll have tiffs, we’ll argue, but in the most lovely way. Literally, we are each other’s cores. They’re my family and I’ll be sad when they all go away ‘cause I won’t be able to see them every day like I do now. We’re all lifelong friends.

AM: Who are you closest with?
JU: I have different relationships with everybody. Those girls are my sisters. Kevin [McHale] and I are peas in a pod. We get each other. We finish each other’s sentences. We’re all extremely close. It’s weird, I know people say, “You guys are just faking it, you all hate each other” and the tabloids try to do weird stuff, but it’s just this organic thing and I think that’s why it’s so successful. The chemistry worked, you know?

AM: Speaking of chemistry, let’s talk about Tina’s rela- tionship with Mike Chang.
JU: Mike Chang is amazing. We’re the longest standing couple on Glee now. Not everybody lasts on Glee, as you’ve seen. But I love working with Harry and we have a great time together. I would like to see Tina and Artie get into it. Not necessarily get back together, but we never really resolved [the breakup]. I still feel unresolved about it and I don’t know if they’re doing it on purpose. I’d like to do a triangle, [but] I couldn’t pick which one to be with ‘cause I think they’re both great.

AM: What is it like kissing Harry?
JU: [Laughs] A girl never kisses and tells!

AM: What else is off-topic for you?
JU: Relationships. Off-topic. My family, I won’t talk too much about. You can hit on me all you want, but don’t touch my family. I try not to talk about them too much ‘cause that’s my safety zone. When you go home, nothing changes.

You want to share things with the people who know and appreciate you. I’m a pretty open book. But my personal life is my personal life. The tabloids have plugged me with Kevin and if you don’t give them anything, it just becomes boring to them and they kind of leave you alone. That’s why we Twitter, to let people see a little more into our lives rather than reading a tabloid. We prefer that, saying I had a lovely dinner with my friend rather than the tabloids saying, “walking into a bar drunk.” Once you get to the top, people love to bring you down. I don’t think we should give them a chance to do that.

AM: Do you even have time to date?
JU: Not really. In New York it was a lot easier ‘cause I had a lot of friends. Here it’s really hard — I didn’t even have friends. So to meet a guy? It’s just hard. Especially now. You have to be careful when you meet people and be aware of what they want. You never know. I’ve finally met some friends of friends.

AM: What kind of guys do you like?
JU: I said I would never date actors, but that’s a lie. Who else do you meet then? I’m a very honest and open person and I just hope someone will give the same to me. You don’t have to be successful, you just have to know where you’re going.

It’s weird, I thought I would be married by 26 when I was younger. Now it’s like, “Oh my god, no way.” Just a good person. Someone who makes you laugh every single day.

AM: Speaking of people you like, you’ve mentioned how you idolize Sandra Oh.
JU: I watch Grey’s Anatomy for Sandra Oh. She’s my favorite. She can do no wrong in my eyes. I still haven’t met her, but I’m dying to. I’m trying to get her on my show. As crazy aunt Sandra or something. She plays crazy so well.

AM: Are you hoping for a similar career path?
JU: I want to be remembered as an actor who really cared about her craft and her work. I want to do what Sandra has done, which is make herself an actress and not an Asian Amer- ican actress. And doing great work and people seeing past the, “Oh, she’s not blonde and blue-eyed.” I want to be able to break those walls and make it socially wanted — not “acceptable” ‘cause I think it is acceptable — to see an Asian girl on the cover of any popular magazine. That’s where I want to go.

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In our Winter 2011-12 issue, we profiled electric cellist Tina Guo. Here, more from our conversation with her.

Audrey Magazine: What is the story behind your first solo record?

Tina Guo: The last record that I put out, I wasn’t really trying to get [distributed by a major label]. Most of the music, I self-produced, self-wrote, self-recorded. I did it just to do music and then I realized I had enough to for an entire album. I put it out through my own label and distributor and Universal wanted to pick it up.

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“Back then, kids laughed at me for wearing Indian clothes and eating smelly foods. Now I have everyone from 50 Cent to Lady Gaga embracing it.” — Anjula Acharia-Bath

ISSUE: Summer 2011

DEPT: Personalities

STORY: Anna M. Park

Anjula Acharia-Bath is bringing the hip fusion music scene to an iPod near you.

Growing up in the UK in the late ’70s, Anjula Acharia-Bath didn’t want to stand out. The neo-Nazi movement was on the rise and her family was one of the few of color in their suburban neighborhood.

“We would have swastikas painted on our garage,” she remembers, and the derogatory depictions of South Asians on television made “me shun my culture and heritage. … This portrayal of ‘my people’ was always something I wanted to change.”

Today, Acharia-Bath, 39, is doing just that. She’s the founder and CEO of Desi Hits!, an online entertainment hub and fusion media company, hybridizing Bollywood-Hollywood pop culture. She started the company with her husband Ranj Bath, also a second generation British South Asian, after moving to the U.S. six years ago. She realized that Americans didn’t know about the fusion music scene in the UK, a mélange of musical genres ranging from hip-hop to reggae, bhangra to house “that really reflects the bicultural and eclectic lifestyles that most cool, young Desis (the South Asian diaspora) are living across the globe.”

Touted as “the BET for brown people globally,” Desi Hits! recently collaborated with Lady Gaga and top Bollywood producers to release a Bollywood-inspired remix of her hit single “Born This Way.” They also worked with Britney Spears on the remix of “Till the World Ends,” incorporating manipulated dholki, dhol and subtle tumbi beats, as well as a Punjabi breakdown. “I think the collaboration [between A.R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls on the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire song “Jai Ho” remix] helped drive fusion Bollywood music to the middle of America,” says Acharia-Bath, who was instrumental in promoting the hit single.

Their next major project is a collaboration with Universal Music Group to launch Desi Hits! Universal, a music label promoting artists “that can resonate throughout the world, much like MIA and Jay Sean.” With some high profile backing (Interscope Geffen A&M Records chief Jimmy Iovine among them), and given that Desis are a fifth of the world’s population, it’s a smart move. And Acharia-Bath, for one, is glad she’s on board. “Back then, kids laughed at me for wearing Indian clothes and eating smelly foods,” she says. “Now I have everyone from 50 Cent to Lady Gaga embracing it.”

Find out more about Desi Hits! at desihits.com.

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You’d never know by just looking at her that interior designer Sarah Ahn was a neuroscientist in a former life. After spending six months in the hospital nursing her brother back to health after a motorcycle accident, she changed course, went to work for renowned interior designer Kelly Wearstler, and opened her own design firm, Nami Design. Now with a book and home décor line in the works, Ahn provides some easy tips (no Ph.D. required!) for do-it-yourself home decorating.

ISSUE: Summer 2011

DEPT: Entertaining

STORY: Anna M. Park

• Color cohesiveness: I personally love color (and all of them at once!). But to avoid feeling overwhelmed, start by picking two neutrals (beige, white, gray, even black) and one pop of color (red, yellow, blue — any shade you like). Keep your most expensive items neutral (the sofa, the dining room table), then add throw pillows, blankets, vases and artwork that have the one pop of color you love and repeat the color around the room. These accessories are inexpensive and easily replaceable. In fact, if you do this with each room but in a different color, you can rotate the items out — switch the red items from the living room and put them into your yellow-accented bedroom, and vice versa. You’ll be surprised at how relocating these accessories can change the mood of your entire place.
• Odd numbers: One of the basic principles of design is to go with odd numbers. Items look bland and ordinary by itself, but in repetition in groups of three, five, etc., the items gain greater attention. Place two pillows next to each other, then a third front and center. Apply this to your bed, sofa and window seating area. Do this with your favorite vases in large, medium and small sizes and group them together in the corner of a room or a kitchen counter top.
• Wall color: If you’re a commitment-phobe about painting your walls, buy a large, pre-stretched canvas from your local arts supply store. Then either paint it one solid color, or wrap a printed fabric around it and staple along the inside. You can find $1/yd fabrics at your local design school student store, and the proceeds from the purchase goes towards student scholarships.
• Mirror, mirror on the wall: Want to update the look of your place on a dime? Try placing a large round mirror centered above your sofa or above your foyer console table. The round shape breaks up the rectangles of your home and imparts a luxurious feeling. A sunburst mirror is a dramatic look and the reflected light will brighten a dark room, or bounce your pop of color around your room. (And a convex mirror, according to the principles of feng shui, will bring you good fortune.)

For more on Sarah, go to NamiDesignLA.com.

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“[Being married] is really challenging me to go even deeper.” — Priscilla Ahn

ISSUE: Summer 2011

DEPT: Personalities

STORY: Jimmy Lee

Priscilla Ahn finds her happy place — and new songwriting fodder — in her latest album When You Grow Up.

Laurel Canyon is where the likes of Jim Morrison, Carole King and Joni Mitchell once lived, giving birth to songs that would fuel the 1960s and ’70s counterculture, and creating music that would help define the singer-songwriter. This seminal Los Angeles neighborhood is now the place Priscilla Ahn calls home, and being surrounded by that illustrious musical history is a source of inspiration for this chanteuse with the beguilingly breathy delivery. But there’s something amidst Laurel’s leafy confines that’s mucking up this American idyll for Ahn: her husband.

With the “happy place” she’s discovered with actor Michael Weston comes a different, albeit not unpleasant, set of problems. “Before, I always felt a little lost … not knowing my place,” says Ahn, who grew up in rural Pennsylvania with her Korean mother. “When I established that with my husband a couple of years ago, it actually became harder to write songs.”

Now she has a larger pool of experiences to draw upon when penning her compositions, more than just the “sad emotions” and the times “when I was feeling alone” she often turned to in the past. Ahn, who wed last year, says, “[Being married] is really challenging me to go even deeper.”

She’s struck a reserve of riches with her new album, When You Grow Up, as she explores multiple facets of folk music over its 12 tunes. Throughout her sophomore effort (released again on the iconic Blue Note label), Ahn’s bliss is pervasive. There’s even hope after a crushing break-up on “I Don’t Have Time To Be In Love.” (Alas, for the guys who so easily fall under the charm of Ahn’s disarming on-stage persona, the breakup that song is based on is not hers — it’s that of co-writer Charlie Wadhams.)

Ahn describes herself as a “homebody,” perfectly content to spend a Saturday night in Laurel Canyon, cooking, watching a movie, or following her blogs. “Mostly [the blogs] are about flowers, fashion, cooking and crafts. Those are the four things I’m really into; they inspire me so much,” says Ahn.

Then there’s her husband, who she’ll hang out with at a local Korean spa. And for the man who prepared Korean seaweed soup on the occasion of her birthday, she’s inspired to write lyrics like these: “You were my one and only/The only one I ever learned to love.”

— Jimmy Lee

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Have you not yet caught Wayne Wang‘s beautiful adaption of Lisa See‘s best-selling novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan?

Starring Chinese film queen Li Bing Bing (Audrey’s Summer covergal!) and My Sassy Girl‘s Gianna Jun, the film is a timeless portrait of female friendship.

There’s a whole lot of star power behind the cameras as well. In addition to Joy Luck Club’s Wang direction and See’s writing, media mogul maidens Wendi Murdoch and Florence Sloan producing.

Here’s a synopsis of the film:

So have you seen it yet? Because if you haven’t (and even if you have), Audrey Magazine is giving away Snow Flower and the Secret Fan DVDs to THREE (3) lucky winners for this week’s TGIFree Friday!

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1. FOLLOW Audrey Magazine on Twitter and Facebook.
2. SPREAD THE WORD: Retweet the contest to your friends, and repost on your wall: Link @audreymagazine so we’ll see you did this!
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You may enter as many times as you wish! Contest ends Wednesday, November 2nd, 11:59 PST. You must have a mailing address to win. Gluck!

ISSUE: Summer 2011

DEPT: Plugged In

HED: Jeannie Mai, How Do I Look? The Style Network

STORY: Anna M. Park

Jeannie Mai.

As host of How Do I Look?, The Style Network’s popular “fashion intervention” series, celebrity stylist Jeannie Mai has seen it all. And this season, she’s tackling class reunions and preventing wedding debacles. Here, some of Jeannie’s dos for the blushing bride.

1) Do use the web. The Internet is your real maid of honor. Write down the designer name and item number of anything you like in a bridal boutique. Then Google it with the keyword “discount,” “final sale” or “cheap.” Chances are you’ll find a better deal.

2) Do contact blogs. Nowadays everyone has a blog and companies are looking for ways to advertise on them. Check your guest list and see if you’ve invited anybody who has an active blog. Talk to her about getting companies (fashion, accessories, food, etc.) to sponsor your wedding by being featured on her blog.

3) Do save money for your bridesmaids. Invite them to wear any LBD, then style it up with different color themes to set them apart. They can get creative with necklaces, gloves, even hats. If they’re on a budget, you can pick accessories to gift to your girls.

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