Weddings Winter 2008 > Brides

Lia Schorr Day Spa

This bright, clean midtown spa offers great wedding packages (starting at $150). A quick sea salt rub-down ($50) will soften extra dry skin. Grooms can clean up, too, with the men’s treatment ($135): deep-cleansing facial, paraffin hand treatment, buffing manicure, and perfect pedicure.

Ling Skin Care

This bare-bones salon isn’t the place to settle into for a day of pampering, but the facials are surprisingly good. Ling’s nonsurgical, muscle-toning Micro-Lift Eye Contour ($100) and all-natural Micro Salt-Dermabrasion facial ($300) are great fatigue fixers.

Lucy Peters International, Ltd.

To prepare for the honeymoon, brides head to this intimate hair-removal salon which specializes in Integrated System electrolysis. Multiple visits ensure bare and smooth skin. Personal consultations with an electrologist beforehand guarantee that treatments (starting at $72 ) are tailored to your needs.

Mamie's Skin Care Center

With framed family photos sprinkled on tabletops, and a dog greeting everyone at the door, Mamie’s feels more like a home than a world-class facial spa. Mamie McDonald and her small team cater to clients with customized skin-softening treatments. For the works, brides ask for the Concord Facial ($275), which includes microdermabrasion, oxygen therapy, and intense pulsed-light therapy, topped off with a hand treatment.

Metamorphosis Day Spa

Muted lights and a no-cell-phone policy make for a tranquil environment at this beauty spa. Facials start at $95 and massages start at $60 for 25 minutes. The Bride Beautiful treatment package includes a facial, milk-and-honey body wrap, full-body massage, and a manicure-pedicure ($445).

Mezzanine Medical Day Spa

This East-meets-West medi-spa specializes in science-based therapies that are more potent than typical treatments, but still feel indulgent. Standout services include nine types of massage and three forms of microdermabrasion ($175).

Oasis Day Spa

Models swear by these mellow, minimalist spots for their Brazilian bikini waxes. The Bridal Package includes a salt scrub, aromatherapy massage, facial, manicure, and pedicure ($350); the deluxe package ($450) adds a makeup application.

OC61

Tucked inside an Upper East Side brownstone, this elegant spa offers a variety of facials (from $155), manicures ($30), and pedicures ($60). Clients also appreciate the soothing herbal aromatherapy and seasonal rebalancing treatments.

Okeanos Spa

The staff at Okeanos Spa takes its time to pamper brides and grooms—their “quick-relief” facial and massage lasts a full hour ($125). The spa provides waxing for men and women ($25 to $60), three different body wraps ($90 to $120), and a heated natural-grain shoulder wrap upon arrival.

Poh Tree Thai Spa

Along with the standard spa fare, this spot is greatly influenced by Thai traditions, with their Thai Black Pepper Body Wrap ($135) and their signature Poh Tree Facial ($130). All facials incorporate either the Western style of skin massage or the Eastern style, which uses acupressure to bring calm to sensitive faces (facials $30 to $130).

Pratima Ayurvedic Skin Care & Spa Clinic

Pratima Spa takes a holistic approach to wellness and beauty. Facial treatments, like the signature Ayurvedic facial, use rose and sandalwood to calm wedding-stress-related flare-ups ($85 to $100).

Priti Organic Spa

Former model Kim D’Amato founded this back-to-nature spa in 2005, offering an organic alternative to traditional treatments. The spa’s signature manicures and pedicures alone ($20 to $75) are a fine spa experience, with essential oils in the footbath, fresh fruits and vegetables, soy polish remover, and nontoxic nail polishes. Botanical facials ($85 to $125), massages ($110), and bikini waxes ($55) are also popular with those who are looking for an all-natural spa experience.

Red Door Spa-Elizabeth Arden

This swank salon now covers five floors of its landmark building. For brides not sure which treatment to get, the Bridal Bouquet—which includes a massage, bikini wax, spa lunch, manicure-pedicure, haircut, style, and finish ($335)—is a sure bet.

Rehoboth Spa Lounge

This spacious, Asian-inspired spa features a Bride-to-Be package that includes a spa manicure, marine-derived pedicure, facial treatments, and a custom massage ($400). All facials and massages cater to customer preferences.

Rescue Beauty Lounge

Ji Baek’s popular Rescue Beauty Lounge offers a great bikini wax ($30 and up), and both locations have private rooms that fit four; it’s the perfect hideaway for friends to indulge in manicures (from $28) and pedicures (from $48).

Shizuka New York

This Japanese sanctuary spa is an escape from the drab humdrum of midtown, with bright beech-wood interiors, soothing garden accents, and the preternaturally calm aesthetician Shizuka Bernstein. Clients can partake in the indulgent four-hour Hanayome treatment package that includes a facial, body treatment, and a manicure-pedicure (from $345).

Skintology

Those with a sweet tooth go for this Chelsea spa’s Bridal Day package ($429). It begins with a chocolate cake body scrub and continues with a chamomile soufflé facial, a hot-stone massage, and a manicure and pedicure. To make sure brides don’t go hungry, a light lunch is always included along with the consultation.

SoHo Sanctuary

The Nolita fashion crowd loves this spa’s mellow atmosphere and its one-on-one fitness classes (Pilates, yoga, gyrotonic, gyrokinesis and a strength-training program called personal power). Its Ultimate Goddess package consists of an aromatherapy massage, scalp treatment, reflexology, back treatment, a two-hour facial, and lunch, ($500). Basic massages start at $110.

The Spa at Four Seasons Hotel New York

This small spa doesn’t skimp on details, boasting relaxation rooms and a sauna-steam room-whirlpool trio. A deep-tissue “acupressure” massage (from $205) flushes out toxins.

The Spa at Mandarin Oriental

For a relaxing spa day, many clients opt for the 80-minute wrap treatment, which includes a body exfoliation and a scalp massage. A couples package starts at $1,150.

Spa H

Spa H is stocked with organic, handmade beauty essentials from Eminence along with Sonya Dakar’s plant-based products. For $285, get the whole bridal package: a 30-minute salt glow, express facial, manicure and pedicure, and a one-hour aromatherapy massage.

Susan Ciminelli Day Spa at Bergdorf Goodman

After a final fitting at the Bergdorf bridal salon, those in need of a little relaxation head upstairs to this soothing spa. The bridal package ($640) includes an exfoliating mineral-salt scrub and seaweed body wrap.

Thai Privilege Spa

Most brides arriving at this exotic spa opt for the Scent of Siam treatment. For two hours and $250, the soothing therapy includes foot reflexology, a full-body massage, and a deep-cleansing facial. The spa also has a VIP room with three massage tables so the bride and her friends can prep together.

Townhouse Spa

A bride-and-groom-to-be can decompress from pre-wedding stress in the spacious “couple’s room” at Townhouse Spa. For about $500, a bride can get a manicure, pedicure, facial, and a trip to the spa’s famed Oceana Hydra-Capsule for an hour-long steam and massage. The spa can arrange catered bridal-party spa packages for five to ten people.

Tribeca Beauty Spa

Editors love this small Tribeca spot for its skillful service. The signature Day Spa package is four and a half hours of manicure-pedicures, body scrubbing, massaging, and facials ($325). Catered bridal showers are $10 to $25 per person, plus the price of services.

Tribeca MedSpa

This spa offers state-of–the-art procedures like dermal fillers and laser skin rejuvenation. According to owner Camille Meyer, brides most often request botox ($18 per unit for up to 24 units) and their non-invasive laser face-lift ($2,500 per session, six sessions recommended).

The Wellness Spa at the Benjamin

This tiny midtown spa located in the Benjamin hotel will arrange for brides or grooms and their attendants to have massages in a hotel suite. Try their East-meets-West massage (from $120), which uses acupressure and shiatsu.

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