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Hi, I'm Jordan — a New Orleans wedding designer and stylist, and founder of Soigné Styling (swan·yay). I practice creative direction for weddings, hospitality and brands. From New Orleans, and increasingly beyond it.

I fell for this city's particular beauty long ago: candlelight on brick, the hush of a courtyard before a party, something old still very much alive in a room. Soigné exists to give every celebration that same sense of place.

My work takes four shapes:

🥂 The Wedding Prep Ritual — the getting-ready morning, designed. Clutter gone, surfaces chosen, small ceremonial moments composed, sometimes a live sketch artist or a quiet facial folded in. A calmer morning, and a room that photographs the way the rest of the day will. I travel for this one.

💍 Wedding Design — the full visual world of a celebration: tablescapes, florals, textiles, light. Design and creative direction, alongside your planner or coordinator. This I take in New Orleans

⛲️ Hospitality & Venue Experience — for boutique hotels and historic properties with the same devotion to detail. The guest journey, seen with an editorial eye, then styled and told properly. This travels too.

🥃 Brand & Editorial Styling — for photographers, hotels, designers and makers who want their imagery to hold together as one world. Concept, sourcing, on-set styling. Wherever the shoot is.

A few true things: I papered my childhood walls with pages from Harper's Bazaar. I collect vintage New Orleans matchbooks — Soigné grew out of Social Graces Vintage. I'll travel anywhere for a boutique hotel with a point of view. And the design house is overseen by Darcy, my Cavalier, and Autumn, my rescue cat.

Soigné means carefully and elegantly done. Restraint over spectacle, heirlooms over trends, and always in partnership with the planners, vendors and venues around me.

Selected press recognition: Loverly, Southern Bride, Perfête, New Orleans Bride and inRegister Weddings.

A new soignestyling.com arrives in October. Tell me what you're dreaming up.

Welcome to Soigné.
Let's make something worth remembering.

#NewOrleansWedding #WeddingDesigner #WeddingStylist #NOLAWedding #SoigneStyling Jordan McMills, New Orleans wedding designer and stylist of Soigné Styling, at Felicity Church in New Orleans during a Black Pearl Catering tasting hosted by Uncommon Camellia. She sits at a styled reception table with green toile linens, vintage green goblets, garden roses and dahlias, black lanterns and crystal chandeliers against exposed brick. taken in Felicity New Orleans by @soignestyling
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2 years ago
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Scene VIII: The Sacred Tableau ✨
“Where atelier artistry meets sacred tradition.”

The veil caught the candlelight. The florals spilled over linen the color of dawn. And the table — set inside the church at Hotel Peter & Paul, framed by stained glass and stone columns — held everything that came before it.

This is what it looks like when a ceremony space becomes a tableau. Not decorated. Composed.

Old-world reverence, reimagined as modern artistry. Every bloom, every taper, every gathered fold placed with intention — inside walls that have held devotion for over a century.

::CREATIVE PARTNERS ::
• Initial Concept & Photography — @visualsocietyweddings
• Wedding Design, Styling & Creative Direction — @soignestyling

Signature Wedding Morning Experience, The Wedding Prep Ritual by @soignestyling
• Artisan Desserts — @bittersweetnola
• Love Note Calligraphy — @lexiesletters
• Fine Art Painting — @sschmidtartist

• Media — @euphoricweddings @day_of_bestie @shotbyschnell
• Venue — @hotelpeterandpaul
• Florals & Candles — @crybabyfloral
• Fashion — @lerose_online @araeojewelry @idobridalcouturebr @properandcompanyla 
• Beauty — @niccostanza @kaseysmithbeauty @mckeybridal
• Stationery — @paumedesignco
• Rentals — @lovegoodrentals @truevaluerental
• Models — @torimeadowsss @taybearden @katcardenasle @nadoramodelmgmt

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6 months ago
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Scene IX — The Florals as Architecture 🌿

Garden roses, ranunculus, tulips, and sweet peas spilled across tablescapes, climbed the fireplace mantel, gathered on side tables and bar trays, and were carried as bouquets — coral dahlias, blue delphinium, feathery astilbe, bells of Ireland, zinnias, cosmos, lisianthus, hydrangea and trailing amaranthus among them, threaded with smilax and gilded leaves that caught the light like metal.

From the quiet of the getting-ready room to the grandeur of the church, the flowers were never decoration. They climbed like sculpture and gathered like still lifes — and in dialogue with the stained glass and vaulted walls, they became the architecture itself. Living, breathing extensions of the space.

Nothing placed to fill. Everything placed to answer the room.

A note of endless gratitude to @crybabyfloral — who didn't arrange flowers so much as build architecture from them. Every stem, every cascade, every climbing tendril was theirs. Pure artistry.

::CREATIVE PARTNERS ::
• Initial Concept & Photography — @visualsocietyweddings
• Wedding Design, Styling & Creative Direction — @soignestyling

Signature Wedding Morning Experience, The Wedding Prep Ritual by @soignestyling
• Artisan Desserts — @bittersweetnola
• Love Note Calligraphy — @lexiesletters
• Fine Art Painting — @sschmidtartist

• Media — @euphoricweddings @day_of_bestie @shotbyschnell
• Venue — @hotelpeterandpaul
• Florals & Candles — @crybabyfloral
• Fashion — @lerose_online @araeojewelry @idobridalcouturebr @properandcompanyla 
• Beauty — @niccostanza @kaseysmithbeauty @mckeybridal
• Stationery — @paumedesignco
• Rentals — @lovegoodrentals @truevaluerental
• Models — @torimeadowsss @taybearden @katcardenasle @nadoramodelmgmt taken in Hotel Peter & Paul by @soignestyling
2
3 months ago
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Soigné Styling x The Celestine — Now Featured on Loverly 🖤

Thrilled to share that our editorial at The Celestine has been featured by Loverly. Set in the heart of the French Quarter, this story reflects the classic, timeless sensibility that defines both the property and Soigné’s approach to the wedding morning.

The feature follows two distinct worlds unfolding in parallel:

In the bride’s sunlit suite — silk robes, couture details, heirloom vignettes, and a bespoke champagne bar in a palette of warm blush, soft rose, and luminous gold.

Across the courtyard — the groom’s scene shifts into deeper tones: rich bourbon brown, moody green, and inky black layered into a whiskey cart, fine cigars, and black-tie refinement.

Two preparations, two energies.
One love story — serene and spirited — blending Soigné’s heirloom sensibility with The Celestine’s historic charm and contemporary grace, beautifully photographed by Lauren Carroll.

Honored to see this work recognized and grateful for the creative partners who brought every detail to life.

📖 Timeless Romance at The Celestine
Featured on @loverly
Photography: @laurencarrollphotography
Venue: @thecelestinenola 

. . .

::CREATIVE PARTNERS::
• Wedding Design, Styling & Creative Direction —@soignestyling 

Signature Wedding Morning Experience, The Wedding Prep Ritual by @soignestyling
• Perfume Bar — @tijonneworleans 
• Custom Matchbooks — @invitobella
• Wedding Party Gifts, Custom Framed Matchbooks in Linen Folio Boxes — @soignestyling 
• Cigar Ritual — @cigarfactoryneworleans 
• Heirloom Glassware & Décor — @soignestyling 
• Personal Bartender — @bluebookbarkeeps 
• Ambient Candlelight — @luminousevents 

• Photography —@laurencarrollphotography 
• Content Creation — @day_of_bestie 
• Cinematography — @abshirefilms 
• Florals — @shopvioletas 
• Stationary Suite — @invitobella 
• Fashion — @lerose_online 
@idobridalcouturebr @ritavinieris @bashbazaarbyalina @bellabridesmaidsnola 
• Hair & Makeup — @kaseysmithbeauty @melissavaccaro 
• Models — @emmakateburg @ashlyntrahan @kaylagangi @theheathvince @jxnrixh @jaydenchristianofficial 
• Venue — @thecelestinenola @peychaudsbar @leblancandsmith taken in The Celestine by @soignestyling
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10 months ago
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Most getting-ready suites are reserved, not designed — nice, but nothing decided in advance. And by the time couples think about the morning at all, they've made a thousand decisions and have nothing left to give. That's the gap The Wedding Prep Ritual closes. 

We help choose the space itself, so the room suits the morning you want. We style it — removing visual clutter, building vignettes and small ceremonial moments. We guide getting-ready attire, and design the gifting moments down to how they're presented. We bring in hand-picked experiential details — a perfume bar, vintage barware, a cigar ritual — chosen for the couple, not pulled from a list. And the logistics that usually turn frantic — where everyone goes, when, what's on the table to eat — are settled long before the day.

At The Celestine, that meant two suites: a Champagne Suite for the bride, a Whiskey Lounge for the groom.

What you're buying isn't decor. It's a wedding morning that already feels finished before a single guest arrives — arriving fresh to the part of the day you'll actually remember.

Design, styling, and direction by Soigné Styling. Hosted at The Celestine. taken in The Celestine by @soignestyling
4
2 years ago
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A bride with her bridesmaids. A groom with his groomsmen. Mix in some New Orleans influences. The vibes are incredible, the shooting is fun, and the results are next level. What a fun day shooting some wedding content in New Orleans, Louisiana at @thecelestinenola 

Planning & Design, @social_graces_vintage
Bridal Party Prep, @thecelestinenola
Groom’s Party Prep, @peychaudsbar
Bridal Party, @emmakateburg @kaylagangi @ashlyntrahan 
Groom’s Party, @theheathvince @jaydenchristianofficial @jxnrixh 
Model Agency, (Jayden, Heath & Ashlyn) @nextleveltalentco
Makeup, @melissavaccaro
Hair, @kaseysmithbeauty
Bridal Dress & Accessories, @idobridalcouturebr
Photography, @laurencarrollphotography
Cinema, @abshirefilms
Content Creation, @day_of_bestie
Stationery, @invitobella
Candles, @luminousevents
Bride & Groom Gifts, @social_graces_vintage
Bridesmaid & Groomsmen Gifts, @social_graces_vintage 
Luxury Cocktail Glass Rentals, @social_graces_vintage 
Cigar Experience, @cigarfactoryneworleans
Perfume Experience, @tijonneworleans
Florist, @shopvioletas
Bartending, @bluebookbarkeeps
Bridesmaids Dresses, @bellabridesmaidsnola 
Bridal Robe, @bashbazaarbyalina
Bridal Party Pajamas, @lerose_online
Groom’s Party Tuxes, @johnstuxedos taken in The Celestine by @soignestyling
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2 years ago
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“The thought she puts into curating a completely unique prep experience for each bride or groom is unmatched.” — Nicole Costanza Bridal Makeup Artistry

Editorial storytelling by Soigné Styling — Thoughtful design. Considered detail. Effortless elegance.

There’s a stillness to the groom’s side of the morning that deserves its own frame. Cigar smoke, low light, a vintage glass in hand — every element styled with the same intention as every other hour of the day.

. . .

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7 days ago
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Reminiscing on this day✨

Photography & Concept @visualsocietyweddings
Creative Direction, Planning, Styling, Overall Design & Production @soignestyling
Videographer @euphoricweddings
Content Creation @day_of_bestie
Models @torimeadowsss @taybearden @katcardenasle
Venue @hotelpeterandpaul
Florist @crybabyfloral
Bridal Robe & Slips @lerose_online @collectorsselection
Beauty @niccostanza @kaseysmithbeauty @marissamckey @mckeybridal
Stationary @paumedesignco @lexiesletters
Bakery @bittersweetnola taken in New Orleans, Louisiana by @soignestyling
6
7 months ago
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Come with me to White Door Events Open House in New Orleans ⛲️

#neworleanswedding #neworleansevents #weddinginspo #whitedoorevents #soignestyling taken in New Orleans, Louisiana by @soignestyling
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19 days ago
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It’s my birthday — and I spent it reflecting on where I love to be, hands full of dahlias and garden roses, dressing a courtyard for The Celestine. This year has been about the people as much as the petals — new faces and the kind of connections that push you to grow and change and build something more beautiful than you could alone. Another year older, and so grateful for the work, and even more for who I got to make it with.

#neworleanswedding #weddingstylist #luxuryweddingdesign #floraldesign #neworleansweddingplanner taken in The Celestine by @soignestyling
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a month ago
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The Art of the In-Between

There’s an art to atmosphere —
to the space between the movement and the memory.
That’s where a wedding stylist lives.

We refine the micro — the heirloom glassware, the quiet rituals, the tone of the light.
We design the intimate, the tactile, the fleeting — so that what’s felt in a moment can be remembered forever.

Your planner shapes the macro — the architecture of the day.
The timing, the experience, the orchestration that brings it all to life.

Together, we create harmony — structure and softness, form and feeling, precision and poetry.

For couples, that means your morning unfolds like a film — every detail intentional, every frame worthy of your legacy.
For creatives and planners, it means partnership — elevating your vision through art direction, styling, and story cohesion that photographs beautifully and feels effortless.

At Soigné Styling, we design the in-between —
where heirloom sensibility meets modern restraint.
Where the quietest moments become the most cinematic.
And where beauty, above all, feels intentional.

Because a wedding isn’t just planned.
It’s composed.

soigné (swan•yay) — carefully and elegantly done. design, styling & creative direction • new orleans 

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a month ago
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The Ritual of the Bridal Veil

The bridal veil becomes a powerful symbol of transition and grace. As it’s gently placed, it marks a meaningful moment in the bride’s journey — the final pause before she walks the aisle. This is an age-old tradition, one of quiet transformation, where the bride takes a breath to sit with the emotions of the day and the chapter now opening before her.

The act of donning the veil is its own intimate ritual — a tactile moment as the soft fabric settles around her, heightening the anticipation of what’s to come. It lends a sense of mystery and elegance, completing the bride’s look while holding, in its folds, the full weight of the day’s meaning.

This is a ritual shared by generations of brides before her — a simple accessory made meaningful, a gesture that turns preparation into something sacred.

::CREATIVE PARTNERS::
• Creative Direction, Styling & Design —@soignestyling 

Signature Wedding Morning Experience, The Wedding Prep Ritual by @soignestyling
• Perfume Bar — @tijonneworleans 
• Custom Matchbooks — @invitobella
• Wedding Party Gifts, Custom Framed Matchbooks in Linen Folio Boxes — @soignestyling 
• Cigar Ritual — @cigarfactoryneworleans 
• Heirloom Glassware & Décor — @soignestyling 
• Personal Bartender — @bluebookbarkeeps 
• Ambient Candlelight — @luminousevents 

• Photography —@laurencarrollphotography 
• Content Creation — @day_of_bestie 
• Cinematography — @abshirefilms 
• Florals — @shopvioletas 
• Stationary Suite — @invitobella 
• Fashion — @lerose_online @idobridalcouturebr @ritavinieris @bashbazaarbyalina @bellabridesmaidsnola 
• Hair & Makeup — @kaseysmithbeauty @melissavaccaro 
• Models — @emmakateburg @ashlyntrahan @kaylagangi @theheathvince @jxnrixh @jaydenchristianofficial 
• Venue — @thecelestinenola @peychaudsbar @leblancandsmith taken in The Celestine by @soignestyling
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2 months ago
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