Weddings Winter 2010 > Brides

Amore Pacific Beauty Gallery and Spa

This Soho retreat specializes in facial creams with a blend of Asian ingredients whipped up by hand at its on-site mixing bar. Brides wanting to firm up their skin before the wedding should book a contour-lift facial ($225 for 75 minutes).

Bliss

This peppy day spa is as popular as ever, doling out treatments like the triple-oxygen facial ($160) and carrot-and-sesame body buff ($165). Brides concerned with fine lines and wrinkles can try Bliss' "The Youth as We Know It" facial ($185).

Caudalie Vinothérapie Spa

The Caudalíe Vínotherapie Spa has helped make the Plaza a destination again. Radiance-restoring, polyphenol-rich skin-care treatments for the face and body—like the crushed Cabernet scrub, $145, and red vine barrel bath, $75—are the perfect pre-wedding-day indulgence—as are the wine (they have an in-house sommelier) and cheese offered on-site.

Chopra Center & Spa at Dream

At this Eastern-inspired midtown retreat, couples can indulge in a detoxifying mud-and-steam session ($65 per person), full-body massages using warm herbalized oils ($195 per person for 80 minutes), and full-body exfoliation with Dead Sea salts ($95). Save 10 percent by booking three or more treatments per person.

Clarins Skin Spa

The famed French spa offers a particularly luxe Wedding Beauty Program: For $625, brides get three 60-minute facials, three 60-minute body treatments, and two makeup consultations (they have a year to use them).

Completely Bare

This popular spa specializes in hair removal; it’s ideal for a Brazilian wax before a beach honeymoon. Sign up for microdermabrasion ($185 a session) to give your skin a boost before the wedding.

Cowshed Spa at the Soho House

This popular spa specializes in hair removal; it’s ideal for a Brazilian wax before a beach honeymoon. Sign up for microdermabrasion ($185 a session) to give your skin a boost before the wedding.

Eden Day Spa

This expansive spot is a best bet for big bachelorette parties: The 8,000-square-foot space can host a private group of twenty for services like manicures, pedicures, and hydrating facials. As a bonus, the kitchen whips up delectable food (free for those who spend $80 or more).

Exhale

Brides come to this holistic spa for serious body makeovers. Exhale’s 6-Week Core Evolution package ($1,200) focuses on nutrition and fitness. The Lift facial ($195) will make skin firmer, and a session of brow sculpting ($120) from Eliza Petrescu of Eliza’s Eyes—the in-house brow expert—is the icing on the cake.

Gloria Cabrera Salon and Spa

This affordable, family-run spa will pamper the bride and her friends with individual services, or with its Bridal-Suite package, which includes a massage, facial, manicure, pedicure, hairstyling, and makeup ($225 per person).

Graceful Spa

This no-frills spot’s popular deep-tissue massages start at just $40. For a gentler touch, they also offer less-intense Swedish massages, as well as traditional facials and body scrubs. Graceful Spa can host bachelorette parties of up to eight people.

Great Jones Spa

With water cures and hot-stone saunas, this serene spa is a best bet for relaxation. In the VIP room, brides and grooms can enjoy dual massages and a private Jacuzzi, as well as the Pure Fiji Coconut Sugar Glow body scrub ($150). The spa also offers cleansing colonics.

Haven

This hip but unpretentious Soho spot is a great place for all the usual spa treatments, including pedicures (from $38) and facials (from $65). For brides with an entourage, the spa can accommodate groups of up to fifteen. Full-day private parties from $15,000.

J'Aime Day Spa

This minimalist spa offers a package that is anything but. The Rejuvenate includes an exfoliating honey-and-milk polish, a scalp massage, manicure, paraffin pedicure, and facial—all for $200. Wine is available with all packages (from $95).

J. Sisters International

This beauty parlor is famous for its incredibly thorough bikini waxes, but it’s also a good place for all-in-one bridal packages. Before the big day, brides can sign up for the works: manicure, pedicure, hair, makeup, and, of course, the requisite prehoneymoon Brazilian ($350).

La Prairie at the Ritz-Carlton Spa

The Ritz’s decadent retreat is the place for relaxing skin treatments—and it’s also great for a girls’ get-together. Its plush, spacious sitting areas and relaxing treatment rooms are an ideal setting for the luxurious Silver Rain manicure ($80) and pedicure ($115).

From the Winter 2010 New York Wedding Guide