Bella Bleu is a couture wedding boutique featuring designer bridal accessories. In 2010, Bella Bleu entered the bridal industry, filling a void in the luxury accessory market. Founded by Chicago native and former MAC Cosmetic executive, Andrea Novak, it was Andrea’s own experience as a bride that left her disappointed with the selection and service in the bridal industry. Her experience and knowledge of the fashion industry coupled with her desire to offer accessories of uncompromising quality in a beautiful online setting against a backdrop of exceptional personal service led to the launch of Bella Bleu.
Bella Bleu creates confidence with brides and surpasses their expectations in all aspects of the online experience, from personal assistance with product selection to the delivery of exquisitely packaged merchandise. A wedding is one of life’s most important milestones and Bella Bleu is honored to be able to provide so many brides with an unmatched selection of wedding accessories.
Bella Bleu
Since inception, Bella Bleu has garnered praise from brides and designers in the fashion industry. Bella Bleu has been featured in such publications as Chicago Social Brides and several online bridal resources. Bella Bleu continues to captivate brides with its beautiful, luxurious, chic and unique offerings-direct from the world’s leading designers and artisans. Bella Bleu Bridal is one of a kind and leads the industry as the unrivaled provider of luxury bridal and specialty goods.
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About the Owner:
Andrea Novak-Owner
I absolutely love my job. It connects me daily with what’s important in life….passion, love, and relationships. My journey has been amazing and I am fortunate to be where I am today. The wedding industry has to be the most inspiring place to land! I have always had a passion for fashion+beauty+business which explains my long career with MAC Cosmetics as the Executive Director for the Midwest….until love, marriage, and the baby carriage! 2009….my son and Bella Bleu were born!
My vision was simple…or not…as my husband reminds me…nothing I do is “simple”. It was my own experience and adventure as a bride that left me disappointed with the selection and service in the bridal industry. I was to create a beautiful online destination catering to the chic, style conscious, distinctive bride with unparalleled service that would create confidence with brides and surpass their expectations. With blood, sweat, and tears (literally), and the help of many (you’ll see their pictures below!) Bella Bleu Bridal is one of kind and continues to evolve into the ultimate resource for luxury bridal and specialty goods.
I am…passionate, driven, tenacious, creative, meticulous, enterprising, high maintenance, all or nothing, a horrible singer, analytical, a shopaholic, a mother, animated, a fierce animal lover, and a maniacal gum chewer!
I love…my son’s deep belly laughs, pizza, bling, my iPhone, Facebook, pedicures, Italy, Starbucks skinny lattes, warm weather, big/soft pretzels, road trips, the smell of my dogs’ feet, tulips, and my husband .
I will….try and eat organic, use sunscreen, work out more, not worry about the future, enjoy my son, never know the true color of my hair, dance, always have back up batteries or a charger, get more calcium, and never settle!
The Team:
Emy Bacerra-Boutique Assistant Manager
I am so excited to join the BBB family! I am a passionate person all around. I love deeply, live dramatically, and dream vividly. I have two beautiful little men who inspire me to take bigger steps everyday. I strive to try new things and keep my eyes open to every possibility. I absolutely love being the ‘go to’ person and taking on the role of a counselor & advisor. You could say I am the style & life coach to friends and family.
I have a legal background as well corporate cosmetics. I have been a makeup artist for over ten years. Being a makeup artist to dozens of brides over the years has allowed me to re-live that excitement & anticipation of the magical moment to come. I love being part of the process of making people feel extra glamorous.
Working w/ Andrea at Mac Cosmetics, I was able to be part of her own personal wedding experience. I am excited to be able to collaborate with her in this new adventure!
I am…petite in stature but super feisty, sensitive & a hopeless romantic, extremely loyal, a foodie, a writer, a die hard New Orleans native
I love…my family & friends, being a mom to the two coolest boys, eating & cooking, sweets, tattoos, traveling, listening to BPM, skincare products, purses, everything fleur de lis
I will…express my creative side more, exercise & eat healthier, take more time out for myself, move closer to my family, be more patient with life, dream bigger, live with no regret
Rachel Lemieux-Social Media/Bridal Blogger
I went through the motions at school and while my fellow classmates all knew what they wanted to do, I had no idea. I was told I had a talent for writing, so I followed that, not knowing if it was true , and I majored in Journalism at St. Ambrose University. I graduated in 2007 and immediately went to work at a department store…in their cosmetics department. Nothing to do with my major, but the love for makeup kept me coming back. I was fortunate enough to be able to “make over” many women here and even got to do make up for a bride before her wedding, after she took me for a “test drive” a few days before, of course.
I also had developed a love for electronics and the internet in general while I worked as the online producer for a metropolitan area newspaper in Iowa. After that I knew I always wanted to work online. I wanted to be a part of awesome websites, however I could be. I also wanted to combine my love for beauty and girly things with the online world, and writing for BellaBleu I feel that I am actually able to do that. It’s funny how life takes you where you should be, even if you have no idea where to go on your own.
I am…an absolute contradiction, I am a complete girly-girl, and a tomboy combined. I am shy but extremely outgoing at the same time. I am a daydreamer, but remain completely grounded.
I love…Sleeping, food, my cat, other peoples’ cats, makeup, electronic gadgets and the internet and Korean pop music.
I will…try to cut down on the amount of lip gloss I carry around with me- who really needs 8 shades of the same color in their purse. I will learn Korean, and become more fluent in French, I will stop worrying about everything…I wonder how I’m going to do that.
