The second best thing to covering Bridal Fashion Week from a front row seat is following the happenings via Instagram.  Here are a few of our favorite elements for 2013 from the runways, courtesy our comrades in the bridal magazine business:

Not a glove, not a bracelet … but a gorgeous accessory from Katarina Bocci (via The Knot)

Put your logo on a cookie, why not? (via Brides Magazine at Judd Waddell)

Handwritten notes (via Brides Magazine at Jenny Packham)

Illusion cape from Badgley Mischka (via Brides Magazine)

Anything Austin Scarlett (of Project Runway fame) does is gorgeous (via The Knot)

Are stripes the new dots? Who cares? We love the detail in this Ian Stewart! (via The Knot)

Paper curtains at the Carolina Herrera show (via Brides Magazine)