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Weddings | Bridesmaid jewelry

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

We’ve been busy with making up a set of bridesmaid jewelry for five members of a bridal party.

If you’re curious, we were told that the bridal party would be wearing strapless dresses in taupe silk very similar to the dress below by Aria dress (style 160), only with the double-hem in taupe/brown and turquoise sashes. The bride wanted to add a splash of colour to the necklines that would co-ordinate with the hits of turquoise used in her wedding.

aria dress style 160

We suggested the turquoise plum blossoms necklace for the bridesmaids with the matching earrings (from Blend Creations of course!). They were a great choice for the bride who said she loved contemporary, modern and funky sort of styling. :) Even better — her bridesmaids are pretty happy with the choices, which is good since the jewelry was both bridal party accessories and bridesmaid gifts all rolled into one.

bridesmaid necklacebridesmaid earrings

For the bride’s niece, the “junior” bridesmaid who didn’t want to be left out of the bridesmaid jewelry shopping, we went with the small pendant version of the same plum blossom pattern, (but on a silver chain):

junior bridesmaid pendant

The wedding will be at the end of the month, and I know the focus is on the bride and all, but I do love it when brides choose to have their bridal party wear our contemporary jewelry. I can’t wait to see the wedding photos!

Portfolio | More custom wedding invitations

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Here’s another set of custom wedding invitations that we did recently for our friends Claudia and Dan. Like Shona & Craig’s invitations, this design was also laser-cut.

Close-up C and D

Claudia and Dan had told us that they really liked our Flowerish: Circle card designs and they wanted something similar to that, but more personalized for their wedding. They chose a ‘bordeaux’-coloured cardstock lined with a cream-coloured cardstock. (Red is a very lucky colour for Asian weddings, and traditionally paired with gold, but us new-fangled Asian kids like to move away from that a bit yet still keep the older generation mostly happy).

custom wedding invitation

Inside, we did a formal yet classic-looking layout with a smaller, less flourishy version of the “C&D” emblem at the top:

custom wedding invitation, inside

The neat thing is, they like the emblem so much that it will be repeated in favours and other elements of their wedding. :)

Portfolio | Custom wedding invitations

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

We recently designed some custom wedding invitations for our friends Shona and Craig which turned out so nicely that I thought I’d show them off.

Shona and Craig aren’t stuffy-wedding-nazi types and they wanted something on the modern side that didn’t look like it was too sappy. They definitely didn’t want anything that was ‘stock’ looking either, and coming up with a custom invite was one of the most fun design projects we’ve ever had.

When they mentioned that their ceremony would be in an arboretum, I started playing around with a stylized tree. Note the subtle hearts formed with the branches :)

They picked a beautiful pearl-metallic blue card stock of a nice snappy thickness. Into the laser-cutter it went! (We really like playing with our laser and seeing just how fine a resolution we can push it to).

The end result was this:

The invitation text was printed onto matte-white cardstock with the tree motif repeated inside:

Congrats to Shona and Craig! May your wedded life be blissful and full of unicorn-sappiness! ;)