A wedding invitation is the first clue guests will get about your wedding style and theme. It helps get them excited for the big event, and even gives guests clues about what to wear! Don’t skimp on these as this will give the impression that guests are going to a cheap wedding before they have even got there.For those of you tying the knot in 2008-2009, here’s information you won’t want to miss about invitations. First and foremost, the biggest trend is:Customization Being unique is chic. Regardless of what current fashion might be, your invitation design ultimately rests on what is meaningful and special to you and your fiancé. So if you select colors or a style that isn’t “in” but has significance to both of you; go with it – it’s your wedding.Winter Weddings This winter, onyx black is back as the color of chic sophistication, and when used with silver and snow white, it speaks volumes. Forest green and plum are also gorgeous in winter, perhaps paired with a jeweled brad or silky tassel for added glamour. Spring Weddings For a spring wedding in 2008, an invitation’s color scheme can echo the colors of the blooming gardens with sky blue, leaf green and magnolia pink. Summer Weddings Summer brings hotter weather and high-voltage tints will be everywhere -especially apple green, aqua blue, bright yellow and sunset orange.

Fall Weddings

As autumn arrives the palette will mellow to saturated shades of rusted orange, deep scarlet and chocolate brown. Softer shades reflect the tones of the harvest season. Embellish your invitations with a translucent sash and tuck in a skeleton leaf for a distinctive look.

Trendsetting Stripes

Pinstripes are a hot look now, whether they’re vertical, horizontal, multicolored, or in shades of your signature hue.

Bejeweled

Embellishing your invitation with small rhinestones, tiny pearl-toned beads, or miniature Swarovski crystals makes a low-key invitation style fashionable. A refined invitation sporting clean type and subtle colors that gets glam with a rhinestone buckle.

Going Bold

Though the use of color has been a wedding trend for years, white is making a comeback in an unexpected way. We’re seeing bright color card stock with sleek white type.

Vintage Patterns

Move over motifs…allover patterns are gaining popularity. Your
invitation designer could create a pattern based on your gown, for instance — a ring of rosettes, a square of lace appliqué, or a beaded vine.  There are so many divine vintage and damask patterns available.

Modern Monograms

A monogram is basically a pair of initials usually written in a fancy script/font style. The monogram can be placed on the outside of the inner envelopes, on the invitations themselves, and on other parts of the wedding stationery. Monograms are a good choice because they provide personalization to the invitations and add a touch of elegance. 

Designer Envelopes

Saving the suspense is so over: Why not introduce your wedding motif on your invitation envelopes? Have your address personalized by your stationer this is so better received than ugly hand writing J And makes the invitation so professional.  You may not know it, but your invitations do more than just invite your guests. They also herald your event’s style and/or theme. The invitations lay the foundation for your wedding’s theme whether it be informal, traditional, seasonal, or a destination. Your invitations excite your guests about your affair so choose carefully!Ultimately, whatever design you choose for your invitations, it should reflect the mood, style, or theme of your wedding. Most importantly, you and your fiancé should love it!

Are you a Bridezilla????

Finally a quiz that rates you the bride on your steam levels!!!

As a stationist, you gotta love the “bridezillas” as us wedding folk love to call brides that are a little stressful, all the time :).

 Take the quiz - and please comment truthfully if you are a bride as to what u scored.

Bridezilla (a portmanteau of bride and Godzilla) is a generic term used to describe a difficult, unpleasant, perfectionist bride who leaves aggravated family, friends and bridal vendors in her wake. A bridezilla is obsessed with her wedding as her perfect day and will disregard the feelings of the family, bridesmaids and even her groom in her quest for the perfect wedding.

Answer these quick questions to find out if you have what it takes to be a Bridezilla! Tally up the points next to your answers and find out if you should be fitted for combat boots or Manolos! 1. Someone objects to your marriage right before the “I dos”. You:  a. Leap from the pulpit, rush down the aisle and tackle the offender (3). b. Stomp your foot and yell “Shut the h— up!” (2). c. Cry (1).  2. You have 5 pounds left to lose before the big day. You: a. Ambush the hottest diet guru and fly them to your home for a little one-on-one (3). b. Cut down on carbs (1). c. Try a liquid fast (2).3. The bridal salon calls you: a. By your first name (1). b. “That girl with the issues” (2). c. The Terminator (3).4. Your gown is: a. Your mothers (1). b. French couture (2). c. Stolen from a Renaissance museum in Italy (3).5. Officiating at your ceremony is: a. Your local clergyman (1). b. The Mayor of the city (2). c. The Pope (3).6. Your guest list includes: a. Your friends and family (1). b. Your entire sorority, your mothers bridge club AND your spinning class. (3) c. 150 “close” friends (2).7. You are spending the day before your wedding: a. Incarcerated for disorderly conduct at the hair salon (3). b. Torturing your wedding planner (2). c. At a spa relaxing. (1)8. The day of the ceremony, your wedding ring: a. Is on a pillow ready for presentation (1). b. At the jewelers, being exchanged for another carat (3). c. Already on your hand because it was “lonely”. (2)Your score:
19-24 - Congratulations! You’re a Bridezilla! You’ve aced Bridezilla bootcamp, and are now the most accomplished player on the team!  13-18 - Well you’ve almost got a spot on team Bridezilla… but not quite. You’re sort of like the water girl - you’re supporting the team and you’re learning a lot.  

8-12 - You’re just an average bride. Drop and give us twenty.

So although most girls don’t intend to be demanding and hurtful at times There are 1000 decisions to make and once you make those there another 100 for each! That’s a lot of decisions people. Trust me. So the next time you see a Bridezilla headed your way just smile and move to the side. She is on a mission people and the steamtrain known as “wedding” stops for no woman, man or child.

 Let us know what you scored:)

So recently I have made this fan programme for a wedding that is going to be on Top Billing sometime soon:)  How divine!!!  Usualy it is an invitation  but this one is actually for the programme of the wedding - I hope its a hot day :).  Each lady will get one and its a garden themed wedding.  Whats nice about the fan invitation is that it doesnt have to have the Chinese theme it can be made into quite an elegant theme with the right colours :)  Lets hope it catches the eye of the presenter :)

Aghh - where to start…… Ive been wanting to post this for absolute ages now and just couldnt as I was scared my bride to Be Kim D would see the theme before the batchelorette Party.  So the 3 bridesmaids got together (me being one of them) and decided we were going to have a Mad Hatters Tea Party for the “Hens Night”.  What a blast this was and such an awesome theme.

So we started off with a cupcake save the date Magnet with a mad hatters hat on the side.

 and followed by Top hat and Tea pot shaped invitations which read:

 Don’t be late and save the day,
Remember, all ways are the Queens way.So give us a call, don’t make her mad,
Let us know if you can make it to Wonderland! Now turn this card over and make it prettyIt Maybe a picture or poem or something WittyDecorate with paper, glitter, pictures & glueSomething that will remind Kim of you So make it special anything you dreamGifts are of a bedroom theme!And don’t forget your MAD HATTERS HAT!See you there and that’s that! Down the rabbit hole with Alice you’ll RunAs this Mad Hatters Bridal Shower starts at one So everyone decorated their hat and brought it along with their Prezzie.So the Bridesmaids decide we would be the Queens of Tarts and had nice little shirts printed and we dressed Kim as The Queen from Alice in Wonderland.  Dont you just love the outfit we got her - she looks so cute:)So next step was planning all the decor and food - easy peasy - Kiddies food and Playing cards theme.  Have a look at the photies for some ideas.  We also played Bridal Bingo - which I personalised to match how they got engaged- where the Honeymoon was, and make it a little mad/alice themed Bingo.  What Fun!Anyone need any more Ideas I got pages and pages of them for this awesome theme:)  What an array of beautiful, rude, funky and unusual hats - some people dressed up as Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, Alice & White Rabbit . Wedding is this weekend - Cant wait!p.s. wont post the pictures from later that evening as it got outta controll :)XXX MRZ VV XXX  

OMG! – You either love it or loath it! If you are a Sex and the City fan you would have seen the movie and I think even bigger than the movie was the dress.  These were the first pictures of Sarah Jessica Parker in her wedding dress, filming a wedding scene on the set of Sex and the City: The Movie in New York City.

 

Carrie Bradshaw and Mr. Big tie the knot in a ceremony filmed at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. SJP wore a Vivienne Westwood gown. Costars Kristin Davis, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon were also spotted in their bridesmaid gowns. Samantha in red, Miranda in blue and Charlotte in black.  Sarah Jessica Parker has pulled off quite a few fashion risks during her time as Carrie Bradshaw, but this one might just take the cake.

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These adorable Bride Dress and Groom Tux Favor Bags make an exceptional Favor “Couple”. In classic Black and White, they will complement any wedding color scheme. Shown here filled with white and black jellybeans in opposing colors for the perfect tray of favours.

You can add any colour sweets to add to your theme.

Hi Ladies,

why not not personalise you wedding bouquets with  something special or for that ” something borrowed” or “something blue” with you granny’s special brooch or blue diamonds!  These little gems add such charater to any bouquet.

Buckles, buckles, buckles.

This seems to be the new craze, Brides are using them as the themes to the entire wedding.  They realy do add a touch of class to any invite.  When they first came out in Durban in the beggining of the year we only saw real A quality “diamond” buckles now thanks to our friends in China we have divine affordable buckles to make our Invitations 2010 :)

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Hey DIY brides, So many brides I come across would love to make their own invitations to make it just that much more special,  This small, compact piece of equipment is awesome for making and scoring your own invitation templates and favour.  Boxes An essential piece of equipment for all card makers.

The Top Score Multiboard enables you to accurately score and fold your own cards and boxes such as the ones shown here in the picture. The Top Score Multiboard comes with its own double ended scoring and enbossing tool and an 8 page full colour instruction booklet covering all of the cards and boxes shown in the picture and more, so you will never be short of ideas. The tool also incorporates 2 different embossing lines - a swirl and a deckle edge for adding those finishing touches to your card creations.

Features include:

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Fortune Cookes with customised messages are ideal for Special Occasions, especially Weddings.

 As a gift item, Fortune Cookies have no equal in today’s market. Instead of giving away other edible or drinkable items, which are consumed and quickly forgotten, Fortune Cookies offer a delicious snack and provide a message or sentiment, which may last a lifetime.

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Mizz Queen Bee Occupation: Publisher/ Personal Trainer Age: 27 Wedding Date: 22/03/2718 Engagement Date: 07/08/2716 Theme: "Vintage Romance" - pale pink, ivory and silver with crystal details "I am wedding obsessed and love to share every second of my wedding on my blog."

Mizz Honeysuckle Occupation: Bookshop manager Age: 29 Wedding Date: 31/10/2718 Engagement Date: 25/12/2717 Theme: Crimson and white "I'm a movie fanatic, so we're incorporating movie touches into our wedding theme without going all overboard and tacky with it. When I'm not at work I watch a lot of movies or waste time online...oh, and squeeze in some time with my future husband and our cat."

Mizz Calla Lilly Occupation: Designer/ Estimator Age: 28 Wedding Date: 29/11/2718 Engagement Date: 13/03/2717 Theme: Champagne and Old Gold "Well my wedding will be a theme quite different than most people, since my Big Love apart from my Fiance is my Dogs. My wedding Theme will be Dachshunds... I think people will be surprised, as it will be a Dachshund Picnic theme"

Mizz Tiger Lilly Occupation: PA - Buziness Owner - Save the Date - Licence to Wed Age: 27 Wedding Date: 11/02/2716 Engagement Date: 11/02/2715 Theme: Chocolate, Gold & Cream. "I love of all things wedding! I love to give advice and tips to brides! I am always helping friends plan weddings these days, and can offer new ideas and ways to plan on a budget, and DIY advice. Having been married already I can offer advice on where to splurge and where to save."

Mizz Magnolia Occupation: Designer Age: 25 Wedding Date: December Engagement Date: 17/04/2716 Theme: Black and White Glam "Hmmm, Im a scrap-fanatic and doing all my own bits and bobs for the wedding."

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