TOP INVITATION TRENDS 2009

October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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 - Take the Quiz

October 13, 2008 | 4 Comments

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:)

Mad Hatters Hens Party

September 25, 2008 | 7 Comments

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

Flower Jewelry

August 24, 2008 | 6 Comments

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.

Ideas and alternatives for wedding confetti

August 17, 2008 | 2 Comments

Create a signature look at your wedding with various types of confetti. The traditional cut-out punch holes are a thing of the past, not to mention that many venues dont allow them anymore.

I know that there are a couple of alternative options out there (and Im sure a lot more), but here are some great idea that I managed to find for fabulous alternatives to traditional wedding confetti.

Mizz Calla Lilly posted a great blog on Cinderella Wands Cinderlla Ribbon Wands. These are very different and unique. You can personalise them with your names, wedding date or other things that may be special to you on your wedding day. Things Like “I Do” or “Happily Ever After”. Ribbon wands also make great gifts for your guests and beautiful photo opportunities.

image from kaboodle.com

A Classic Engagement

July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment

It all started when Mr Honeysuckle and I decided we wanted to incorporate more classic film type stuff into our wedding. We already had the general Old Hollywood feel (well, hopefully we do) and the table names being classic stars. But what that table name discussion led to was a realisation that we couldn’t agree on the perfect name for our head table! I, of course, was all for Judy Garland, but Mr HS had a point when he said that it would just look like I made every single decision about everything to do with the wedding (Um, didn’t I?). Anyway, so that was off the table (haha), as was BM-Best Friend’s suggestion of using a classic couple like Fred & Ginger (which I really loved, but apparently it was also too much Mizz and not enough Mr Honeysuckle!) So anyway, at some point, Mr HS suggested that we just name the table after ourselves. Which I immediately vetoed, because how was it going to fit into the classic movie theme without a picture of classic movie stars on both the table and the table listing?

Aha. Here’s how:

We take our engagement shoot (which is included in the photography package we chose) and make it Old Hollywood Style.

Sometimes I am just too brilliant.

Wheel of fortune

June 27, 2008 | 3 Comments

Colour pallets are not just for painters anymore or for the Dulux stand in your local hardware store. they are great little tools that can prove to be lifesavers in your whole wedding planning process.

You may like a gazillion different colour combinations for your theme, but seeing them together will make all the difference.

Your first step is to pick a base colour and once you’ve established that you can work on another two complementary colours. Your base colour will be the main colour you decide on and the complimentary colours will be what you use for accents.

Lets say, for example, you choose brown as your base colour, and pale purple and red as your accents, you can create your bridesmaids dresses in brown and compliment them with a pale purple sash, and red roses…. see where this is going? Ah, ha, I have your attention now, so where do you get started?

My 1920 Flapper Wedding

June 1, 2008 | 6 Comments

My 1920 flapper wedding

Totally cute wedding favours

May 28, 2008 | 8 Comments

Have a little fun at your wedding with a great selection of cute wedding favour ideas

Your wedding is all about you, so why not personalise it with unique, close to your heart favours? Get inspired by these totally cute wedding favours…

Uniquely You

May 20, 2008 | 9 Comments

What fun details are you incorporating into your wedding celebration to make it more “you”? Fun themes, colour schemes, favours, decor touches, and so on can all be something special to you.

Mr Honeysuckle and I love movies - I’d go so far as to use the term “Movie geeks”, so we’re doing a movie theme, with an emphasis on the classics. I cleverly got Mr Honeysuckle to think he’d thought of the idea of using our favourite classic stars as table names, so on each table there’ll be a framed photo of them with their name on a clapper board next to the photo - because, heck, few people are going to be able to recognise what table they’re at just by the photo! We are having eight tables, possibly nine, so we each got to pick four actors or actresses. Funnily enough, I picked the girls and Mr H picked the guys! (With one spare in case of that ninth table). Here they are in one pic - a virtual bouquet to anyone who can name them all! Go on, I dare you. ;-)

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