Introducing Mr and Mrs...

When I was back in the homeland earlier this year, I attended the beautiful wind-blown, west coast wedding of some very good friends H & M. Here is a pic of the lovely couple...


For their gift I made some personalized pillowcases with their new names...


The pattern and pillowcases are both from Sublime Stitching.


Here they are installed on the marital bed. Quilt hand made by H's Granny :)


I think they were quite well received. Fewf.

Loving...

... reapproriating vintage jewellery:

a'la PS: I made this

This cute guy (lost link, I know I am really bad at keeping links - how do people do it??)


And these Wedding Bouquets from Fantasy Floral


Yet another excuse to shop.

Brides and Feathers

Wow. It's been a while huh? My bad, I hope you have all been ok without my in-frequent posts. I have been super busy and also went for a much needed holiday to Tuscany (via London) for a friends wedding. Oh god it was good. Beautiful setting, beautiful ceremony, beautiful couple.

Before I left I asked the bride if there was anything I could help with, and she asked if I could make her something to wear in her hair. I freaked out, but of course I agreed. I don't have much experience making things for the hair but I knew I had enough time to learn.

So after a few emails back and forwards we decided on a blue feather number (no peacock!) with some sparkly bits thrown in to tie it to the dress. The whole wedding had a vintage 1920's theme, and K's dress was an original flapper dress from the era.

Below is the final product:


K was such a relaxed bride that she put all her trust in my judgement and said that she was sure I would make something great. Awww, so nice. Me being based in New York, Kate in London and the wedding in Tuscany meant that she didn't see it until the day before the wedding (eeek!), but she loved it in the end and it looked great.

Here is Kate and I at the post-ceremony cocktail hour (first face photo of me on the site *gasp*).


So pretty right?

I was a LITTLE bit paranoid about K not liking the blue headpiece so I made a back up, based on a picture of a ban-do headband K had sent me.


And here is me wearing it:


K liked this one to, but in the end the blue one won out.

Morrocan Wedding Blankets!

Yesss I found them. Maryam of the awesome blog My Marrakesh sells Moroccan Wedding Blankets.


Peruse the whole selection (and some other cool Moroccan-ware) here.

What to wear, what to wear...

I have been thinking a lot about weddings lately, not my own, but of 3 very cool ones I have coming up. One in Italy in September, one in Florida (Sarasota) in November, and finally one back home in NZ in January 2010. The last one will also be my first trip back home since I moved to New York in January 2008!

Very exciting, especially since it is being held at Whatipu Lodge which is on a beautiful stretch of black sand beach on Auckland's west coast.

Can't wait!!

The big dilemma (emma-dilemma) is what to wear to look nice and dressed up but also beach/reception appropriate?

What is a girl to do but turn to Polyvore to help envisage her options. If you haven't used Polyvore yet, head over and try it out. Its a great tool which helps you make virtual inspiration boards if you will. And you can import any image so the possibilities are endless.

Here is what I have as a first idea so far...


Beach Wedding by GauzeCelebre
I was going for a NAVY and gold theme (even though the dress looks black in the pic) and have included 1 flat and 1 high pair of shoes that I can change into as the wedding flows to and from the beach.

So what do you think? Too formal? Not formal enough? Too dark? Too 'meh'?

Lay it on me.

PS: Naturally when I was choosing accessories I went straight for the POA Prada flats and $3000 Cartier bangle. Unfortch these won't be part of my final outfit.

Like, sooooo cute.

This super cutey romatic poster from village made me smile. I think it would make an awesome engagement or wedding present for the right couple. In fact, what am I saying, forever could refer to lots of things, so it would be good for anyone! Who likes pink...



Found on Domino.

Rock-a-billy bride

Not sure how I ended up looking at wedding dresses online... My flatmate has been looking at stuff for her impending wedding... yeah that must be it, BUT this rockabilly wedding I found looks really cute so I thought I would share it.


Dress via Stephanie James - all her dresses and head-pieces have a cool retro vibe.