Doesn’t sound very glamorous does it?!

Don’t worry, I’ve not got any crazy DIY washing up ideas for you wedding. Or not quite anyway…

I recently received an email from Karen at Wedding Tea Towels with some of the coolest wedding stationery I have ever seen in my life. How about ditching the paper goods and purchasing an eco-friendly, quirky-as-you-like design from Wedding Tea Towels and your guests will be hard pressed to forget your wedding date!

Karen got married last year and created the wedding Tea Towel with her husband to give their wedding their own sense of style…

We wanted something special for our invitation… Something different to create a buzz about the wedding, cheaper than standard paper options, good for the environment and something our guests could keep for ever, that’s how we came up with the idea for the Original Wedding Tea Towel. When we’d finished the design and sent them out the response was so incredible that we knew we couldn’t keep the idea to ourselves and so the Original Wedding Tea Towel was born!

With her project manager past and her husband’s Creative input on the design side, Karen decided to expand the range and start Wedding Tea Towels. Offering options for Save the Date’s, The invitation itself (including variations for day and evening invitees and also thank you’s) I think they make super individual cute and quirky invites. I know I for one would love to receive something so unique from a couple. With the eco and DIY craze going strong in weddings they also fit perfectly with a lot of different themes and styles of wedding that are so popular right now.

I’m so excited to be able to also tell you that Karen and Ben have offered an exclusive to Rock My Wedding design! Shown in full glory below and in the ‘cloth’ above we’re loving the cute birdies and bunting created especially for us! Why we feel famous!

So what do you think about the Wedding Tea Towel? Super quirky and Super Cool?

We think so too!

Yours Truly,

Rebecca
xoxo

We see a whole lot of pretty paper here at Rock My Wedding HQ and have in the past 6 months featured some truly amazing stuff. Colourful, original, unique, vintage inspired, a retro vibe……. the list goes on.

What about though if you just want stationery that exudes elegance, simplicity, femininity and above all is beautifully crafted?

Well lovelies you need to check out Fraser and Parsley who a few weeks ago sent both Rebecca and I the most GORGEOUS press pack – I mean REALLY gorgeous. All ribbons and luxury paper and prettiness…..

And as Fraser and Parsley don’t just specialise in Weddings there is a whole lot of other lovely for you to peak at too.

Oh and nothing beats a great story of two entrepenerial women either – getting together, bonding over their shared passions and making a bloomin’ great success out of it

So without further ado, here is the little story of Rachel and Josie – ’tis well worth the read.

Rachel Fraser and Josie Parsley met in 2002 and soon found themselves bonding over crockery at an Emma Bridgewater sale – they discovered they had vast amounts in common: a passion for classic design, beautiful interiors, organised living, party planning and colour co-ordination not to mention their husbands were already best friends from university!

Rachel (32) and Josie (33) have four beautiful children between them and work from their homes in Kent and Surrey.

And it is beautifully packaged and with a perfect bow – here is a peak at some of mine

Has planning your wedding given you the inspiration you needed to bring out you creative side?

Have any of you newly-weds out there considered moving into the W-day Industry?

A Big Thank You to Josie for submitting the words and images – we have LOTS more lovely from her coming up on the blog soon!

Big Girls Are Doing it For Themselves Love

Charlotte xxx

Some time ago now Charlotte and I went on a little trip to the National Wedding Show at the NEC in Birmingham. In fact it was the day after Charlottes 30th Birthday party, we were more than a little tired and grumpy and weren’t particularly impressed with a lot of the mass market offerings. However, we did find a few gems and the subject of todays post is no exception. In fact it pretty near made the whole trip worthwhile for me.

The Hummingbird Card Company were a brand that I knew of but had never seen their work in person and so I was quite floored by the spectacularly pretty offerings they had on their stand. The colours and shimmering cardstocks used were quite simply gorgeous and I have always loved the laser cut design, their interpretation of which is delicate and bang on trend.

Boutique Range

The laser cut boutique range was the Hummingbird Card Companys first range and offers the full suite of paper offerings to prettify your day and different designs to suit everyone… from vintage inspired, contemporary and unique wedding invitations, to personalised and bespoke wedding stationery

I think the thing I like about these designs most is the delicacy of the designs and the light summery feeling you get when looking at them. For someone planning a dreamy romantic summer-garden affair, I think they are just about perfect.

The collection is also really flexible to blend perfectly with your chosen colour scheme. Pick your favourite design then have a browse through the design section to choose your colours and embellishments. Then you can go on to co-ordinate your chosen invitation with matching wedding reply cards – RSVP cards, place cards, order of service, order of the day, table plans, table numbers, menu’s, favour boxes, and thank-you cards. They’ve got it covered!

Prices range from around £5 per invitation but drop the more you order which applies to all the pieces of stationery.

Silhouette Surprise

Even better, for those wanting to save money we are delighted to be able to share the new Silhouette range from Hummingbird. Starting at around £2 per invitation and dropping to under £1.50 the more you order, this one’s a real bargain. And unlike most budget ranges there no pretty lost here…

The budget crunching key is that the design is printed onto the card in black instead of being laser cut, which gives quite a convincing shadow effect. The actual designs are equally pretty and I’m a particular fan of all the fun and modern quotes you can also choose from.

Word art fans watch out!

We’re always on the look out here at Rock My Wedding for ways for you to get the look you want for a better price and whilst the alternative options are often not that close to the original in terms of keeping the feel of the design, Hummingbird Cards have done a great job here I feel. Well worth checking out, even if you think you couldn’t afford the laser cut range.

So what do you look for in your stationery choices and have you seen the new Silhouette range?

Yours Truly,

Rebecca
xoxo

PS The Silhouette range hasn’t yet made it onto the Hummingbird website but is available to order samples of and can be seen on their blog.

You know we love an exclusive….

And today we get to share with you a super cute new stationery company Lucy Ledger Designs which is full to the brim of total and utter gorgeousness.

So if you haven’t picked your pretty paper yet then maybe, just maybe…. this is exactly what you had been looking for.

Over to the lovely Lucy to tell us all about her little enterprise:

* Stationery in Cherry Ever After

I truly believe that picking your stationery is one of the most important and exciting parts of planning a wedding as it sets the tone and atmosphere of what is to come. It is the first thing your guests will see and it will give an indication of what kind of wedding you are planning. When I was planning my wedding, like so many other brides I wanted a relaxed and informal feel to my stationery- something that would make guests feel that they were going attend a warm, personal occasion that was filled with love, fun and lots of laughter.

So if you want stationery that is completely unique, quirky, fun and above all, personal; visit my website or contact me to find out more.

*Stationery in Afternoon Tea

Lucy is offering any one of you gorgeous lot a free A2 seating plan in a “shabby chic” frame if you quote Rock My Wedding and order before the end of May 2010.

And with place names starting at just a teeny tiny 50p and invitations from £2.00 you can get a lot of loveliness for your buck….

Oh and just for some further excitement we have the lovely Lucy’s very own wedding coming up on the blog tomorrow and Friday – ’tis indeed as sweet as cherry pie folks.

Big Unique, Quirky and Fun Love

Charlotte xxx

P.S Go check out Lucy’s “Inspiration of the week” – you may recognise those two BlogQueens!

Everyone that read my original “You Rock My World” blog will know what a nightmare I experienced with finding pretty paper for my own Big Day. I am glad to report that since starting Rock My Wedding we have discovered all sorts of stationery loveliness that we will continue to share with you.

This particular paper princess will always have a special place in my heart though, not only did Shari Amos the creator and owner of Bijou Woo design a suite of gorgeousness that was totally “us”, she was also one of the loveliest and sweetest ladies I have had the pleasure of meeting in my wedding industry journey so far.

And she put up with my completely Bridezilla-esque last minute colour tweaks and text changes (!)

It gives me great pleasure to share with you the newest styles from Bijou Woo’s chic, unique and utterly delicious latest collection. Shari has kindly offered to share some of the detail behind her business savvyness and stationery fabulousness………

Over to Madam Amos:

I started Bijou Woo 2 years ago and it is really growing! My sister Kelly is now on board, creating a real family service. Having been in the design industry for ten years, I am still amazed at how excited I get when I see the final results, whether it’s designing wedding invitations, name cards, table plans or silly badges for the best men to wear. Maybe I am just a design geek….

Weddings have become a passion of mine, the diversity and ever changing fashions mean that it’s an area that is constantly evolving. It’s a privilege to be part of such an important event, to be involved right from the beginning and to create designs that mean so much to the couple to be. I love hearing how romances were started, how families get involved with the special day and just how much thought and creativity is part of people’s ceremonies.

Cupcake Cutie

I was inspired by Anne Marie from the Urban Bakery’s delicious creations! It’s brilliant to have such a vibrant and fun design added to the collection.

Blooming Lovely

Just to prove that inspiration really does come from anywhere, this design was inspired by an amazing photo of some fairy lights which were hanging over a mirror at home. The shapes and forms were just stunning.

Seeing Spots

This cute, retro design reflects how weddings are now keeping up with the times, long gone are the invites with bows and dried flowers hooray! Pastel prettiness is where it’s at.

Till Death Do Us Part

Bijou Woo accommodates all tastes and unique styles through their bespoke service. Till Death Do Us Part, was created for a lovely, funky couple who were married recently in Mexico. The bride loved the design so much that she is going to add it to her tattoo collection ….we can’t wait to see where it goes!!

Photography courtesy of Rachel Spivey and cupcakes supplied by The Urban Bakery

A huge Thanks a million to Shari Amos for her piece ( and generally being a huge supporter of RMW)

Big princess paper pretty love

Charlotte xxx

So a while back now, the lovely folks over at Hello!Lucky asked us if we would like to do a competition with them, and of course we were very excited! We were even more excited to receive all the entries from our lovely readers and practically bursting when we picked a winner.

However, all of that doesn’t even come close to the excitement of what happened this week, when our lovely winner Ashley got in touch and showed us what she picked…

Even better, Ashley told us all about what she was going to do with them, and doesn’t it just bring a little ray of sunshine to the gloomy middle of January?

Hi Rebecca and Charlotte!

Ashley x

I had to share this with you all, firstly because the gorgeous cards she chose were just zinging off the page at me shouting, blog me, blog me! And secondly, because we love to hear that our sponsors provide great customer service – because we want to be shouting from the rooftops about companies that get these kind of reviews.

So well done Ashley, and do keep us informed of your wedding plans, I can’t wait to see what you do with them. Oranges and yellows are such fun, fresh, modern wedding colours (in fact that reminds me of a little zingy inspiration board Charlotte did a while back…) and they are going to look A.mazing in Ibiza!

Yours Truly,

Contra
xoxo