Light Up Personalised Baubles

A bit special these… new in our  luxury personalised baubles dept…

Introducing our new and rather special LED light up fairy light winter wonderland baubles £19.95. Gorgeous luxury glass baubles filled with a winter wonderland scene of miniature tree that twinkles with mini LED lights, faux snow, tied with your choice of silky satin ribbon to hang and personalised with your own wording / name.  Handmade by Christmas elves from the bauble station in our lovely design studio in Stalybridge, Cheshire, UK.

Perfect personalised baubles for baby’s first christmas, family christmas’, bauble for couple. Add a gift box +£5 to house the bauble in and give as a unique gift.

We offer them personalised but can do them not personalised too.

Order the personalised green tree bauble here or the winter wonderland white tree bauble here

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A forever kind of love

Initials carved in tree. Unique personalised anniversary gift for your reliable strong supportive oak, a different personalised wedding gift for the newlywed couple, or a thoughtful personalised engagement gift. Our brand new and charming little tree candle holders to mark very important dates.

 

The perfect personalised gift to mark the important dates and milestones. Like your very first kiss, the date you fell in love, the date you proposed, the date you got married, the date of your first anniversary, the date of your golden anniversary. Mark your special date with our personalised year tree candles.

Can’t get enough of the cuteness of these things….how about a little candlelit orchard of all dates special to you.

We are absolutely in love with these gorgeous new handmade tree candle holders new to the website and handmade in our lovely UK studio. Only up a few days, they’ve already been so popular. Personalised with initials and your special date free of charge. Shop them online, personalised wedding gifts / personalised anniversary gifts online , but hurry get one while we have stock – we know these won’t hang around long….

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What’s that, oh just some gorgeous vintage bottles on the website

I’ve been taking pictures of our gorgeous new products. Here’s my most favourite:

Pretty mini milk bottles with vintage tags & twine (and they’re only £3.95 each!)

They don’t come with the flower but any old flower will do, fresh would be best, but this was shot with fabric silk rose, the kind you can pick up in a garden centre. These are going to be very popular as table decorations for vintage wedding themes. I’m thinking rustic wooden crates as card holders, and lace table runners paired with burlap. But they look oh so charming sat on a window ledge in my house. Ahhhh

For more of this kind of thing click here

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Popular Wedding Themes: Coral

So all of a sudden we get a million enquiries in the same week about one particular colour theme and that’s when you know what’s going to be hot for the upcoming wedding season. It’s not that coral and peach wedding invitations have ever really been ‘out’ of fashion but last year it had a little rest and took a back seat to the more traditional & muted shades like Ivory, Oatmeal and Nudes.

Plenty of traditional themes emerged last year too with lace invitations & stationery being more popular than ever for our Brides wedding invitations. Now, I’ll never tire of ‘traditional’ I’m all for it, but I am longing for the bolder Bride. And as a blonde girl myself, coral does it for me.

This year, the enquiries have been pouring in for wedding samples in coral. And I have 3 main reasons as to why this could be.

Firstly, it could be because weddings abroad are more popular than ever. A few years ago, we worked on very large weddings in the main. Weddings with 80+ guests were the norm. This year, the volume is up on the number of people getting wed, but the orders are smaller in quantity and many are choosing to elope in sunnier climates. And why not. For Brides choosing a beach wedding, coral is so popular right now for their invitations. We currently have clients getting married in Cyprus, Turkey, Ibiza, & Menorca on the books right now. And guess what they are all coral Brides.

Secondly, could it be that coral is a more toned down variation of the Pantone colour of the year from 2012 ‘Tangerine Tango’ (that’s Pantone number 7625C for the designers out there)?

Where orange, having grown in popularity amongst Designers and consumers in the previous months, was starting to appear in fashion, make up and interiors far more than before.

Pantone do not take naming their colour of the year lightly and their selection is a very thoughtful process. To arrive at the selection, Pantone quite literally comb the world looking for color influences from the film industry, artists etc. And this naming of such a dramatic and seductive colour, saw Designers and Brides empowered to use such a bold colour in their wedding planning. Perhaps the recent popularity in Coral is based on the Colour of the Year 2012’s downfall: it was just that bit too bold for Brides’ wedding plans.

We always see variations of Pantone’s colour of the year filter through in variations of the shade in the following years after a naming, and coral seems to be the most popular option from Tangerine Tango. See just how similar Tangerine Tango is to Coral.

It will be interesting to see whether Pantone’s colour of the year 2013 Emerald has the same popularity when it trickles through to wedding stationery arena.

Thirdly, the Spring & Summer season is fast approaching and nothing says summer like a punchy coral.  Since we in the invitation business work approximately 6-12 months ahead for wedding stationery, we are now getting summer 2014 wedding orders in and beyond, and it is the summery shades of coral and zesty tangerine shades that are more popular than ever. In addition we are also seeing peachy, blush and more paler shades of coral colours being selected by Brides too.

If you’re thinking of having a coral wedding theme, take a look at our Coral Pinterest Boards that we’ve put together with lot’s of ideas and coral weddingy goodness.

Here’s a pick of my favourite coral pins

(all images on these boards are at this Pinterest link on our Coral Wedding Inspiration Boards  and click through to the relevant supplier/photographer/image owner where the image was sourced)

For pure invitation inspiration take a look at our coral wedding invitations colour theme page here.

Any of our luxury wedding stationery collections can be designed in coral. If we do not show your colour scheme in the invitation that you want, please contact us as we have lot’s of coral images on file that we can email to you. If we don’t have the image, we can create a sample and email this image over to you.

Likewise, you can order a sample wedding invitation in your chosen colour scheme & we can post directly to you along with a selection of ribbon swatches in a similar colour theme.

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Rainbow Wedding Invitation Ideas

This week it’s all about colour. Four or five blog posts of colour in fact.

Our obsession with colour is no secret. If you come into the studio, our shelves are filled with colour coordinated rainbow ribbons. Swarovski crystals shimmer on the walls from their pretty glass jars. And our wedding stationery ranges are framed in colour order.

Whilst classic & traditional colours have seen a re-emergence this season (following the Royal Wedding etc). A hot trend for weddings from last season, which looks as though it’s here to stay is COLOUR. Rainbows of colour – which makes the design industry very happy indeed. With so much colour on offer, why settle for just one colour when your planning your special day.

Today we have a beautiful image of a real wedding with rainbow Bridesmaid dresses by Laura Murray Photography via Before the Big Day  (which is a gorgeous UK wedding blog well worth bookmarking) and paired these images with suggestions of coordinating wedding invitations to suit, which are available in all colours of the rainbow:

 All the above designs are available from www.madewithlovedesigns.co.uk. We’ve put together some pretty rainbow mood boards filled with snippets of some of the prettiest rainbow wedding images on the web, to inspire you. We plan to show these on the blog throughout the week. Excited? We can’t wait to show these pretties.

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Spring arrived in the office this week

The studio was filled with pretty floral prints this week whilst packing 3 sets of Print orders from our English Rose wedding stationery collection.

The sun was shining whilst we packed these pretty designs up. Spring is here and a sense of optimism is the air.

Happy Weekend

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Alice in Wonderland Wedding Stationery FUN!

We had sooo much fun designing these invitations. A brief for a ‘Alice In Wonderland themed wedding focusing on queen of hearts, classic Alice in Wonderland with a modern twist’ we created a fun range using the Alice in Wonderland rabbit, cool types mixed with scroll types and paired with red polka ribbon in signature ‘Made With Love’ style. 

Do you have a specific theme in mind…? Get in touch as we are able to offer a free no obligation bespoke designs based on your brief & budget. Give us a little time to come up with a design board to your theme and we’ll do this free of charge (Please allow 1 month for bespoke design boards). If there’s something you LOVE from these, you can order them. Alternatively, we take bookings for bespoke designs which we will book into our diary and have a set of at least 3 design images to you within 5 working days which cost £60.00. Email bespoke@madewithlovedesigns.co.uk with your requirements.

The weather has been terrible so our photographs aren’t final versions and we plan to re-shoot when we have better light.

Alice In Wonderland Wedding Invitation with envelope. £3.25 with polka dot ribbon. Sweet huh?

Alice in Wonderland Wedding Place card which doubles up as ‘Eat Me’ Favour Tags. £1.95 printed with individual guest names. Look gorgeous on wedding tables to accompany an edible favour treat or tied round favour pails.

Alice In Wonderland themed Place Cards £1.65 Queen of Hearts design. Printed with individual guest names using our NEW super duper glossy printer.

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Hello Sailor! On Trend: Nautical Themed Wedding Stationery

Bang on trend our new nautical themed stripey wedding invitations available in navy & white stripes with a gold anchor print available in a choice of ribbon: red satin, gold satin, white satin, navy satin, white rope.

Hello Sailor Invitations with ribbon knots & envelope £2.95 or Hello Sailor Invitations with ribbon bow & box £3.50 from Made With Love

Nautical designs from top:

All from www.madewithlovedesigns.co.uk Hello Sailor invitations £2.95 | Allure Wedding Invitations in Royal Blue £4.75 | Elegance Crystal Buckle Invitations in Gold £3.75 | Purity Diamante Wedding Invitations in Navy with Montana Blue Swarovski £3.30 | Opulence Wedding Invitations in Navy £5.45 | Union Jack Place Cards £1.95 | Allure Wedding Invitation in Ruby Red £4.75 | Moderno Navy Blue Wedding Invitations £3.50

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We’re in Aug2010 Wedding Ideas Magazine – Real Life Inspiration

Our frosty new Snowflake winter wonderland wedding stationery collection has been featured in Wedding Ideas Magazine August issue page 223. In an ice cool Real Life Inspiration piece for Winter Weddings.  The little Snowflake invitation in white on the far middle right…

A big big thank you to the Wedding Ideas Team for using the collection in their winter inspiration xox

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Winter Wedding Theme Part 2

It’s the second in a 3 part winter wedding theme series and as promised I bring you winter wedding goodness to inspire those thinking of having a winter wedding or for those of you who are in the depths of planning your winter / Christmas wedding.

We wanted to show inspiring images to work alongside our new Snowflake Winter/Christmas Wedding Invites new to Made With Love this Winter.

A perfect backdrop of a crisp wintery morning would naturally be the perfect scene for a winter wedding, but just as in Summer, we can not rely on the good old British Weather for the sun, in Winter we can’t rely on snow. So rather than relying on the weather to create your Winter Wonderland wedding, accessorize with pale blue’s / ice blue’s / white’s & silver’s in your stationery design to really set the scene of things to come. Above image sows Snowflake invitation in pale blue.

Floaty white dresses are perfect for a soft feminine winter feel image via Bridal Bubbly Blog (ok, so these dresses are not going to be very warm but this your one day to shine… who cares about the practicalities… looking good is essential!) wear a dress like this with a fur shrug or bolero for a lovely winter warmer which will look cute in the wedding pics. We’ve seen some pretty fur jackets at Monsoon. Gorgeous silver shoes below via unique vintage.com.

Accessorize the wedding dress with frostings of crystal jewellry or blue stones. Like this gorgeous blue orb ring (image via Polyvore) and this dobber of an engagement ring by Tacori image via Polyvore.

A winter wedding wouldn’t be complete without a winter themed wedding cake. There are lot’s out there but we fell in love with this blue & white snowflake wedding cake image via Bridal Wave. Many cake designers can design individual bespoke cakes to your winter theme so book a consulation with your cake designer to discuss how they could bring out your wedding theme in a new & unique winter themed cake design.

Decorate your venue with lot’s of sparkles & candles, simple green foilage looks beautiful against a blue / white winter wedding theme (candle lit wedding venue by Red Floral Architecture image via Cheshire Wedding Club) and decorate the winter wedding tables and centre pieces with hanging snowflake decorations by eisblumen via notonthehighstreet.com

& to help the wedding day flow, have a table plan specially made to include the seating arrangements of your guests. Snowflake Table plan via Made With Love shown in pale blue winter ribbon with a white French Ornate Frame from £95.00

In the next installment of our winter wedding treat, we will be featuring lots more wintery pretties to make you drool! xxx

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