One of the most important accessories a bride can have in her wedding is her wedding jewelry. Wedding jewelry can compliment a bride in so many ways and make her stand out above everyone else in her wedding. This is why wedding jewelry is so important to a bride on her big day. Read this article to learn a little bit about what kind of wedding jewelry is appropriate for certain types of weddings and just kind of wedding jewelry is out there.
Designers of wedding jewelry constantly come up with new designs that become hotter among brides each year, particular during the wedding season months of February through September. Wedding jewelry is important to the small town bride as well as the most popular wedding fashion designer. So here’s just a look at the different kinds of wedding jewelry being designed this wedding season.
One of the most popular kinds of silver wedding jewelry being designed this wedding season involves pearls, crystal, and cz rondelles. The pearls are often cream colored but can be light cream rose or white as well. The pearls are seperated by either crystals or cz rondelles. The cz rondelles add a sparkling touch to the wedding jewelry that act as diamonds and draws everyon’es eyes to them. If the wedding jewelry has alternating pearls and crystals, then cz rondelles can be inserted every inch or so along the necklace or bracelet.
Earrings are also very popular this season among wedding jewelry. Earrings can also have pearls, crystals, and cz rondelles.
Another very popular type of swarovski wedding jewelry being designed this wedding season is necklaces and bracelets that have just crystals on them. Wedding jewelry with pearls are more traditional, and now the modern look is with crystals.
For a beach wedding, wedding jewelry with a beach theme is very appropriate. For an indoor wedding, go with more elegant looking wedding jewelry with pearls, crystal, and cz rondelles.
Archive for September, 2010
Beautiful Wedding Jewelry
Sunday, September 26th, 2010Anna Griffin and Her Brand of Wedding Invitations
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010Darling of the paper craft industry, graphic designer Anna Griffin comes by her love of art and design naturally, she grew up in a family of artists. It is also not surprising that her love of art brought her to wedding invitations – one of her first jobs out of college was working with famed wedding designer Vera Wang. In 1994, Griffin set out on her own, launching a line of custom designed, hand-crafted wedding invitations that borrow heavily from beautiful traditional botanical prints and Victoriana.
In the years since, the name Anna Griffin has become synonymous with high quality paper crafting designs. Her company released the first line of imprintable wedding invitations for the home crafter, do-it-yourself bride who wanted a hand in making her own invitations without sacrificing a professional quality wedding invitation. Anna Griffin invokes vellum and ribbon, elegant traditional patterns and all the details that make wedding finery, well, fine.
While the Anna Griffin line now encompasses craft papers of all kinds for home scrap-bookers and textile patterns, wedding invitations are still at the foundation of her success. Anna Griffin wedding invitations are among the most beautiful and sought after of all the major design lines.
The Anna Griffin Wedding Album line of wedding invitations is the epitome of the Griffin style. Resplendent in ribbons, decorated with touches of platinum and silver, they are elegant and stylish in a classic and traditional way. The Anna Griffin Celadon Repousse wedding invitations are an example of Griffin’s ability to combine modern ideas with traditional patterns and present a wedding invitation that is as timeless as it is modern. The conventional is in the feeling, stately and elegant, but the color, a subtle jade, and the square shape are definitely taken from the modern book of weddings. The sage patterned background panel is set off by the sage ribbon corners that hold the custom created Oyster white printed panel against the delicate floral pattern.
Another traditional, but not conventional, design offered in the Anna Griffin Wedding Album collection is the Platinum Swirls wedding invitation. The invitation consists of four separate layers, in the tradition of the most romantic and elegant of handmade invitations and Victorian cards. The backing layer is a heavyweight ecru with a fine platinum border, in the tradition of wedding invitations throughout the generations. A delicate paper patterned with platinum swirls forms a middle layer between the ecru backing and the elegantly bordered wording panel. Between the swirls and your wording, a satin platinum ribbon lends an additional touch of elegance.
The Anna Griffin Floral Wedding Invitations collection is pure romance personified. These floral-patterned papers are the designs on which Anna Griffin has built her reputation and on which her personal style is based, and they are nowhere more at home than they are in wedding invitations. Floral patterns embellish envelope linings and decorate wedding invitations. Floral prints lend a romantic touch to all of the accessories and elements of wedding stationery, including save the date cards, enclosure cards and thank you cards. As pretty and traditional as the patterns are, though, the wedding invitations bring a modern aesthetic to patterns taken from antique botanical prints.
The modern touch is evident in the styling of the Floral Roses Matchbook Invitation, which includes a printed or printable panel and a floral jacket that can be tied together with an elegant satin ribbon, included with the invitation. The Matchbook style is a delightful nod to modern paper crafters, who routinely fasten papers together with buttons, ribbons and bows. The rose pattern on the matchbook is reminiscent of the most romantic of Victorian prints.
Another delightfully romantic Anna Griffin design combines tradition and modern style with lovely roses in a completely different and unusual wedding invitation. The wedding invitation includes a printed or printable panel on which you can print the wording of your invitation. The heavy ecru paper is embellished with a subtly embossed border that is designed to peek at the sides of the scalloped, rose-patterned vellum wrapper. The entire wrap is tied with a delicate satin ribbon and bow to complete a wedding invitation that evokes the romance of the Victorian era.
One of the most innovative and bold of the Anna Griffin wedding invitation designs, though, is the button pocket invitation style. The Black and White Floral Button Pocket Invitation is part of the Anna Griffin printable wedding invitation collection. Each wedding invitation set includes an ecru invitation panel with a beveled border, a button pocket with a diagonal slash design and matching envelopes. Other printable wedding invitations in the Anna Griffin line include floral vellum side panels, buttons and ribbons.
In a very short time, designer Anna Griffin has made a name for herself as a graphic designer who can combine romance and whimsy, throw in a touch of elegance and create wedding invitations that are unique and memorable
Selecting The Best Bridal Jewelry
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010For centuries, jewelry has been used to signify many different things. It has been used by a royalty to signify their status, by women to display their beauty, and by men to exhibit their power.
Even many centuries ago, when jewelry was still very crude, but still beautiful, it was used in bridal rituals. Hence, even though the jewelry is becoming more sophisticated with every decade that passes, it still plays the same very important role in our society.
If there’s one thing that the bride wants to do on her wedding day, it would be to look beautiful. Many thousands of dollars are spent on bridal clothing, such as the wedding gown, as well as accessories. Jewelry is the perfect accessory to add beauty to the wedding gown and add sparkle to the bride herself.
Here are a few ideas on how to get the right bridal jewelry to make your wedding day even more perfect.
To pick the best bridal jewelry, you have to match the jewelry with the wedding gown as well as the personality of the bride.
That means, the more elaborate the wedding gown and the more outgoing the bride herself is the flashier and more elaborate the bridal jewelry should be.
If the bride is shy and introverted, the bridal jewelry should reflect that shade of her personality.
This selection of bridal jewelry is probably the most important, because you do not want the jewelry to overshadow everything else, and you also do not want it to be overshadowed by the wedding gown.
Remember, your bridal jewelry is an accessory. It should not be the centerpiece of the wedding.
Some people purchase their bridal jewelry with the purpose of using it only on that one day. If that is the case and you can afford it, then obviously you can pick out something that is wedding specific.
Not many people can do that.
So the best approach is to purchase bridal jewelry that you can wear for the rest of your life. This means when you purchase your bridal jewelry you should also keep the practicality of the item in mind.
To summarize, pick your bridal jewelry to match your personality and your wedding dress style. And also keep in mind the subsequent uses of that jewelry.