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New Wedding Jewellery – Pearl and Crystal Earrings

Friday, July 16th, 2010
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A while ago I said I was going to concentrate on creating more wedding jewellery so I’ve started with 2 pairs of pearl and Swarovski crystal earrings.  Sometimes I get stuck deciding what to name new bridal accessories so I thought I’d ask my little boy for inspiration. He gave me the names of his 2 favourite female friends, Sammy and Bethany, so that what these 2 pairs of earrings have been called.

A lot of my wedding  jewellery designs are quite delicate and simple because that’s the style I prefer for my own jewellery but I thought I would challenge myself to do something different. So these designs are slightly chunkier which is great if you’re planning on using earrings as your signature piece of wedding jewellery.

Bethany Wedding Earrings

The Bethany earrings (shown below) are available with a sterling silver earposts and scroll backs with clear or clear AB Swarovski crystals and ivory glass pearls.  If you want more information on these wedding earrings then just follow this link - Bethany Wedding Earrings.

Bethany Wedding Earrings

Sammy Wedding Earrings

The second pair of wedding earrings I’ve designed are the Sammy Wedding Earrings.  These have a similar pearl and crystal cluster but differ in the way they connect to the earwires.  The Sammy Wedding Earrings are available with either sterling silver or gold plated earwire and clear or clear AB Swarovski crystals.  For more information about these wedding earrings follow the link – Sammy Wedding Earrings.

Sammy Wedding Earrings

As usual I’d love to get your feedback on these designs, would you prefer them in a different pearl colour?  If you’re interested in looking through the collection of earings at Wedding And Gems then head over to the Bridal Earrings section of the site.

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Bespoke Wedding Jewellery

Friday, June 11th, 2010
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A few weeks ago a bride to be Lauren contacted me  and asked me to created a bespoke hairvine.  The hair vine was a combination of my Bridal Hair Vine and Diamante Pearl Bridal Hair Vine, but she wanted it much longer. As soon as she received the hairvine she was emailing again asking me to make her wedding jewellery. You can see a picture of the hairvine below (sorry for the bad quality) and below that Laurens wedding jewellery.

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Lauren wanted a bracelet, necklace and earrings to match, we already had starting elements, the design had to include fresh water pearls, clear Swarovski crystals and silver diamante flowers. When I work with brides to create bespoke items my first starting point is to find out exactly what ideas the bride has, some brides don’t know what they want, they prefer me to create something for them and as long as it includes certain elements and follows a rough guide they’re happy for me to just get creative.  Others come to me with a clear idea of what they want so I like to allow people to have as much input into the design as they feel comfortable with.

As I’d already worked with Lauren before to design her hairvine she knows then I tend to send a rough sketch of my ideas for brides to approve and amend, but this time round she beat me to it and sent me her sketch of how she imagined her jewellery, so these are mostly Laurens designs, I just made a few amendments.  It’s great when you have a bride who has a clear vision of what they want you to create and are able to communicate this effectively, it makes the working relationship very pleasurably and working closely with brides is something I still continue to enjoy. (I’ve yet to come across a bridezilla).

Below you can see Lauren’s wedding jewellery.  Because Laurens jewellery was custom-made I was able to make the necklace the prefect length and ensure the bracelet fit just right.

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Don’t forget if you need bespoke wedding jewellery feel free to contact me using the contact form to discuss your requirements.


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The Wedding Fair

Sunday, March 1st, 2009
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I have just walked in from the Wedding Fair at Samlesbury Hall.  It’s the first time there for me and I have to say I was very impressed with the venue and the staff – Yes I’m jealous of any one lucky enough to be getting married there.

The day didn’t start off so well though, I live 10 minutes away from Samlesbury Hall and what should have been a simple journey turned into a nightmare.  Simply put we got lost and we found ourselves up in the very pretty village of Mellor, not exactly where we needed to be.  Thankfully with a bit of backtracking (and luck) we eventually found our way.  Below is a photo of the Wedding And Gems table at Samlesbury Hall.

I’m glad I did eventually find the venue because I have had a really great day, much better than expected.  I have met so many brides today and some of you have astonished me.  A bride who has the talent to create her own wedding dress made a lasting impression, she has my admiration,  I’d love to be able to take material and a sewing machine and make something beautiful.

It wasn’t just the brides who have left me with good memories but also the brides mothers.  Most brides cringe at the idea of their mother organising their wedding, yes we like them to be involved (usually) but not to the point where they are organising the wedding.  However I met a mother of the bride today who was organising her daughters wedding as she’s currently living in America but having her wedding here in the UK.  This is the second wedding she’s organised for someone else, the first being a wedding for one of her other daughters who lived in Spain and also got married in the UK.  Definitely a mum in a million I think!

Kerrie G at Samlesbury Hall

Kerrie G at Samlesbury Hall

There have been so many brides, their mothers, sisters and friends that I have met today that it would be impossible to mention you all.  But it has been very rewarding to spend some time with you and discuss some of your wedding plans.

It isn’t just the brides and their family / friends that have made today so enjoyable but also the other wedding professionals that I have shared a room with today, I wanted to make a special mention to Natalie and Rachel from Travel Counsellors, the Highgate String Quartet who provide beautiful music for the day, Granville from Merlin Magic and his partner in crime Charlie Paul, who entertained me with their fantastic humour and their general craziness.

For those brides-to-be who attended the Samlesbury Hall wedding fair, I really hope you enjoyed it at least half as much as I did and I hope enjoy the rest of your wedding planning.

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New Bridal Accessories

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
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I seem to have been on a bit of a mad mission creating new bridal accessories for Wedding And Gems so I thought I would showcase some of my favourite pieces here.  There is a huge emphasis on calla lilly wedding accessories this year so I designed what has to be my favourite wedding hair pin, the Calla Lilly Crystal Hair Pin.  From the photos below you can see that it’s handcrafted from 3 frosted calla lilies which have a Swarovski crystal centre.  Sprouting from behind and in between the calla lilies are stalks of crystals.  It really is a pretty piece and is selling extremely well in the shop

Calla Lilly Crystal Hair Pin

Calla Lilly Crystal Hair Pin

I’ve also create a number of new pieces of wedding jewellery such as the Crystal and Pearl Bridal Earrings which was be seen in silver and clear crystal with fresh water pearls below.

Crystal and Pearl Wedding Earrings

Crystal and Pearl Wedding Earrings

I didn’t stop there either,  I’ve made more bridal earrings which you can see by heading over to Wedding Jewellery on the site.

I also created a few more bracelets too, below you can see the Sparkles Wedding Bracelet finished with a gold plated clasp.

Sparkles Wedding Bracelet

Sparkles Wedding Bracelet

Again I wasn’t satisfied at creating just the one new wedding bracelet so I created the Swarovski Crystal Bracelet which is handcrafted with 3 different sizes of Swarovski crystal knotted onto a clear thread to give the impressions of the crystals floating around the wrist.  You can view the Swarovski Crystal Bracelet by clicking on the following link – Swarovski Crystal Bracelet.

And just to finish the afternoon of I have designed a brand new wedding tiara this afternoon and you can see and hear all about the inspiration behind this particular wedding tiara in my next blog post.

Happy Wedding Planning.

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Wedding Jewellery – Wedding And Gems

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
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I thought I would put together some of my favourite pieces of wedding jewellery that I have created for Wedding and Gems.  I’ve used glass and fresh water pearls, Swarovski crystal and diamante to create wedding jewellery fit for a bride such as yourself.  Below we’ll take a look at some of these pieces of jewellery.  Feel free to leave your comments.

Personally my favourite item of wedding jewellery is the Sophie Bridal Necklace which can be seen below.  It’s handcrafted from a stunning mixture Swarovski crystals and fresh water pearls with a Swarovski baroque crystal acting as a beautiful pendant to complete the piece.

Sophie Bridal Necklace

Another of my favourites is the Crystal and Pearl Choker.  This unusual piece of wedding jewellery is shown below with clusters of Swarovski crystals and fresh pearls with silver beads adding a modern twist.  Because I like to cater for brides with different types of budgets this piece is available with round glass pearls at a cheaper cost.

My plan is to create a matching bracelet for this wedding choker, and I’ll let you know as soon as it is available.

There are many more bridal necklaces that I would like to feature in this post but that wouldn’t leave any room for other types of wedding jewellery such as earrings and bracelets.  I’ll show you my favourite and also best selling wedding earrings.  These are the Swarovski Crystal Drop Earrings.  The main feature of this item of wedding jewellery is the tumbling Swarovski crystals which are shown in clear AB below.

Swarovski Crystal Drop Earrings

Last but not least I’ll show you my favourite wedding bracelet, the Tiffiny Crystal and Fresh Water Pearl Bracelet.  What I love most about this piece of wedding jewellery is it’s simplicity and elegance.  Nestled between fresh water pearls are different sizes of Swarovski crystals, shown in clear below.  Because of it’s design this bracelet matches many of our other pieces of jewellery and tiaras.

Tiffiny Crystal and Fresh Water Pearl Bracelet

Tiffiny Crystal and Fresh Water Pearl Bracelet

I hope you like some of the designs I’ve commented on today, of course I’d love to hear your comments on these items of wedding jewellery, so send in your opinions.

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