Buying a bespoke bridal tiara may seem a little scary especially if you struggle to imagine what the finish piece might look like so I’ve created an article to give you a starting point and a few questions you should ask your wedding tiara designer.
Bespoke Wedding Tiaras
December 20th, 2010Is Pearl Jewellery the Right Wedding Jewellery for You
December 14th, 2010There are a lot of different stones for wedding jewellery such as crystals, diamantes and pearls and each material has so many options so it can be a bit overwhelming to get it right. Often there’s so much choice it’s difficult to make a decision and you end up leaving the decision so late that the options for your wedding jewellery are now very limited. Read the rest of this entry »
Wedding Hair Pins or Wedding Hair Grips
November 30th, 2010
You may have noticed at Wedding And Gems that many of my hair pins/grips designs are available both an a hair grip and a hair pin. If you’re unsure of the difference a hair grip, is a shorter grip, with 2 prongs which are close together and is primary used to hold small bits of hair in place, such as the wispy bits of hair at the base of your neck which aren’t long enough to be tied into a high pony tail, or for pining your fringe back if you’re growing it out like me. Hair pins (shown in the picture) are longer and they have 2 prongs which are separated this allows them to be used for bigger pieces of hair and they help maintain the structure of the hair style. For example if you were trying to create a bun you would use hair pins to keep the bun in place after you’d twisted the hair. If you tried to use hair grips you would stretch them out of shape and they probably won’t hold the style so well and since you’ve warped them out of shape you wouldn’t be able to reuse them. Read the rest of this entry »
Our Favourite Wedding Headbands
November 28th, 2010The collection of wedding headbands available at Wedding And Gems have been growing steadily this year, so I thought I’d talk about some of my favourite designs.
Buying Wedding Jewellery Sets
November 16th, 2010
You might be swayed to buy your wedding jewellery as a set and if you do you’ll probably pay less money than buying all the pieces of wedding jewellery separately, but is buying your wedding jewellery in a set right for you? This blog post will look at the pros and cons of buying your jewellery as a set so you can make up your own mind. Read the rest of this entry »
