According to Wedding Guru Abby Larson of the infamous Style Me Pretty blog the top wedding trends of the moment are Pops of Colour, Ombre shading and our ultimate favourite trend at the moment 3. Decorative Backdrops for adorning space at a wedding ceremony or reception. We love all the different ways that you can add a beautiful visual to your wedding with ribbons, colourful fabrics, tissue paper garlands or pom poms. Of course in some cases backdrops are more functional than anything as they may be required to to block out some disastrous interior design, or maybe a faulty window – whatever the reason may be you can’t go too wrong with any of the backdrop ideas below. If you love any of the ideas below but D.I.Y wouldn’t be your strong point get in touch and hopefully we can help! Enjoy. Ax

Ribbon Curtains

Tassle Garlands

Decorative Wallpaper or Fabric

Personalized Boards

Image Credits: 1. 100 Layer Cake 2. Ruffled Blog 3. Ruffled Blog 4. Confetti System 5. Hello My Sweet 6. Martha Stewart 7. Valo Photography 8. Style Me Pretty 9. Style Me Pretty.

For all the lucky couples getting married this weekend – have a beautiful and happy day.  Enjoy. Ax

Happy Monday! Hope you’re all haven’t been blown away by the crazy winds we had here last night?!? Speaking of ‘blown away’…. every now and then we come across an idea that, well… that we just wish we’d thought up ourselves (or in this case just executed as prettily as this one!!) It relates to a familiar question for us from our clients – “We have our hearts set on confetti but the Church won’t allow it… what do we do?” There are a couple of different options – Rice or biodegradable paper confetti being our favourites (paperchase have a great one!) But how do you make it personal and pretty? Well this couple had the answer! We found this gorgeous idea on www.100layercake.com where this DIY and the couple’s actual wedding was featured. Given that the Bride Jess has a wedding planning business (Duet Events) the day was going to be nothing less than amazing – check out all the fabulous details captured by Gia Canali here. This was one of our favourites though, and fortunately for us Jess did a run-through of the how-to!! Enjoy and have a great week, Aoife & Deirdre xx

(we’ve paraphrased the directions…. but hopefully they’re as easy to follow!)

You’ll need… Glassine Envelopes, Biodegradable Rice Hearts (or rice, or biodegradable paper – google it for sources there are lots available through online stores!), Solid Colour paper hearts, patterned paper, labels with cute sayings on them, thread and a sewing machine!

Step 1: Fill your glassine envelopes with whatever contents you want in there…

Step 2: Stick solid paper heart onto patterned paper and cut around leaving approximately a 1cm border…

Step 3 : Stick your cute message (that you printed onto nice paper stock) onto the front of the hearts…

Step 4 : Place on top of the glassine pouch and ‘stitch’ through both with your sewing machine to seal and VOILA all done and gorgeous ‘environment and Church friendly’ confetti is yours!!

We love how Jess used a mixture of colours and patterns to create her look, but you could just as easily use colours from your wedding palette to create a more ‘styled’ version… to be honest we are crazy about these ones though!! Love them!

Photo Credits – Duet Events at www.100layercake.com

The weekend is here and we hope you have lots of lovely treats in store. We came across this gorgeous idea earlier and had to share with you – it’s called ‘Dipping Confetti’ created by Tokketok a beautiful Letterpress studio in Oregon. This is such a simple idea but yet so pretty and colourful, this would be a lovely idea if you had gifts for bridesmaids for the morning of your wedding! You could use confetti in your wedding colours to decorate the gifts by simply covering some parts of the paper in double sided tape and dip in a bowl of coloured confetti to adorn the gifts!! Enjoy & Have a lovely Weekend. Aoife & Deirdre Xx