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2011 Bridal Lookbook

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Photo credit:

Photographer: Takura Yanagi
Model: Elissa Villa
Make up and hair: Mai Shimura

Instead of regular Wednesday’s inspiration post, I’d like to show you the new photos of the bridal shoot I did a couple of weeks ago. I’m really happy with how the photos turned out – the Photographer, Takura, whom I’ve worked with for the Flickers lookbook, did an amazing job. We did a careful planning for the shoot and I think it paid off 🙂

I added a new “Wedding” section to my etsy shop, where I added listings for custom wedding items. All of the items including wedding dresses, gataway dress and accessories are customizable. I’ll be adding these photos and more from the shoot to the “collection” section of my website soon.

I hope you enjoy the photos – I’d love some feedback 🙂

Sarah’s Handmade Wedding

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Pictures from Sarah, see more photos and her testimonial here!

A while back, I had a pleasure of working with Sarah from Tulle and Trinkets . I was asked to make the bridesmaid dresses for her wedding. She had her wedding a couple of months ago. I love her wedding photos so much and the handmade feel of the wedding. She mentioned that she purchased some handmade items from etsy besides the bridesmaid dresses, or handmade them her self, so I was curious to know more about it. She kindly wrote to me with the sources of items she bought for her wedding to share on my blog.

Here is Sarah 🙂

I was really pleased with everything I purchased from Etsy. All of the sellers were really quick, responsive, and willing to personalize and tailor things to fit our wedding. All the Etsy items gave our wedding a very handmade feel, which is exactly what I wanted. And they also made our wedding unique.

 This was taken at our ceremony. The tissue paper pom poms I purchased from Fiesta Pom Pom

 My mom and I made these pennant banners that lined the chairs at our ceremony.
My cousin designed our programs. They were fan programs (even though it was kind of chilly on the wedding day!) I tied in the ribbon and pennant banner themes with them.
 I tied blue and yellow ribbon on the back of our parents’ and grandparents’ chairs to designate their reserved seats. They were really whimsical and pretty!
Another shot of the pom poms.
This milk glass chalk board was from Shabby McFabby. It sat on our card table (I used an antique hat box for cards).
The yellow rosettes on the bridesmaid dresses were from Hooey Designs. I thought their shade of yellow complemented the color of the bridesmaid dresses beautifully!
I wanted something different for our guest book. Our guest book from Paper Twig was a hand drawn tree that guests put their finger prints on. We plan to get it matted and framed!
 This small pennant banner was on the front of our cake table. Heckle is my new last name 🙂 I got it from Crazy Husky Crafts.It now hangs in our apartment!

This large “Just Married” pennant banner hung across the head table. It’s also from Crazy Husky Crafts.
My bracelet (which is SO pretty!) is from All Things Tinsel. My garters were from Garter Lady.
 Another shot of my bracelet.
Another shot of my garter.

Shop Update & New Fabrics

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Black & Gray Abstract Dot Dress

Small shop update today! This dress is perfect for going to work. I love the abstract dot print fabric, that looks like a water color painting. I have a lot more of this fabric left, so if anyone is interested in custom order, please email me.

This Wednesday, Zhing from Little Project in Style and I went to Nippori to see the Nippori collection fashion show. It was fun! I have a lot of pictures from the show, so I will write more in detail next week:) After the show, we stopped by  fabric row. I found some cute prints there. I love living in Japan, having  access to all these fabric styles.    Have a great weekend!