Real Life Brides - Vintage Theme Accessories

I always love it when a bride remembers to email me over photo's from their big day. I am so lucky as all my brides make the accessories I create for them even more gorgeous! So here is my latest installment of photos from two stunning brides who had a vintage theme to their weddings.

Shelley-

Traditional wedding with a vintage inspired theme.

"My jewellery and circlet arrived this morning, its amazing I am more than pleased with the order. It's way more than I could have wished for, its perfect exactly what I had imagined.I just want to say thank you so much, I felt like a real princess when I tried it all on, I know I'm gonna feel amazing on the day. I will definately be recomending you to all my friends, you have a real talent.......... It amazed my guests, and my husband, he said I looked like a princess. Have attached a couple of photo's so you can see what an wonderful job you did for me, how the jewellery not only complimented my dress but complimented me, which is amazing because you never actually saw what I looked like.Once again thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Shelley xxx"

Shelley wears a bespoke circlet in hair - now available here Shelley Headband
along with Vintage Mod necklace and bespoke earrings.

Casey -

Destination wedding - very tropical with a hint of vintage. Just shows you how vintage inspired can be tied into a theme.

"Hi Louise,We had our perfect wedding-Thank You. Everyone LOVED my hairpiece. I've attached some photos that show it off nicely.Thanks again,Casey Hill "
Casey wears a bespoke design - now available here Casey Vintage Inspired Headband

More of our Real Life Brides coming soon!

Cheryl Cole Vintage Style Headband Comb - X Factor!

Headbands with the X Factor!
Just launched the LHG Designs - Celebrity Style Hair Accessories. Mum of one Louise Graham, 32, is ensuring the ladies in the UK have Cheryl Cole's X Factor style this party season.

Louise who set up http://www.weddingandbaby.co.uk/ almost a year ago, had been focusing on the wedding market. However, Louise has designed her own range of hair accessories that can come straight from the aisle to the dance floor!

Louise Graham, of Wedding and Baby and the designer of the LHG collection says: “Vintage style has been very popular over the last year in the wedding buisness, but thanks to Cheryl Cole wearing a vintage style headband on Saturdays X factor it shows how transferrable the style is. I have been inundated with people asking for celebrity style designs, it has blown me away. You can be sure this party season is going to be vintage headbands galore”

Not only does Louise's designs have the X Factor they also have an ethical value too. Louise having set up the business during a recession realised people are looking for value for money. With this in mind her "Casey" headband, similar to the style worn by Cheryl Cole in the X Factor has an extra twist. This headband is multipurpose, as it can be converted into 3 brooches and worn again and again. So after the party why not give the brooches as Xmas gifts! It really is that simple, anyone can convert the design at home.

Headband owner, Casey Hill , says: “I contacted Louise asking her to design me a celebrity style vintage headband. She worked on various designs for me and was very patient. The finished design just blew me away, and I am honoured that she has now made it into a collection with a design named after me. I feel like a superstar wearing the Casey headband. It's a real head turner and I love it!"

The range is being launched on the website this week and includes headbands, combs and cuff bracelets. There is also the option to hire the collection as well as buy.

Find out more:
Contact
Louise Graham on 07748628797 email http://uk.mc230.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=weddingandbaby@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.weddingandbaby.co.uk/


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Media notes:
For media enquiries about the LHG Collection, please contact:
Louise Graham, Designer, 07748628797
Images and products are available for features.

Perfect for the christmas party season.

About the Casey Headband
LHG Designs - Casey Tiara / Headband which converts to brooches (silver)
Description: Limited edition vintage style wedding tiara/ headband . Co-ordinating antique silver tone comb designs are also available.
About the Collection: LHG Designs is a limited edition collection of celebrity style wedding accessories that can be converted into wearable keepsakes after the special event.


Casey Headband

Casey Comb


Vintage Floral Leaf Headband

SECC

Well it has been a while since I managed to get a chance to do a blog entry - to say I have been mobbed is an understatement.


In the preparation for the run up to the SECC the planning was endless - but I had a lot of fun and got to meet some lovely people, both brides and other business owners.





As always wedding and baby was set up by myself in order to give the personal touch. I truely believe that every customer should have as long as they need to decide on exactly what they are looking for and I am here to assist them with that. Listening is a huge part of what I do, and I was actually thanked by a bride at the wedding fair for this. She was overwhelmed by it all, but I knew exactly what it was she was after and she thanked me for listening to her and understanding her.





At wedding fairs like this I don't get the opportunity to speak to my customers at any length, but for those who I did manage to get a longer chat with I had a mother in tears at how beautiful the idea was! As well as quite a few brides looking round the whole show and then coming back to me to say how my designs were the best they had seen. For that positive feedback I am eternally grateful, it lets me know that my hours of work are worthwhile.





If you have been or are planning an appointments with me, I would hope that you feel that you have all the time in the world and there certainly is no pushy sales. It's just not my style.











Another huge thank you goes to Mareike Murray for photographing my new designs - her images are just wonderful and capture the vintage theme excellently. In due process I will be adding these to the site - athough already 2 of the one- off deisgns have been sold from the collection!


If your looking for a photographer for any reason give her a shout http://www.mareikemurray.com/


Vintage Inspired Juliet Cap / Birdcage Veil
Victoriana
Stunning vintage style lace Juiliet Cap. Made using round, and marquise set rhinestones. Available with a birdcage veil attached.


Our designs would not have been complete without some beautiful dresses - these are from http://www.dragonflydressdesign.co.uk Lisa Cochrane is a fantastic, young and fresh designer who can create the dress of your dreams. The dress design shown above is Munroe from her 09/10 collection. The Munroe dress design is also in issue 18 (out now) of the The Best Scottish Weddings magazine http://www.thebestscottishweddings.co.uk

More image to be added so check out our home page and sign up to our mailing list.



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Real Life Bride (Grecian - Vintage theme)

We were delighted to be able to create some items for Jen's wedding at the end of July. They had a beautiful setting, getting married on the beach at Luss.

We created their Stationery, the Brides Headband, Bridemaids Vintage hair comb and the Mother of the Brides Hair comb and necklace.

These are just a few of their stunning photo's.

Here at wedding and baby we are often asked about how to hide the actual headband. Jen who is a hairdresser, shows us how her hair covered the headband!

Children's Parties

We have been busy in the month of June so only managing to do an update now.
Today we were celebrating Rowen's 10th birthday with a jewellery party. These girls were so well behaved and polite - well done girls. They also made some stunning bracelets. We had a good time and hope that they enjoyed it too.


We have also attended Katy's 6th birthday where she had a group of friends from for a jewllery party. Again these girls ( some of which were only 4 years old!), made some lovely creations. Well done girls.

More updates to follow.

June Newsletter

What a glorious weekend - hope that you all managed to enjoy some of the sun.

At wedding and Baby we managed to down tools for a short time and enjoy the weather.

June is an ultra busy month for us, as we are in full swing of the wedding season and birthday parties.

So busy in fact that this newsletter will be quite short!

Events - not to be missed

Sat 13th June 10am - 4pm Accord Summer Fair - we will be doing crafts for children. As well as having a few of our handmade jewellery and hair accessories on display.

Fascinators

Just a reminder that it is not too late to hire, buy or get a bespoke fascinator made for a wedding or race course. One of our recent bespoke designs is shown below

Wedding WebChat
We offer a personalised service throughout the year, but if you would like to chat with us then keep Fri 3rd July 4.30pm - 5.30pm free. More info coming soon.

Enter your e-mail address to register for our webchat and to get our top tips emailed to you.

www.weddingandbaby.co.uk

Tom Farmer Photography

If you are still looking to book a photographer for your wedding - give Tom Farmer a call. We met Tom at a recent wedding fair, where he offered to take photographs of some of our fascinators. We were delighted that we could get the chance to display some of Helen's work on real models. Tom's work is fantastic and we are over the moon with the images. But most of all he is a really nice guy to speak to. If you have a look on out home page you will see some of his work. www.tomfarmerphotography.co.uk

Thanks also goes to Peaches Weddings for the stunning dresses and model. If you love their designs call them on
Tel: 01360 551302 Westerton Workshop, Killearn, Glasgow, Lanarkshire G63 9LE

Speak soon

Louise x

Barshaw Park

Just back from Barshaw Park where Charming Angels Children's Jewellery & Craft making parties had a stall at the Make a Wish Foundation's Pram-a- thon. We had a great day, although it was sunny it was EXTREMELY windy.

PC Plum from Balamory and Raymond from Me Too were there and came over to our stall a few time - here are the photo's to prove our claim to fame!

Thanks to everyone who visted our stall and made an item. We hope that our donation to the charity was a little help to them.

x

May Newsletter

Wedding and Baby Newsletter May

Thankfully the weather is getting that little bit better. We hope that it stays that way for the numerous events we are attending this month.
WEDDING FAIR – Sun 3rd May 12pm -3pm Eagle Lodge Bishopbriggs-FREE
WEDDING FAIR – Sun 24th May 1pm – 5pm Glynhill Hotel Paisley - FREE

For those of you who are local to these hotels we would love to see you there. We will be displaying a small range of our Tiaras, Jewellery and our collection of Fascinators. Some of our Stationery may be on display at the Glynhill Hotel.
We are also offering a 10% discount on all items purchased or appointments made on the day.

Can’t make our wedding fairs no problem. For the MONTH OF MAY we are offer 10% off all Tiara’s, Jewellery and Fascinators purchased online! Just quote “NEWSLETTER” in an email to us and we will do the rest. weddingandbaby@yahoo.co.uk

CHARMING ANGELS – Has got a new website!
We felt it was time that charming angels has a site of it’s own so here it is – www.charmingangelsparties.co.uk
NEW PACKAGES
Our Credit Crunch package lasts 45 minutes and children get to make a bracelet, or a small craft item. For more details visit our new site www.charmingangelsparties.co.uk

EVENTS
BARSHAW PARK PAISLEY – SUN 17TH MAY 12pm
You can see us at Barshaw park on Sun the 17th May from 12pm where we will be doing short craft and jewellery making workshops for the kids. This is in aid of the Paisley Pramathon that will be taking place that day to raise money for Make a Wish Foundation.
We will be charging £3 to make a craft/jewellery item and a percentage of our taking will be donated to this worthwhile cause.
We are also offering a £10 discount on any parties booked on the day.
You may be aware we were running a survey recently about children’s parties. We have read your feedback and have responded. We have now launched a mini version of our parties that is penny friendly.


BABY WON’T SLEEP – SUPERMAMMY
Here at Wedding and Baby we always like to report on local businesses that we have used personally. This month we want to recommend Donna at Supermammy – if your child doesn’t sleep, she is god send. Those local to the SECC in Glasgow may have seen her at the Baby Show, and if you are swithering about booking her don’t – just do it.
We took part in a trial she was running about sleep training. Our son at 3.5 years still didn’t sleep through the night, in fact he was in our bed most nights. I had bought the sleep training books, done the controlled crying, sleep fairy, reward chart you name it nothing worked.
Donna made up a personalised plan for our son and in the first week he was staying in his own bed. By week 3 he was sleeping all night. He now even gets up and goes to the toilet during the night by himself and sometimes we don’t even know. We are so proud of our son in his progress and can’t thank Donna enough. She didn’t teach our son to sleep, she taught US to teach him. I really can’t express my thanks to her enough. Prices start at £50, but I would highly recommend the £175 package.
Check out her website for more details http://supermammyscotland.com/

Wedding Fair

Thanks to everyone who bought and made appointments at the Erskine Bridge Hotel Wedding Fair yesterday. Thanks also to everyone who commented on our work.

April Newsletter

Spring is officially here and the lighter nights are so much better. I certainly do feel happier when the sun is out, I am sure you do to.

WEDDING FAIR – Sun 5th April 12pm -4pm Erskine Bridge Hotel -FREE

For those of you who are local to this hotel we would love to see you there. We will be displaying a small range of our Tiaras, Jewellery and our Brand New collection of Fascinators.
We are also offering a 10% discount on all items purchased or appointments made on the day. So you can really save. What’s more we don’t believe in over inflating prices therefore all our prices are reasonable to start with. Proving this to a be a real saving opportunity for brides who can make this event.
I have just finished a new tiara last night – it has approximately 400 Swarovski crystals in it and took over 2 hours to make. This is priced at £65, the rrp on this would be £100! We are offering a 10% discount at the fair so this reduces to £58.50. We have also launched a hire service so this same tiara can be hired for £20 for 1 week – true crunch busting with full style.

FASCINATORS – NEW COLLECTION

Here at Wedding and Baby we work with a team of creative people who make up our complete collection. A friend of mine Helen has come on board and is now a huge part of the Wedding and Baby team. Helen has been in the dress making industry for many years, and on her recent retirement I snapped her up to come and join the team. I think she is now busier than ever before – oops!
We have been working closely over the last few months designing and creating this fantastic range of Fascinators which will be launched at the Wedding Fair in Erskine. These are ONE –OFF designs so you won’t see anyone else wearing them and again these are very reasonably priced. These designs are also available to hire from as little as £5 per week.
Appointments can be made also for a bespoke fascinator to be made to suit your style & budget. So if it’s a wedding or a day at the races we can create a design just for you.

CHARMING ANGELS – ADULT PARTIES
After much success with the children’s jewellery making and craft parties – last month we did our 1st adults jewellery making party. It’s incredible how the adults become like little kids, when they see the beads and start making their creations. Not only is this now becoming a great hobby, I am sure these ladies will be beating the credit crunch by making endless necklaces and bracelets as gifts.
Prices start from £10 per head for 2 hours of jewellery making.

SAVE £10 on a party if you complete our online survey Click Here to take survey



FEELING STRESSED OUT – REIKI & EFT (Children & Adults)

Gillian Walker of www.divinebalance.co.uk has been working with children in the primary schools to use the techniques of Emotional Freedom Therapy. EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a great tool for children to use on themselves whenever they have an emotional (or often even a physical) issue. It’s good fun to learn and gives children something to work with, whenever they have any sort of emotional issue throughout their childhood, on a day by day or issue by issue basis. It’s a proven way of letting go of your baggage…children don’t need to carry it into adulthood. Even though the technique seems odd, it works and that’s the proof.
I have actually had a chance to have some EFT with Gillian and I couldn’t believe how it works. One session and that was all it needed. I know have a tool that I can use if ever I feel myself in a situation of anxiety again.
Gillian also does Reiki treatments from her home, but for those wishing to learn how to give this treatment she offers courses too.
The next Level 1 Reiki Course is in April. It teaches the basic first level of this wonderful Ancient Japanese Healing System. A one day course, with ongoing support and occasional practise groups to keep the learning and practise continuing…………………………………….. Price £90
Check out her website for more details.

Adults Jewellery making Party

Today we were at a jewellery making party for Adults! It was a mother and daughter day, with 7 ladies making a necklace and bracelet. It was a beginners level, but they all made lovely jewellery and learned some of the basic techniques.

It’s incredible how the adults become like little kids, when they see the beads and start making their creations. Not only is this now becoming a great hobby, I am sure these ladies will be beating the credit crunch by making endless necklaces and bracelets as gifts.

Our Bride

Alison and Paul got married on the 29th Dec 08 and we had the pleasure of making all their wedding stationery, the wand and teddy bear for the flowergirls and Alison's necklace.

To see the photo's check out their photographers website http://www.archibaldphotography.co.uk/blog/?tag=glasgow-wedding-photographer

Alison wore the Gazelle necklace from our range. Abigail had the star wand and Megan had the teddy bear. Alison and Paul had a bespoke design for their wedding stationery.

We wish them all the best and a long and happy future together.

x

Busy Busy Busy

We have been busy as always here at wedding and baby. Helen and I are working hard getting everything organised for a wedding fair that we are doing at Erskine Bridge Hotel on Sun 5th April from 12pm-4pm. So if your local we would love to see you. We will have a display of tiaras, jewellery and fascinators on show, of which many of them are one-off's.


We are also doing a 10% discount on all orders or appointments booked on the day.



Credit Crunch - How do brides beat the Credit Crunch and still have the style they want ....WE ARE NOW OFFERING A HIRE SERVICE on selected jewellery, tiaras and fascinators.

We even have a swarovski side tiara available to hire at £5 for 1 week! You can't get better than that.





We made the pages of Pregnancy & Birth .. page 60 to be exact. For those wishing to view your press coverage please click on the link to see the article. PLEASE NOTE THE STORY IS OF GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION. Not the most flattering photo as they were pumping me full of fluids! After reading our story I hope you will understand why we want to raise funds for the Birth Trauma Association.

Charming Angels News



We have busy this month so have still to add photos of Layla's party. What a fantastic and fun filled party we had. We were blown away with how creative these 5 & 6 year olds were. A special mention has to be made to the boys. They worked away with pure focus and created fantastic dinosaurs, cars and door hangings. Well done boys you should be very proud.

We hope that Layla had a great party (we certainly did) and that her party was the hot topic at school on Monday.

MARCH NEWSLETTER

Can't believe that it is March already! Spring is definitely in the air - thank goodness.

We have had a busy month here at Wedding and Baby.

New Products

Are you attending a Wedding or a Bride to Be looking for that special headdress - we have a fantastic range of ONE OFF designs added here

http://www.weddingandbaby.co.uk/oneofftiara.htm

Charming Angels Children's Jewellery & Craft Making Parties

Charming Angels has been going from strength to strength and we are very proud to have been recommended by Netmums.com.

We are even doing our first ADULTS jewellery making party at the end of March.

If your interested in seeing us or trying out a taster of jewellery making then you can see us at the Accord Hospice Summer Fair in June.

Mother's Day Gifts - sun 22nd March 09

We have compiled a range of gift ideas to help you buy that special gift for Mothers Day. http://www.weddingandbaby.co.uk/index.htm

As we have teamed up with the Birth Trauma Association to create jewellery that raises funds for this fantastic Charity - we are sure these pieces are going to be a big hit for Mother's Day Gifts.

http://www.weddingandbaby.co.uk/newmumjewellery.htm

IN THE PRESS

My family and I will be in Pregnancy and Birth Magazine April Issue (out mid March)! They are doing a feature on Post Birth Complications, so you can read our story and all about our Birth Trauma Range of Handmade Jewellery.

Thanks for reading. Hope to speak to you soon.
Louise
x

Amy's Jewellery Party

Today was a busy day as we attended Amy's birthday party. She had a charming angels jewellery making party to celebrate her 8th birthday. Amy and her 12 friends were very well behaved and so polite, they were a credit to themselves and their parents. Not only that they all made beautiful necklaces and bracelets.

Well done girls you were a pleasure to work with and we hope that you all enjoyed yourselves as much as we did.

Tiara's and Valentines

Well we have busy here at Wedding and Baby with the launch of Charming Angels ( Childrens Jewellery making and Craft parties).


We have also got a whole new range of fantastic Tiara's with some fantastic One - Off Vintage tiaras coming soon. We aim to have a range of these tiaras to suit all budgets.

Valentines day is just around the corner, so for those of you looking for inspiration check out our home page for some ideas. We have stunning jewellery and personalised clothes that are sure to put a smile on your loved ones face. Or why not send your partner a link to the items you would like.....!
http://www.weddingandbaby.co.uk/