Wedding Details with Personal Touch

While re-arranging our new home, I came across with our wedding album and decide to share some of our wedding details that have my personal touch.

Being a bride was the most exciting unforgettable role of my life. After seven years on boyfriend-girlfriend relationship we finally decided to tie our knot on May 3, 2008. Just like in a fairytale, walking the aisle like a princess with the price charming waiting at the altar and envisioning a happy ever after ending was a typical woman’s dream.

A typical girl like me dreamt something like this, with a little personal touch on some or almost every wedding detail was a perfect fairytale-like wedding for me.

I want to share to you some of the wedding accessories that I made and decorated myself with the help from my very supporting friends.

1. SECONDARY CORD – in a Filipino Wedding, cord symbolizes unity and infinity binding a couple for their love to last forever. The cord we had was a multi-beaded cord with white, yellow and brown accent to match our motif. I beaded this myself using jewelry copper wire and acrylic beads. Yellow and brown shades ribbons were placed to put additional embellishment.

The personalized wine flute was a gift from Jefer Neal our groomsman.

2. WEDDING INVITATION - I wasn’t satisfied with the ribbon used on the invitations, the printing press put instead a golden yellow 1” inch ribbon that doesn’t match our motif (light yellow). So I went to Divisoria and looked for a ribbon then I found a light yellow 1/2” ribbon with gold lining perfect for the chocolate brown invitation.

With the help of my friends in head office Genelyn, Joane and Ronald, we we’re able to replace all 150pcs invitation with a new perfect match ribbon to give the invitation a formal and elegant look.

3. THE HOLY BIBLE AND MISALLETTE – To match our motif, the same ribbon was used on the Holy Bible but this time a strip of chocolate brown satin ribbon was placed on top and a little accent of yellow flowers.

4. MATCH – To be able to light the wedding candle a match is needed. To make it more presentable without showing the face of Rizal I covered the match case with chocolate brown specialty paper and placed also a yellow ribbon strip and a choco brown satin ribbon.

5. PILLOWS – Not satisfied with the pillows that go along with the bridal gown package, Nice my maid of honor searched the web and found this beautifully beaded pillow, simple yet elegant we decided to make the same pillow. I asked the wedding entourage designer to sew 3 choco brown pillows (just the plain one) afterwards I did the decorations, the white Japanese beads and the ribbons and so on.

6. JEWELRIES & HEADRESS – Why buy an expensive jewelries when there’s a much cheaper yet elegant that I can produce myself? Besides that I can handcraft one, I really can’t afford to buy an expensive jewelry just for the occasion so I settled for a personally handcrafted sterling silver jewelries with swarovski crystals.

The Bracelet - A 4 strand silver chain with a combination of 4mm bicone, cube and round swarovski crystal beads in between chain.

The Earrings – A silver earring stud dangled with a pear-shaped swarovski crystals.

The Necklace – A double strand silver chain with round and pear-shaped swarovski crystals to match with the earrings.

Finally the HEADDRESS – This was my work of art hmmm.. an all sterling silver wire bended, twisted to create a vine like headdress. The beads used are a mixture of round, oblong, barrel and rondelles shaped swarovski crystals. I tried using a copper jewelry wire but it doesn’t give out the same shine like a silver wire does.

Wedding Giveaways for guests were sponsored by Jefer Neal and Charry. For principal sponsor's giveaways (scented candle with holder), I made some changes on the ribbons and attached a thank you cards on the principal sponsors giveaways.

Other important wedding accessories are the Wedding Rings and Wedding Arrhae.

That it’s! Enjoy!