Tagged with " Jessica"
30 May
2010
Posted in: A Jubilee Event, Weddings
By Candice    No Comments

Today is Jessica & Frank’s Wedding Day!

I hope you are all enjoying your memorial weekend! The team and I have been busy getting ready for Jessica and Frank’s wedding! I’ve been working with them for almost a year now for their wedding on what has turned out to be a gorgeous day in Simsbury, Connecticut. These two are such a beautiful, fun and loving couple and we are SO excited for their wedding weekend to begin! Mazel Tov to you both!!!

We’re also looking forward to working with Johnny Arguedas, Datura: A Modern Garden, and Rob Alberti!

Xoxoxo

22 Feb
2010
Posted in: Photography
By Candice    No Comments

Engaged: Jessica + Frank

Our friendly and fun clients Jessica and Frank had their engagement pictures with their photographer, Johnny Arguedas a few months ago and I wanted to share! They are having a big May wedding in Simsbury, Connecticut and we couldn’t be more thrilled or honored to be apart of it!!

29 May
2009
Posted in: Weddings
By Candice    No Comments

Today is Jessica & Eric’s Wedding!


photograph by Carla Ten Eyck

I am so excited for Jessica and Eric’s wedding today! They are such a fun couple. Jessica has been sharing her extremely popular DIY projects with our readers and it will be great to see all her hard work come to fruition. We’ll be sure to have her share her wedding as her final post! For now, here are some of her most popular projects:

Tissue Paper Pomanders
Rememberance Candles
Table Numbers
Church Door Monogrammed Decorations
Monogrammed Favor Boxes
Card Box
Church Bubbles
Wrap around Save the Date Labels
Calligraphy

14 Dec
2008
Posted in: DIY & Templates
By Candice    21 Comments

DIY Tissue Paper Pomanders

I have always been quite the crafty person and some have found this skill to be pretty useless. Well needless to say that I am the one laughing now. The smallest craft that you may undertake can make the world of difference in an event and especially in a wedding! Once me and my fiance decided on our color scheme I undertook my first project. . . the tissue paper pomanders. I learned how to make tissue paper flowers back in elementary school for our parade floats. When I saw a real pomander I thought they were beautiful but the price was way out of my range. So I combined these two things together and it is a huge cost saver! Here are the instructions:

What you will need:
Tissue Paper
Floral Wire
Styrofoam Ball
Ribbon
**All of these items can be found at pretty much any craft store**

First thing you will need to do is cut down your pieces of tissue paper. This is totally up to you but do bear in mind the bigger the piece of paper that your using the bigger your flower will be. (One quick hint would be to fold the paper until you get the size your looking for and then just cut along your folded lines)

Your paper will end up looking similar to this.

Next step will be to do an accordion fold.  You will fold one way then flip and fold the other. When you are finished it should look like this. . .


While the tissue paper is still folded you will need to fold it in half. The general purpose in this is to find the center of your flower.

To give the flower a more realistic look you can draw a curved line on the top. As you do more of these you will not have to use this line.  Now all you have to do is cut along your guide.

 

 Now you will need to take the wire and wrap it around your tissue paper. After you have done that twist the wire together. Now make sure you wrap the wire tight around the tissue paper otherwise your flower will not be very sturdy.  Then you will need to spread open the two sides to prepare for the opening of the flower.

 
Now you are able to begin separating the layers. To make sure you flower is rounded I suggest altering sides as you work. It should begin to look like this. . .

Now you are done with the hard part.  You will need to make 45-50 flowers per pomander.  Once you have completed all of your flowers you will be able to start putting them into your Styrofoam ball.  First step here will be to insert your ribbon into the ball. I used a piece of wire to make sure that it was secure.

Take your flowers and insert the wire into the ball. . . continue until your ball is filled.


And there you have it tissue paper pomanders!