Monday, 26th April 2010

LOVEBIRDS

Our letterpress lovebirds featured in our wedding stationery designs have been so popular they have inspired me to look for other ways of incorporating lovebirds into a wedding. Here are a few beautiful ideas I have found…

Whimsical swallow earrings, a lovebird ring bearer nest, quirky blue birdcake topper, elegant white lovebirds cake topper and a lovebird garter all from Etsy and finlally our Lovebird place/seating cards.

They really are beautiful details to add to your wedding.

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Labels: Letterpress Stationery, Wedding, Wedding Style

Saturday, 3rd April 2010

WEDDING INSPIRATION - VINTAGE FRENCH

Fill your day with a sense of  french romance and style…

Use duck egg blues and crisp ivory throughout and supply guests with vintage fans during the ceremony. Decorate with blue ribbon and loose, romantic floral arrangements and serve french cheese and wine at the end of the meal for a thoroughly elegant affair. Browse our Fleux wedding stationery suite for more inspiration.

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Labels: Wedding, Wedding Inspiration Gallery, Wedding Stationery, Wedding Style

Saturday, 3rd April 2010

RETRO BRIDESMAID DRESSES

Whether you’re going for an all out retro themed wedding or just love a bit of the style, these vibrant coloured dresses by  The Dessy Group would make a wonderful choice for your bridesmaids…

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Labels: Fashion + Beauty, Wedding

Friday, 26th March 2010

THE BRIDAL LOUNGE

I am so excited to introduce The Bridal Lounge run by professional Makeup Artist Aoife Callaghan and Floral Event Designer Deirdre Hynes. The Bridal Lounge is a lovely space for brides to enjoy an Inspiration Consultation session, Hair & Makeup trials, Bridal Showers and Bridal Styling Sessions to help complete the perfect look for their wedding day…

“Our services are designed to help you bring your wedding vision to life in an easy, uncomplicated and budget friendly way by combining ideas and inspiration from around the world with a handpicked selection of suppliers and vendors.”

We at Farrell & Chase are delighted to a selected supplier of The bridal Lounge included in their Little White Book…

“Our ‘Little White Book’ is a list of carefully selected suppliers who share our commitment to offering high quality, stylish services and products to our Brides. After your consultation session with us, we will send you your personalised inspiration boards, for you to use in your planning. You will also receive The Bridal Lounge’s ‘Little White Book’ privilege card, which entitles you to exclusive offers and discounts from these handpicked vendors.”

The Bridal Lounge is a great idea for brides that need help finding inspiration for their wedding day and want a budget friendly service. For more information visit  www.thebridallounge.ie

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Labels: Wedding

Tuesday, 9th March 2010

CLAIRE PETTIBONE 2010 GOWN COLLECTION

I came across Claire Pettibone’s website wile looking for some wedding gown inspiration…

Myself and Alan have set a date for our wedding, so I though I’d start looking for some inspiration. I am finding myself more and more drawn to vintage style dresses. Claire’s Cherry Blossom 2010 Gown Collection has such and elegant and romantic feel. Claire is based in Los Angeles and says “A wedding gown has to be the most beautiful dress in a woman’s life, make her look and feel amazing, and capture her essence,”. Her gowns have a vintage quality, but the references are combined in a way that is truly modern.  “So many brides want an intimate and individual feeling for their wedding, and the dress really sets the tone,” says Pettibone, a statement I completely agree with!

View her full collection at www.clairepettibone.com

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Labels: Fashion + Beauty, Wedding

Tuesday, 2nd March 2010

DYLAN MC BURNEY

I met Dylan at The Wedding Journal Show in Belfast at the weekend. I have been an admirer of his photography style for a while so it was great to meet him in person. What can I say his photography speaks for itself…

Dylan shoots over 40 weddings across Ireland and Europe each year. He likes to stay in the background and document the wedding day capturing spontaneous and joyful moments creating a beautifully tangible reminder of the happiest day of your life.

To look at Dylan’s portfolio visit his website here.

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Labels: Photography, Wedding

Wednesday, 17th February 2010

CUSTOM STATIONERY - ELIZABETH & BRIAN

I was delighted to design and print Elizabeth and Brian’s destination wedding stationery. Elizabeth and Brian are getting married next September in the beautiful town of Santa Maria di Castellabate in Italy. They wanted to supply their guests with information about the destination, travel and accommodation details and their wedding weekend itinerary…

On meeting with them and discussing different options we decide to create a wedding booklet together with a detailed RSVP card. They loved our Chantilly Wedding Suite which we customised using antique gold and sapphire blue ink colours to reflect the sandy beaches and deep blue sea of the south of Italy. We also included two lovebirds throughout the suite, a charming and whimsical detail.

The front cover of the booklet is the formal wedding invitation which is letterpress printed on luxurious 100% cotton paper and the inner pages are laser printed on matching laid paper. We decided to stitch bind the booklets with cotton thread to continue the use of quality materials throughout.

The RSVP card allows guests to reply to a pre wedding get together, the wedding and a beach bbq the day after the wedding. The envelopes are a beautiful antique gold colour complimenting the invitations. The RSVP envelopes are letterpress printed with the return address and the invitation envelopes are digitally printed with guests names and addresses.

Wedding booklets were a great solution for Elizabeth and Brian’s destination wedding. Their guests can easily access all the information they need and also bring the booklets with them for reference when they are enjoying their trip to Italy.

“We are getting married in Italy in September and wanted wedding invites to depict our wedding abroad. We used Farrell & Chase for our wedding invites and RSVP cards. Pamela was great to work with and no request was too big for her. The quality and style of the invites were excellent and our guests loved them. Thank you Pamela.” Elizabeth & Brian

We can customise any of our designs for destination weddings, creating wedding invitation booklets or separate wedding information booklets.

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Labels: Letterpress Stationery, Wedding, Wedding Stationery

Wednesday, 17th February 2010

HAND LETTERED CALLIGRAPHY

We have teamed up with a very talented calligrapher and are delighted to announce that we are now offering a hand lettering service which elegantly sets off our letterpress wedding stationery…

We will work with you on choosing the particular style of calligraphy and colour that will best suit your invitations, postal envelopes and place cards. Quantities and requirements vary with every customer therefore we price each job on request.

Please email all enquiries to Pamela at pamela@farrellandchase.com.

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Labels: Wedding, Wedding Stationery

Tuesday, 16th February 2010

WE WON!!!

I attended the WeddingsOnline.ie Awards, Ireland’s Top 100 Wedding Suppliers, last night and I am thrilled to tell you that Farrell & Chase won the award for Best Wedding Supplier Website!

This award really means allot to me as I designed the website myself, it has been a long process and of course the website is always evolving. I have to say a big thank you to Loughlin and Ian from Choice Cuts for all their advice and help on usability and technical matters.

We arrived at the Crowne Plaza Santry yesterday evening and enjoyed canapes and Champagne at the bar with a string quartet playing in the background. It was great to meet so many of the WOL suppliers and put faces to names. We were then called into the really beautiful banqueting room for dinner. We enjoyed a three course meal followed by a very inspiring speech from Bill Cullen and then, the awards began.

We were seated at a table with Jill FitzGerald, from Cake Toppers Ireland, and the  Trim Castle Hotel. Congratulations to Trim Castle Hotel who were shortlisted for Wedding Venue of the Year - Hotel (Leinster). And a big congratulations to Cake Toppers Ireland who won Best Wedding Industry Newcomer. An amazing award to win.

I was congratulating Jill for her award when I was announced as the winner (Best Wedding Supplier Website), I really couldn’t believe it. My heart was pounding and I just kept thinking, please don’t trip (high shoes) while I was walking up to accept the award. Needless to say we finished up the night with a few celebratory drinks!

Thank you to everyone at Weddings Online for a great night and of course a big thank you to all our past and present Bride and Grooms.

I will get some pics up as soon as I get them.

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Labels: Shows + Events, Wedding, Wedding Stationery

Friday, 12th February 2010

RANGOLI BRIDAL COMPETITION WINNER!

And the lucky winner is…

Yvonne Nolan from Dublin. Congratulations Yvonne for winning our Rangoli Bridal competition! A big thank you to everyone who entered. I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine’s weekend.

For anyone who missed the closing date - have a look at Aisling’s beautiful hair accessories.

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Labels: Fashion + Beauty, Giveaways, Wedding