The Personal Touch

It may sound like a bit of a cliche to say that all weddings are individual, but really they are. The more personality you can inject into your wedding day the better as far as I am concerned. Personal touches that are relevent to you always make great talking points at a wedding and the things that people will remember in years to come.

Our embroidered sashes always make great headlines at a wedding and we created this theme board just to show how you can add that extra special touch to your chair covers.

Calligraphy and wording features so much in many other parts of your wedding from your table numbers,  invitations, favour boxes and cakes so why not follow that through into your venue decoration and have embroidery stitch for your sashes.

We can stitch any wording on your sashes (within a limited space!!) and some of the favourite we have been asked for in the past are:

‘Soulmates’

‘From this day forward’

‘Forever & Always’

‘On our wedding day’

And the great thing is about these individually made sashes is that you can includes as many of your wedding party as you like. What a fabulous keepsake.

Nobility Sitting Pretty Package

What’s ivory and silver and absolutely yummy?  Simple our delicious new favour boxes!!

We have introduced a package offer to our bridal couples – the Sitting Pretty package. This includes our quality chair covers, any colour of sash, embroidered sashes for the bride and grooms chair, matching table runners, stylish names favour boxes  (excellent way of combining 2 products into one – your name card and favour) and table petals.  The perfect answer for your one stop shop. Of course you can add any other of our stunning products to this list – why not go the whole hog!!!

Designed on the ‘jubbly’ box, these little treats are made from highly textured paper and are created individually for your wedding to coordinate with any colour scheme and match with your wedding chair covers, stationery, flowers, venue decor…. etc. Shown here in ivory card with silver detailing.

These delightful favour boxes contain several chocolates but could accomadate any filling of your choice.

The thing I love about these little gems is the fact they are very 3 dimensional and the guests name as very easily visable, not always the case on luggage label type favours.

White chair covers? Ivory chair covers?

I just thought I’d pass on this reminder to bridal couples. It’s important to check what colour table linen your venue carries as standard. It’s only a minor detail but it will effect whether you have white chair covers or ivory chair  covers – unless of course you go for black.  Most venues carry white as standard and 80% of our business is for white chair covers, however please remember to check.

There is no right or wrong base colour for your table decorations and more often than not its down to personal preference. Examples are shown in these two images how different a room can look depending on the linen colour.

And this example showing white chair covers

Chair Covers and so much more….

Well folks its a busy weekend ahead. Four couples have chosen our wedding chair covers to decorate their venues and add the perfect finishing touch to their big day.

With an array of different colour scheme being chosen from fashionable purple and silver to deep navy and classic antique gold.

Not only are we on the road with our chair covers this weekend out fabulous crystal globes and stylish named favour boxes will complete the ‘sitting pretty’ package for Marilyn and Roberts wedding. Having chosen silver as their main colour our silver sashes, crystal globes and favour boxes will transform their room and wow their guests. And of course no wedding would be complete without our unique embroidered sashes.

Silver and neutrals are predominant this season with a hint of colour – whether that be pink, amethyst or as shown here with a hint of honey yellow.

Grey is such  a versatile base colour which you can manipulate to be either glitzy and gamourous by adding elements of sparkle and glitz – more a dazzling silver rather than grey.  Or treat it in another way, as shown in the board above, as a neutral natural base colour, more organic and earthy. Your accent colour can be slotted into your venue decor, wedding attire or stationery when you use grey or silver as a base colour.

It’s all in the detail

I have just finished a fabulous meeting with a bridal couple planning their August wedding.  Their fresh colour palette of baby pink and pistachio is coming together very nicley throughout all aspects of their day. I am delighted by how much fun these guys are having playing around with their colour scheme. We have even discussed today that their drinks package is fitting into the colour scheme too – how much detail is that? I hope all their guests appreciate the amount of thought that is going into this!!!

The arrival drink will a refreshing mint and watermelon cocktail.

Umm a nice cool thirst quencher to get the celebrations underway.

In a blender, puree the flesh from 7lbs of watermelon, strain into a large jug and add 1/4 cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice and enough rum to suit your taste. Pour into glasses and top with sparkling water. Decorate with  fresh mint. Fresh and fruity!!!

Needless to say we are preparing something a little bit special for their chair covers. We have designed a way to work with a dual colour scheme, such as this, to show of the chair covers to maximum effect. A simple detail will make all the difference. Having soo much fun working on this project with this fabulously creative couple. Will share details after the event. Their wedding decor will be very unique and reflect the fresh breezy feel they wish to create for their wedding day.

If it’s good enough for Sir Paul Smith……

….. then it’s good enough for me.

I recently came across this image whilst looking for inspiration for mens wedding attire.  Chair covers, flowers, cakes etc, you have to admit it’s all a bit girly. So when I saw this ‘Sape’ in his wonderful bright pink suit, I just thought how wonderful it would be to see a British groom wearing something this daring and this much fun!!!

In the sprawling suburb of Bacongo, the gentlemen of the ‘Society for the Avancement of People of Elegance – the sape, or ‘Sapeurs’ – cut quite a dash amid their poverty-stricken surroundings.

These well dressed gentlemen have inspired British Designer, Sir Paul Smith who wrote about the Sapes saying,

For me, the look of the Sapeurs is just amazing. It is incredible enough today to see men dressed so elegantly in capital cities like Paris or London, let alone in the Congo. Their attention to detail, their use of colour, all set against the environment they live in, is just fantastic. As a designer, I have for years also played with opposites and the unexpected in my work, a classical jacket with an unusual lining for example. To see the Sapeurs’ amazing elegance and style in contrast to the backdrop of their unexpected living conditions is truly inspirational.

So come all you cheeky chaps out there, let the colour flow, be a bit daring and bring a smile to our faces.

My only concern here, however, is that in comparison to a groom wearing a suit like this, our gorgeous wedding chair covers will be upstaged!!! A white chair cover with a pretty pink sash would be no match for a dandy Sape!

Ash claims first Nobility postponement

Icelands volcanic eruption has claimed our first victim with one of our Saturday bookings being postponed.  It is not all bad, as the wedding still took place in Bali and the booking was for a celebratory party back here.  Nevermind, once it is rearranged our fantastically well fitting wedding covers will have the opportunity to transform the venue as always.

Individual Embroidered Sashes

Worked on embroidered sashes today for Harriet whose wedding is in the Autumn. Working with an autumnal colour palette of burnt oranges and firey reds her unique sashes will be completmented by our chair covers and table runners.

If you are working to a particular colour palette or wedding theme why not let us know what it is!!