Posts from — November 2009
Wedding Invitation Trends 2010 Vintage Lace Wedding Invitations
The new trend for wedding invitations is lace lace lace!!!!!
We have launched by huge demand a traditional lace wedding invitation
The lace we are currently using for our vintage wedding invitation range is Cluny lace
The flower / floral design in each scallop on both edges is a slighter darker ecru / natural colour than the main ecru of the lace – this is deliberately this colour so this little floral / flower design stands out a little which makes the lace unique to Cluny.
This lace is 3 1/2″ inches wide with two scalloped ‘eyelash’ edges and with a very pretty floral / flower Cluny pattern design. It is made with quality fine gauge cotton.
This lace and all our laces are very ‘vintage‘ in style .They are made on these old machines and it is the closest you will ever get to handmade cotton lace – made in such a way as to simulate the old fashioned handmade lace. You can see if you look closely in the picture the lace is not completely ’flat’ as the pattern, in this case, the flowers, it is outlined on the surface of the lace.
This is the same in all Cluny laces. So, there are two sides to all Cluny laces with the ‘outlined’ side always being sewn uppermost on the object or garment. We are very proud of the laces as they are made today and I don’t think you will find any better cotton laces in the world.
(Please note this is NOT flimsy nylon lace but good quality fine gauge Cotton Leavers Lace)
All the laces are still made in England today – by the family of lace manufacturers – Cluny Lace
Their company- the last manufacturers of cotton leavers laces in the UK, is owned and managed by the eighth and ninth generations of family – they were already framework knitters and flax dressers by the 1730s and started making lace when this fabric was first produced by machines in the 1760s, at the start of the Industrial Revolution. Throughout the last one hundred and fifty years Cluny Lace has continued to build up a data bank of hundreds of lace patterns. By combining the best of old traditions with new technology we are still able to produce in a wide range of exquisite designs of Leavers Cluny style lace allovers, edgings and insertions and Leavers Fine Cotton Valenciennes style lace allovers, edgings, galloons and insertions. Many of the lace patterns still used today were designed and draughted by the sixth and seventh generations of the family. No other manufacturer in the world produces the same range of patterns and these patterns are unique to Cluny.
A Leavers machine is in fact two machines; a wide machine working on the principle invented by Mr. John Leavers in Nottingham, England in 1813, twists together the threads to form a fast net, and a jacquard machine, adapted for use on the Leavers machines between 1836 and 1841, puts in the patterns. 
The machine weighs 17 tons and twists 10,000 threads simultaneously to make this beautiful lace.
The Leavers machine is said to be the most complicated textile machine in the world.
When the laces are made on these huge old machines the resulting lace comes off the machine in a colour we call ‘greige‘. This is the raw undyed cotton which is also fairly dirty from the black lead which is used in making the machines run smoothly. In order to dye the lace to whites (which incidentally there are 120 different shades of!) / ecru or any other colour the lace has to go through a rigorous process of scouring, dyeing and finishing in extreme temperatures and is stretched on large looms to pull the cotton laces back into shape and to set the width. All the laces have a 3 to 5 % composite which is not cotton - usually nylon and occasionally polyester to help the cotton hold in the dyeing process and cope with modern washing machines which would ruin the lace without it! In the ‘trade’ strictly speaking a garment or fabric can be called cotton as long as it has at least 95% cotton composition – which all Cluny laces have.
November 23, 2009 No Comments
New Wedding Invitations Wording and Suggestions 2010
Here we have compiled some sample wedding invitations wording for you to use. If you wish to copy this wording for your site then we please request that you put a link back to our site. Otherwise we are happy for you use this wording for your own personal invitations
Sample Wording Below
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Traditional Wedding Invitation wording comes from the Brides Parents Mr & Mrs Wakefield Request the honour of your presence Laura-Jayne Elizabeth Son of On 5th January 2011 St George’s Church, Barton-in-Fabis, |
In some cultures it is customary to include both sets of parents
Mr & Mrs Wakefield Request the pleasure of your company Laura-Jayne Elizabeth On 5th January 2011 |
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We are hosting our own wedding - how do we word our wedding invitations? Ms Laura-Jayne Elizabeth Wakefield Request the pleasure of your company On 5th January 2011 St George’s Church, Barton-in-Fabis, |
We want both sets of parents to be hosting so how do we word our wedding invitations? Mr & Mrs Wakefield and their daughter Together with Mr & Mrs Austin and their son Request the honour of your presence Laura-Jayne Elizabeth |
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My parent is a single parent so how do we word our wedding invitations? Mr Wakefield At the marriage of his daughter Laura-Jayne Elizabeth On 5th January 2011 St George’s Church, Barton-in-Fabis, |
My parents are divorced and have remarried and I wanted to include my stepparent-how do we word our wedding invitations? Jane & Tom Brown At the marriage of Jane Brown’s daughter Laura-Jayne Elizabeth Wakefield Son of Mr & Mrs Austin On 5th January 2011 |
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My parents are divorced how do we word our wedding invitations? Mr Wakefield At the marriage of their daughter Laura-Jayne Elizabeth Wakefield On 5th January 2011 |
We want someone else to host our wedding how do we word our wedding invitations? If the host of the wedding is neither the bride nor the groom’s parents, but another relation, you should word the invitation submitting the word daughter/son and adding the hosts’ relationship. Grandparents = granddaughter/grandson Aunt and uncle = niece/nephew Godparents = goddaughter/godson Foster parents = foster daughter/foster son Brother = sister/brother Sister = sister/brother The wedding’s going to be a joint one
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| The bridal bouquet was thrown, and the garter was tossed! By all present, our love was known, Announcing the marriage of |
BRIDE PARENTS GROOM PARENTS have the honor of announcing the marriage of |
| BRIDE and GROOM Just letting you know! We were married in a small ceremony |
BRIDE’S PARENTS announce the marriage of their daughter BRIDE to GROOM |
| Life of caring and sharing, a love of endless giving together . . . The honor of your presence is requested at the reaffirmation of wedding vows of |
BRIDE Please join them for a celebration on |
| As the flower blooms and petals unfold, we’re soon to say “to have and to hold.” We’ve made the plans and can hardly wait. Our wedding is near and here is the date! We’re getting married on __________________ Please join us for a day to remember! |
Pressing the vision into our hearts, |
| Making their friendship so true after great times and happiness, they’ve said, “I do!” |
Because you have shared in their lives by your friendship and love, the honor of your presence is requested at the reaffirmation of the wedding vows of ________________________ Just married! |
| Because you’ve shared in their lives by your friendship and love, we are very proud to share the happy news. BRIDE daughter of PARENTS and GROOM son of PARENTS were married in a small wedding |
From the moment they met it was a beautiful thing. They knew some day they’d hear wedding bells ring! |
| BRIDE and GROOM are happy to announce their marriage. Please join them for a celebration on |
We’ve Eloped! BRIDE and GROOM |
| Two lives, two hearts joined together in friendship, united forever in love. It is with joy that we, |
Mr. _________ requests the honor |
| Mr. and Mrs. ____________ Request the honor of your presence At the marriage of their daughter/son ___________ |
Mr. and Mrs. ___________ |
| Mr. and Mrs. __________ request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their granddaughter/grandson ________________ |
I never believed love could be so sweet, so overwhelming, so tender. Then I met you. |
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Let this be Our destiny. |
Let this Be our destiny. |
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This day I will marry my friend,
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Each of us a half. incomplete |
| As our marriage brings new meaning to love, So our love brings new meaning to life! |
This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, and love |
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Happiness is so narrow |
For hearing my thoughts, For filling my life with music I still do!!! |
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I took his hand to have and to hold. |
Just like a page out of a fairy tale, |
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Two lives – Two hearts |
We met at a masquerade ball. Although I didn’t lose my glass slipper, |
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On our wedding day, |
The miracle of love is |
| The promise of our life together is as bright as the Colors of the rainbow |
In the sweetness of love, |
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How beautiful is the day |
The most joyous of occasions |
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We walked through the meadow He just smiled and took my hand. |
Love is that bridge |
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Marriage. |
A life of sharing, caring Mr. and Mrs. ___________ |
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With joyful hearts |
Together with their parents |
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Mr. and Mrs. ____________ |
We have experienced love. |
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We invite you to be with us |
Happily we two |
| Mr. and Mrs. ___________ have the honor of announcing the marriage of their daughter/son |
Mr. and Mrs. ___________ announce the marriage of their daughter/son |
| We invite you to be with us as we begin our new life together on. If you are unable to attend, |
The miracle of love is that love is given to us to give to one another. ______________ and ________________ invite you to share a day of happiness as they begin a life of love |
| Love fills a lifetime and a lifetime begins this hour when the two of us ________________ and ________________ begin a new life together. We invite you to share |
What began with our African ancestors, continues as two families become one. With joyfully hearts the parents of _______________ and _______________ invite you to witness the marriage of their children |
| ________ bought the ring and ________________ said yes! There’s going to be a wedding, and we hope you’ll be our guest. |
A romantic affair. Something special is in the air! Kindly save the date for a tropical marriage celebration uniting |
| It’s written in the stars that they were meant to be. So write on your calendar There’s going to be a wedding! |
Before BRIDE and GROOM can walk down the aisle |
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November 15, 2009 No Comments
Table Plan your Stress Free Wedding
| 6 reasons to use Handmade By me for your Table Plan |
| 1. Use us for any number of Guests from a small wedding reception to a 2000+ seat banquet. |
| 2. We are easier and faster than scraps of paper or Excel |
| 3. We can assign seats automatically. |
| 4. We can manage your guest details, RSVPs, meal choices and preferences. |
| 5. We can experiment with table shapes and sizes. |
| 6. Print elegant floor plans, seating charts, place/escort cards and other stationery. |
For any occasion unassigned seats sounds fabulous in theory and may be one less chore for the organiser.
Reasons why you should do a table plan?
There may be an unseemly rush for what are considered to be the ‘great’ seats.
It will take so much longer to get your Friends and family seated if you do not allocate their seats and the last few guests who arrive fashionably late to arrive find themselves walking around looking for empty seats.
Couples May need to be split up as there may be only single seats left and some older relatives may end up seated where they can’t see or hear anything.
November 6, 2009 No Comments