Irish ♥ Enrico = Back to School Boutonnieres

Customized Boutonnieres

Irish Barlaan ♥ Enrico Lopez
October 19, 2013

Wedding theme: Back to School
Wedding colors:  Blue & Yellow
Materials:  crystals, scrabble tiles, sequin flowers, seed beads, erasers, flower-shaped sequins, faux peals, felt cloth, pencil sharpener

Ideas for the materials that I can use to incorporate the wedding theme to the boutonnieres was easy, I immediately thought of little books we usually see on key chains, paper clips, book pages, erasers, etc. The hard part was finding them.  Glad I found erasers with letters on them, and in different shapes -- pens, bags, books. They're so cute! I also found lunch box pencil sharpeners! Perfect for the theme right? :)

I thought of putting "I do" on both the boutonniere and the bride's bouquet but I didn't find erasers with letters i, d and o, so I thought of something else and i came up with -- scrabble tiles! :)

I made 16 boutonnieres for the male entourage:
- 1 groom                - 1 best man          - 2 fathers
- 3 groomsmen         - 3 male SS          - 6 male PS/ninong

groom's boutonniere

best man's boutonniere

male principal sponsors

fathers

male secondary sponsors

groomsmen

For orders/inquiries, please feel free to contact me at crystalsandbeads@yahoo.com, or fill out an order/inquiry form (see link at the top of this page or at the right side)

please provide your full name, wedding date/date needed, location, colors/motif and/or theme

Irish ♥ Enrico = Back to School Entourage Flowers

Kusudama Bouquets, Wands & Wrist Corsages

Irish Barlaan ♥ Enrico Lopez

October 19, 2013

Wedding theme:  Back to school

Wedding colors:  Blue & Yellow

Materials: maps, colored specialty papers, printed papers, crystals, beads, pencils, paint brushes, ribbons

Another first for me -- making kusudama flowers.  These kusudama flowers were very tedious to make -- lots of paper cutting, folding, gluing! Seriously, they were really hard to make - very time consuming & requires a lot, I mean A LOT of patience. Thank you to my mom for helping me out in constructing the flowers. I couldn't have finished all of them in time without you.

I made 9 kusudama bouquets -- 1 MoH, 2 mothers, 3 bridesmaids, 3 secondary sponsors. Then 3 kusudama wands for the flower girls, and 6 kusudama wrist corsages for the female principal sponsors (ninang).  Each flower is made of 5 petals. 1 bouquet consists of around 20 flowers, a wand consists of 4 big flowers, and a wrist corsage consists of 3 small flowers. So just imagine how much work all of these required. whew! :)  But the end products? they were all worth the hard work :)

The "before"

had to make lots of flowers!

these were just the first batch!

The "After"

kusudama bouquets
used 7-8pcs of pencils for the handle of each bouquet

top view - kusudama wand

lots of flowy ribbons so it would look cute when
held by little flower girls

this was the first design (but we decided to revise
and remove the crayons)
long PAINT BRUSH  as handle for the wands

top view - kusudama wrist corsage

used checkered ribbons to resemble school uniforms

stretchable bead bracelet for the wrist corsage
to fit any wrist size

For orders/inquiries, please feel free to contact me at crystalsandbeads@yahoo.com, or fill out an order/inquiry form (see link at the top of this page or at the right side)

please provide your full name, wedding date/date needed, location, colors/motif and/or theme

Irish ♥ Enrico = Back to School wedding cord

Customized Wedding Cord

Irish Barlaan ♥ Enrico Lopez
October 19, 2013

Wedding theme: Back to School
Wedding colors:  Blue & Yellow
Materials:  crystals, scrabble tiles, metal charms 


I was really glad that Neil (the bride's brother) found me! :) Neil was a very supportive brother who was all hands on with the wedding details.{I bet he was also hands on when he had his own wedding :)} This wedding project for a couple from Dubai, UAE was really a huge challenge for me.  Aside from being a BIG project (flowers for the whole ento + wedding cord), there were a lot of firsts for me - first back to school themed wedding, first brooch bouquet, first kusudama bouquets (see next posts). And this is my first back to school themed wedding cord....

book metal charms

scissor metal charms

calculator metal charms

diploma metal charms

scrabble tiles for the couple's initials
(for cohesiveness - see the bride's bouquet &
groom's boutonniere on next posts)

For orders/inquiries, please feel free to contact me at crystalsandbeads@yahoo.com, or fill out an order/inquiry form (see link at the top of this page or at the right side)

please provide your full name, wedding date/date needed, location, colors/motif and/or theme