Irish ♥ Enrico = Bridal Brooch Bouquet

Customized Non-floral Bouquet

Irish Barlaan ♥ Enrico Lopez

Oct. 19, 2013

Brooch Bouquet for the lovely bride

wedding theme: Back to School

wedding colors:  Blue & Yellow

materials: brooches, ribbons, artificial flowers, faux pearls, crystals, scrabble tiles

Another first for me - making a brooch bouquet for the bride.  This was one of the challenges for me in this project.  Of course, the bride has to stand out so making a masterpiece (it has to be a masterpiece, it's for the bride!) was a HUGE pressure on me.  Like the kusudama bouquets and flowers, I haven't experienced doing a brooch bouquet before, so I did a lot of research to make sure I'll come up with a bouquet that's not just sparkly and pretty, but sturdy as well.  :)  Glad my clients loved it! :)

To Mr & Mrs. Lopez,

       Thank you for your trust - entrusting the flowers of the whole entourage to me was huge - even if I'm just a newbie in this line of work.  I hope all the flowers & boutonnieres I customized for you, made your big day even more special and unique. I wish you forever love for one another & a blessed and fruitful marriage...

      And I also wanna thank Sir Neil - thank you for your trust as well, if not for you, I wouldn't have had this project.  

      And I wanna thank you all for your appreciation of my work.  When I read your feedbacks during our exchange of emails showing you the works I finished, giving you updates, your kind words and compliments made me super glad! And those words made me more inspired while doing the project. I was just happy to be able to meet/exceed your expectations (like you said). It was nice working with you guys.. the pleasure's mine :)

     Again, thank you for choosing Crystals and Beads! :)

     Hazel 

Crystals and Beads

   

"I do" on the bride's bouquet to
match the groom's boutonniere :)

used white artificial pom flowers
as the base for support

top view
as requested, 1 blue & 1 yellow brooch on the bouquet

consists of around 20 crystal brooches
so yeah, it's heavy :)

front view

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

Fuchsia & Aqua Entourage Flowers (Levi ♥ Gina)

Customized Entourage Flowers

composite bouquets - ninangs (female principal sponsors)
pomanders - flower girls
wrist corsages - bridesmaid, female secondary sponsors

pomanders for flower girls

made of handmade fabric flowers (very tedious work!)
fuchsia & baby pink flowers as requested by the bride to match the flower girl dresses

materials used: fabric, seed beads, sequins, ribbons

composite bouquets for ninangs
the handles? again i used that wood thing used in scroll-like invitations, covered them with ribbons

materials: artificial flowers, feathers, seed beads, sequins, ribbons

since i still have many left over feathers, i covered the underside to make them prettier! :)

combination of aqua & fuchsia as requested by the bride

wrist corsages for the bridesmaid & secondary sponsors

i made a beaded stretch bracelet so it'll 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

Customized Crystal/Beaded Bouquet & Boutonniere (Cindy ♥ Bryan)

Customized Crystal/Beaded Bridal Bouquet & Groom's Boutonniere
Soriano-Hipol wedding, Dec. 18, 2012

wedding colors: shades of red, champagne, taupe

the bridal bouquet, dominantly red with champagne & taupe accents

top view
there were layers of artificial flowers (wired them individually) for added texture

used crystals, faux pearls, crackled glass beads, seed beads

brooch accent on bouquet's handle

the groom's boutonniere

used feathers, ribbons & crystals

the boutonniere is secured w/ a bar pin at the back
(image from the web)

the inspiration bouquet chosen by the bride
(image from the web)

For 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

Mark & Kat Alcantara - bridal bouquet, boutonnieres, wedding rosary, wedding cord, wedding pens

Mark & Katrina's Wedding (May 26, 2012)

Motif: brown & pink

Items: beaded bridal bouquet

           boutonnieres

           wedding pens

           wedding rosaries (matching rosaries)

           wedding cord

Thank you Kat for sharing all these photos! :)

and congratulations to you and Mark!  

scrapbook & matches not included, they are the bride's own DIY. The wedding cord was my gift for the couple -- where it all started  (the Crystals and Beads)

used crackled glass beads, acrylic beads, sequins on the bouquet

hundreds & hundreds of beads & sequins :)

Hello Kitty pendant was added on the center of bouquet as requested by the bride (a Hello Kitty fanatic!)

pretty eh? both the bride & the bouquet  :)

Kat & Mark -  non floral bouquet for the bride & & non floral boutonniere for the groom

For inquiries, feel free to contact me - azel1106@e-mail.ph