Friday 20 February 2015

Special Feature Friday: Jewelry by Johan

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In our series about shops to go to for your wedding day, we have discussed dresses, ring bearer pillows, bouquets and guestbooks. This week it is time for the binding factor, and for the one thing you will wear with you the rest of your life: the wedding rings. 

Johan is the shop owner of Jewelry by Johan. He opened his Etsy shop in 2008 when it was still a 2 man show run by himself and his wife. In the up following years Johan saw a great increase in orders, and he hired his son in law and his daughter to help him run the shop. Jewelry by Johan is a real family business, with an eye on quality and sustainability. The materials Johan uses are unique and offer many options in design for wonderful rings.




Johan uses a wide amount of materials for his designs, the ring above is rose gold with dinosaur bone and Gibeon meteorite inlays. Besides dinosaur bone and meteorite Johan also uses wood, titanium, platinum, gold, palladium, mokume gane, tungsten and many other metals. Besides the metal rings can also be inlay ed with precious stones like Jade, Mother of Pearl or Turqoise. Johan can also set any precious or semi precious stone.



Besides wedding rings Johan also sells jewelry sets, engagement rings, interchangeable rings and pet memorial rings. 







Friday 13 February 2015

Special Feature Friday: For Love Polka Dots

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After the wedding dresses and the brides accessories we will continue our series on weddings with some more essentials for a perfect wedding day. This week we will be looking at a shop where we can find invitations, table numbers and guestbooks.

At For Love Polka Dots you can find the essentials for your wedding as mentioned above. With a big and wonderful collection of guestbooks all in different styles and sizes, this shop definitely has something for everyone. Many of the guest books can be personalized to your own wishes. For Love Polka Dots also offers boxes to keep your guest book in after the wedding, the boxes are made to fit the style of the book itself.




Of course, cards are send out to announce your wedding to your friends and family. For Love Polka Dots offers sets of luxury cards, made with much care. As well as the guest books, the cards come in many styles and sizes. From simple to elaborate and from modern to classic. The listings are all custom, and colors and fonts in the cards can be adapted to be in line with your wedding theme. Table numbers, placement cards and RSVP cards can also be printed to fit in the same style as your wedding cards. 


Next to guestbooks and cards, For Love Polka Dots also offers a selection of wedding favors bags, tags, cake toppers and signs.  




Friday 6 February 2015

Special Feature Friday: Heart Shaped Petals

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As I mentioned last week, this is a series of Special Feature Friday about marriage, in which I will share about some Etsy shops that sell the most wonderful items for a perfect wedding day. 

Last week we started off with Polina Ivanova's wedding dresses. This week we are moving on to a shop called Heart Shaped Petals. Andreia from Heart Shaped Petals offers a great selection of essentials for any wedding day, from the ring bearers pillows to fabric bouquets, it can be found at her shop! 





This is a linen ring bearers pillow with a heart in peach colored cotton roses. It contains a rhinestone in the middle, and two ribbons to attach the rings to. Besides pillows Andreia also sells ring bearers bowls. The bowls can be personalized with the wedding dates, names and a phrase. 




Andreia also creates beautiful bouquets for the bride or bridesmaids. The flowers are made of satin, and then decorated with brooches and rhinestones. Unlike a bouquet from real flowers, a bouquet from fabric flowers will be an ever lasting memory. It won't loose it's color or its leaves, and it can continue to be a part of your home decoration. The bouquet will be made to anyone's wishes, and various materials can be added. Andreia also makes accessories and can have accessories made to fit with the bouquets. Garters, hair accessories, corsages, bridesmaid bouquets and the ring bearers pillows can all be made to fit in the same color and theme. 

Andreia wants to give a discount to the readers of this blog, discountcode "HSP 010" is active until the end of March and gives a 10% discount.