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Choosing your colour palette is the most important part of creating your wedding’s decor scheme. A good colour palette not only reflects your own tastes and personality, but also sets the ambience that captures the overall style of your wedding. It’s no wonder that finding the perfect colour scheme can seem like a very daunting process, but with some of our tips, you’ll find your look in no time! Whether you already have a particular style in mind or if you have no ideas at all, it really helps to visualise a colour palette to decide if it really works for you. One of the best ways to do so...

Hot off the press, Annemie’s (our studio manager) wedding to her childhood sweetheart – featured in the latest Top Billing magazine. Also featured is the Top Billing Win-a-Wedding couple, Janine & Clifford. Elsje Designs were very fortunate to design their signature wedding stationery. This included their invitations, menus, table seating, table numbers and our favourite favour of the moment: black recycled pencils! These HB pencils have a body made from recycled newspaper. Sharpens and functions like a normal wooden pencil! With white eraser. They retail at R3 each. Please email admin@elsje.co.za...

If you love lace and are a romantic at heart, you will love this inspiration from Martha Stewart. We have several new lace images in stock. What an awesome idea for table decor – the intricate lace pattern printed onto vellum paper (available in pale grey, white and ivory). One could combine this with your menus for a dual purpose idea. This idea is easy to customise for an invitation. We love the intricate lace patterns combined with the luxurious satin ribbons. Beautiful backdrop for photographs and decor. Elsje Designs can print lace onto banner paper – a sure way to bring add a romantic and...

Order these festive printed cotton napkins for your celebration, they add to your table decor and each guest would have a memento to take home. R20 for design and printing (excluding serviette) Supply us with your napkins (any colour of your choice) and we will design something special and have it printed @ R20 ea or R30 for design, printing and white serviette We supply white cotton napkins and design something special and have them printed @ R30 ea • Minimum order of 50 napkins • An hour design time included • One colour printing Contact the studio for more information on 021 976 7111 or info@elsje.co.za.

Last month we featured some fun ways to cut down wedding costs. With the wedding season almost in full swing, here are some more ideas for a fabulous day that doesn’t blow the bank! Choose a venue that is so striking or beautiful that it doesn’t need much décor. The setting will say enough and you’ll save on decor costs! Have a lunch or brunch wedding to reduce lighting costs. Furthermore, the bill for the bar will be less pricey in the absence of a crazy late night after party. Use indigenous flowers to create unfussy but stylish flower decor. Also select flowers that are in season, so that...

With green design being the hottest global trend, Elsje Designs has just discovered the perfect table gifts for any stylish eco-friendly celebration! These biodegradable stationery sets (at R25 and R30) will certainly inspire your guests to get creative.

For last year’s words belong to last year’s languageAnd next year’s words await another voice.And to make an end is to make a beginning.~T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” We have opened the book of 2010. Its pages are blank. I would like to thank all the Elsje Designs clients that has given us continuous improvement feedback during 2009 – we really appreciate your honesty. Without this valuable feedback we would not have been able to grow in leaps and bounds. We take your comments serious and have worked hard to improve systems at Elsje Designs! At the beginning of 2009 we employed...

Q: My wedding colours are silver and white. I’m thinking of adding dark red to prevent the dullness (red rose petals / red table centre flowers). Is this a good idea? Also, what colour will be best for my bridesmaids dresses? Red, silver or silver and red? A: We have called in the help of our own decor – and styling experts, Johnny Hammann and Marilize de Clercq. Johnny’s advice on the table decorations and flowers: Red would be a great addition to the silver and white. It is going to be opulent and dramatic, definitely not dull. Actually I would leave out the white completely as red and white...

These days, with divorced parents, invitations have gotten complicated! Below are some suitable wedding invitation wording. Keep in mind that this is the formal traditional language. Modern couples may choose to add opening statements such as “With Joy in Their Hearts,” or may choose to change the traditional “request the honor of your presence at the marriage” to something like “invite you to be a special part of the wedding of” or even “Come laugh, dance, dine, and celebrate our wedding”. Brides parents are divorced:eitherIssued by the parent who raised herMs....

Dress colour – As a guest at a wedding, is it inappropriate to wear a very similar colour to what the bridesmaid/Maid of Honour will be wearing? Good question! We have asked the help of our styling expert, Marilize de Clercq, and this is her advice: :As a guest, I presume that you know the bride and how she would feel about it. My personal opinion is that, if possible, try not to wear the same colour as the retinue. Some wedding dress codes are colour-coded, but if not, be original and different. After all, you are not the bridesmaid and you don’t want to offend the bride! If you know that the bride is...