Our beautiful baby boy, Judah Jackson McGinnigal, entered the world and stole our hearts on Wednesday 19th December, 2012.

He is the most beautiful little tiny person we ever did meet (we may be a little biased) but he really is just so utterly perfect. We are besotted with him and haven’t done a whole lot over the last month other than stare at his beauty, show off his cuteness (amidst feeding and burping and the usual baby mallark) and generally fall more and more in love with him everyday. He is such a wee miracle and the best gift from God we ever did receive.

Every time I’ve even tried to think about updating the blog, along he would come with another round of sweet smiles or the cutest little hiccups one ever could hear… and then passed another week or so! Anyway here I am (eventually) and I’m pretty sure after seeing these pics (or ever being around a newborn baby) you will all understand. Mesmerising is the word. Happy are our hearts. And Thankful are our souls. xx

Tomorrow, 28.12.12, is our Anniversary!!!

3 Years of happy marriage… something worth a celebration for sure! And celebrate we will do…

Our lovely family, always so kind, have treated us to a stay at the super posh & fancy Mar Hall so we are heading down in the morning for a day of pampering and ultimate relaxation. Just what the Dr. ordered for this super pregnant state!

With now less than 3 weeks to go before our little peanut enters our world, we will be making the most of every peaceful moment we have together as just the two of us (well, kind of!)

And with that, I am off to finish up work for the day, Invitations are waiting and apologies for the soppiness (must be the baby-brain!) but Marriage really, truly is a wonderful thing!!

With Christmas just around the corner (Eeeeeeeeeeeeek!) gifts seem to be what’s on everyones minds. If you as much as have an email address I am sure you know what I mean. Continual suggestions of gifts we may like (or need?) and discounts to be had seem to infiltrate my inbox on an hourly occurrence without as much as going anywhere near the High Street.

We thought we’d jump on the bandwagon, in a much less in your face way of course… but all the same, offer a lovely little gift, be it for Christmas or beyond.

We are now offering large format prints of your Wedding Stationery, be it your Invitation design, your Vows, or something entirely bespoke created with your living room wall in mind. We are offering unframed prints in A3 & A4 format as a perfect momento of your special day. Why keep those beautiful designs locked away in a drawer, when you can them on display for all to see, forevermore!

In the New Year we shall be launching a full range of prints to buy online, so keep your eyes peeled for their arrival. For now, we leave you with this little thought… to Give a Gift to Remember this Christmas! xx

A series of thoughts, events and a little of who we are to read and enjoy.

The concept of blogging regularly hasn’t been met with an awful lot of enthusiasm by me. However with many events up and coming and a new sense of love for social media I have finally decided to create a series every Monday (hopefully) of things which we are doing, different things we stumble upon which either inspire us or we just love for what it is and some thoughts.

Many thanks to the help of Tailor Made Social for their insights into the world of Social Media and their helpful instruction.

What an amazing weekend!!

Friday Night:

Well Friday night was spent watching bits and pieces of children in need, which was amazing when I saw the final figure, recession or not people want to help each other.

Saturday:

Saturday Lorna and I were at the Cameron House at a leadership conference. Before the conference we had an absolutely amazing breakfast!  I mean I seriously ate my body weight in food.  Thanks to our friend Karen for her generosity.

The conference topic was on “how to lead bigger” and ultimately think bigger.  This was something which I have heard a lot about but hadn’t paid all that much attention to, especially when it comes to business.

With a small business you can tend to see yourself as small and not making an impact on those around you. However I am realising that if you decide to think that way you are seriously never going to reach people and impact them.  What does that have to do with making wedding stationery?  Well everything for us.  We believe in what we do and what we offer people.  We also know that what we bring to our lovely customers, our unique take on their wedding.  So if you have little impact, you only reach few.  When your impact is great, guess what? You can reach more people and give them a product and service which we completely believe in.

On a slightly lighter note a fun trip into Glasgow town saw us head into a very packed cinema to see the new Twilight movie Breaking Dawn Part Two.  I have to say I have been completely converted, the first ever movie wasn’t the best but after that  I just got more and more into it.  The newest movie is amazing and you so don’t expect the twist at all.  It really was great.  Plus you leave the movie (which I think is important) with a sense of excitement as to what the rest of their lives might look like.

EYILOVE Update:

Finally as some of you may know, we are expecting our first little cute baby this December!  We are so excited and seriously can’t wait to become parents.  

Today I have a new appreciation of light, and how it really is a photographers best friend/ worst nightmare. For all our lovely wedding photographer friends out there- I feel your love/ pain- whatever the case may be on the day! In our new daylight saving timezone, in the city of Glasgow which is all too often clouded over with grey, we have a lot less of this lovely light than one may wish for when trying to get a job done. Today being my case in point.

Today I am (very much trying) to photograph some of our most recent wedding stationery collections to put up on the website.

All our beautiful invitations, RSVP’s, information cards and placecards etc are all patiently lined up in order, just waiting for their big moment. And the light, well, it very rarely wants to work with me! Perhaps I need a little lesson or two in using a flash, a flash gun or (heaven help me) even some artificial lights (All very scary thoughts for a semi-professional amateur) Perhaps… One day. Today I think I will simply bide my time and wait for the light.

We had such a lovely day yesterday down at the Glasgow Wedding Collective Wedding Fayre showing off our new wedding stationery wares to the vintage masses. Our day was filled chatting with loads of lovely couples planning their Glasgow wedding for next year, (thanks to all who came by and chatted with us) and of course, taking some time to peruse all the other lovely wedding suppliers stalls too. Made for a very nice wee day indeed!

so, as the old song goes… these are a few of our favourite things (from the show)

Gorgeous vintage china and prop hire from the ever lovely girls at Butler and Taylor, vintage floral magic from I Heart Flowers and the most pretty and equally delish wedding cakes from the girls at Three Sisters Bake.

As our evenings draw in and Autumn is well and truly upon us, our Friday afternoon in the e.y.i.love studio has been filled with colours and textures which truly reflect the season. Gone are the summer brights and lights, and in replace of them come more darker, earthy tones and stationery which reflects what we all want in the coming months; warm cosy colours and a good book!

This week we have been working on many book themed wedding invitations, styling both the classic and the contemporary wedding.  If you would like to incorporate your love of books into your wedding stationery, please check out our range of penguin inspired invites here. Our book style invitations can be printed in any colour and we have a full range of matching wedding day items available too. From bookmark placecards and library tickets, to Order of the Day books and classic table plans, we have it all going on this week, trust me! No doubt, some more lovely images will follow soon but for now- enjoy this little sneak peak into the studio… and have yourself a very lovely Autumnal weekend! x

It’s that time again folks, the Glasgow Wedding Collective are hosting their fourth vintage wedding show at the Hillhead Bookclub on October 14th.

The GWC was started by our lovely friends Chris and Gillian.  Their aim “to handpick and bring together a selection of exciting independent and vintage style wedding suppliers from throughout Scotland”.  They did just that, bringing together a range of fantastically creative and unique wedding suppliers that are all that little bit different. “The GWC showcases all that’s good and unique in the industry and give brides a chance to create a day in their own individual style”. -GWC Website

The GWC vintage wedding shows are an absolute joy to be apart of, we love them!!  Please come along, grab a tea and have a natter with some of the best (banterous!!) wedding suppliers Glasgow has to offer.

We, team EYI LOVE, are absolutely in love with our home city of Glasgow.  Yes it may rain quite a lot, but if you come from this city you learn to appreciate it in all of it’s charm and whenever we do get a sunny day (like today) well, there really is no finer city!  Lorna and I were chatting the other day about just how much we really love Glasgow and how it’s history and vintage charm has inspired the wedding stationery we create for all our lovely Glasgow brides. Our famous, vintage save the date postcards are a great example of this. (keep posted for more images launching on our website over the coming weeks)

Wedding locations and venues around the city, have been a great source of inspiration for many a beautiful wedding invitation we have created over the last couple of years.  Vintage postcard fronts with beautiful foil blocking on the reverse creates a truly incredible invitation.  They seem to have that mix of vintage quirkiness and classic elegance that our Glasgow brides (and grooms, of course!) seem to love. One of our personal favourites has been a vintage invitation featuring Glasgow’s Central Station, the famous location/venue, now back to it’s former glory as one of Glasgow’s finest wedding venues. We met Angela and Mick, who where getting married in Grand Central Hotel, around this time back in 2011.  They wanted to capture the buzz of Glasgow’s Grand Central within their wedding stationery and really set the tone of their wedding. The invitation we created was a very grand looking vintage postcard of old central station with a faded formal invite on the back.  These were accompanied by old train tickets, serving as their “passenger information”  cards, transporting guests from the 1800′s into the year 2012.

We love the idea of mixing the old and the new and perhaps have planted some creative ideas for future wedding stationery we can create. Whether it be our favourite iconic Glasgow, or of other cities (which we do know, are available too!)

A MASSIVE thank you to all the lovely couples, bridesmaids and wedding entourages who came and chatted with us over the weekend at the S.E.C.C. Wedding Show.

We hope you all survived the madness and had a ball- whilst finding lots of inspiration and super wedding suppliers for your big day.

We had a great time over the weekend and met so many lovely people, both new and old. Much to our delight there were many other expanding business’s (there seems to be a bit of a babyBOOM in WeddingIndustryLand!) We were definitely in good company with our bump… and we even met a few little new bambino’s too!

CONGRATULATIONS to one and all, whether recently engaged or any of the above. Happy, happy times, both now and ahead.  x

P.S. Check out a few of our wedding weekend fav’s. For Cakes, Three Sisters Bake or for Photobooths, look no further than LOOKLOOK. You won’t go wrong with these guys!

Pure bliss… what more can we say? Sunshine, sea, scenery, where time means nothing and our days are filled with some major loves, relaxation, reading and mmm, delish food… (and growing pregnant bellies of course!)

Thankfully we do love our job too, so it keeps the bittersweetness of the holiday return (mostly) on the sweet side!

Needless to say, this week we have lots to catch up on emails a plenty, October weddings to complete and a wedding show to organise at the S.E.C.C. this weekend no less. I better really get back the drawing board right enough (before Jack cracks out the whip!) xx

It is that time of year again when Jack and I shall be jetting off to sunnier shores, basking in the Vitamin D and living it up on the lilo’s!

WE CANNOT WAIT!!

Actually, our original plan was to go a little later in the year when the UK wedding season had came to a quieter point, but alas, when you have a baby in your belly, it turns out you have a sell by date on the aeroplanes- so we quickly booked up!

We are so, SO thankful for the very kind help of our ever lovely couples who have been so great over the last few weeks, really helping us complete our September orders in such good time. Knowing we can head off tomorrow with all our stationery wares complete and in the safe hands of our beautiful brides makes the holiday feeling even better.

We will be back to the drawing boards (and emails etc) on Monday 10th September.

Till then our lovely ones… have a great couple of weeks, thank you for being amazing and BON VOYAGE!!! xx

In case you are wondering from the title, I am completely aware the difference between the two social media franchises.  One doing better than the other I may add.

However since my interest in social media has rekindled of late I think I have warped back in time to when I was 17 and using myspace.  Literally for an entire week I have called Facebook mySpace….Lorna is beginning to go insane and has given up correcting me….

Anyway back to why I have been on Facebook so much this week.  Since joining the business full time (Yay!!), I have been promising Lorna that I would upload some desperately overdue new images onto our website and update Facebook.  Needless to say I didn’t and on Monday I decided that with (three), sorry five months of opportunity and no result, enough was enough.

So yes I did an I am super excited to let you all know and also let you see, attached below is the link to the photo album.

E.Y.i Love Facebook

This week has also been the start of a website transformation which I hope will be complete by the end of next week.  The same sleek website but with new and improved features and a lot more images for you all to look at.

Finally I would like to show the result of what hard work and dedication do to small cute members of our team…. (above)

Rudi is the best, we love him!

Enjoy your weekend.

Jack.

Jack here trying out my first Blog. All a bit new to me this writing something interesting thing, however I thought that I should start and let you all know something interesting that has been happening this week at eyilove.

We have been waiting in for parcels to get delivered for my brother in law and his new wife (Yay!!) before the return from their magical honeymoon.

So yes all exciting being self employed.  Lorna mentioned in our last post that I gave up my engineering job and am now employed full time with eyi love.  This by the way I absolutely love!  even if Lorna and I do genuinely have serious discussions (not arguments) over the rather limited desk space in our studio.  I have suggested that we hire those big inflatable gladiator sticks with the puffy ends and just have it out, for all out domination of the studio space however this was met with a less than enthusiastic response.  Perhaps rightly so because we both know who would win and there would be tears, (neither of us are good losers).

So anyway since our blog is an I love, I would like to share something that I am loving at the moment.

Without any doubts not even a close second to Lorna but still something dear to my heart.

Love it or hate it it’s the best substance in the world!!!

Admittedly, we have been the worst bloggers in the world of late. I say ‘we’, but what I really mean is ‘I’. But since Jack packed his engineering boots in a couple of months ago to join e.y.i.love full time (eeeeee!!!) it has just been the best to say ‘We’, a LOT! It has been quite an adventure so far (albeit a very busy one in peak wedding season), working together , fighting over desk space and who makes the tea, but ‘we’ have been loving every minute. (I think I speak for both of us here! Maybe when jack starts blogging he will tell you a different story, but as yet that has still to be seen!)

News on the e.y.i.love front of late… has just been weddings, weddings, and more, you guessed it… weddings!! Pretty stationery and summer (?!) lovin’. We seem to have developed our very own monsoon season here in Glasgow so it hasn’t seemed so bad being glued to our computers and printing machines. On the odd day that Jack starts pulling out the bunny masks, we know we have had one too many late night.  On the one weekend in which we did have sun, we escaped to Tiree to visit friends and bask on their glorious beaches. As you can see above, Rudi enjoyed his very first sea swims. (& he is still the absolute cutest little puppy ever).

This week we have launched our store on notonthehighstreet.com which has all been very exciting. It went live yesterday and today we have received our very first order. Delighted to say the least! For now though, we shall stay focused on our current couples and fabulous weddings, and celebrate a very special one this weekend as my baby bro gets married!!! Ciao Bella’s!! x

So, last night we hit the town with the wedding glitteratti and headed on down to the  big fat scottish tweet up at 29.

&

We.Had.A.Ball.

MASSIVE thanks to all who made this all possible. (Mrs P&P)

and how FUN, and slightly embarrassing are smilebooths!!

Happy New Year to one and all!

And especially to all those newly engaged’s,the betrothed for the year ahead (and the still to meet’s too! maybe 2012 has some happy surprises in store!)

What better way to start your wedding year than coming on down to the Hillhead Bookclub on Sunday for The Glasgow Wedding Collective’s 2nd Vintage Style Fayre.

A lazy afternoon of vintage wedding perusing with Glasgow’s finest wedding suppliers awaits you.

We will be there, sipping from some mismatched cups and teapots (in true Bookclub style chic), ready to show you our stationery wares. Come and say hello!

We want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas time.

Sadly, we have lost our gorgeous wee pupster this week- and it has been quite hard to decide whether to share our Christmas card which features our little dude, but in some ways, there seems like no more appropriate thing to do.

Harris was an utter delight to have. He brought so much joy and love into, not just our lives, but to the lives of anyone he ever met (as many of you will know). It breaks our hearts to write this but feel like having Harris has actually taught us so much about the true meaning of Christmas, and we just had to share. This wee dude hadn’t spent a single moment stressing out over his Christmas shopping- but he would have given us the best present we could have ever have dreamed. His pure and utter unconditional love. His happiness and excitement at just seeing us. His continuous cuddles and nuzzles. There is no greater gift than the gift of love. Pure, beautiful, unconditional love. And this is really what we just want to share. Love one another this Christmas time… there is nothing greater. And cherish every single, precious moment. Because each one truly is a gift from God.

With all our love this Christmas,

Jack & Lorna xxx

I might just have the best husband… in the world… EVER!!!!

On Monday we celebrated our 2nd Wedding Anniversary in the one and only city of love… PARIS! Unknown to me, Jack had booked and organised everything on the sly and completely and utterly whisked me away and surprised me. I am so glad I married him! (for more than just the romantic breaks). Anniversaries are so worth celebrating though. It’s pretty damn special and I’m guessing many of you reading this will be more looking forward to the actual getting married part right now, which is amazing… but after the big day has come and gone, celebrating your Love all the best bits for the rest of your lives is pretty awesome too!!!

One of the other most super things about celebrating at this time of year is that you get the Christmas festivities wherever you go, so naturally we have so many lush photos from the weekend which I wanted to share. You can’t as much as turn your head without seeing something more gorgeous than the next in that city so I am full of Inspiration for some new designs too. In true Parisian style, even the Christmas trees were stylish and chic. My absolute favourites being Repetto’s giant pink fluffy one with gold tree-rings! The sparkly Eiffel Tower, the Laduree macaroons, their fabulous packaging, the wine, the food, the chocolate, the “no-rain” (every Glaswegian said “Amen!”) and most of all celebrating love and marriage with my utterly gorgeous and wonderful husband.

Paris… and Jack… je’taime!!!!!!!

On Saturday Jack and I  took a little weekend trip with my brother and his beautiful fiance to the recently opened Three Sisters Bake Cafe, in the idyllic Quarries Village.

We met Nichola (one of the baking sisters) at the GWC Wedding Fayre last week, who was (very calmly) showcasing their cakes despite the fact their Cafe was about to have its grand opening in like 2 days time! (respect)

Not one to pass up the opportunity to try some new coffee & cake, we headed straight down at the first opportunity we could.  From the moment you turn into Quarriers, into streets named Love/Peace/Faith Avenue you know you have entered somewhere really special. Everything looks gorgeous, even in the pouring rain and Three Sisters Bake is just a haven of indoor loveliness at the top of the village. Between us all, we made our way through a substantial amount on the menu and everything was YUM! Absolutely gorgeous, quirky and delish, with the friendliest staff- what more could you want in a Cafe?

If you are anywhere nearby, GO VISIT!! We highly recommend. Even if you are nowhere nearby, still go visit. It’s well worth a trip.

Oh, and they have a brilliant gift selection and deli too- so if there was anything else you would want from your Cafe, that’d probably be it covered now!

We really LOVE Three Sisters Bake and wish the girls all the success in the world!!

A little peak into the Glasgow Wedding Collective Vintage Style Wedding Fayre, which took place on Sunday.

Thought I’d leave the real photography to a few of the photo genius’s (genui?) who were showcasing their wares (Chistopher Currie, Mirrorbox… to name but a few) but for a wee sneak peak, the iphone does me, and you, just grand!

Above: Jack and I in full wedding stationery chatting action; Utterly lush flowers from one of Glasgow most talented florists, Sophie at I Heart Flowers ; and the infamous Gramophone provided for cranking some tunes by the ever lovely Butler and Taylor.

If you haven’t seen any of the above listed suppliers before, do yourself a favour and check them out- you will be blown away by the gorgeousness and talent! Better still, check out the GWC page where you can find us all, plus many more of the handpicked wedding suppliers throughout Scotland.

Yesterday we had a fab day with The Glasgow Girls at their wedding show in Partick Burgh Hall. The girls really look after us well (as you can see from Jacks endless supply of tea!) and we met so many lovely new faces.

Thanks to all who stopped by and had a chat with us. Hope you had a great day too and got lots of ideas for your wedding and maybe even booked up with some of the other suppliers showing their wares yesterday. One of our fav’s from yesterday (and all days for that matter) are Butler and Taylor with their extensive collection of vintage china, props and tableware (see above), all of which is available for hire across Scotland and delivered in their very own campervan. These girls are seriously talented and can even gramaphone DJ for you too!  For more information on Butler and Taylor, visit their fantastic new website here.

We are super excited about this!

Not only were we excited enough about being part of the recently launched awsomeness that is the Glasgow Wedding Collective… but we’ve also got the Vintage Style Fayre coming up. If you fancy yourself as a bit of bride looking for something unique/ vintage/quirky, there is only one place you will be on the 2nd of October.

“The event will be the main launch for the Glasgow Wedding Collective with a selection of local talented suppliers showcasing their work. Expect everything from old-fashioned china tableware, to eclectic wild flowers, some unusual stationery, jewelry and headwear, vintage style photography and to die for delicious and unusual homemade cakes.”

Hopefully we’ll see you there!

(and for all of you out of town brides-to-be who can’t make, make sure you check out the GWC website here.)

Thank you to everyone who came along to visit us at The Royal Concert Hall Wedding Show over the weekend. It was a ball, as always… And we loved meeting so many new couples and a few familiar faces now too (we always end up near someone dishing out way too much delish chocolate at these shows and leave perhaps a few pounds heavier!) We have a giant email list to get through over the next few days so if you are checking here and we have yet to contact you, please be assured- it is coming! (We promise!) Infact, less chat here and I am off to hit the email right now… x

It’s that time of year again…

As much as I LOVE making all things wedding-y and paper related- sometimes it is so nice to go back to my roots and work with a little bit of fashion.

This mornings work… some new prints for Andreja Bistricic. Coming soon…

Last night we took a trip through to Edinburgh to see the Fleet Foxes live at the Corn Exchange.

They were amazing. Absolutely and utterly breathtaking at moments, and their voices… and their instruments (the never ending list of them) were just so beautiful.

Live music is good for my soul. I really do love it. I love how there is something about it which makes me feel alive inside. And after a few busy weeks/ months of designing and printing, with all the Summer Weddings in full swing- it was a very refreshing midweek treat!

And today,… I am very happy to be back designing more beautiful invitations in the studio (signing along with the Fleet Foxes, accompanying me on the stereo of course!)

“These pieces complete the sentences that the pictures and the words could never quite say on their own…” Shaun Sundholm (photographer)

Like any good match.

Sometimes, a Monday morning needs a little bit of beautiful packaging.

And who better to provide this, than LADUREE – one of the world’s finest!

Last Friday Jack and I took part in a sponsored spin- (10 hours, 10 bikes- YIKES!!) in aid of raising cash (and awareness) for the wonderful work of Glasgow City Mission.

It was an amazing event to be part of and I would say we have both been really moved and challenged by what we saw and essentially, what we were a part of, while we were there. If you have a chance, please check out their website and the work which they do for the people of Glasgow. It really is amazing. Sponsorship can still be received here until Friday, so if you have a few spare minutes and some extra cash in your purse, please make all those muscle cramps worthwhile! We would truly appreciate it!!! xxx

Thought we should really have a little look at this piece of 2011 Invitational History, since we are in the business of wedding stationery.

Classic, Simple, Gold Engraving… Fit for a Royal Wedding?

(we like it!) Do you?

Wanted to share these new Gold Bevelled Cards we now have in stock for printing the most Royal of wedding stationery.

They are super thick and super lush. (and come in silver too!)

If you’d like to find out more about having your own wedding invitations printed onto these beauties, CONTACT US here.

The lovely people at Southside Happenings have featured us on their “Creative Thursday” section on the blog this week! We are proud to live South of the City, so it has been an honour to be featured on the blog that let’s us all know what’s going on around our streets. Please take a minute to have a read and check out the interview here.

Huge thanks to Lotte at Lotte and Bloom (beautiful flowers, featured above) for recommending us, not to mention all at Southside Happenings…

and to the beautiful Caroline Zak for the pic’s too!

Happy Good Friday!

I realise (with the kind help of some family and friends!) that I have been a bit slack with keeping up the blogging side of the site these past few weeks. We have just been super busy making so many beautiful wedding invitations for the upcoming summer weddings, which is great,  but it is also so nice (and important!) to take some time out, reflect on what is so good, on the day very aptly named and say “Thank You”.

So, before I head off and enjoy some time with my mum in town this afternoon I thought I would wish everyone a very Happy Easter and share just a few of the things I am very thankful for this Good Friday!

From Top Left: Easter = Greatest Love Prettiest Chocolate Easter bunny from the ever amazing Laduree (we have given up chocolate for lent so I am more excited than ever for some chocolate treats! Plus, their packaging is just incredibly beautiful!)   Our new tiny toy poodle puppy, Harris. An Easter Weekend filled with lots of puppy love is on the cards for Jack and I   …and finally, saying everything I want to this Easter,  Tatto/ Artist Scott Campbell’s Artwork

i love this by i love typography

Walking past the Mulberry store on Ingram Street a few nights ago I fell in love with their new window display featuring these gorgeously huge pink paper flowers.

A fine example of a brilliantly creative British brand.

This tells the story of how I feel today…

You know when you just have one of those mornings. (pic. 1) when all you can hear is the rain and wind outside, it’s so dark and cold and your whole body seems to be whispering at you softly to just stay in bed.

it seemed like such a good idea…

until I remembered all the precious characters (pic. 2) being married and the wonderfully creative wedding stationery that they need.

this inspires and fuels me for the day ahead (pic. 3)

and then I find myself realising that this is what not necessarily what I planned to do with my one “wild and precious life”…(pic. 4) It is way better.

all images via have you hugged your monster today?

how amazing are these glasses by Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony?

A big HUGE thank you to everyone who came along to the S.E.C.C Wedding Show at the weekend! We had a ball (AND lots of chocolate…

that’s what happens when your stall is right beside the most delish chocolate fountain in the S.E.C.C.  Ooops!)

But we really loved meeting so many new lovely faces, and seeing some old familiar ones too.

And now we are excited to go back to the (wedding stationery) drawing board with all our new ideas and inspirations to make you the hottest wedding invitations in town!

I have re:watched and re:watched this video over and over again since The Brits on Tuesday night. I don’t know, maybe I’m just an old romantic/ emo at heart… but I question anyone who does not shed a tear or two watching this. It has been a welcome accompaniment to our late nights this week as we prepare for the S.E.C.C Wedding Show this weekend and it gets me every time. (well… much more welcomed by me than Jack if I’m honest. Jack’s much more about drum & bass and dubstep- really which pains my ears. But a wise man once said to us that marriage is a lot about compromise, so a little bit of ear suffering here and there is ok for the sake of a happy marriage! ) Anyway, if you missed it on Tuesday due to the final of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding (or any other social activity) please have a little watch/listen.
Simply beautiful.
We have a lot of love for Adele right now.

Just thinking about ” The Zeitgeist” and I come across this image of Hope from Hillsong Collected.

There is nothing more “of the moment”.

Of all our moments.

“and we have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure…”

This, for me, is the real, true Zeitgeist.

Sometimes it’s funny how trends work. How there seems to be something in the air, a feeling. a mood… something you just can’t quite put your finger on.

But it’s there. It happens everywhere.

The Zeitgeist.

Wikipedia explains the Zeitgeist as “the spirit of the times” or “the spirit of the age.” ^[1]

This week in the e.y.i.love studio we have our very own Wedding Zeitgeist and it’s the mood and feel of a Cinderella Ball. Three of our lovely brides-to-be have mentioned a Cinderella Wedding Ball to me this week when describing the feel and look they want from their wedding invitations. So, on my hunt for some Cinderella style fairytale inspiration I came across these utterly lovely photographs (courtesy of Blackler’s Winter Wonderland department store in 1949, displayed at the Merseyside Maritime Museum) Lush. Who want’s to go to the Ball?