Julia’s wedding (twelve)
Nearly two years ago, I worked on a wedding for Julia, a friend of my bridesmaid Ashlee.
Julia had picked beautiful strapless Jenny Yoo gowns similar to this in a mossy green.
With a neckline that was straight across, I thought we should make use of all that available space.
I found very nearly the same color coin pearls, which are round and flat, and made a double stranded necklace with silver chain
Unfortunately, I couldn’t get a good close up from her pictures, but the wonderful Jenna Cole took some stand ins for me. I think they show it off quite well.

source: Jenna cole photography
Thanks again to Julia for giving me the opportunity, and to Jenna for the pictures!
Wedding recap- Heather (four)
One of the things I thought I’d do to encourage more blogging is to go over previous projects and explain my process. I’ll start with Heather – friend, friend of a friend, friend of future sister-in-law, cousin of a co-worker. Heather and I know each other a lot of different ways! For her wedding in 2007, she came to me to get jewelry for herself and her bridesmaids. First, we talked about the dresses. Hers was a champagne colored silk, which she was wonderful enough to have a sample of, with Swarovski crystal beading, and her girls were wearing strapless silk dresses in a dark blue, and caring green flowers. We talked budget, so I knew what kind of materials we could work with, and then the brainstorming began.
First up, Heather. We decided on earrings and a bracelet, no necklace-so that the sparkle in the dress could stand for itself. I chose a champagne quartz for her earrings that went wonderfully with her dress, and designed a dangly earring that would pop out from under her veil
Next, her bracelet – bringing in the champagne color from her dress, sparkly Swarovskis, and a little of the dark blue from her bridesmaids’ dresses.
These shots are so amazing, it was great of Heather to let her awesome photographer, Leslie Koehn, to spend some time with my work!
And for her bridesmaids – we decided to do BIG earrings, in blue and green. I used peridot and iolite, on a gold hoop.
Heather’s was the first wedding I completed, and I couldn’t have been more excited. I had so much fun looking at fabric swatches and deciding what to make!