A lot of what we do here is during the week is working with brides on color combinations to coordinate with their bridesmaids dresses. Some girls are brave enough to order on their own without our advice (and they do a great job!) and others want to be sure they get it right the first time, so they order color samples or send swatches. We actually love receiving swatches in the mail and being asked to work the colors out, because there are so many ways to style the jewelry around the dresses/wedding colors and it’s really fun to be a part of that!
I wanted to show you an example of a bride who sent in swatches last month. Susan H. knew what she wanted but sent in swatches just to be sure. In her case, one of the swatches didn’t quite match the color she had guessed, but NONE of our listed colors did! So we hunted down a hard-to-find Swarovski color that was exactly right for the “jade” swatch and special ordered it for her. Here are some images!
Susan was so organized with her swatches! She made it so easy for us to keep track of what she needed and who’s dress was what color! We were working with Alfred Angelo’s glass green, pool and jade.
Susan wanted to mix the dress color with pacific blue opal in all five of the Anna II necklaces she ordered. The pacific opal would tie them all together. For the glass green, we did pacific opal with erinite. The pool blue went with pacific opal and indicolite, and for the jade, we ordered “light emerald” and mixed it in with the pacific opal and it worked perfectly!
The crystal ab drops reflected all of the colors really nicely and lightened up the necklaces a little. I love these pieces and can’t wait to see photos of them in context of Susan’s wedding!
