Amy's Bridal Accessories Blog

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Amy — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:56:19 +0000

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Plenty of Fish… crystal fish!

Amy — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:04:30 +0000

Karen N. of Downingtown, PA, ordered her jewelry from me in February for her March wedding. She contacted me when her jewelry arrived:

“Wow, thank you Amy!

I LOVE your stuff!! My jewelry is so pretty it made me cry! Not kidding! I told my brother about your site so he can order something for his girlfriend, and I told my wedding planner… I’m telling everyone!

Separately, I have a very strange request. I am wondering with your skill set if you could do something custom for me… but it isn’t really jewelry. Would you be interested in entertaining the prospect of making two fish for me? I know this sounds bizarre but I can explain…”

Karen went on to explain that she and her future husband had met on an online dating site called “Plenty of Fish”. She wanted to have two crystal fish to incorporate into her wedding cake!

She wanted two fish (with eye colors to match her and her fiance’s eyes) to suspend inside the “bowl” separator tier between the cake layers. Now I’ve never made fish out of Swarovski crystals before, but I wanted to help Karen out. We had both looked online and couldn’t find any fish that she liked for the cake. So… here they are! Karen’s two crystal fish! And yes, they are smooching. That was Karen’s idea. I think it was a really good one!

Thanks again for the opportunity Karen! Best to you and your new husband!

xo – Amy

Susan’s custom colors

Amy — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:02:45 +0000

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!

Thank you Susan!!

Michelle’s custom designs

Amy — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:46:28 +0000

I’ve been working with Michelle H., of Minnesota, on some custom jewelry and hair accessories for her wedding dress. She wanted a comb and necklace that would be better quality that what she was finding elsewhere, and sent me several images of styles she liked. Here are the pieces so far!

xo-Amy

I’m up late adding some new earrings… take a peek!

Amy — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:45:03 +0000

Look what’s new! Use the code “LateNights” for 10% off any of these new earrings. Offer expires Monday, March 28th!

Lexie and Gretchen and $40 off this week only

Amy — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:17:03 +0000

I’m sitting in a starbucks doing some work, and I came across these images on my camera from yesterday. I had to pause and post them. The Lexie bracelet has always been a favorite of mine, and in aquamarine and light azore, I reeeeeally love it! You can find the lexie bracelet here, and the gretchen earrings here. And this week only, I’ll give you $40 off the set. Just use the code LEXIEBLOG during checkout. The discount is good towards the purchase of the Lexie bracelet and Gretchen earrings together (i.e. not one or the other). Offer ends Saturday!

2011 Spring Collection – Debut Sale!

Amy — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:46:33 +0000

We are so excited about our new 2011 Spring collection, we are offering a coupon code for everyone who “likes” us on facebook!

Get $10 off your order of $20 or more when you “like” us on Facebook! Just go to AmysBridalAccessories.com, click on the “like” button on the top right hand side of the page, and then email us for your coupon code!

Offer good through March only!

Come see!

Amy — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:35:25 +0000

Click here to see photos from the new Spring 2011 collection!! And turn up your volume!

Bohemian love

Amy — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:43:22 +0000

Here’s some of what’s coming later today… I’m dying to show you.

the new Jamie comb

Amy — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:06:02 +0000

A vintage-inspired arrangement of oval, round and marquise rhinestones on a 1″ comb. I’m thinking of adding a version with beautiful goose biot feathers off to the side…. (the long skinny feathers!).. but I also want to add these combs by themselves.

If you want them, post a comment this week on this entry and I’ll send you a coupon for 10% off! (you can shop for them here)

xoxo – Amy