Designer Wedding Show

Male: Your cake looks absolutely stunning. How on earth do you create something so beautiful? Linda Fripp: I take my inspiration from anything. Something comes when I see it, I think yap that would do well with this by whole the other or I get something in my hands and start molding it and it just sort of arrives. What we try to do is find out if they’ve a got a theme running through the wedding. The source of venue that they’re going to so we can have a picture of the room in our mind that the cakes going to fit in. Talk about the like, dislikes, whether they want a sort of English country garden or classic chick or simple understated elegance and then we design with paper and pencil and start from scratch to work our way through. Male: And what kinds of styles are really popular at the moment? Linda Fripp: Minimal. Something like the cake over there, very, very simple single color, the white or white one. This one, very simple classic. Female: Edwina, talk to me to your collection and your styles. Edwina Ibbotson: Well, I was trying to quite styles which all things are kind of vintage slightly with the ancient and modern age and some do some taverns and sort of lots of different things. We need lots of different beads and glitter and— Female: So you do bridal as well as mother of the bride and guests. Edwina Ibbotson: Yes, guests. Female: What’s your bridal collection like? Edwina Ibbotson: Bride collection quite a boutique things but yet some quite extravagant things and then they range from small little butterflies to quite big pieces and do quite of getting mother bride wanting to wear something like very cream and I try and destruct them to take them away because however lovely they look than someone over in a distance that “where’s the bride?”, there next the mother, the bride— Male: Do you know where these idea come from? Jim Richardson: Well actually I’d love to so it was more like to it but it isn’t. A friend of mine was on holiday in Thailand and through the streets of Bangkok there’s lots of it or vendors that use old big Volkswagen campus and so the idea was boom, boom from that basic. It obviously they’re not with splashes—it’s a cocktail campus but that’s what the idea came from. It was 1974 model and completely erupt and the engine was gone and though we completely strip it down and put a new engine, push engine two and a half full engine so from top to bottom it’s been completely reinvent. And inside is an actual—it would go in a market. It would go in a field. It’s got it’s own music system, real big speaker so it actually doubles as—box as well. See it don’t need, I’m putting some things—businesses here, I’m sorry but you know we can do the whole thing for me in here and it’s got its online system which you see. So we can do it, so you can have it anywhere you like indoors or outdoors we’re ready to go. Nathalie O’ Donovan: Well the thing, the key with wedding stationary is to make it as personal and be specific as possible to weddings. So if you have a flower or color themes start with that and move through your stationary using that as your starting point so if you’re color strain we can produce some invitations for you to have a lovely green theme or if your wedding is all about the fact that you’ve known each other for a long time, we’ve got invitations with images of children on. Female: We have all our faces range where to use this—as couple as they are now and then as they are children. It’s a little bit of croaky design that makes a bit of fun there. Their moms and dads always love this one. It’s a real popular one and always good for grannies and moms. This is a little bit necklace. We have a jewel, diamond heart set on the cards. Very plain, very simple, very collective and inside we have a very —font so it’s a nice mix of new and old. What’s really good at the moment is the—it’s an embossed board, oh mine is a fabric board and we add the prints on that and then we set it with ribbons, that’s our lovely safety designed. And we’ve got traditional monogram, always popular couples, always go for that lovely and it happen—peaceful, a nice photo that such a couples hands when they go to engaged as her nice— And again we bring in the elements like the monogram just to make it not so personal and lots of people go on and have the monogram on that place—your wedding invitation needs to be about the mood of your day, you need to capture the whole spirits of your occasion so go to something that’s really individual and really special to you and your partner. If it’s a texture or a color or a flower anything just use that and move forward from that.