Exquisite Premium Favours

I got this today, from a client. They are quite possibly one of the best cookies I've ever eaten. Bittersweet and not cloying on the palate, I think it would be a perfect gift for your guest at a wedding. It won't come cheap though. Handmade and baked by a Le Cordon Bleu trained chef, who's also worked at Pierre Herme, I think it would be worth every penny to serve up such exquisite delights.

Would you want your guests to enjoy such gastronomic loveliness?

A Vintage Affair

Long overdue post. Just wanted to share some pictures from a previous shoot done with Extraordinary Weddings. The theme was vintage affair, and it was floral, botanical and fluttery!

Credits here:

Bridal Bouquets:  Elite Flora

Photography:  TinyDot Photography

Styling and Flowers by Sarah of:  Poppy Flora Studio

Venue and Tablewares:  Vanilla Home

Wedding Stationery:  CardBlanche

 

Villa Halia show - Lovebirds in Paradise

We've had the privilege to showcase our stationery at the Villa Halia show last August 2011. Sharing the stage with other lovely wedding vendors, we created a suite of Lovebird-themed wedding stationery to match the table setup. :)







Concept by ExtraOrdinary Weddings | Flowers by The Red Petals | Photography by Avenue 8 | Tiffany Chairs by Wonderland for Detailed Planners | Venue Sponsor by Villa Halia | Wedding Stationery by CardBlanche

Kites of Love

I was inspired one day to illustrate this design for an invitation card. Someone had emailed me a card of a man flying a kite, and I thought, why not a couple with their names engraved in the sky?

If you like this design, please come by and have it printed with Cardblanche so I can see it come to fruition. :)

Thermal Embossing

Whilst we don't feel that printing effects are truly needed to enhance the design of an invitation, this one here is something that would definitely impress and not in an over the top manner.


Subtle and sleek, thermal embossing involves having raised text in the colour that your invitation is printed in.


Printing effects like hotstamping and embossing are very traditional and common, so thermal embossing could be an option for you should you wish to add a unique touch to your invitations.

They require a minimum of 100 invitations, do email us for details.

My babies' first-month gift pack

I love making beautiful gift boxes for baby first-month celebrations, so when it came to doing my own babies' celebration, I had a great time designing and producing these precious things.


Every box came with a little card with their photo and birth details. I included a few adorable animals like giraffe and bird - just because I like them - and two baby bunnies as my babies are born in the year of the rabbit.


Good friend awwesomepossum baked gorgeous chocolate and strawberry cupcakes...


...and these were included in the box with red eggs and traditional ang ku kueh. I had no time to individually wrap the red eggs, and decided on little rabbit stickers to enhance them.


At the back, we included a short thank you note to our guests.

If you would like a gift box for your party or baby first-month celebration, do drop us an email, and we'd try our best to assist you. :)

Living your passion

We were approached to be interviewed by SPH for these articles in The New Paper and Sunday Times Recruit. It's a series about individuals who live and work their passion. This is definitely up our alley, having fun doing the things we love. Finances can be tight sometimes with inflation and increasing overheads, but things are worth it when customers are appreciative and happy with the work we give them.



We hope we can continue to be of service to you in years to come. Appreciate all the support we can get! :) (psst...tell all your friends about us, join us on Facebook to interact!)

Big Banquets – A Personal Experience

We’re seeing smaller weddings nowadays. But big banquets are still common, especially in Singapore where most Asian families are big, and having a big wedding sometimes signifies status and financial affluence. A big banquet, however, can pose a big challenge to your pocket. It poses many other challenges too, like logistics and seating arrangements… but that’s another story.

Having had a big wedding myself, I fully understand how any couple would panic over the costs of organising such a huge event. Here are some ideas I devised for my own wedding (and some after!) to achieve what I wanted at a budget-friendly price.

Seating Cards
Having a seating card for each and every one of your 500 guests would probably be unnecessary and excessive. Who knows if 3rd auntie or great uncle would suddenly change seats and join another table of relatives. Not to mention, 500 cards would cost more, and need more time to collate and organise. At my wedding, I had small strips of printed card stock with a message behind indicating table numbers. I didn’t want guests to forget their table numbers so when they arrived at reception, their table number was written on the card and they could keep it with them until they got seated. The printed cards could even double up as bookmarks if guests brought them home.

Read more on ExtraOrdinary Weddings Blog...

Travelling the World Together

Having recently met a few couples who have globe-trotted the world together, I’ve been inspired to do a set of wedding stationery revolving around a travel theme, using illustrations, maps, and atlases.

Here are some ideas I found which would work great.

An invitation suite designed to look like a passport, this design works well for a wedding with guests from all over the world.

Favours wrapped in printed map paper. Couples can buy maps of cities they have lived in around the world, scan and print them out to make wrapping paper...

Read more at ExtraOrdinary Weddings Blog...

Bridal Trends 2011 - as seen on ExtraOrdinary Blog

2011 will be a popular year for weddings. Not only because the economy is slowly improving, but also because many couples, especially those of Chinese ethnicity, would probably like to try their luck at conceiving in the year after – the “Dragon year” in the Chinese zodiac, commonly seen as an auspicious year to give birth. Besides this, there are the many opportunities for nice dates – 11/11/ 2011, 20/11/2011, 1/11/2011, 11/02/2011…..and the list goes on.

As for trends in the wedding industry, we will be expecting a continued interest in destination weddings, vintage details, and customised stationery.

Destination Weddings
It’s only the beginning of the year, but we at Cardblanche have had many enquiries for weddings taking place in sunny beach destinations towards the middle of this year. Many couples know the importance of letting their guests know early-on about their special day, and are getting ready with invitations. Weddings at the beach tend to be small, intimate affairs, and there is more emphasis on creating a personal touch for guests. It could be a welcome gift pack, or a special itinerary created for a week-long celebration. And for beach weddings, couples are requesting for specially-designed stationery to match their theme or the place where their wedding is being held.

Destination Wedding Invite by CardBlanche

Destination weddings elsewhere are of growing popularity as well. From Japan to England, Australia to India, couples are celebrating their big day overseas although they might live, work, and have friends and family in Singapore. Perhaps their venue could be in their hometown, or maybe somewhere special where they’ve met. Stationery for destination weddings like this could rely on their ethnicity, origins, and the culture of their venue. All exciting themes for weddings!

Vintage Touches
Whilst ball gowns with bustier continue to be a popular favourite, the trumpet gown will be taking centrestage this season. Fitted around the waist and hips, it creates a sleek shapely silhouette and ‘explodes’ at the bottom in fluffy tulle or a long train. Details will be subtle and simple to allow for the dramatic skirt.

Left: Fiona
Asymmetrically draped strapless stretch Mikado mermaid gown with full tissue organza skirt with ladder technique by Vera Wang.

Right: Silk Taffeta Toscana Ball Gown

Read more at ExtraOrdinary Weddings Blog...

Dymo Tape

Are you old enough to remember this? We are...sounds a bit sad that way... But anyway, I have kept this since I was a kid, when my parents used it to type out instructions and stick them in the bathroom (they're waterproof!). I wonder if the shops still sell this.

~ Ally

Cheena Love

This has been lying around for ages. I picked it up because Lunar New Year is just next week and I am in the mood for some "cheena-lovin'". Or, in other words, I am being inspired by traditional and kitschy ethnic Chinese designs. :)

~ Ally

Themed weddings & parties

We've been working on some themed shoots...here are a couple of photos to whet your appetite. Your patience will be rewarded. :)

Cookie Delights

Here are more favour ideas to delight you. We really love the monogrammed wedding cake cookies, the cookie lollies, and the stacked cookies that look like mini wedding cakes. Oh hey, that's all of it! :)

Monogrammed cupcakes!

We were terribly excited to show you these! Monogrammed cupcakes!


Just imagine, cute little cupcakes with your monogram on icing on top. Do your whole suite of stationery with us, and we will design your monogram and apply it to a whole host of items like Invitations, Envelopes, RSVP cards, Table seating cards, Place cards, Thank you cards, Favour tags, etc, etc...

Call us at 62203044 to find out more!

calligraphy envelopes

Give your guests a pleasant surprise by having the addresses done in pretty calligraphy style.



Complete your wedding invitations with these elegant and classy addressed envelopes. Btw, these are done via computer and not handwritten, thus making it more affordable :)

Nothing like a customised rubber stamp

Sometimes, there's nothing like a uniquely-made customised gift to please a friend. This was done by Fern for her friend's birthday. Needless to say, her friend was absolutely touched by this. It is gorgeous eh?

Cupcakes

These cupcakes for our recent baby first-month gift box are an absolute delight. We find these cupcakes great as wedding favours, and especially precious when they are presented in clear domes like these!

Stamped with Love

We decided to make these rubber stamps one day on a whim. We haven't had one done up yet with our new address, and a client's order of lovely self-addressed envelopes made us itch for our own. We did ours in a heavily calligraphed fashion. Hope the postman can read them though!


Felt like doing this "LOVE" rubber stamp as well. Just because.


And Ally had one done up for her home address, which her husband gave up trying to read and then asked what the point of it was, if no one can read the return address. -_-

It's just nice, period.