$40 off our Felt Flower Bouquet Kits! This week only.

Posted on 28. Feb, 2012 by Princess Lasertron.

We redesigned our felt flower kit instruction booklet (thanks to our design intern Anna Vargas!) and I get to go pick up the big stack of new booklets to fold, glue, and staple tomorrow afternoon. I could NOT be more excited–our original instruction booklet was designed by me almost four years ago and it was definitely time for an update!

I want to get these new kits into the hands of as many brides as possible, so I’m offering $40 off our kits this week only! Normally $140, you can get your customized felt flower bouquet kit in all of your favorite colors for only $100 between now and Friday. Just go to shop.princesslasertron.com, fill up your shopping cart, and be sure to let me know what colors you want in the “notes to seller” box before you pay. Easy as pie.

We also offer Bridesmaid Packs, which is a box of four kits for the price of three. You’ll have enough material to make four bouquets for everyone in your wedding party, or even a few small ones for a flower girl or special guest. We’re offering our Bridesmaid Packs at $350 through the end of the week too.

Photo of Kaitlyn’s wedding bouquet made from one of our kits. Photo from Tanja Heffner

I also have lots of supplies and extra little flowers to destash from the winter, so each customer this week will get a fun little bottle of extra goodies as well.
xo
meg

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Julie’s DIY felt flower bouquet and a February deal!

Posted on 09. Feb, 2012 by Princess Lasertron.

I just read this e-mail from Julie, a lovely lady who ordered a kit to create a bouquet for her wedding last year. Julie sent me some pictures of her finished bouquet to share and I’m really impressed with the awesome work she did! She added some of her own buttons, brooches, and made some different shaped flowers with extra felt which I thought was very creative. That’s one of the things I love most about seeing finished work from our kits–brides always add such personal details that I wouldn’t have thought or known to do if I had made the bouquet for them.

I purchased your kit, and I must say this was the most fun, and honestly one of my favorite things from our wedding. I tried to do most of the decorations, cake topper, and favors myself, and the excitement of seeing my beautiful bouquet come together was so fulfilling. The best part of it was showing my mother how awesome it looked, when she was my biggest critic on the felt flower idea. She loved it and paraded it around the reception showing all of her friends..lol. So thank you so much for giving me the tools and ideas to help make that day so memorable.
-Julie

Want to make a bouquet of your own? You can order a kit to make a 16-stem bouquet just like my original felt flower bouquet–I send you absolutely everything you need (even needles!) in any colors you want. And in February when you order two kits (one for you, one for a bridesmaid?) you get a free posie bouquet for your flower girl valued at $75 in your colors. It would also work as a great toss bouquet!

Thanks Julie for sharing your pretty bouquet, and happy planning to all you sweet couples.

xo
meg

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Amy and Dave’s Magical Telluride Wedding

Posted on 23. Jan, 2012 by Princess Lasertron.

Amy is another customer who I feel has become a friend. She and I worked very closely together on her bouquet, which was a beautiful mix of handmade flowers, carefully embroidered leaves, and precious found objects (marbles? leather scraps? vintage millinery bees?). When Amy mailed all of the special goods to me, they came packed in a meticulously decorated package, covered in stickers by a girl she nannies. After all the work was done, approved, and shipped in a big white box to Amy, I soon found a lovingly wrapped loaf of cranberry walnut bread (with the recipe), and it was even vegan so I could share it with my husband.

Amy was kind enough to share some of her favorite details about her big day, as well as her professional pictures shot by Merrick Chase. Now, in Amy’s own words…

About the wedding location: Telluride, Colorado

We decided to get married at one of our very favorite places, Telluride, CO. We had been there a couple times before, and he proposed to me there on a trail overlooking the whole valley exactly one year prior to our wedding date, June 16th. Having a destination wedding in a remote town, on the opening day of a huge Bluegrasss festival made it logistically challenging, but we had a lot of fun with it. We knew that our guests would either be totally committed and pumped for the vacation, or not in at all, (which ultimately weeded out all the negative Nancys), and we ended up with an incredible group of close friends and family in an incredible valley in Colorado!!

About the dress: Something borrowed

My wedding dress was borrowed! I got so lucky, especially since I’m so short and petite. My friend, Nicole let me do whatever I wanted with it, and I will always be so thankful to her laid back attitude about a dress she wore only 3 years prior. We redesigned the whole back of the dress, and all in all it only cost me a few hundred bucks! I also wore a gorgeous turquoise necklace, and cowboy boots, complimented with simple makeup and a sweeping side French braid. I really love that I looked like myself on my wedding day, and didn’t go all crazy with hair and makeup!

About the ceremony:

The ceremony was tricky for us because without being religious we could really take it anywhere, and because our options were limitless it really almost stressed me out. Also by researching fun activities for our guests we came along the name of one of the oldest cowboys in town, Roudy Roudebusch. We loved his old-world approach and called him up to see if by chance he had ever preformed a wedding ceremony. To our delight he had! AND he was up for it, well, after he got to know us a little more personally. He had the right amount of sophistication, and humor, and had been married for over 50 years, and he looked awesome. However he did forgot to announce the part at the end where we kiss and I was like “Hey, aren’t we supposed to kiss?!” and everyone laughed and it made for some awesome pics, and our kiss was perfect! We were SO happy and it was just so natural. I absolutely love those pictures.

Reception decor: DIY driftwood place cards

We used small driftwood pieces that we gathered near our home in California as a twist on traditional place card holders. Dave cut a curved slice into each piece, and instead of using a name card, we collected old photos of each guest and put that into a piece of driftwood at their spot on the table. It was so cool for our friends/family members to be surprised with a picture of themselves. Some were totally wacky, like a ridiculous Halloween costume, others were 30 years old, like the photo we used for my mom on my parents wedding day, and still others were perhaps a unique photo that only the specific guest would be able to recognize, like a photo we used of our friend, Stacey, where you couldn’t see her face, but instead a view of Machu Picchu which was from a trip she took last summer. The photos were also an easy way way for each table to get the conversation flowing. Each guest also took their photo and driftwood piece home, which can be used again and again. We never wanted to do assigned seating in the first place, but it ended up being a necessity, and boy did we have fun with those pictures!

Advice for future brides

All I can suggest to an engaged couple is to have fun with it, and do it exactly the way you want to. After all its YOUR day, not your parents’, or your grandparents’, or anyone else’s, keeping things respectful of course. Ultimately, it should be a reflection of your love and commitment to each other, and there’s no wrong way to go about it! Shoot, we did it at a Bluegrass festival! The sky is the limit, and if you have friends that can help with the crafty side of stuff you can keep the costs relatively low. The most expensive part for us was lodging in Telluride. (because of the festival) Otherwise, we got creative and cut corners where we felt they could be cut.

More of my favorite details from Amy and Dave’s wedding:

♥ A New Orleans-style procession into the city for the wedding, with the band playing and all!
♥ Dave’s hand-drawn map of Telluride for people driving into the city
♥ Packages sent to each guest with a map, something to do in the car, CD’s for the drive, a magazine about Telluride, and custom SPF15 chap sticks.
♥ Forgoing the traditional wedding invitations for a wedding website designed by Dave

Thanks again Amy for the honor and privilege of being part of your wedding day, and congratulations to you and Dave on your continued journey together! Enjoy the ride.
xo
meg

All photos thanks to Merrick Chase Photography.

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meaghan’s flowers

Posted on 19. Jan, 2012 by Princess Lasertron.

Meaghan came to me about a year ago when she got engaged and asked me to make her wedding flowers. (She first saw my work when I made her sister Jen’s wedding bouquet in 2009. There’s no better recommendation than from a sister!) With a color palette of navy and orange with yellow and white details, I spent some time thinking of ways to interpret that color palette with elegance and whimsy, and not venture too far into Denver Broncos territory–you know how that can happen: strong, bold colors connoting sports teams. But we found some very beautiful inspiration photos that showed blends of orange and navy (like here, here, and the one provided by Meaghan here).

Here’s what we came up with.

Meaghan’s sister Jen brought lots of buttons and special keepsakes to our studio in Omaha, and I was able to use every single one in Meaghan’s bouquet.

Congratulations again to Meaghan and her fiance. Check out the rest of her flowers, including corsages and boutonnieres here in her Flickr set.

xo
meg

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Ring in the new year with 20% off corsages and boutonnieres for your wedding!

Posted on 01. Jan, 2012 by Princess Lasertron.

Congratulations to all of you newly engaged people out there and thanks to everyone who is thinking about ordering a Princess Lasertron bouquet or boutonniere for their wedding day. In the month of January I’m having a 20% off sale on all of our boutonnieres and corsages to give your wedding party, friends, and family in attendance a little something special. These accessories normally range between $17-40, so a 20% savings can really help all brides on a budget.

I love making custom wedding flowers and accessories. Here’s why.

• Each flower order is made with vintage vintage buttons, trim, and other ephemera that I have been carefully collecting for six years.
• I embroider each flower by hand, usually while watching Hulu or during Alice’s naps.
• My bouquets have come a long way since I first started in 2005–I have learned so much about how to improve the quality and add more personal details that I take a lot of personal pride in.
• Many of my customers have become close friends. I love to hear about each bride’s continued journey–jobs, houses, children, travel.

Start by filling out our bridal inquiry form so I can learn more about you, your partner, and what I can do to help make one of the biggest milestones in your life even better. You can tell me about the colors that inspire you, share photos to help me visualize your ideal flowers, and even post some of your own small treasures in the mail for me to integrate into your order.

This offer is good for all orders placed in January, so take advantage of it before it’s too late!

xo
meg

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