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…from the bottom of my heart to all the beautiful bloggers worldwide that have featured Alannah’s Lala Bird Party in the last month.

Amongst them my idols (eek Amy Atlas!), favourites, friends and some fantastic new blogs that I’m thrilled to find. I’m truly humbled and honoured. Thank you.

Make sure you pay them all a visit, these blogs are full of beautiful inspiration, words and ideas.
Suzi xx

Thank you to the following blogs:
Sweet Designs by Amy Atlas
Party Perfect
Little.Lovely
Cheesecakes & Cupcakes
Multiply Delicious
Mini Gaga
Cornflake – Bank on Good Style
Stationery Scoop
Not just a Mommy
Candy & Cake
Twiggi
Curly Birds
Crash this Party
Lilac and Yellow
Celebrations at Home

Special thanks also to the following gorgeous bloggers who have also mentioned our party invitations this month.
Bloesem Kids via Jennifer at Mini Stylista
Little Red Bus

(if I’ve missed you, it’s not intentional (it took me a while to sort through the links!) please let me know and I’d love to add you to the list! x)

We’ve got a beautiful new wedding invitation design just uploaded to the Boutique – Autumn Soiree, as featured in the current issue of wedding style guide. I just love the style palette they’ve put to go with it.

Also featured in Wedding Style Guide issue 13 is our Butterfly garden wedding invitation design in Tiffany blue. Thanks so much to the team at style guide for featuring our work. xx

I talk a lot about the business side of things at Alannah Rose, but today I thought I’d share something on a more personal level.

Some of you know we’ve been renovating for a couple of years now, it’s not been an easy task, with two small children under feet and a fast growing business! Many a day has been spent navigating around my husbands projects or occupying the children so he can get on with the task at hand. On saying that, we’ve loved every minute of it, and have enjoyed watching a green and yellow (yes!) 60′s house transform into a loved family home.

When the Herald Sun contacted me and asked if they could run a renovation story on us we were thrilled, the results were published in last weeks Herald Sun Saturday Home Magazine lift out, images below.

Our house is by no means finished, we’ve still got bedrooms, bathrooms, and a play room to go and there’s still furniture that needs updating and so on – but isn’t that part of the journey of owning a home? We’re currently working on the main bedroom and a cubby house for the girls which is almost complete – watch this space! xx

images in article by Chris Groenhout, words Louise Surette

One of the best things about my job is that I can design things that I love. One of my favorite designs at the moment is Love Light - it’s such a simple and classic design – modern, romantic and glamorous – all rolled into one. So I was particularly thrilled to see the images of Fiona and Mark’s Love Light themed wedding in the current issue of Style Guide. Fiona, owner of wedding planning business Couture Wedding Planning wanted to create a classic Hollywood glamour theme for her wedding, the results below show she achieved just that.

Fiona and Mark were married at St Thomas in North Sydney followed by a cocktail cruise around the harbour and reception on the top floor of Star City in the Astral Restaurant.
Above: A classic black and white theme featured in the wedding, from the bridesmaids and groomsmens attire through to the black sash on Fiona’s Mark Holt gown. Flowers by Maria Lush. Grooms suit by Matthew Lawrence Bespoke.

Above: Reception tables were set with black candelabra, mirrored vases and crystals to complement the chandelier motif on the Alannah Rose Love Light wedding menus and place cards. A stunning cake by Faye Cahill was created to co-ordinate with the Alannah Rose Love Light wedding invitations and stationery.

Wedding photography by Blumenthal

Congratulations Fiona and Mark, thanks so much for sharing your beautiful wedding day with us!
xx

For those that don’t know, aside from running Alannah Rose and raising two gorgeous girls, we are in the middle of a big renovation (read: five year project), and that I’m addicted, ok maybe obsessed with home magazines at the moment. I subscribe to a lot – possibly all – and Real Living is one of my faves, lots of images to pour over, places on where to find them and homes to drool over. So you can imagine how thrilled I was to find not only our one little lala bird gift tags and invites mentioned on page 90 of the November issue, but also to have such a gorgeous big shot of my little girl holding them! (that’s her top left).
Proud mum xx
Thanks so much Real Living Magazine!

The current issue of wedding style guide features our new Modern Retro wedding stationery in their stunning Modern Love feature. This beautiful spread in sunny yellow is so happy and vibrant. A gorgeous matching cake by Sweet Art also features and I particularly adore the button badge idea for guests to wear at the wedding. Thanks so much Style Guide!

Above: Image from Style Guide issue 12: Mix flower varieties in bowls of your colour scheme for a pretty centrepiece

Above: Alannah Rose place cards sit flat on dinnerware whilst our Modern Retro Table numbers hang overhead from lanterns for a stunning display

Above: Our new Modern Retro wedding invitation and rsvp postcard as featured in wedding style guide

Above: Clever button badges for guests to wear in the colour theme from Style Guide issue 12

Above: Modern Retro cake by Sweet Art made to match our Modern Retro Wedding Stationery.

Above: Our Modern Retro wedding stationery is available in store now. All pieces including bon bon tags, rsvp postcards, menus, table numbers and wrapping paper can be ordered.

I’m very excited this morning, the Alannah Rose Hollywood Nights cake from Sweet Art made the front cover of the spring issue of Modern Wedding Cakes!

This gorgeous cake was designed to match our stunning Hollywood Nights Stationery and Invitations and is available exclusively at Sweet Art.

Today I’m excited to share with you the gorgeous wedding of Deonne & Jefri, photographed by the fabulous team at SugarLove Weddings.

Deonne and Jefri were married on the 14th March 2009 at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, followed by a sit down reception in The Langham’s Alto Room.

Their colour scheme of black and white was based around their wedding invitations and stationery – our gorgeous Le Boutique collection.

“I chose the theme because the invites we chose were black and white and reminded me of a classic French perfume bottle” says Deonne

Deonne’s gown by Annette of Melbourne Couture was made of silk chiffon and encrusted with Swarovski crystals, offset by an elegant silver cuff by Stephanie Brown. Deonne’s posy by Whitemoss florists consisted of gorgeous David Austen roses, green rose buds and black ivy berries.

The bridal party arrrived in convertible black mustangs from MIB – Mustangs in Black, with the bridesmaids dressed in elegant black dresses by Nicolangela.

“I chose black bridesmaid dresses as the colour went with my theme and was really flattering on both girls” says Deonne.

The bridesmaids posy’s also by Whitemoss were made up of bright green molluca balm, a striking contrast to the black dresses.

The stunning decor of Melbourne’s Langham hotel set the backdrop, whilst classic black and white touches, including our Le Boutique place cards were offset by green molluca balm in black pots, styled by Deonne and her sister to finish off the theme.

The bridal party headed to the city and to the gorgeous block arcade for more photography with Sugarlove Weddings.

The men’s attire, inspired by the Beatles, one of the couples favourite bands, from Jack London.

More details on Deonne & Jefri’s wedding can be found in the current issue of Bride to Be magazine.
All photography by SugarLove Weddings.

Congratulations Deonne & Jefri xx

It was a gorgeous day in Melbourne today, just perfect for a stroll down High Street in Armadale.

I was thrilled to see my new ‘baby’ down there today – Function Accessories has a gorgeous window display of our new children’s invitation range.

I just love the way they’ve styled it – the classic white chairs, the tulips, pretty boxes with ribbon and the vase wrapped in fabric – all simple and gorgeous ideas for styling your own party.

My vision when designing the children’s invitation range was that the elements of a party don’t need to be all matchy matchy, the colours and patterns can theme in with any number of ready available items – the invitations are a starting point for your creativity! Function Accessories have captured just that in their window display.

If you’re in Melbourne, make sure you head down to Function Accessories and see Paul and Jill to discuss your children’s party styling requirements.
Function Accessories – Armadale
1014 High Street Armadale ph 03 9509 4844
Function Accessories – Brunswick
576 Sydney Road, Brunswick ph 03 9381 2222.

Function Accessories also stock our wedding invitation collection.

The lovely ladies at Wedding Style Guide have emailed me this week with a free offer to download one of their digital editions. Perfect for those without access to this gorgeous magazine!

With the digital edition you can flip through the pages as if you were reading a printed version, check the list of contents to find the exact page you’re looking for or zoom in to read the articles. Best of all you can select any one of the gorgeous images – or even entire pages – and email them to friends. You can even print out the pages to cut up for your mood boards.

I’ve had play with it tonight and I’ve found our gorgeous Raspberry Spider wedding invitation in the Pretty in Pink colour pages.

The offer is only until the 15th June, so hurry if you’d like to take a look and see how it works.
To access your free edition, click here

The gorgeous new Wedding Style Guide magazine just hit the shelves and we’re thrilled our new Botanica Belle design has been featured. This design will be online soon, but you can order it now, just email me for details. It comes standard in ivory and black, but has been featured in Style Guide in gorgeous calm green from our colour palette. Don’t forget we can do your invites in over 100 colours, see our custom colour page for details.

Above: Botanica Belle wedding invitation from Alannah Rose

Issue no 8 of Wedding Style Guide hit the stands this week and I was thrilled to find our Raspberry Spider wedding invitation featured inside. Take a look at this beautiful spread tying it in with a gorgeous pink theme!