Update: Official Monogram

When my sister saw the monogram that I made last week, she volunteered to pimp it up! She photoshop-ed it, made some tweaks here and there and voila! Here's our Official Monogram! :)

Since we're having a Fashion + Formula 1 Fusion themed-wedding, she made the background checkered (just like F1's checkered flag) and made it with champagne and gold lace textures. She also included our wedding date and had our initials overlap each other. :)

Update: My not-so finished DIY bouquets

Last week, I shared a sneak peek of my DIY entourage bouquets. Today, my mom and I were able to finish the pink Dior roses and we tried assembling it together with the crystals and feathers. Here's what we have so far:

Each bouquet is made up of 10 roses. Half of the bouquets have 4 pink and 6 orange roses while the other half have 4 orange and 6 pink roses. The beads are the left-overs I had from making our wedding cord; and the feathers are goose feathers that I bought in Divisoria. Technically, we're still not done with it. We're planning to add lace and other embellishments on the handle.

I'm really happy how it turned out to be. I hope my girls will like it too! :)

DIY Monogram

Here's our Official Monogram! I've been contemplating for months now how to go about designing it but in the end, I chose to make it as simple and elegant as possible. Mind you, I don't know anything about Photoshop! I made this using my trusted 2010 MS Powerpoint. lol. 

The background is a picture of a champagne-colored fabric I found here. I edited it and I just added our initials, D and M. The letter in the middle contains the initials of our last names, C and L.

Not bad, eh?! :p

Sneak Peek: DIY entourage bouquet

Last year, I enrolled in a Sewing class and our teacher, Pidge Reyes, taught us how to make a Dior Couture Rose. Making the rose was not easy. It'll require you to individually cut and sew 9 pieces of petals (shaped like a football) together just to make 1 rose. When I made my first rose, I thought it was pretty and nice, but that's just about it. Pidge loved my rose and said it was perfect. He told me that I should make more to embellish my clothes and other stuff. He even gave me more satin and organza fabric to use. I just smiled at him and politely got the fabrics. During that time, I was just glad I was able to pass his class. ;p

Fast forward to the wedding preps. I wanted to really personalize our wedding and I thought of incorporating my love for fashion. I suddenly remembered the Dior rose that I made and had this crazy idea of making a lot of couture roses for my entourage. This crazy idea started in April; I went to Divisoria to buy fabrics in May; I made my first rose in June; and lo and behold come October, I was finally able to finish 30 roses (thanks to my mom for helping me)! Here's a glimpse of what we've done so far...

Excited as I am, there are still A LOT of work to do. I'm currently doing another 30 pieces of roses in pink. I'm hoping to add more embellishments to it like feathers, crystals and beads and other stuff that I could think of and eventually assemble it to fashionable fabric bouquets. I'm keeping my hopes high that I can finish it by November. :)

You might be wondering what a Dior Couture Rose is. I got this definition from  this article.

A couture touch, a designer detail, a signature:  designers since the dawn of haute couture have made flowers and trims from ribbons and fabric, but none is as famous as the Dior rose.  Dior allowed his roses to cascade down ball-gown backs; he used them to call attention to the nipped waists on suit jackets and evening dresses…