here comes the bride... all dressed in... paper!? tis' the season, the wedding season, that is! we're busy working on fall save the dates and spring wedding invitations and day-of materials, so we decided to do a wedding-themed window!
we've adorned Cindy (that's our mannequin's name - kindly on loan from jean theory:; which should be opening up in its new location on the downtown mall next to derriere de soie any day now!) with a paper wedding gown. it sure was fun (and challenging!) to create. for those of you who saw her in the shop before she had her full dress on, we apologize for Cindy on her behalf; she didn't like being indecent and blushed a rather lot! meet cindy (at least she has a slip on here):
this window would not have been possible without the samples generously sent to us by our vendors (mr. boddington's studio, press NY, regas, pica press, tag & company) - thank you!
here's the full dress and a closeup of the scallop-edged bust made from escort cards. i love the ribbon sash and secondary sash made out of "save the date" cards. aren't her pearls gorgeous? cindy really shined when we put those around her neck.
no wedding is complete without a cake or champagne toast (and the robin's egg blue box never hurts!)...
now, i dont have a great pic of the big letters ("M" and "S") which were part of what sparked the idea for this window - when we went into our basement, we found large metal letters that used to make up the sign for "STACY'S MUSIC" (but only 1 s and 1 m), a previous tenant of the 225 east main street space. our thinking was, "you go from a 'Ms.' (cut us some slack) to a 'Mrs.' on your wedding day, hence the sign, 'the soon to be' with an 'R' dropping in to the 'Ms.' to form 'Mrs.'"
and alas, the full window:
brides, be sure to come in to check out all of the new designs we have from tag & company, pica press, elum (but guess what, we have even more new ones from elum that we haven't even shared with you yet!), regas NY, two trick pony, page stationery, and thomas-printers!
