Introducing: Hand Crafted Creations by Victoria Joanne

Don't you just love it when vendors come together to give you want you want? I know I do & that is one reason I always search for the greatest vendors to collaborate with. In the past, I have featured custom garters by Victoria Joanne... but today I would like to introduce you to her Handcrafted Creations line.

Handcrafted Creations was created by Victoria Joanne to bring you custom embroidered ring bearer pillows, dress tags, flower girl baskets and more. She has many years of experience in embroidery and has the ability to create a special design made just for her clients or to recreate a design the client brings with them. This talent takes many hours to accomplish but to Victoria, it is worth every minute because customer satisfaction is her goal.

So what can the two of us do for you? If you follow Ten23 Designs, you are already aware that I create custom monograms for dance floor decals and other decor needs. Now, that same monogram I create for your decal, can be embroidered into a custom ring bearer pillow (& much more) by Handcrafted Creations.

Check her out...

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hand.crafted.creations
Twitter: http://twitter.com/handcrafted_hcc
Blog: http://blog.hand-craftedcreations.com/
Website: http://www.hand-craftedcreations.com/Gallery
Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/victoriajoanne
Wedding-Luv: http://club.wedding-luv.com/profile/wedding_garters

{Real Wedding} Marie & Jared

Once again I had the pleasure to work with Tanya Hendricks of Southern Charm Events located in Jacksonville, Florida (where I live). Tanya is known in the industry for having an amazing eye for detail. She knows that some of the smallest things, can have a very big impact.

The monogram glass blocks with the lights inside of them were a big hit once again. They add such a charming personalization to any area of the room.

If your wedding has a theme other than your monogram, a decal of your theme image would also make for an awesome focal point.

One area that can sometimes be tricky to decorate is the sign-in table and place card table. Tanya added the couples monogram decal to a frame and wha-laa, personalized decor that doesn't take up too much space on the table.

*Great home decor idea* Take photos from the wedding and create a collage under the glass so the monogram sits above it. It's all about creating memories.

The venue had a large dance floor. To bring the open space together, Tanya added the dance floor decal and then spaced 6' snow flake decals I made for her sporadically throughout the dance floor. She created the perfect winter wonderland for the happy couple.

For the ceremony, Tanya even added a monogram decal to an aisle runner, for a quick, affordable personalized touch! (Photo coming soon).

Congratulations Marie & Jared!

{Real Wedding} Ashleigh & Andrew

I recently had the pleasure of working with Tanya Hendricks, owner of Southern Charm Events on a couple of weddings... each equally fantastic. Tanya does an amazing job putting a wedding together and makes any size budget look like a high end affair.

The first project I worked on with Tanya was for a beautiful couple, Ashleigh & Andrew. Their colors were dark pink & black infused into a damask theme.

For the lovely couple, I created a dance floor monogram decal, several monograms for glass blocks which Tanya lit up (beautiful), a monogram frame to greet guests, an aisle runner and a monogram vase for the sign in table.

The monogram vase was used to hold wine corks that the guests signed as they entered the affair. What a neat concept!

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Bride's Choice Award 2010 Winner

Press Release
{Jacksonville, Florida} – {January 20, 2010} - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced Ten23 Designs has been selected to receive the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for Unique Event Decor

The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Ten23 Designs is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers.

“We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

We are happy to announce that Ten23 Designs is among the very best Unique Event Decor within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™.

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Inspiration Board: Pink & Green Birthday

With my daughter's first birthday in just 3 months, I though it would be a good time to start planning. I love handmade treasures and was able to build this collection of mostly all handmade & mommy made goodies.

The monogram in the center was designed by me & would be used on her invitations, thank you cards & of coarse it will be made into a decal for the front door & other various locations throughout the event.

(Shown clockwise from the top left corner)

The banner is simply adorable. I found it on colshelly's Etsy page. She has very unique party items.

My husband and I love to serve good eats on a skewer. Food on a stick = smiling faces. Orange1 has these great cocktail skewers with beautiful beaded tips.

My daughter hasn't had any custom clothes made for her yet, and I think her birthday is a great occassion to have a shirt made for her. Modernfrills has cute birthday shirts and much more.

One of my favorite types of favors to send guests home with are sweet treats. Accent the Party must share my sweet favor passion. They offer these yummy custom gum wrappers & personalize for FREE.

I have been in love with these beautiful maryjane baby shoes made by GraciousMay since before my daughter was born. I just love the color, pattern & the flower is the perfect topper.

Who doesn't love cupcakes. If you know my personally, you know I do. And what's better than a cupcake? A faux cupcake you can keep forever. I found these awesome faux cupcakes on LaDeeDah's Etsy shop. (**In cupcake love**)

Sugarandspicekid on Etsy knows parties. She creates some of the cutest party hats & bloomers I have ever seen. I cannot wait to see my little girl in her 1st birthday hat.

As I mentioned, I love cupcakes... and I love the cupcake toppers PamperYourParty has created. Not only are they the perfect cupcake topper for this event, they also have a coordinating invitation which is very nice.

We cannot forget about room decor... thank goodness PartyPoms has not forgotten. Her blossoms are so delightful and can hang in any area of the party.

So what do you think of this collection? Do you create handmade goodies or know of any that would fit into this collection? I would love to see them so please leave a link below.

{Real Wedding} Ashaki & Embry

A few months ago, a very sweet bride contacted me, wanting to have a custom monogram dance floor decal made. She went with a very beautiful, unique design. After I finished her decal, I knew it was going to make a big impact... but I had no idea it would make my own jaw drop.



Her wedding day came together so beautifully. Congratulations to the happy couple!