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Places please! Pamper guests with beautiful place cards.

Place cards are essential to helping guests find their reception seats easily. So be sure to make sure your place cards also help set the tone for a beautiful reception! There are so many ways to personalize place cards — just consider your wedding colors and theme, and add your creativity.

Place cards are available in every Jean M paper color and can be personalized with your names, wedding date, design choice or monogram. Choose an ink color that coordinates with your wedding look and you have little masterpieces at each place setting! Add ribbons to our ribbon place cards for an extra-beautiful touch. Ribbons are available in 3/8" or 5/8" x 100 yard rolls - then you can use the remaining ribbon for decorating!

Place cards can also accent your favors! Use them to top cellophane bags filled with colorful candies that match your wedding colors, and tie with a pretty ribbon.

 

It’s also fun to put together little favor kits, package them in cellophane bags and top with a place card printed with a fun message or a design. Create a kit to warm a winter’s night with a candle and personalized matches…

 

…or a guys’ golf kit, complete with a golf ball, golf tees, a cigar and some personalized matches.

 

Enjoy!

 

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One vase — so many options! Check out our beautiful centerpiece ideas.

Struggling with ideas for centerpieces? Relax! We’re here with so many beautiful ideas for you — and they all start with a simple, rectangular vase.

Our rectangular vases come in two sizes for adding height and variety to your centerpieces, and they’re available in sets of 12 to make it easy to decorate your entire event. Best of all, they can be personalized with your initial or with a design that coordinates with your wedding theme for creative, unique and personal centerpieces!

Check out our ideas and get inspired for decorating YOUR wedding!

1. Our rectangular vases in two sizes, just waiting for your creative touch!

2. Group small and large vases filled with flowers for lush, beautiful centerpieces. For personalized vases, be sure to position a large leaf behind the engraving so it “pops.”

3. Nautical or beach theme? Engrave with a coordinating design and add a goldfish for a unique, fun centerpiece.

4. For a fresh, summertime look, fill the vases with sliced lemons and add flowers and whole lemons. It will look AND smell wonderful!

5. Fill the vases with ornaments, beads, feathers, crystals or other holiday items to add elegance to your winter wedding tables. Use the ornaments after the wedding to decorate your first Christmas tree together as a married couple!

6. Wrap vases with textured fabrics and add natural elements to evoke your theme, like shells and starfish for your beach wedding.

7. A simple band of grosgrain ribbon that matches your flowers makes a colorful impact.

8. The small vases are perfect for creating low centerpieces that make it easy for guests to converse across the table. Add some bling with a gem initial pick.

9. Use the vases for floating candles — and make sure to add elements that coordinate with your theme to the water, like holiday berries, seashells or colorful beads.

10. The vases are great to use for your candy bar! Fill large and small vases with colorful candies that match your color scheme, and accent them with ribbon tags and colorful ribbon for a coordinating touch.

11. Fill vases with long-stemmed roses for guests to take as a sweet reminder as they leave your wedding. Add a personalized seal and wind matching ribbon around the vase for an eye-catching look.

12. Turn your favors into centerpieces — it’s creative, fun and saves you money! For instance, fill vases with treats and place them on tables for guests to enjoy throughout your reception. We show fortune cookies inside the vase, which we decorated with two ribbon colors and chopsticks for a finishing touch.

13. Tropical weddings are so colorful — so you can add interest to your tables economically by creating centerpieces of greens with just a few bright blossoms tucked in here and there.

14. Want to double the impact of your centerpieces? Place the vases on mirrors! Add even more sparkle to adding colorful gems to the bottom of the vases to secure your floral arrangements. Sprinkle a few gems over the mirrors and on your tables, too!

Enjoy!

Personalized glassware and vases — for extra-personal toasts and decorations!

The personal details you add are what will make your wedding special. So make those personal details really stand out by ordering engraved glassware and vases. The glasses and vases may be personalized with your names and wedding date, your monogram or a design that coordinates with your wedding look perfectly.

Imagine your guests' reactions when you raise toasting glasses that have been personalized — the first toasts made in honor of your wedding will be so much more meaningful! Also order personalized glasses for the entire wedding party for a totally coordinated toasting look.

If you're hosting a wine-tasting reception, having your wedding at a vineyard, or are simply wine lovers, consider taking on the latest trend of serving wine and toasting from stemless glasses. You'll be chic with personal flair!  Stemless glasses are also fun for serving cocktails — the more colorful the better! And don't forget to provide a supply of cocktail napkins personalized to match your glassware for a totally coordinated look for your cocktail hour.

Are the men in your wedding party beer lovers? Give them the gift of personalized ultra-size mugs  for using during the bachelor party, rehearsal dinner and even during the social hour and wedding dinner. As a great gift package, fill the mugs with their favorite snacks, tickets to the game and other treats.

 

Imagine the decorating possibilities with vases you can engrave to match your wedding style and theme! Fill them with items that match your wedding look...

...or with a beautiful floral arrangement for a centerpiece.

 

And add romantic glow to your entire celebration with floating candles in personalized clear glass cylinders.

 

The vases and cylinders also make great gifts for your bridesmaids and special friends.

Enjoy!

A color story to inspire you: Tropical Aqua and Margarita!

Planning a destination wedding — or just dreaming of a tropical-theme event? We have the perfect colors to get you inspired and dreaming of your island I-Dos!

Here, we’ve put together a Tropical Color Story in Aqua and Margarita to give you ideas for creating a wedding look that’s beachy, breezy and beautiful. Just look at all the options you have for mixing, matching and coordinating!

1. Want to add a touch of color, personality and style to your wedding gown and your ’maids’ dresses? Add a ribbon sash in your wedding colors and be unique! Photo by Got The Shot Photography: www.gottheshot.com

2. Add color and style to your reception with turquoise napkins and lime green napkins in shades that mimic the sea and sky.

3. Choose aqua paper and margarita ribbon for your wedding programs  — and add a cute design like our beach chair design (JM8010) that matches the location and theme of your destination wedding.

4. Once you’ve set the date and your destination, send great save the date cards to everyone on your guest list. This great hibiscus design is on a magnet so guests can display your date in full view! Save the date cards are especially important for destination weddings, as guests will need time to make travel plans and arrangements.

5. Add tropical flowers and swags of coordinating fabric to your ceremony and reception chairs to add to the lush and festive atmosphere of your destination.

6. Bring the beach right to your tables with fun, shell place card holders. They double as favors for guests, too!

7. Help guests keep cool at your ceremony with custom program fans.  Choose a beautiful, aqua paper and matching ribbon to match the color scheme of your destination celebration.

8. Coordinate your wedding colors right down to your wedding favors! Jean M makes it easy with beautiful aqua favor boxes and margarita favor boxes — add a personalized seal for a fun finishing touch!

9. Make memories at your destination wedding and then keep photos of them in our fun, aqua photo album. The album also makes a great gift for attendants!

10. Your cake will be the centerpiece of your entire reception when it’s frosted in the color of the waves and decorated with the gems of the sea!

11. Decorating for beach-side and tropical-theme weddings couldn’t be easier! Just add sand, shells and candles to beautiful vases. The vases prevent the flames from blowing out in the ocean breeze, giving you romantic décor all night long.

12. Favors become even more fun when you fill favor boxes with treats specific to your destination or candies in colors that coordinate with your color scheme. Add a ribbon and a tiny shell to each to make them beach-worthy!

13. Lush, tropical blooms in tall, clear vases will make your celebration look like it’s taking place in the Garden of Eden.

14. Hibiscus-print wedding invitation cards will tell guests that your wedding will be in the tropics — and that it will be beautiful!

15. Top your cake with a little bit of the tropics! Our clear, custom acrylic cake top is engraved with an elegant palm tree design. The cake top looks like heavy crystal, but is lightweight and packable to take along to your wedding destination.

16. Aiming for a whimsical reception? Go artsy and fanciful with your wedding cake! Different swirls, waves and bubble patterns in the frosting make this topsy-turvy model look like its riding the waves.

17. Arrange fun and colorful favor candies in individual glass votive holders for a unique presentation. Add a ribbon and printed shell-shaped favor tag for a beachy touch.

18. Choose a design that coordinates with your destination for printing on your favor boxes, napkins, programs, menu cards and more. Check out all our great designs here.

 

Enjoy!

The sweetest new wedding theme emerges...

They've established themselves as sweet little elements in the decorating world and now they're flitting about at weddings. What's the hottest, most adorable wedding theme for this year? Birds!

And they're not only beautiful accent and decor elements. Birds are also an inspirational symbol of your love and your lives joining. Many species of birds mate for life and are faithful partners to each other in building their homes and raising their young. It's no wonder newlyweds are often referred to as "lovebirds!"

Choose birds as your main wedding theme or add them as elements into your nature-rooted, romance-themed, whimsical or vintage-inspired wedding. Also add elements that refer to birds to complete your wedding look, like decorating with beautiful nests and faux eggs, presenting favors on beds of feathers, creating wreaths and decorations with feather boas, and giving egg-shaped candies as favors.

 

Also use birdcages as decor, to hold cards from guests, and to display floral arrangements and favors. Add a personalized ribbon and a single feather to each favor box for a whimsical personal touch!

 

When personalizing your wedding, Jean M has the perfect design — a pair of lovebirds on a flowering branch. Use this design (JM8216) to accent your...

    

cocktail and dinner napkins…         aisle runner…                                favor boxes…

 

 

candle floating personalized petite glass cylinders…

 

glassware…

…and cake top! 

 

Guests will be all a-twitter about signing this adorable bird-design guest book.

 

Follow up your wedding theme with our bird-design thank you notes, complete with robin's-egg-blue envelopes!

 

Enjoy!

Personalized ribbon — the perfect personal touch!

When you want to make your favors, gifts and decorations extra personal and extra unique, personalized ribbon is the perfect addition!

Our smooth satin ribbon is available in so many beautiful colors — you're sure to find the perfect color or combination of hues to coordinate with your wedding look. The ribbon is printed with your names and wedding date or any message up to 20 characters in length. Be creative! Print your ribbon with your destination wedding location or wording that symbolizes your love. You can also print ribbon with wording for holidays and gifts for a special touch, or for special occasions.  It's available in 50 foot rolls in  3/8" or 5/8" widths.

Your names add a fun and personal touch to the ribbon around your favors, or bubbles or rice for the ceremony.

 

Make guests smile with a fun saying like "We Tied The Knot" printed on your ribbons.

 

Destination wedding? Show you love it by printing the location or a fun location-related saying on your ribbons!

Make your holiday decorations and gifts even more festive with ribbon printed with clever, holiday-related sayings like "Gobble Gobble!"

  

Add a meaningful touch to an anniversary or birthday celebration with ribbon printed with wording in honor of the occasion.

Remember loved ones at your ceremony with beautiful ribbon printed in their honor.

 

Enjoy — and Happy Thanksgiving Wishes from all of us at Jean M!

Parisian Week Trend: Black, White and Bedazzled!

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Black and white weddings have been popular for years, but leave it to Parisian designers to take the trend to a whole new level! Bling and brilliance accented everything from gowns to table settings in a look that could only be described as "bedazzling!"

1. The scene was set with strands of crystals dangling from the ceiling in shimmering curtains. Sparkling crystal chandeliers were the focal points for reception tables and other décor.

2,3. Black, white and bedazzled – evident in this table design featuring black hydrangeas, crystal chandeliers with black candles and handsful of crystals scattered among the settings. Even the menu cards and place cards had tiny rhinestone accents on them.

4. Bejeweled gowns were a hit at the fashion show, whether they were totally blinged out...

5. ...or set with a hint of sparkle that still caught the light.

6. In love? Spell it out in crystal beads on your dress for the world to see!

How do you add Parisian dazzle your weddings? Add sparkle, glitz and glamour to every element, from invitations to favors!

Go dramatic and glamorous with our Jasmin custom layered wedding invitations in black and white paper layers — notice the rhinestone accents!

Remind you of those curtains of dangling crystals in the photo above? We thought so, too! Monique Lhuillier's "Delicate Inspiration" invitation  translates the look onto gorgeous, heavy paper and sparkling silver foil.

Top off your dazzling wedding day look with a headband-style wedding tiara set with a multitude of rhinestones.

 

Want to add a little bling to everything? We don't blame you! Use our adhesive rhinestone add-ons for a sparkly finishing touch for your wedding invitations, wedding programs, menu cards, place cards, thank you notes, wedding favors and so much more! Also use our pearl add-ons for variety.

Make each place setting dazzling with place cards tucked into rhinestone-studded frames that guests can use to hold a special photo after the wedding.

 

It's all in the presentation! Set up your drinks station with crystal toasting glasses and black napkins printed with a toasting design in silver foil set on silver trays lined with blingey crystals. Eye-catching!

 

All eyes will be on your and your cake when you cut it with this attention-getting, rhinestone handled serving set.

 

Send guests home with a little brilliant bling of their own! Swarovski crystal accented wine bottle stoppers make a perfect gift that will recall your dazzling wedding for years.

 

I hope you have enjoyed our little trip to Paris this week and have gotten beaucoup ideas for adding high-fashion style to your own. Au revoir until next week!

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Fabulous tips for using Jean M’s beautiful ribbons!

Here's one of my favorite decorating secrets: bulk ribbon! 

Our ribbon is available in great quantities — some on huge, 100-yard rolls — for great savings AND endless decorating possibilities.

 Ribbon is so versatile. It can be used throughout your entire wedding, from accenting your save-the-dates and invitations right down to adding the last detail to your favors.

 You can choose the same color ribbon you selected for your invitations to use when decorating your entire event, add in complementary color to mix and match and give your look a splash, or choose an entirely new color for a fresh look at your reception.

 With more than 300 ribbon options to choose from, you're sure to find the perfect accent for your wedding.

Here are some of my favorite tips for decorating with ribbon:

• accent the chairs or pews at your ceremony with beautiful bows

• tie ribbon to tree branches outside your venue for a fluttering welcome

• wrap ribbon around wedding programs to bring in your wedding colors

• provide your florist with rolls of ribbon for tying around centerpieces, floral arrangements, corsages and boutonnieres

• use ribbon to add a splash of color to your centerpiece candles, table number stands, menu cards, place cards and other printed items at the reception

• ask your baker to include colorful ribbon in your cake top or to wrap it around the layers of the cake for extra beauty

• accent favors with knots and bows tied from layered colors of ribbon

• create colorful sashes for your wedding gown and your bridesmaids' gowns to change the look of the dresses for the reception

 Be creative — and enjoy! 

What’s hot now? Late summer weddings! Here are some great ideas for keeping your cool.

Late summer is a beautiful time to get married. The sunshine, the outdoors, the surf, the sand — all add to the appeal of your warm-weather celebration.

But while the colors, the atmosphere and the seasonal beauty can make your wedding look hot, you certainly don’t want you or your guests to get overheated. Here are a few ideas for keeping your cool.

Provide chilled bottles of water, juice and soda for guests during the ceremony and reception. Dress up the bottles with personalized seals, favor tags and ribbon.

You can also set up a refreshment stand where guests can help themselves to fresh lemonade. Add your personal touches to the spread with ribbon in your wedding colors, personalized seals, printed cards listing the refreshments served and personalized napkins.

If your wedding is at the beach or on an uneven lawn, do your guests a favor by providing flip-flops for them to wear. They’ll appreciate not having their heels dig into the grass or getting sand in their good shoes.

Guests can make their own cool breezes with pretty fans printed with your program wording. Tie a ribbon to the fan handles for a custom look.

  

Enjoy!

Getting with the program — wedding programs, that is!

Frequently asked questions I’ve overheard at wedding ceremonies:

“What song are they singing? Should I sing along?”

“What was the name of the recessional music? I want it at my wedding!”

“Should I read this prayer out loud with the officiant?”

“Who IS that cute groomsman?”

 

Obviously, the brides at these weddings didn’t provide their guests with wedding programs

 

       

 

Wedding programs have an important job to do. They welcome guests to your wedding, allow them to follow along with and participate in your ceremony, introduce the parents and bridal party, list the important elements of the service (music, prayers, etc.) and even provide you with an opportunity to  send a message of thanks to your guests.

 

Creating personalized programs is fun and easy!

• First, find the style that will work best for your wedding. You can opt for one-piece programs

if your ceremony is short and your bridal party is small, or you can choose two-piece programs for large wedding parties, complex ceremonies and lots of information. You can even have your programs printed on fun and handy fans perfect for warm-weather or outdoor ceremonies.

• Next, choose your paper color or colors, and decide on the monogram or design element you’d like to incorporate.

• Then, determine your wording. You can go very simple and just give a basic list of the order of service and names of the bridal party. Or you can tell a story by mentioning how you know your wedding party members, listing the texts of the prayers and words to the hymns, and explaining unique rituals or symbols you are incorporating into your ceremony.

 

• Also think about any extra wording you’d like included on your programs, like a thank you to your family and your guests for celebrating with you or a note about the person for whom you’ve lit a memorial candle.

 

• Finally, embellish! Use rhinestone or pearl embellishments,  stamps or ribbons to add the perfect finishing touch to your programs.

 

Important Note! If you are ordering printed programs, be sure to place your order at least 4 weeks before your ceremony to allow for printing, delivering and assembly / embellishing, if necessary.

 

Enjoy!