Summer Brides
new blog post by @schulmanArt, Miriam Schulman
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| Custom Bridal Bouquet Painting created from photograph |
Summer is upon us and with the season come wedding invitations. If you want to choose a unique creative gift that the bride and groom will treasure forever, think about artwork that commemorates that special day. Since common etiquette says you have a year to give a gift, you can send me a snapshot of the bride’s wedding bouquet or table setting and I can turn that into a custom watercolor painting of their favorite flowers.
Of course this type of present also makes the ideal anniversary or birthday gift. In the commission featured left the “bride” was celebrating a 20th wedding anniversary and her sister-in-law is surprising her with this special gift you know she will love.
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| Personalized matching card, shipped in bridal white |
For this art patron, I went the extra mile and printed a matching birthday card. I send my matted fine art prints and watercolors in white flat mailers. Since I knew this was going directly to the recipient I decided to gift wrap it in wrapping paper by One Kings Lane. Maybe you can’t judge a gift by its wrapping—but a beautifully wrapped gift certainly makes an especially fabulous first impression and adds an extra-special flair.
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| Artist Editions Gift Wrap by One Kings Lane, wrapping paper designed Dr. David Stark |
Perhaps you don’t want to come to the wedding empty handed. In that case you may want to send me the plain wedding invitation and I will send it back to you embellished with watercolor flowers. This wedding guest was able to tell me the bride’s flower arrangements and I added the flowers as a hand painted watercolor floral border all the way around the artwork. A masterpiece that is frame-able and will make a wonderful wedding keepsake.
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| Send me the plain invitation |
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| embellished with watercolor flowers |
Weddings make me happy. It's a time for a great celebration.
thank you for including my book in your blog. I was without electricity for a week and had a full week to try to get back up and running. Best Debbie @artbychapin
You would get good stuff for wedding from wedding favor as I got all my wedding gifts from there and it was a good experience so you can also give it a try.
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Love your ideas and work! And thank you for including me in your wonderful treasury!
Kathy
Thanks so much for choosing my napkins for your lovely treasury!
Missy
Wonderful, thank you for including one of my pieces!
Perfect Gift ideas…beautiful!
Love this! Thank you!
Ciao Bella
Creative Carmelina