Category: Bridal

DIY: Flower Girl Swarvoski Head Band

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By Julissa

Everyone always sees the adorable little girl throwing petals on the floor. Brides also need to worry about what to put on their flower girls. You can create your own head band for your flower girl using ribbon and crystals with these easy steps.

Materials:

Directions:

  • Take the 1/2 yard of satin ribbon and glue it the headband to cover the plastic, cut the the ends to make them shorter, then glue the ends to the inside.
  • Take the 1/2 yard of organza ribbon and glue it straight in the middle of the headband. Cut a little of the ends, leave some left over to glue the ends on the inside of the headband.
  • take the metallic cord, cut 4 pieces even pieces (about 3 1/2 inches long), take the belt and swoop the pieces through, as a belt and glue the the ends on to the headband.
  • take the other pieces of jewels and scatter them as you wish on each side of the head band.

DIY: Swarvoski Button Bridal Shoes

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By Julissa

Finding your perfect shoe for your perfect wedding dress can be somewhat difficult. Your either have to have that special luck at finding the perfect shoes for the half the price of what there worth or you have to spend a fortune. So what better way to get those shoes than to do an easy DIY, by making your own shoe with Swarovski buttons. You can take a plain shoe and make it pop out. Here are some inspirations. We’ve bought a pair of inexpensive white shoes and dressed them up with beautiful Swarovski buttons.

Buttons used:

Materials

  • Semi-Flush Cutter, Style # 44059 (1.800.9.mjtrim)

Directions:

  • First use the flush cutter to cut the shanks of the buttons
  • apply hot glue on the shoe and a little on the button and stick it on the shoe.
  • wait for it to dry, move the button to see if its glued on there good.

DIY:Beautiful Belt Creation

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By Julissa

Do you have plain dress you want to dress up? Well there’s no worries! You can take affordable material to design your own belt and customize  your own dress. Whether is to meet a friend at the local coffee shop or a night out in the town, you can’t go wrong with a floral belt. Make it casual, fun, or elegant. Your Choice! Here is a belt made out of double face satin ribbon and our popular rosettes.

Materials:

* Not everyone is the same size, the amount depends on your waist size.

Directions:

Put the ribbon around your waist and mark the place on where you going to put the large rosette. Put a small mark towards your right side of your waist.

– Turn the large rosette over and small amounts of hot glue on the back. Gently press it down on where you made the mark on the ribbon.

– Take the two piece of the ivory rosettes, turn them over and apply small amounts of hot glue in the back. Take one end and glue it next to the large rosette, glue the other end away of the large rosette. There should be a small space between the large black rosette and the small ivory rosettes

– Take the punk rosette, turn it over and apply small amounts of hot glue. Glue it in between the large rosette and the small ivory rosettes.

– Take the Velcro and apply two dots at the end of the ribbon. This makes the belt removable.

We’ve Been Featured…

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By Blerona

We’ve been featured on the ‘Today Show’ for there “Today Throws A Wedding” segment. Today style editor and Bobbie Thomas shares how to celebrate in style without hurting your wallet. One creative way is to “reinvent your little black dress again” by adding an embroidered sash to your dress using M&J Trims! Read the rest of the article.

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Beaded Trim used in video – Beaded Sequin Borders Item# 43028 (Silver-Black)

Adding Embellishments to your bouquet

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By Blerona

A Flower bouquet is such an important part of your wedding day.  And you want it to look beautiful, just like your wedding day. As part two of my other jeweled bouquet blog. Here’s another way to jewel up your wedding bouquet. Just tightly wrap about 3inches of ribbon around your bouquet and  place the cut rhinestone blanket around the bouquet as well. Best option would be to glue or sew the two ends together.

Ribbon used:   2.5”  Hand Dyed Silk Satin Item# 25180 (in Blushing Bride)

Rhinestone Blanket:  24-Row Rhinestone Blanket Item#03624 (in Crystal Silver)


DIY Accessory Brooch

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By Dara

M&J Bridal Salon Accessories– Necklace Style#44880 & Large Cage Veil Style#42929

There are so many great reasons for DIY projects, to save money, to create something you can’t find, to re-use something you don’t use, but most importantly to show your creativity and personality. And here’s something that works great anywhere and I mean anywhere. For a wedding or everyday use, this fabric brooch looks great in the hair, accessory, clothing and even your wedding dress.

Materials:

M&J Bridal Salon Accessory Necklace Style# 44880

Instructions:

  1. The length of each material depends on how you want to design your flower brooch.  For this particular project.  Here is what I did.
  2. I took a 4” long pleated taffeta and folded ½” on both sides and used the glue gun to attach it to the felt.  Make sure you don’t lay it down too straight or it’ll end up looking a little awkward.  Slight bend both sides a little and glue it down.  Be careful, the glue gun is extremely hot.
  3. Next I took about 2” of a double row rhinestone trim and glued it on top of the pleated ribbon to cover the ribbons stitches that it came with.
  4. Next is making the flower.
    1. For the larger flower, I used about 3/4 of a yard of Midori Dupinoi ribbon.  On one end, tie a loose knot.  Make it as flat as possible.
    2. Next lay the ribbon down on a table and with two finger, hold down the knot.
    3. With the other hand, start flipping the ribbon over one small section at a time.  The ribbons should over lap each other as you also turn the ribbon on the table to form a flower.   You can make the flower as tight or loose as you would like, but just remember to hold it down so it stays in shape.

    4. When you’re complete with the flower, tuck the end down underneath the flower and carefully pick up the flower to glue it down onto the felt.  Glue it close to the rhinestone trim.

    1. Repeat steps a-d for the other two flowers
    2. When you’re done gluing the entire flower down, glue the loose pearls onto the center of the flower.
    3. Also glue pieces of the rhinestones along areas where you can visibly see the felt.
    4. Next, take the scissors and carefully trim the brooch.  Be careful not to get too close to the flower and not to trim too far.
    5. Lastly, glue the accessory clip onto the back of the felt.  With this clip, you can add it onto your hair, clothing or anywhere you like.

Accessories are from our M&J Bridal Salon

Call 1-800-9MJTRIM to Purchase.

Necklace Style# 44880

Large Cage Veil Style#42929



M&J Bridal Lookbook

Photography by: kfirziv.com 

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M&J Bridal is excited to annouce that we have recently finish the photoshoot for our lookbook.  Below is a glimpse the beautiful bridal accessories we are currently carrying.  Click on the image below to view the entire lookbook.

To contact regarding any of the pieces, please email [email protected] or call 212-704-8017.

 M&J Bridal

M&J Trimming Cordially Invites You

By Blerona

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NYC

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Magnetic Save The Date Cards!

By Kristin

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You just got engaged, congratulations!  Now time for some fun and planning your big day, but not before picking the date.  Once you have your special day picked out, make sure your guests will know far enough in advance to save the date.  Save the date cards are important to remind your guests so that you can work on the invitations and send out final details later.  This is a great time to express who you are as a couple, fun and quirky or romantic and serious?  Use these traits to personalize your card. 

 My brother used a really neat trick to make his cards for his San Diego wedding, refrigerator magnets!  You can pick up magnet business cards from any office supply store (I suggest Avery brand #8374, you get 30 for $12).  You can make a simple card that states the date with the bride and groom’s name.  If you are really creative you can use a photo editing program to make a custom design using an engagement photo or make a monogram to put on the card.

So how does M&J factor into this?  Try embellishing the magnet with a simple ribbon loop at the top, some new refrigerators won’t let a magnet stick, and some people just don’t like magnets on their refrigerators (like my mother).  The loop will allow them tack it on a cork board for safe keeping.  Make a little loop at the top and glue it down with some e6000 glue, add an SS20 rhinestone for that ‘Bridal Bling’ and you are done.  They are a super easy project that can save you a little money in the long run.

The magnets are light enough that one postage stamp should suffice, but just to be safe, take one to the post office and have it weighed.  While there be sure to check out their wedding stamps that they offer every year.  Congrats, and have fun planning!