what’s cooking in my design kitchen

Hello ladies! Sorry for the long silence – I’ve been busy and happily designing away. To keep you in the loop – apart from very exciting brand design projects for wedding professionals and a sweet wedding illustration commission, I’ve been busy developing new exclusive design items.

Get this – I just created my first scarf design!

I found a fashion fabric house who works with me on creating high quality fashion scarves in quantities as low as 10 pieces. So now I can offer custom-illustrated scarves for brides and their bridesmaids or guests. I cannot say how excited I am about this! Imagine, your very own design, captured on your own limited-edition fashion scarf, to accompany you wherever you go, reminding you of your happy wedding celebrations. To keep, forever. And you (and whoever you gave it to as gift) will be the only one to own it! SWOON, right?! I can’t wait to design one for one of my next brides! For now, here are some mood board teaser images for you of an upcoming engagement photo shoot in New York, for which I created such a fashion scarf. 

This will be the upbeat summery color palette of the photo shoot:

this is the kind of fabric my scarf will be made of:

(click image for image source and credits)

and we’ll also have new clear perspex items in our fashion-inspired wedding shoot

- as you may know by now, I love designing with clear materials!

custom illustrated drink stir by Astrid Mueller Exclusive - photo by AndreaAndMarcus.com

See the full mood board for this inspirational photo shoot here on my pinterest account

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Sex and the city style NY bride & girlfriends day

Recently, I created several design items for a modern, SATC inspired bride & girlfriend photo shoot in NYC. Today, it was featured on the most popular wedding blog of all times, Style Me Pretty! Here are a few sneak peeks… get ready – there are some illustrated design items and unique wedding celebration ideas that I have never made before!

The bride and her girlfriends having a ball at Gabriella New York bridal salon. I particularly love the white gown in the middle, with the gem patterns – it’s so unique, isn’t it! And it looks absolutely ravishing on the bride. Bridesmaids gowns by Two Birds Bridesmaid. Custom-made perspex rings with tailor-made illustration: yes, I made these for the bridesmaids! If you’re interested in more design items like this, visit AstridMuellerExclusive.com or email me.

As you see above, I also made matching illustrated perspex drink stirs for the occasion. For the concept of the gem illustrations as glamorous NYC style element, I drew inspiration from the recently auctioned Elizabeth Taylor jewelry collection. What inspiration that was!  I also created several hand-debossed velvet design accents, which featured the designs. You see above a napkin ring and a glimpse of another debossed fabric piece. I had also made a velvet scarf, chokers and hair accessories, as well as a tailor-made matching perspex clutch (not shown).

All of my design items you see above are tailor-made to order. If you’re interested in accentuating your celebration with your own unique design pieces, and in new wedding design accents and gifts that may have never been made and seen before , visit AstridMuellerExclusive.com for initial inspiration, or email me directly.

Hope you enjoyed the glimpses above! See more in the Style Me Pretty blog feature here and browse the full gallery with all photos here!

CREDITS:

Photography: Andrea & Marcus Couture Wedding Photography | Second Photographer: Helga Schaefer | Locations: Gabriella New York Bridal Salon + Tribeca Rooftop | Floral Design: Cornucopia Flowers | Illustrated Drink Stirrers, Rings + Debossed Velvet Accents: Astrid Mueller | Stationery: The Pink Orange | Furniture Rentals: Party Rental Ltd. | Linens: Nuage Designs | Table Styling: Swank Productions | Wedding Gowns: Legends by Romona Keveza, Marchesa + Jenny Packham via Gabriella New York Bridal Salon | Bridesmaids’ Dresses: Two Birds Bridesmaid | Hair: Keila Sone + Cha Cha Savoy | Makeup: Tanisha Faye | Fashion Styling: Lakeniya Kelly of The Dapifer

Featured in Oggi Sposi Italy

The Italian magazine Oggi Sposi just featured some of the design items I created for Moscha’s magnificent wedding in Venice! Warm thanks to the wonderful wedding professionals who helped make everything happen, to Moscha from StellaAndMoscha.com for commissioning me to design for her wedding, to Andrea from AndreaAndMarcus.com for amazing photos, and big thanks to Andrea Naar Alba from Wed Couture Italy for her event design (together with StellaAndMoscha) and for making the press connection.

 

 See more photos of Moscha’s wedding and all the design items I created for her by peeking at my recent newsletter here.

Creative wedding stationery Inspiration: Fashion

While I don’t recommend to make your wedding stationery too fashionable (you still want to love it 20 years from now), why not take inspiration from fashion that you can’t take your eyes off?

For example, you may love the filigree details of a head piece or dress…

Josephine Skriver at Valentino FW 11 (Source: deus-e-x-machina)

…or the bold geometric elegance of a gown…

Valentino FW 11 (Source: deus-e-x-machina) beautiful geometry

…or a particular shoe design that just knocks your socks off:Temperley London Fall Winter 2012

…or maybe you’ve always been smitten with bows?

 Bow ankle cuffs. jdotdesigns. Etsy.

…or you are drawn to the look of a particular fashion era?

unknown photographer, around 1950

Don’t worry if you don’t know what to do with all this inspiration. Just have fun collecting your favorite images, then show them to your stationery designer as reference. You’ll be amazed at what they can create for you!

When I design for couples (portfolio: AstridMuellerExclusive.com), I always try to first get to know them as much as possible, so that I can create designs that reflect who they really are, and their personal style. In addition to a personal phone call and receiving personal photos, I love working with pinterest. Brides can collect a wealth of photo inspiration there, and then simply share their favorite photo collections (called ‘boards’ on pinterest) with me – it’s easy and a lot of fun (and addictive)!

I’m quite obsessed with my own pinterest collection – it’s my personal and ever-growing treasure-chest of inspiration. Are you on pinterest yet? If not, just email me and I’ll gladly invite you. See you there!

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