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

Unique wedding design idea: tailor-made swizzle sticks

Last fall, I shared a sneak peek with you of an exclusive new design item that I’ve recently developed: tailor-made illustrated drink stirs. Couture wedding photographer Andrea from AndreaAndMarcus.com offered her talent and created a lovely styled shoot with the swizzle sticks I had made for her. I’m super excited that the beautiful vintage-inspired wedding blog Love My Dress from the UK just featured lots of eye candy from the photo shoot!

Enjoy a few sneak peeks from the Love My Dress blog feature:

unique event design element and conversation starter: tailor-made illustrated drink stirs

special design accent for the cocktail bar: a matching display and keepsake item

I think these drink stirs are a lovely and very personalized design element for engagement parties, bridal showers, the bridal cocktail bar, or even the reception. A great conversation starter and guest favor too!

Since I’ve first written about them, I’ve received a lot of inquiries. A bride I recently designed for had also spotted them, fell in love, and commissioned me to design swizzle sticks for her own wedding. She got married in beautiful Venice, Italy (how romantic!!!), and celebrated in the magnificent Ca’Sagredo Hotel right on the Canale Grande. I just saw the photos from AndreaAndMarcus.com yesterday (still top secret), they are G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S. and will be featured on Style Me Pretty shortly. I can’t wait! Stay tuned, I’ll share glimpses here when they’re online!

To see more photos and inspiration from this lovely shoot, visit The Lovely Dress Blog. For further unique wedding ideas or if you’re interested in couture swizzle-sticks for yourself, visit AstridMuellerExclusive.com or email me – Looking forward to hearing from you!

How would you incorporate the drink stirs into your own festivities?

PS: If you’re a wedding designer or blogger and would like to blog about them too, email me, I’ve got more photos that haven’t been published yet.

My inspiration for Andrea’s drink stir illustrations

A few weeks ago I posted a sneak peek of acrylic swizzle sticks I had created for Andrea from AndreaandMarcus.com. If you missed it, this was the sneak peek:

photo by AndreaandMarcus.com illustration and swizzle stick design by Astrid Mueller Exclusive

Since she isn’t getting married this wasn’t a wedding illustration per se, so I didn’t use their love story or other couple inspiration as muse… instead, I worked with these visual influences:

Andrea loves Alexander McQueen (oh boy, me too!) – the black lace pattern was a reference:

Stilettos by Alexander McQueen

Carrying this inspiration forward, I loved this bouquet:

Another influence for my illustration was the attitude, pose, and sexiness of this ad (Andrea loves Coco too!):

and while it’s not her, this is so “Andrea”!

one of the photos I used as muse for Andrea’s illustration (image via pinterest)

The drink stirs are just one item I’ve created for Andrea so far – can’t wait to create design items for her in full color – stay tuned, there will be more!

PS if you’re interested to get swizzle sticks with your very own illustration, either as special design accent and keepsake for your wedding or as unique conversation-starter promotional piece for your brand, just email me, I’ll love to hear from you!

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