tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59523506382518915492012-03-04T22:15:46.676-08:00Wedding Invitations Dubai - Studio Sol. Passionate about all things wedding, Dubai designer Julie Sol-Walker specializes in bespoke stationary from personalised wedding logos to unique, wedding invitations. Contact me on +971551012291 for any enquiriesJulie Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08946460502152589937noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5952350638251891549.post-10733499420375531452012-03-04T22:15:00.002-08:002012-03-04T22:15:46.689-08:00

Since summer is coming up shortly, I decided I should post about an invite I designed in collaboration with The Invitation Gallery and Cap Classique Blog here is an invitation I designed for a beach wedding. The Cap Classique Blog has a gorgeous set of inspiration boards that would inspire any bride into a world of wonder! Each designer had to choose their favorite board, and design an

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Recently I blogged about a passport design, I was working on for a Dubai client. Incorporating Tiffany Aqua, Black and white colours, and combining both their Irish heritage, and an arabic element since they had chosen to get married in Dubai. We decided to put all the information together in a passport design, since the majority of their guests would be travelling to the city for the first

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Some new designs of mine have just been loaded onto the Invitation Gallery. They can be viewed and bought here. Here is a sneak peak of some of the sets... All invites can be made customized through colour and paper choice. ELEGANCE HTML Save the Date  Wedding Invitation  Wedding Program MenuThank You CardFLORA HTML Save the Date Wedding Invitation Favour Box

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Busy working on a passport design for a new client. The Theme is a luscious tiffany Aqua, Black and white. The will be getting married at the very beautiful Al Qasr Hotel, in Dubai... saying their vows on the beach!  

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So it seems I have been a busy lady lately - and news of the bespoke invites filtered through to the lovely ladies at Hello! Middle East. I go to do a fab photo shoot on Monday and speek about how much I love my job for a whole afternoon! Not a bad was to start the week! The wedding magazine supplement comes out in the next few days... here a sneak peak of my interview. You can view the

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I have been uber busy lately and have been working round the clock on both wedding and corporate designs. I have so many gorgeous invites I need to photograph, and zero time... But will put it in my to do list and make it a priority in the next few weeks.  Also this week I am very excited about a new venture have been added to the  Invitation Gallery list of Invitation Designers. It

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I have just finished a freelance job working at ITP Publishing working on a few magazines. On two of them I had the please to work as Art Director for them filling in for a maternity contract. I must be honest I know I am a born (and trained) designer, but given the oportunity to style and art direct the photoshoots were serious fun.I wasn't thrown in the deep end...  They were just

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So for the past few weeks I have been trying to create a new identity for myself - one that I can use to carry through to developing my freelance business  and showcase my work, but also one that I could use for my invitation design business that is starting to take off. I didnt want to use just my name, and I am bit sceptical of A Little Bit of Sol as a business name since I have always used

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I have been working for the last 12 months on our Thailand wedding and honeymoon Album (and the holiday before the wedding) I know you must be thinking that 12 months is a looong time to put into a photo book... and I agree, but it really does somehow fall at the bottom list of my priorities when I am freelancing in an office during the day, and then coming home and working on freelance invites

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I recently worked on an invite for a good friend of mine's 30th. I was happy to help, especially since its her 30th and a surprise (luckily she doesn't read this blog!!)  Anyway, I designed two options and, as is often the case when you work from home and have no one to ask for opinions I left it up to the party planner to decide. There was quite a lot of text so it was a bit tricky to

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I have finally received my wedding photos, and so I can finally do a proper post on our fabulous destination wedding. Because Toby and I live in Dubai, we very seldomly get to see many of our close friends and family. When I was proposed to in the Maldives (amazing right?) once I got over the mesmerizing beauty of the bling, my mind immediately started ticking overtime into wedding plans.

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Just before I had my accident which rendered me a bit bit useless for a few weeks and unable to design (sob) I posted about Michelle's Bridal Shower, which I was organising Here is her invite (finally) that I designed

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I recently designed an invitation for a perfume launch in Abu Dhabi. I wasnt given much time, or a brief, just we need it now! So this is what I came up with. I only had the increadibly gorgeous website to go by for some inspiration. I heard the launch went well. Sadly I was in South Africa so I missed out on all the action.

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I recently had the pleasure of designing a save the date and invitation for an HSBC Ramadan Event. Living in Dubai, Ramadan's a big deal, and a very festive time of year, filled with Iftars (breaking fast) where you and your friends gather and celebrate, give thanks and spend time together. Even if you are not Muslim and are not fasting we still meet up for the occasional Iftar as a way to

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Here is some of Charlotte and Dan's gorgeous aviary wedding stationary I blogged about a short while back.   Well I finally got round to photographing it. The aviary theme was gorgeous, and tied in so nicely with the LLadro inspired wedding. The paper used was  Conqueror Contour - Oyster, I also designed a monogram for the couple to use across the rest of their stationary (coming soon)  and this

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I posted about Michelle and Callans wedding in August and I have been meaning to post for ages their wedding stationary I designed. But life happens, and I was lucky enough to have an increadibly busy few months and a wonderfull trip to South Africa, so shamefully, I left it till now to publish the pics. I have also included some from their wedding. Photographed by the talented Samantha Maber 

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Just finished designing a baby shower invite for a friend of mine, Penny. She is co-hosting a shower at the end of the month for her friend and work collegue Lauren. I have never met Lauren, but from what I hear she is heaps of fun, and slightly off the wall. I wanted her shower invite to reflect their fun and bright personalities! Also she helped me out when I was in a bind with my wedding dress

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Can you believe it's August already!! With Ramadan about to start, I am bracing myself for a very lazy month. I am hoping that my hubby actually gets to finish work at 3 (the joys of Ramadan working hours) and that I get to spend a few blissful afternoons with him chilling in a very cold lounge that is pumped to the max with AC. I am also hoping to get a bit of festive work in, and hopefully some

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I recently hosted a wonderful Alice in Wonderland hen's night, it was as much fun planning as it was having the actual party. Anyone who knows me, knows I have a love for party planning, organising and I would probably make a fabulous events planner (minus all the admin stuff). Anyways so weeks of finding the perfect fabric, making fabulous invites decorating my home and even baking (albeit most

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Favourite detail of the day? My favourite detail was probably the names that we gave our tables as opposed to numbers.  The words we chose were words such as love, hope, trust and play and were words which we think to be imperative in a marriage.  We had the words made out of rusted wire and they stood in the centre of the table arrangements.  We now have these wire words to put up in our house

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It's very seldom that I can make it to my friends weddings, it's a sad fact of living so far away from everyone (that and most of my friends are not of the marrying age..so they say!) So I was thrilled, elated and oh so excited to be able to go to Nahtalie and Winston's wedding. The setting was incredible, the weather perfect, and the mood… well… elated! The couple have been dating on and off for

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Charlotte (from the UK) & Dan (from Australia) live in Dubai. They approached me to custom design their wedding invitations a couple weeks ago, and I must just say I was absolutely thrilled when charlotte told me some of her ideas. Firstly I have been absolutely dying to do an Aviary Invite for some time now, and secondly I got to pull out a few fancies with some gorgeous blind embossing on the

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I had the pleasure of working with Nahtalie & Winston for some time before their wedding. Old friends of my husbands, and new friends of mine, it as really special for me to be involved in their magical day. With both Nahtalie and I planning our weddings a month apart there were countless (well over 500 I think) e-mails back and forth between us that held much more in conversation than just

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I have been meaning to post up pics from my wedding stationary for ages, and until I have a spare minute to take some pics I have loaded up the moodboard I sent my planner and some JPEGS of the design files... I love seeing the original vision of how we saw the day to how it turned out... enjoy

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The first step to realizing how much I loved creating invites was the hours and hours of research I put into the months leading up to the wedding. What I discovered were pages upon pages of blogs with such exciting things that could be done to make a wedding suit your style and personality. I realized that while one can get all the inspiration we need from blogs, magazines and websites, we don't

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