Rowanjoy Real Bride - Beth

Beth is a friend from my time at art college (more years ago now than I care to believe) so it was an honour and pleasure when she asked me to make her wedding dress.

Beth was a two dress bride - Good times 

The first was her Gran's wedding dress which was a beautiful lace dress from the forties. Through time and various wears the dress had been damaged a little but was in pretty good condition for a dress almost 70 years old. Beth asked me if I would repair the tears in the lace, add some new buttons and take out some of the fullness in the sleeve. Pretty nerve wracking stuff when you are faced with a family heirloom. 

Her second dress took me back to my re-working roots when she asked me to create the dress from a beautiful Kimono that she already had which was a gorgeous green colour with a cherry blossom pattern woven in. Luckily Beth was looking for a column style dress with some art deco pleating details which the dress pattern just fitted onto the Kimono fabric, phew. The dress was finished off with a row of covered buttons down the back. Gorgeous.

Rowan x

All Photos copyright Euan Robertson Photography

Eats, Shoots and Sleeves

Yuk, what a bummer of a day it is.

Wedding season madness has well and truly set in, its been a busy couple of months but the dresses are now starting to leave the studio to head to their wedding destiny. 2 brides wearing Rowanjoy got married last weekend and after seeing some blurry photos on facebook I am very excited to see some more.

In amongst all the new dresses I have been lending out some of my sample dresses for a variety of photo shoots. Its always lovely to see how different stylists and photographers interpret and style the dresses. The first I have had back are from a gorgeous, romantic shoot, shot at Carberry Tower just outside Edinburgh featuring the Ava, Ella, Chloe and Lucille dresses.

Shoot Credits

Photographer Iga Gozdowska

Hair Jaz Jagdeo

Make up Emma Motion

Models Ashleigh Greenwood, Lucy Garvie 

Love this last shot

I was also in Shoot mode myself this weekend taking part in a gorgeous styled shoot featuring some fabulous fellow members of the Glasgow wedding Collective at the fabulous timberyard. From having seen some sneak peeks from the photographer I think they are going to be blooming marvelous. Here are some of my instagram pics from the day.

Love a shoot with a redhead, especially one with flowers in her hair.

Hopefully I will have lots more pretty to bring you over the next few weeks with more shoot photos and some of my real brides.

Rowan x

P.S Sorry there weren't really any sleeves or eating.

Rowanjoy Real (Texan) Bride - Brittney

Brittney first got in touch with me through my Etsy shop in November 2011 to enquire about the Ella dress. The thing was when she first messaged me she wasnt actually engaged, her boy had the ring and they had an idea of the date for the wedding but the all important question had not yet been asked. Then at the end of December I got an email saying he had asked, she had said yes and we were good to get going, hurrahs all round. 

So from there the sample dress got made, sent and tried on, all was good so it was straight on to the real thing. The dress got sent over to America and arrived safe and sound. This was the email I got on its arrival My dress arrived about 20 minutes ago!! It is safe and sound and now I'm just waiting to get it home to try on. I may have to leave work early. :) Hurrahs again. 

It was great fun getting know and working with Brittney over email and I think it proves if you do see a dress you love from an overseas maker it is possible to get it made for you. How fabulous does Brittney's wedding look? so full of love,fun and smiles and I am very happy to have contributed to her day. 

 Rowan x

All photos Briana Purser Photography 

www.brianapurserphotography.com

P.S Brittneys husband is in a band called Ola Podrida  so for those of you looking for some new music have a listen below.

Friday I'm in love...Paolo Roversi

Happy Friday, mine has been slightly unproductive due to some accidental wine drinking last night but hey I worked Sunday so I feel a lazy Friday afternoon is justified. 

Its been a while since I did a Friday in love post so in my post wine haze I thought I would do one about another photographer whose work I love - Paolo Roversi. His work is a great influence on many of the photoshoots I have collaborated with Paul on for my collections. I love the painterly quality of his images, they truly are beautiful and create a really dreamlike feeling. I had a couple of photos from his vogue shoots on the moodboard from my A/W 13 Darkness falls collection and think we managed to capture some of those qualities within our shoot. Hope you enjoy these images as much as I do.

Rowan x

Glasgow Wedding Collective Fayre 2013

Come and say hello to me and lots of other gorgeous wedding suppliers at the next Glasgow Wedding Collective fayre on the 17th February. It has moved to a bigger, brighter and more central location - the Lighthouse - on Mitchell Lane, meaning more stalls and space for you lovely lovebirds to peruse all the pretty on offer. I will be showing my 3 new dress styles Ava, Cecelia and Grace as well as some old favourites.

 It is still free to come to and even better for the first folks through the door there will be a sparkly glass of fizz on offer. So whether you are newly engaged and just starting with thoughts of weddings, planning ahead or need those last few details there is something for everyone.

Rowan x

Up, up and Away

Print Freya Cumming

Happy New Year!

Yes it may be a few days into the new year now and I am only just getting round to doing this blog. From how fast the first week has gone, I think this is going to be one quick year.

2013 is looking like an exciting year at Rowanjoy with lots of plans in the pipeline. In 2012 the Bridal label really took off and in 2013 I am hoping to build on this even more. I have lots of lovely brides booked in for this year already and looking forward to meeting more throughout the year. I am lucky to be making dresses for several friends this year as well as the task of making my own dress (I'm sure there will be many a twitter rant regarding that number come september!)

For those of you not needing a wedding dress the main Rowanjoy label will have new pieces in my stockists for the new season including new versions of the popular Peter Pan dress.

I am as always looking forward to working on some new photoshoots and working with the most fabulously creative people I know to create gorgeous images for you to ogle.

Apart from that my year (well until October) is going to be filled with wedding planning and panicking and quite frankly I can't wait!

Hope your 2013's are going to be filled with fabulous times too.

Rowan x

Darkness falls Part II

Credits

Photographer - Paul Marr
Model - Olivia Taylor @colours

Hair - Roy Rogers @Milk

Make Up - Fiona Henderson

Jewellery/Hair Accessories - Rene Walrus

Hat - Strumpet

Shoes - Pam Jenkins

Location - Gosford House

Dresses - Rowanjoy (Evening dresses available at Godiva Boutique

Bridal please contact me on rowanjoy@yahoo.co.uk)

Rowan x