Thank You

Our busy busy time is coming to an end although we still have orders to fulfil, we've now completed all the invitations for the summer months and into September.  Now's the time for on-the-day stationery - Table Plans, Table Names and Place Names.  More about those next time as the wedding days pass but I wanted to show you some gorgeous Thank yous we recently created for a lovely couple who got married just before Christmas last year.  We did a great job of their snowflake invitations in a beautiful rich purple, silver and diamantes and then lovely table stationery which they were very pleased with. So it's time to thank their guests with these beauties. A lovely photo, they got married at the beautiful Cooling Castle Barn in Kent as can be seen in the background.  The Bride & Groom,  Abby & Daniel looked very lovely on their day and we wish them all the best for the future. 

Late again ....!

I am finding it impossible to keep up with this blog due to the fact that we have so many lovely designs to do and orders to fulfil, this time of year is always manic for us right up until May/June time when our enquiries are less frequent and all our colleagues, other wedding supplier friends are in the thick of the wedding season by then!  Odd how that happens but that's the way it is with wedding stationery.  As I always say, no invitations, no guests!!

So we've been doing some beauties for some really lovely couples these last few weeks for weddings in May right through to October being the latest so far.  I thought I'd show you some photos of our work.  So pleased with Clair & Steve's cream semi-pocketfolds, they looked so classy once they were all complete.  And another two couples that didn't know each other, decided on silver glitter and baby pink.  Both couples were so pleased with them - see our reviews on our facebook page - we were chuffed to bits! www.facebook.com/penniesfromheavendesigns

Here's some photos - enjoy!

The first are are the pink ones, the diamante hearts really stand out and we just love the baby pink ribbon, lovely to work with.  

These are some evening invitations that matched the baby pink ones, silver glitter strip embellished with little diamantes - perfect for your evening guests! 

These are Clair & Steve's, understated, yet classy with an oyster colour ribbon and a gentle embossing detail.

So off we go to Darenth Valley Golf Club on Sunday 10th April for our third wedding fair this year.  We love doing wedding fairs, meeting some really lovely engaged couples and discussing their whole theme/scheme and how they imagine their wedding to be.  Exciting!  So if you are off to the wedding fair, do make sure you pop over and say hello, we'd love to meet you!

Happy New Year (Better late than never!)

Here's to 2016 ....

Wishing all our couples and readers a very Happy 2016.  January wasn't a great start though with legendary celebrities falling, they say it happens in threes but there's been many more than that so far.  Let's hope it stops right there.  

Just some of our designs

We attended our first wedding fair of 2016 at The Elite Venue, Gravesend here in Kent.  It was run by someone we now consider a friend, Sonia, who certainly knows how to organize a good wedding fair! Thanks Sonia! We did enjoy the day and we are looking forward to the next one at The Alexandra Suite in Swanley on 28th February.  

We had lots of our designs on show and we took smaller versions of some of our Table Plans with us too.  We always try to add something different to each fair and we certainly have a lovely display planned for 28th February - something, let's say, a little different! You are welcome to come and see it, we love meeting new couples and putting faces to names and hearing all about your forthcoming wedding plans.  We will run another competition to win one of our personalised guest books so do come along and get an entry form at our stand.  You never know, you might be a winner!  

Just one of our very popular personalised wedding guest books

THE WINNING FORMULA!

This year, we decided to take the gigantic step of entering into the Kent Wedding Awards.  We had to submit 1000 words telling them all about our business, who we are, what we do,  how we started.  We also submitted samples of our ever popular 'Football Kit' stationery, 'Destinationery' for our couples getting married abroad and lots of other samples of previous and current designs.  The winners of the awards were announced at a ceremony in mid-November and WE WON!  We are now the proud owners of a beautiful trophy made of solid glass and a lovely silver star, engraved with Pennies from Heaven Designs as winners of the 'Stationery and Favours' category for 2015.  We are obviously so thankful but also chuffed to bits we won.  We have served well over 100 couples in the three short years we have been creating and it looks like 2016 will be yet another busy year for us.  So, we would like to thank you all so much for your support and hope that we can continue to give value for money and good service we are known for.  Now for showing off our trophy - how beautiful is this?! 

And here's the news .....!

We have good news and bad news, first the bad news.  We do apologise for any inconvenience but we are closing for the whole of December.  We will be available to answer enquiries and securing bookings, however, we will not be processing any orders until January 2016.  The first half of the year is most definitely our busiest and our diary is filling fast so if you need wedding stationery, it is best to enquire sooner rather than leave it - we don't like to disappoint.

Ways to contact us:

penniesfromheaven@virginmedia.com

www.facebook.com/penniesfromheavendesigns

And here's the good news!  Last night it was announced that we are The Kent Wedding Awards' Wedding Stationers of the Year!  We have worked tirelessly for nearly three years building our family business and we are so appreciative of this award. Although unfortunately we could not attend, we know it was a great event and there are some very worthy winners.  For all details, here's their website http://www.kentweddingawards.co.uk/winners.htm

So thank you to all friends, family and our fellow wedding suppliers for all your support.  We will endeavour to continue the high standard of service we have set and look forward to working with you, for you in the coming year.

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Christmas is-a-coming!

And weddings don't stop there!  

We have a couple of not exactly Christmas weddings, more 'winter' themed.  The nearer one to Christmas we created in the summer.  How bizarre concentrating on snowflakes and silver glitter invitations in the hot weather?!

We were really proud of these creations, they also wanted inspiration from Beauty and the Beast.

We are sure we succeeded as we know the Bride & Groom-to-be, Abby & Daniel, were pleased as punch with their wedding stationery.  And now we are creating co-ordinating table stationery for their day to be held at Cooling Castle Barn here in Kent.

Here are some photos of their wedding stationery.  They were semi-pocketfolds with embossed snowflakes on the front and inside, finished with diamantes, a beautiful rich purple ribbon and stunning snowflake diamante embellishment.

We really enjoyed creating them as we love 'winter' too and now we look forward to creating their Table Stationery.

Welcome to our world ....

Welcome to our brand new blog for our little wedding stationery business, Pennies from Heaven Designs. We will be showing you our latest makes, sharing tips on choosing your perfect stationery and giving you tips to help you with table stationery.  We have been running this little cottage industry for nearly 3 years now.  We are a husband and wife team - Daren is a Graphic Designer with over 25 years experience and I have been papercrafting, making cards and other pieces of art for over 12 years. In the height of the recession, times were tough and over the years we often had thought about what business to start together.  Why ever didn't we think of stationery before?! I literally sat up in bed one November and shouted "wedding stationery"!!! I had every faith we could make it a success with the aid of Facebook and Twitter although Daren was less convinced! However, I started to research and research and eventually Mr Halfpenny said YES!! And so on 1st January 2013 Pennies from Heaven was born. It's been a long hard slog, working many hours of every day including weekends but it's been so worth it so far.  We have now exhibited at a few wedding fairs here in Kent which have been really enjoyable, especially getting to know other wedding suppliers.  So, so far so good! Thank you for reading, please feel free to follow and enjoy the wedding stationery journey with us.