{vintage french lace + silk flower clip }
ooh la la! jenn of mignonne handmade is back from a trip to france, scouring for vintage finds to include in her lovely work, and she has graciously agreed to give one of her new creations to you!
here's how she describes it:
it's hand cut, hand pressed pinkish-brown silk flower with vintage details: the stamens are vintage french, found in a flea market in Geneva, Switzerland; the lace accent is a vintage find from Lyon, France; the leaf is a vintage millinery leaf from Japan. It is anchored with felt at the back and has a metal clip that can be fastened to clothes or hair. The flower is around 5" in diameter.if you're in the phoenix area, jenn also works with real and handmade flowers for weddings, check out joliejourflowers.com. pics of her trip to France are on her blog joliejourflowers.blogspot.com, and joliejour.etsy.com,her other etsy shop, is a mix of flea market vintage finds and hand-crafted lovelies.
TO ENTER: comment on this post with either a favorite reading you're including in your wedding (or wish you could include!), a favorite quote about love, or another favorite from her shop mignonne handmade. no need to include your email address, i will find you!
giveaway ends next friday at midnight PDT. (yeah! daylight savings! woo.)
everyone who enters will receive a 5% discount on anything in her shop. enjoy!
more at mignonnehandmade.etsy.com
My favorite quote is a common Hebrew one about love: "Ani l'dodi v'dodi li". I love how it sounds in Hebrew. It means "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine"
ReplyDeleteI love the "White silk hair flowers with french netting and millinery bee" in her shop too!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful....smiles.
ReplyDelete"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
ReplyDeleteRainer Maria Rilke
It sounds almost distant, but it isn't - though we join our lives together we remain individuals, and if we rely too much on another person for our identity we may lose the balance of our separate identities, or the spark to which your loved one was first attracted. We are all whole within ourselves, and loving our mutual wholeness while still building something greater than ourselves is, I think, one of the main purposes of marriage.
Instead of readings during our wedding ceremony, we are asking married couples we admire to write words of wisdom on love and marriage to share with us during our ceremony. I can't wait to hear what our friends and family say. I think it will be a very powerful and touching moment.
ReplyDeleteLOVE the silk flower clip with vintage french lace!!!
ReplyDeleteFrom STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER
-–Tom Robbins
Who knows how to make love stay?
1. Tell love you are going to Junior’s Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay.
2. Tell love you want a memento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.
3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.
So beautiful! We're hoping to fit this into the service somewhere:
ReplyDeleteTwo are better than one,
because they have a good return for their work:
If one falls down,
his friend can help him up.
But pity the man who falls
and has no one to help him up!
Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
-Ecclesiastes 4: 9-12
love this! my favorite reading that we are including is the final scene from when harry met sally. mike and i met in film school and are both suckers for a good romantic comedy, we also were friends for almost 10 years before we started dating, so we decided having some close friends read this scene together would mean much more us than corinthians ever would:
ReplyDeleteHarry: I've been doing a lot of thinking. And the
thing is, I love you.
Sally: What?
Harry: I love you.
Sally: How do you expect me to respond to this?
Harry: How about you love me too?
Sally: How about I'm leaving.
Harry: Doesn't what I said mean anything to you?
Sally: I'm sorry Harry, I know it's New Years Eve, I know you're feeling lonely, but you just can't show up here, tell me you love me and expect that to make everything alright. It doesn't work this way.
Harry: Well how does it work?
Sally: I don't know but not this way.
Harry: Well how about this way. I love that you get
cold when it's seventy one degrees out, I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich, I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts, I love that after I spend a day with you I can still smell your perfume on my clothes and I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Years Eve.
I came here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of the life to start as soon as possible.
Sally: You see, that is just like you Harry. You say
things like that and you make it impossible for me to hate you.And I hate you Harry... I really hate you. I hate you.
(They kiss and make up.)
This fascinator would be perfect for my upcoming wedding. The colors are exactly what I'm looking for!
ReplyDeleteMy fiancee are Americans currently living in Montreal and I am trying to infuse this Francophone culture into our wedding. Also, I am an elementary school teacher who loves children's literature. Le Petit Prince is a wonderful French children's story, and there is a quote which reads:
"Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
(Being in love is not looking at one another, but looking together in the same direction.)
Simply beautiful.
i love this one the most but also love the big peony headband.
ReplyDeleteTo Love is Not to Possess
ReplyDeleteJames Kavanaugh
To love is not to possess,
To own or imprison,
Nor to lose one's self in another.
Love is to join and separate,
To walk alone and together,
To find a laughing freedom
That lonely isolation does not permit.
It is finally to be able
To be who we really are
No longer clinging in childish dependency
Nor docilely living separate lives in silence,
It is to be perfectly one's self
And perfectly joined in permanent commitment
To another--and to one's inner self.
Love only endures when it moves like waves,
Receding and returning gently or passionately,
Or moving lovingly like the tide
In the moon's own predictable harmony,
Because finally, despite a child's scars
Or an adult's deepest wounds,
They are openly free to be
Who they really are--and always secretly were,
In the very core of their being
Where true and lasting love can alone abide.
The Annecy necklace with brass chain--so lovely.
ReplyDeleteWell, my fiance and I are really big Beatles fans, so we are incorporating "All you need is love, love is all you need." as the quote (and theme) of the day.
ReplyDelete"At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke--the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had their here at the well. She smiled, and that was certainly an omen--the omen he had been awaiting, without even knowing he was, for all his life. The omen he had sought to find with his sheep and in his books, in the crystals and in the silence of the desert."
ReplyDelete— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
my favorite love quote has always been "I will love you until the day after forever." (not sure who the author is).
ReplyDeletethanks for the post! This flower is gorgeous!! Also loving the white gardenia with vintage book leaves!
i love love love peonies! my favorite flower and BONUS they smell great!
ReplyDeleteid love to have this Big peony headband as my statement piece for my wedding rehersal dinner or bridal shower!
What a beautiful shop! Jenn's models and photography are beautiful, too! Another item I love from Mignonne Handmade is the "White gardenia with vintage book leaves". Thank you so much for giving us the chance to win such a lovely gift. :)
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My favorite would be the vintage french lace one you shared but I also like the large peony headband too.
ReplyDeleteI love the big Peony headband! And the fascinator being offered in this giveaway! They are both lovely!
ReplyDeleteThis silk flower clip is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteAlso, what a fun idea from Kristy to read the script from When Harry Met Sally. Best part of the movie!
Oooh! Lovely!
ReplyDeleteONe of the readings we are doing at our wedding is Union by Robert Fulghum. It really puts words to the candor and reality of a marriage, but does it no less justice with regards to love. It's perfect.
We are ALSO reading the children's book I Like You by Sandol Stoddard Warburg, to keep things fun and show our silly side! :-)
My email is amester26@gmail.com. Probably easier to contact me that way (in case I win, I hope!!!!)
these are just gorgeous
ReplyDeleteWritten 1800 years ago by Tertullian, I think this is a wonderfully beautiful description of the desire in my heart :)
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of yoke is that of two believers? It is of one hope, one desire, one discipline, and one and the same service. Both are brethren; both are fellow servants. There is no difference of spirit or of the flesh. Rather, they are truly two in one flesh. Where the flesh is one, the spirit is one too. Together they pray; together they prostate themselves. THey perform their fasts together, mutually teaching, mutually exhorting, mutually sustaining. They are both equally in the church of God; equally at the banquet of God; equally in straits, in persecutions, in refreshments. Neither has to hide from the other; neither shuns the other; neither is troublesome to the other. With complete freedom, the sick are visited and the poor are relieved.... There is no stealthy signing, no trembling greeting, no mute benediction. Psalms and hymns echo between the two. And they mutually challenge each other as to which one will better change to their Lord. Christ rejoiced when He sees and hears such things!
Lovely giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThe white gardenia with vintage book leaves is absolutely charming and unique!
v. pretty. i also love the classic white silk hair flower with french netting and millinery bee.
ReplyDeleteTo love is not to possess,
ReplyDeleteTo own or imprison,
Nor to lose one's self in another.
Love is to join and separate,
To walk alone and together,
To find a laughing freedom
That lonely isolation does not permit.
It is finally to be able
To be who we really are
No longer clinging in childish dependency
Nor docilely living separate lives in silence,
It is to be perfectly one's self
And perfectly joined in permanent commitment
To another–and to one's inner self.
Love only endures when it moves like waves,
Receding and returning gently or passionately,
Or moving lovingly like the tide
In the moon's own predictable harmony,
Because finally, despite a child's scars
Or an adult's deepest wounds,
They are openly free to be
Who they really are–and always secretly were,
In the very core of their being
Where true and lasting love can alone abide.
Oh, that French lace & silk flower piece is sooo pretty - love the vintage feel :)
ReplyDeleteFrom this day on, I choose you to be my wife/husband...
ReplyDeleteTo live with you and laugh with you
to stand by your side and to sleep in your arms.
To be the joy to your heart and peace to your soul.
To bring out the best in you always
And to be the most that I can for you.
I will follow you anywhere,
From the driest desert to the tallest mountain to the farthest city.
I will love, honor, and cherish you
in sickness and in health for all the days of my life.
I also like the Big Peony Headband from her shop! I am a sucker for a big flower!
ReplyDeleteI really love the hair clip with vintage french lace! So lovely!!!
ReplyDeleteCamila Faria
Ooooo! Ooo! I love it! *high-fives you*
ReplyDeletePassage from 'The Invitation' by Oriah:
"I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence."
"The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life."
ReplyDelete--Sir Hugh Walpole
We found each other at a time when neither was looking for a "serious" relationship, but there was no other way for us to be. Things just fit, and we both knew we'd found something we had given up looking for. A divine accident. :)
For Christmas, my sister gave me and my fiance the book, "A Lovely Love Story" by Edward Monkton. It is about two dinosaurs falling in love. We are asking her to read it aloud at our wedding. (You can find it on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Lovely-Love-Story-Edward-Monkton/dp/0740763083)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win - you have no idea how PERFECT this vintage fascinator would be with my gown and overall bridal style for the day... ah, I am swooning over it! My future mother-in-law has lived in France; I'm sending her directly to Jenn's blog. Thanks again! xoxo.
A classic
ReplyDeletei carry your heart with me by ee cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
We are then going to get parts of the poem as a tattoo!
Aww beautiful flower.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite quote is from Moulin Rogue, "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
We asked our pianist to play Come What May as one of the prelude songs.
LOVE the silk flower clip with vintage french lace, I've been looking for an alternative for my hair and this would be perfect!
ReplyDelete"What marriage may be in the case of two persons of cultivated faculties, identical in opinions and purposes, between whom there exists that best kind of equality, similarity of powers and capacities with reciprocal superiority in them – so that each can enjoy the luxury of looking up to the other, and can alternately have the pleasure of leading and being led in the path of development – I will not attempt to describe. To those who can conceive it, there is no need; to those who cannot, it would appear the dream of the enthusiast."
ReplyDelete~ John Stuart Mill
Love these headpieces !! Just Lovely
ReplyDeleteFrom "The Irrational Season" by Madeline L'Engle
ReplyDeleteUltimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves how much they hope for as their love grows and deepens, and how much risk they are willing to take…It is indeed a fearful gamble…Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take…If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation…It takes a lifetime to learn another person…
I found this one (http://www.eatdrinkchic.com/post.cfm/diy-origami-heart-love-note) and will incorporate it in our wedding this summer: "Come live in my heart and pay no rent." by Samuel Lover.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite definition of love: LOVE, n. A temporary insanity, curable by marriage. ~ Ambrose Bierce
ReplyDeletei carry your heart with me by e.e. cummings
ReplyDeletei carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
ReplyDeleteI love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving" ~Pablo Neruda
Where you invest your love, you invest your life.
ReplyDeleteThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
ReplyDelete- Helen Keller
"I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... over-throws life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love - like there has never been in a play"
ReplyDelete-Shakespeare in Love
Here's mine. I'm a big dork and love reading etiquette books for fun, (I know!) so we'll be using this one from Miss Manners:
ReplyDelete"While exclusionary interest in one other human being, which is what we call courtship, is all very exciting in the stages of discovery, there is not enough substance in it for a lifetime, no matter how fascinating the people or passionate the romance.
The world, on the other hand, is chock full of interesting and curious things. The point of the courtship -- marriage -- is to secure someone with whom you wish to go hand in hand through this source of entertainment, each making discoveries, and then sharing some and merely reporting others. Anyone who tries to compete with the entire world, demanding to be someone's sole source of interest and attention, is asking to be classified as a bore. "Why don't you ever want to talk to me?" will probably never start a satisfactory marital conversation. "Guess what?" will probably never fail."
wow, i LOVE the Annecy necklace with brass chain... it is so whimsical-cute... havent ever seen anything like it!!
ReplyDeletethese are all so great -- we're just starting to contemplate what ours might be. thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteas an aside, the e.e. cummings poem reminded me of this one by him:
may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old
may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young
and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there's never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile
---
[here's a resource from the kvetch forum at indiebride with tons of readings as well: http://bit.ly/kvetch_readings_list ]
The custom boutonnieres are fabulous!
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