Beautiful wedding keepsakes with an eternal shelf-life
Set up in 2011 by duo Emma Penrice and Samantha Smith to offer a brand new take on those essential wedding keepsakes, Illustries’ collection of beautifully designed products are fast becoming a ‘must-have’ on the list of all style savvy, soon-to-be-wed couples.
The innovative company aims to capture every important detail of a wedding through interviews, story-telling and creative design concepts. The result of the duo’s vision and inspiration is the creation of an unrivalled portfolio of products that includes fabulous alternatives to the traditonal wedding album – striking coffee table books; bespoke prints; original, as well as flirty and fun guest books.
The Illustries collection of books are all available for mixed and same sex couples alike with gender neutral language throughout.
The Illustry
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The flagship of the brand’s collection, the Illustry has been created in two distinct styles – the ‘Classic’ and the ‘Avant Garde’ – offering couples the opportunity to choose the design they feel best echoes their personalities, their lifestyles and their big day. Each version is created to reflect the colour, theme and
patterns of the day and includes fabulous photos supplied by the commissioned photographer alongside the couple’s story – from first meeting to happily ever after, as well as interviews with the key guests and much more.
The 80-page landscape style Classic Illustry is a little more time-honoured with elegant copy whilst the 70-page square Avant Garde book is vivacious and animated with snippets of copy, graphic designs, a life map, baby pictures and honeymoon illustrations.
Priced at £1095 inc. P+P. Also available are extra books for mums.
The Chiswick & Montpelier
A simplified, streamlined and more affordable version of the original Illustry, the Chiswick & Montpelier books offer a striking and personalised twist on the traditional album. Reduced from 80 to 60 pages, yet still bursting with all those personal wedding details interlaced with the wedding day signature colour, the books include vows, readings, quotes, first dance, menu, guest list and a relationship timeline, all that sit alongside photography of the big day. The Chiswick is the jam-packed contemporary version presented as a square book whilst The Montpelier is the slick, sophisticated style that comes as a chic, landscape format book. Both are beautifully finished with hardback covers, heavy uncoated paper pages and a slipcase for safe-keeping.
Priced at £495 plus P+P.
Guest Books
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Guests will no longer be stuck for something to write that is witty, memorable and different as the Illustries Guest Book is filled with features to get guests talking, writing and doodling! A 25 x 20cm hardback that comes in a choice of covers, the 40- or 56-page books includes a couple’s quiz; awards pages; spaces for messages and advice for newly-weds; quotes and even a sliding scale to indicate
drinking levels! Guest Books can be personalised with names and a colour to reflect the day.
Priced at £24.95 (40-page) or £27.95 (56-page) plus P&P or £89 (personalised) plus P+P.
Baby Books
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Launched in June 2015, the ‘Hey Baby!’ journals offer a contemporary take on traditional baby books to capture the early years of parenthood. Ideal for pregnancy announcements, baby showers and new arrivals, the book include features such as a shortlist of names, bump nicknames, due date calendar, wishes for the baby, labour
countdown, family tree, a guide to being a parent, awards ceremony and a record of their first birthday party. Also included is a brilliant ‘Eating for Two’ page with ‘Cravings’ and ‘Ewww’ columns as well as space for notes and wishes. What’s more, there is no need to complete the journal in chronological order! . ‘Hey Baby!’ is available as a 52- page 25x20cm portrait, hardback book printed on heavy matt uncoated paper in a yellow or grey colour palette. The gender-specific ‘Hey Baby Girl!’ and ‘Hey Baby Boy!’ versions are available in duck-egg blue for boys and coral pink for girls.
Priced at £24.95 plus P&P.
Life Maps
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Original, cute and quirky, Illustries can create a flow chart of any relationship. A completely bespoke piece of wall art using hand- drawn illustrations, funky and fun notes and finalised with the wedding colour scheme, ensures this brand offering stands out from the crowd!
Priced at £175 plus £7.50 P+P. Also available in a personalised version, completed using a simple questionnaire, starting at £49.
For more information about the Illustries collection visit www.illustries.com, call 0845 468 1610 or email hello@illustries.com
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