Friday Freebie: Custom Aisle Runner from Couture Wedding!
September 4, 2009Brides, if you have been dreaming of a hand-painted, custom-monogrammed fabric aisle runner for your wedding, then today’s giveaway is for you! This week, I had the pleasure of meeting with the lovely Liz Rine, owner of Couture Wedding. Her showroom is located in the Avondale area of Jacksonville, and features all of her adorable creations, including fabulous hand-painted aisle runners, custom table decor, and paper products. Not only was it awesome to chat with a fellow wedding vendor, Liz was definitely generous with spreading the love! In addition to offering Flaire Weddings and Events clients a discount of 15% on any of her products, she’s also offering a completely free, no-strings-attached giveaway for Florida Bride’s Blog readers. Here’s the prize: one lucky lady will win a hand-painted, custom-monogrammed fabric aisle runner, featuring her wedding colors and theme elements. The value of this aisle runner is $125.00! It’s incredibly easy to enter! Comment here, telling us why you’d like the aisle runner, how it would look in your venue/location, and what colors/theme elements you’d like to feature in your custom monogram. the more details of this nature the better. The only requirement is that your wedding be at least three months away, to give Liz time to perfect your runner. The contest will continue for several weeks, and we will announce the winner toward the end of September. To help get the inspiration going, here are some fabulous images of Liz’s work.
All right — get to commenting! One lucky bride will win a beautiful custom aisle runner, valued at $125.00!! |
Nicole-Lynn: We would absolutely love to win. If we won, we would want a runner in the colors light blue, beige, and white with our wedding date, names, and last name initial. Something very simple that would be fitting for our seaside ceremony!
Grace: We would be elated to win such a beautiful runner! It would work perfect for the church we are getting married in that is over 100 years old. We would want it with blue and green. The runner would really complete the look we are going for!
Joanne: We're getting married 3 days after Christmas, but our church will still be decorated and down the aisle there are pillars with candles on top! I would love an aisle runner that fits the romantic feel. Our colors include burgundy, golds, and pale pinks.
Jessica: This is such a creative idea! Our colors are red/aqua, which would look beautiful on one of those designs. We're getting married at our church and want a unique runner just like this.
Briana Jeselnik: Mine and my fiance's mother have been helping me a LOT with our wedding plans. My mom has insisted on paying for everything, but I've been trying to help out as much as I can...at least with the little things I can sneak in paying for myself. We hadn't actually planned on having an isle runner, just because it is not something we thought we could fit into our budget with everything else we are getting. Also, I have only seen the plain white paper isle runners and I've never liked those very much. I think that these isle runners are absolutely gorgeous and it would be a very pleasant surprise to everyone helping plan, since nobody had planned on there being one. Our wedding is in November, on the 14th, and our colors are eggplant, claret, and accents of gold & ivory. The theme has a very elegant/romantic/southern feel and I think the isle runner would compliment it wonderfully.
Alexis: Our ceremony will be on a golf course, and I really think an aisle runner is necessary to break up all of the green. I'd LOVE to have one of these gorgeous aisle runners, especially in our wedding colors blue + green, and with our monogram!
Shannon: What an awesome giveaway! We would love to win this to help bring some color to our outdoor venue. We are getting married next spring and our colors are coral and chocolate brown. I would want our monogram, date, and maybe incorporate an oak tree or oak leaves as we are getting married outside under a large live oak tree at the Ribault Club. Thanks for this opportunity!
michell boyd: an isle runner would be a perfect addition to our ceremony!!! we will be getting married at memorial park in jacksonville florida in a large grassy area, i have been looking for something to walk down instead of just grass, and also something to designate a special aisle in an outdoor space. it is such a wide open grass space that we are looking for things to decorate with and make it feel pulled together and intimate, and this would definitely help with that! our colors are grassy green and royal blue with some teal to tie them together and gold accents, so those would be used for the runner. i would love put a monogram of our initials (in an "mMk" sort of way) and the wedding date. we have a theme of calla lillys and i will be hand printing an outline design of them onto all paper things, so i would put that on a runner too.
Ashley: I would love to win this for my twin sister's wedding. I have been planning her wedding for her to help her out. She wants her wedding to be different and this would top it off. Her wedding colors are bright pink & orange. She would love the one with their monogram & date. They are getting married April 24. Thanks for the opportunity!
Ashley: I love Liz's work! I would get a runner in the colors of Beth and Paul's wedding (my colors too). I would like it to have our first names and our wedding date. Gorgeous!
Christie: We would love to win an aisle runner!!! We are getting married in our home church in Jacksonville! The church is gorgeous and and aisle runner would look amazing! Our colors are coral and grey along with a pale pink. Our wedding is going to be classy with pearls incorporated in the decorations! We are getting married May 15th, 2010! Please pick us! :)
Jen: I hadn't planned on using an aisle runner, but it definately adds a nice touch. I'm having a fairytale wedding on May 30th with the ceremony outdoors. I'm going for a whimsical, cinderella theme with our colors of victorial lilac and silver, with accents of blues and lots of sparkle! I never win anything so this would be a great opportunity. Thanks!
Brittany: I would love to win one of these beautiful runners! My colors are black and white damask with accents of peridot green. This would look great in the historic St. Augustine courtyard ceremony.
Lisa: Her work is amazing! I would love to win a aisle runner as the carpet in the church is a BRIGHT red! After the wedding day, which is January 1st my grandmother wants to make a "wedding quilt" like she does for all of the other grandchildren and will include the monogrammed part of the aisle runner in the quilt. My colors are black, white, and cranberry. I would want our first names, last initial, and wedding date.
Haley: Liz's custom aisle runner would be a beautiful compliment to our ceremony. We are getting married outside at a yacht club in florida and our ceremony will be overlooking the water. My colors are navy blue and grass green and an aisle runner would tie in with my natural/nautical theme (nautical b/c me and my fiancee love to go boating).I would want the aisle runner to tie into the theme as resembling the sails on a sailboat with navy blue lettering and cream background with my personally designed monogram.
angie: To win this would be such a blessing! We are getting married in St Augustine & having an outdoor garden wedding. So a runner would be a must and I would love to have a custom monogramed one! We are sticking with a gray, ivory, yellow & lilac scheme and I can't wait to see everything come together! Thanks!
Sarah Stevens: This runner is so chic and adorable! So much better than the plain white paper. It would be used at a traditional church wedding with a very long aisle! I guess I had not even considered getting a runner- shows how many tiny details we are missing! Our wedding is a vibrant spring theme with colors of apple green, and a black and white damask/scroll pattern. I think these colors would make a fabulous shabby-chic runner!
Amber: These are adorable and fresh! I've seen customized aisle runners around, but these have a certain style that I love.
Ashleigh: Those are lovely! We are having a DIY vintage theme wedding in Jacksonville on the Navy base. I would love to have this gorgeous addition at our wedding. It would be an amazing treat to win something rather than make it! Because we have a 1940's theme, something very simple would be perfect. "Andrew and Ashleigh" with the last name initial a "L". And then March 20, 2010. We aren't having a super formal affair, so something between a nice handwritten type of font and script would fit in perfectly. Our colors our chocolate brown, spice (a little more orange tint than a coral) and the same green used in Beth and Mike. This runner would definitely give the Naval chapel a feel of it being ours. Being on the move because of the military (my finance is enlisted), it's hard trying to make things such as chapels feel like they belong to you when you know you will only be there for a year or so. This would give an amazing touch to our wedding that we wouldn't have thought of!
Marjorie: I would LOVE to have this table runner at my wedding! I saw Liz and her work today at the Dillard's I Thee Wed show as well as at the UNF Bridal Show. Today I fell in love with her pink & green invitation sample and because of what I saw on her table, I'm set on my color theme! We're having at least 60% of our guest flying in from out of state so I'd like a very "Florida" themed wedding - the runner could have a hand-painted palm leaf to match the ones on the invites. This would definitely add the elegant touch as well as incorporating the tropical theme that we're looking for! Thank you!