Evening Earrings - ER06

Round faceted real Amethyst, Purple Tear-Drop Quartz, White Swarovski Pearls, Crystal Rondelles and Blue Indian Glass Beads on 925-Silver french-hook earrings.

Length of earrings (excluding french-hook) : 11cm approx.

Width (at widest point) : 5cm approx.

S$30.00

Evening Earrings - ER05

CHINOISERIE-TWIST

This pair of earrings would go absolutely perfect with your cheong-sam - it's oriental looking but yet modern at the same time.

A beautiful Carnelian centerpiece with trailing lime glass beads.

Length of earrings (excluding french-hook) : 7cm approx.


S$20.00

Evening Earrings - ER04

Gorgeous Purple and Milky Green Quartz briolettes on 925-Silver french-hook earrings.

Length of earrings (excluding french-hook) : 8cm approx.


S$20.00

Evening Earrings - ER03

Purple Quartz Drops on 14k-gold-filled chain and 14k-gold-filled french-hook earrings.

Length of earrings (excluding french-hook) : 7.5cm approx.

S$30.00

Evening Earrings - ER02

Dark Green Quartz Drops on 14K-gold-filled chain and 14k-gold-filled french-hook earrings.

Length of earrings (excluding french-hook) : 7.5cm approx.

S$30.00

Evening Earrings - ER01

Yellow Jade Drops on 14k-gold-filled chain and 14k-gold-filled french-hook earrings.

Length of earrings (excluding french-hook) : 7.5cm approx.

S$30.00

Evening Jewellery - Coming Soon !

Hi Brides,

I will be starting a new category soon - which is - Evening Jewellery.

These are jewellery for you to co-ordinate with your evening gown for your wedding dinner.

First up will be Evening Earrings. So do come back and check it out.

Cheers,
Donna

What's Bridal-Twist

ATTENTION : BRIDES-TO-BE
Do you want gorgeous bridal jewellery?
Are you shocked by the high prices of it out there?

I've found my dream gown, now I'm going in search of the perfect bridal jewellery.

"Oooh, that's pretty" and I eagerly moved towards it and tried it on.
"It looks great", I turned the price-tag over........

"Wah, a couple of hundreds of dollars for this? (I thought to myself, tryinging not to gape out loud). And it's just for one item, what about the rest?

Hmm...... sounds familiar ?

At last! You do have a choice not to pay for exorbitant high-priced bridal accessories out there.
With no overhead cost, Bridal-Twist can give you affordable yet ravishing bridal jewellery.

Does lower price mean inferior quality and poor design? Absolutely NOT!
I design and hand-make most of my pieces.
I use mainly fresh water pearls and high quality Swarovski crystals and pearls.
Great attention are being paid to getting the small details just right and imported items are personally picked by me to ensure quality.

Why pay so much more out there?
That's right. Why pay so much more for the same kind of material?
The same high quality Swarovski crystals and pearls that I use for Bridal-Twist's jewellery are the same as what the stores are selling at a much higher price.

So why pay more for the same thing?

Don't delay in getting it if you do see a piece that you like as most of my designs are unique to Bridal-Twist and one-off.
I had gotten a number of disappointed brides who got back to me too late as once it's gone, it's usually gone.

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If you're tired of seeing all those over-priced items,
get Bridal-Twist bridal jewellery Now and
put an end to your frustration.
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Donna Lim
Bridal-Twist
Singapore

Have Your Cake and Eat It

The Wedding Cake, at least in Singapore, is not the item that most couples will give a lot of thought.

Usually, the place where you had booked your wedding dinner will supply the cake for you to cut on stage – the bottom layer is real but the top is fake.

Well, I came across some photos of absolutely fabulous beautiful wedding cakes and I just had to share it with you.

Maybe some of you will be inspired enough to make a change and have a unique wedding cake as the centerpiece?

Why do you cut the Cake ?
Cutting the cake represents the start of the newlywed’s life together.

The groom places his right hand over the bride’s to guide it for the first cut.

The bride cuts the first piece. The groom feeds the bride, then she in turn feeds him. This shared piece of cake symbolizes their first meal together.

The custom of the newly married couple cutting and feeding a slice to each other represents not only the life that they are now about to share, but also the idea that they will always provide for one another.

And, of course, it offers a picture perfect photo opportunity.

Vanilla cake with royal icing and sugar-paste bracelets of silver and gold (above)

Chocolate blackout cake layered with vanilla-toffee-crunch buttercream, with yellow marzipan and royal icing, pastillage curlicues and a pearl-dust finish (left)

Three-tier cake with pearlized fondant, impressed with flower shapes and draped in strands of edible silver beads (left)
Dark chocolate cake with layers of berry compote and white chocolate cream crowned by spun-sugar floral garlands and wreaths and finished with a monogram (right)

Four tiers of hand-molded sugar flowers nestled between floating layers of dark chocolate cake iced with buttercream and filled with cappuccino mousse (above)

Sprays of beads explode from this cake (left)
Sprays of pink and clear beads encircle the tiers of this cake (right)

This five-tier buttercream cake is covered with sugar hydrangeas (above)

Cream-Puffs anyone?

White-chocolate and Bavarian cream cake covered with fresh flowers and a white chocolate "fence" (right)

Cymbidium and dendrobium orchids on a cake in white fondant (left)
Fresh roses and fruits - Seckel pears, sugarplums, goose-berries and raspberries - on a buttercream-frosted cake (right)

Three-tiered cake decorated with sugar-paste flowers, molded fondant grapes and butterflies hand-painted with food colouring (left)
A botanical-themed cake including three layers of varying flavours - bourbon vanilla cheesecake, white-chocolate butter cake, triple-chocolate cheesecake - and decorated with ferns and vines made of Belgian chocolate (right)

Caramel espresso mousse cake with edible white chocolate pearls dotting the sides (left)

How about a mountain of cupcakes?

Or go whimsical with a slanting cake

Strike A Pose !

HOW TO POSE FOR YOUR WEDDING PHOTOS

There are some tricks that you can adopt to look better in your wedding pictures irregardless of whether it's a professional photographer who poses you or your uncle or auntie whose instructions is limited to "say cheese!".

If you're being told that you could look 5kgs thinner simply by doing a certain body posture or standing in a certain way, wouldn't you want to try it?

By knowing these tips and secrets, and spending some time in front of the mirror practicing before the big day, you can help look your best on your wedding day.

Ok ladies, let's get down to it :

POINT YOUR TOES
You may think a pointed toe doesn't matter because most wedding gowns cover your feet - think again, cos it does make a difference.

Avoid planting both your feet together while flat on the ground. Move a foot to point your toes - by doing this, you are shifting your weight to your back foot, which will cause your hip to shift. This hip-shift makes you look more curvy.

Now, a little goes a long way. You want to look sexy but with an innocent overtone.

Avoid placing both feet together (left)

A pointed toe gives more shape to your hip (right)

TURN YOUR SHOULDER AT A 45-DEGREE ANGLE TO THE CAMERA

If you turn your body slightly to the right or left, you will appear slimmer in the photo.

Generally speaking, your entire body should never be square with the camera but slightly side-on - it should always be at some angle, usually 45-degree or more.

You will look slimmer when you turn at a 45-degree angle.

RELAX YOUR SHOULDERS
People tend to tighten and raise their shoulders when they are nervous and this causes a couple of problems. It makes your shoulder appear narrower than they really are, your neck seems shorter, and worse, it creates a feeling and look of tenseness.

To be able to do this pose, you have to concentrate on relaxing your shoulders - let them fall naturally.

Hunching your shoulders makes your neck appear shorter (left)
Relaxing your shoulders instantly makes you look more natural and less tense (right)

GET YOUR ELBOWS AWAY FROM YOUR BODY
Unless you are super-slim, pose with your elbows slightly away from your sides.

If you pose with your elbows touching the sides of your body, your body will look as wide as the elbow-to-elbow dimension, not to mention that if you have less than ideal tone upper arms, it will get squished and look even bigger.

Just move your elbows slightly away from your sides, creating just a small separation between your body and your arm, people will notice the cut-in of your waistline in your photos and this makes your torso appears slimmer.

Learn this pose with care. When you are moving your elbows outward, make sure that you do not lift your shoulders (which we already know, is not a good thing). Also you only want to move your elbows slightly away from your sides - too far out and you'll look like you're doing the funky chicken dance !

Your body and arms appear bigger when you hold your arms in (left)
With your elbows away, you accentuate your waistline (right)

MAKE YOUR EYES APPEAR BIGGER
It is usually less flattering to tilt your head back because your chin becomes more prominent than your eyes. So lower your chin by a fraction of an inch - this will effectively bring your eyes closer to the camera than your chin and mouth and makes your eyes appear bigger.

Remember, just a tiny dose of this trick will do - too much lowering and you might cause a double chin - so use it sparingly and practice in front of the mirror.

RELAX YOUR FOREHEAD
Often, in trying to accentuate their eyes, brides will try to open their eyes as widely as possible.

In the process of trying to do this, they raise their eyebrows which creates a "surprise look" and a wrinkled forehead.

So keep your eyes and forehead relaxed in order to look more natural - practice your facial poses in front of the mirror till you are familiar with the movements.

BRIDES WITH SPECTACLES
Brides wearing spectacles - I've not forgotten about you !

• Transition lenses are a big NO - NO! They darken when outdoors and even when you're indoor, they appear dark in photos.
  
  
• Have non-glare lenses as they help to reduce reflections.
  
  
• The lenses should not tilt upward because this will amplify the reflections from the camera's flash. Tilt the lenses slightly downward so that the flash will be reflected harmlessly towards the ground. This trick can be accomplished by lowering your chin slightly.

Notice how the glare hides your eyes (left)
A slight nod downwards will help cut glare (right)

HOLDING YOUR BOUQUETS
"How should I hold my bouquet?" - two words for you - "LOWER IT !"

Many times, brides look as if they're hiding behind their flowers. The bodice of your wedding gown is beautiful, so why hide it behind your flowers? Holding your bouquet too high will also hide your bustline and it also places your forearm in a horizontal position, creating a line that cuts your body in half.

By holding your bouquet lower, you can cover your little potbelly or broad hip - it also places your forearm at a 45-degree angle which makes your body look longer and leaner.

Not sure how low to hold your bouquet? - here's a little trick - rest your wrists on your hipbones and usually, you've hit the perfect height.

Don't hide yourself or your gown.

Hold your bouquet a little lower, with your wrists on your hipbones and don't forget your 45-degree angle turn to look slimmer !

NOTE :
All the suggestions, tips and tricks about posing should be used sparingly. Overdoing a good thing can result in negative results. Your application of these poses should be measured in fractions of an inch.

No tricks is going to magically transform you into a super-model. But by using all of them - each one improving your image a little bit - the end result will add up to a noticeable change for the better in your photos.