Blush - inspiration shoot

Happy Friday everyone!  Cocoa Berry Design was recently involved in a wonderful inspiration shoot with the gorgeous girls from Blush.  


Have a look below at the charming woodland shoot and then the elegant antique shoot... It was a fun project to be involved in - these girls are brilliant at styling and we love it!


All photos were taken by Amanda Amundsen Photography.

This particular photoshoot was featured in the recent issue of NZ Weddings Magazine. 


Enjoy the weekend! x

Spotlight couple - Emma and Henry

It is always special working on a friends wedding stationery. And this one was no exception! Not only is Emma one of my (Charlotte) very dear friends, but I was also a bridesmaid for this stunning wedding.

Emma and Henry were dream clients, they knew what they wanted, had a very clear concept for the style of their wedding and were very receiving to our input and ideas.

The brief was clear – simple, elegant invitations with a rustic edge. Printed on a textured card with rounded corners and added features of craft paper envelopes and twine. So it was very easy to follow this theme through to all the ‘on the day’ stationery. Menus, place name tags tied to napkins with bakers twine, a pegged table plan, table numbers attached to twigs, favor tags for hand potted jars of honey… oh and custom made envelopes for the photobooth.   OH my!

I could go on about this day, how beautiful every detail was, how stunning Emma looked, or the special morning we all spent together getting ready, trying not to look each other in the eye or our mascara would run. But I think I will let these magical photos captured by the oh-so-talented Catherine from Catherine Cattanach Photography speak for themselves.

The Loft at Tarureka Estate

The invite set - Invite, RSVP postcard, info card with map, craft envelope tied together with twine and swing tag. Phew!

Close up of swing tag, little barn logo used through out.

Beautiful Emma!

Flowers too beautiful for words. From the talented team at Moonflower 

Detail shots - menus, name tags and table numbers

Love birds! 

As favours - mini jars of honey from Henrys parents farm and hand potted by Emmas Nan! Tied with lace and twine.

There we all are! We all picked our own dresses and the little shrugs were made by Emmas Mum!

A little Moet and photos!

How's that for a reception! Stunning.

http://www.tarureka.co.nz/

Inspiration board - pretty peonies

1st of June!?  How on earth did it get to June already?  This year is just flying by...

We'd just like to say a special happy wedding anniversary to our gorgeous Silvie today - we hope you have a wonderful day!

Now, in terms of inspiration for today... following on from our latest design that we showed you on Tuesday (Pretty Peony) - here is a sweet little inspiration board to go along side one of our favourite flowers. 

Loving the blush pink tones with ashy greys... ♡

Top Row = Image 1, Image 2, Image 3

Middle Row = Image 1, Image 2, Image 3

Bottom Row = Image 1, Image 2 

New design - Pretty peonies

Hi there everyone

There's something about peonies... we here at Cocoa Berry (like everyone else) just love them.  I'm sure you've all seen them on various inspiration boards, constantly being pinned on pinterest, or perhaps you actually make it outside and see them in real life and not just on the computer screen (where many of us seem to spend endless hours!).

Which is why we wanted our next design to be all about the pretty peony.   They're just such a romantic flower, which is why of course, they're just perfect for weddings. 

Simple and sweet in plain black and white - or imagine it in soft pinks, pretty peaches or gorgeous greens...

It'll be our newest off the rack design.  But as usual, starts it life on our recent design work page. 

So today we pay tribute to this gorgeous flower that everyone ♡'s so much. 

New design - Bee's Knees

Hi there everyone!  Hope you are all having a great week so far... not long to go until the weekend!

Today we want to share with you a brand new design called the 'Bee's Knees' - a simple and mainly typographic design with a sweet honey comb pattern on the back of the invite.

It combines the want of something simple and elegant for the actual invitation,  with a splash of bold colour and pattern on the back. This design would suit a couple who don't want anything overly wordy or decorative.

We think it works well in simple colour combos - shown here in shades of tangerine and peach.

You can find it on our website under 'recent design work' - but it will indeed be making it's way across to the 'off the rack' section - all in good time! 

Three things we ♡ today.

Happy Friday everyone!   


We hope you've had a pleasant week and that you have some exciting plans for the weekend. 


Here are the 3 images we heart today...  All by the amazing photographer Jasmine Star.   


Just stunning.  We ♡ her. 

And one last shot of the extremely talented Jasmine herself...

Spotlight couple - Amber & James

We recently had the pleasure of working with a lovely couple, Amber and James - they were married on Saturday 10th March at Chardy Ridge out on Waiheke Island.  Talk about a stunning venue!


The design they chose from Cocoa Berry was 'Just Dandy' and decided on a classic yet elegant black & white colour scheme.  Just perfect. 


We also helped Amber with a stamp she wanted to get made to go with her wedding stationery - we designed all the art work and Amber sourced the stamp herself.   You can see in how great it looks in the last photo - a gorgeous little candy bag! 


The very talented Kate Robinson was their photographer on the day and we're pleased to be able to share some of their special photos with you...