Love the shoes!

One brides passion for shoes provided the perfect inspiration for her wedding stationary. It was only fair that her first love was present on the day too. The image of a trainer and a Manolo high heel represented the couple on their save the day cards and for a more formal tone, a pair of brogues on the order of service. For the leaving party and honeymoon, they returned to a more casual feel with the image of a flip flop and flipper. The footwear besotted bride may have committed to the other love in her life, but there’s always room for an extra pair.

Emergency 999 – Ambulance, please

Together with renowned illustrator Michael A Hill, Bespoke Gift and Wedding Maps recently produced a series of images for the wedding of Gary and Sophie, a London based couple. Gary and Sophie are both ambulance drivers, so celebrated their wedding by arriving and departing in nothing other than a bright fluorescent London ambulance. The image of the happy couple departing the church in the ‘Just Married’ ambulance complete with cans tied on with string was used on the order of service and menu cards. 

Not Just Maps

Earlier this year, we worked with Orchid Events to produce a series of black and white images for a well travelled couple to use on their wedding day. The imagery was used across their wedding stationery, on name cards at tables and on leather luggage tags for the guests. Having travelled all over the world, the quirky couple returned to London to wed. The images, from a badger with a bunch of roses, to a kiwi bird, to a hibiscus flower, to a Taj Mahal, represented their vast travelling experience. As well as sharing travelling experiences with wedding guests on the day, the beautiful images will continue to serve as personal reminders of the couple’s travels as well as of the wedding day. 

Bespoke Gift Maps Interviewed!

Read All about it! Read All about it! Kent's Own Bespoke Gift Maps company interviewed by Penny's Wedding Website, read a little bit more about our wonderful maps and gift maps.
http://www.pennyswedding.com/?p=3721

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A Passport to Love

No, not a Mills & Boon novel, but a recent commission for the wedding of Holly Branson (Sir Richard's daughter) and her groom Freddie Andrewes. The bespoke passport had its own idiosyncratic crest featuring a llama, a flamingo, a turtle on top with some gecko's on the shield. Inside there was a hand drawn map showing the exact location of Necker Island, for those guests who mistakenly thought it was just a location from Pirates of the Caribbean. Our special crest was used again in the Order of Service. More photos of the wedding (and the passport to love) are in this week's Hello! magazine and website.
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First Birthday Bespoke Keepsake map

When we started Bespoke Gift Maps we never really considered repeat customers, We imagined that clients would just get married once, or celebrate a 50th Birthday once but we were mistaken, our clients have more imagination and creative thought than maybe ourselves.

Take for instance MC in Dublin, she commissioned a wedding present earlier in the year, a map of her two friends lives in Paris, where they met, where they lived and where they had great times together. Everyone loved the special gift map especially MC who came back recently with a request for her niece's First Birthday present. So much more special than a cuddly toy. In this we mapped her first year in Dublin, not that she can appreciate it now but in years to come Ruth can look back at the map and say, "Auntie, why a kangaroo?"

MC also wrote some words about the experience-

"I have commissioned two maps from www.bespokegiftmaps.co.uk and couldn't

be happier with them. Both maps have made the most wonderful and original
gifts, and I have subsequently recommended the site to family and friends.
Michael has been a delight to deal with; he is helpful, creative and
produces truly beautiful art (in no time at all!). I will be back time and
again for gifts for special occasions. Thank you!"

Thank You MC

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Bespoke Walking Map

Sometimes it best just to let the client do the talking -

"Earlier this year, a group of six of us walked the Coast to Coast. As a memento of the walk, I wanted to have a map drawn, to show where we had been.

I contacted Michael at Bespoke Gift Maps to ask if this was something that he would do. I was not sure about exactly what I wanted so he asked for details of the walk and what we had done. I directed him to a blog that we had kept whilst we had done the walk.

Michael had a look through and came up with a draft, based on the blog. He added lots of little graphics highlighting some of the incidents along the way, some of which were very subtle. From the draft, I asked him to add a few bits and change a few bits, and when the final map came through, it was far far better than I had ever imagined.

From the very basic brief that I gave, Bespoke Gift Maps came up with a finished map that was brilliant and completely captured the experience we had. It was personal to us and I would recommend his work to anyone." NB(Client)

This client has since commissioned a 50th Birthday gift for a friend, more later.

Bespoke Gift and Wedding maps
Phone: +44 208 776 7984
Mobile: +44 797 316 2790
E-Mail: mail@bespokegiftmaps.co.uk