Dear fans, followers and friends!

EXCITING NEWS:
If some of you havent yet heard! Secret Diary Designs has recently purchased the wedding division of the well known studio Elsje Designs. Elsje will still be doing business as usual, but only in the corporate and social event industry as she has handed over the wedding stationery torch to Secret Diary Designs. We have also had the pleasure of welcoming three new faces to the SD team from the old Elsje Designs team, with the likes of Chantel  Swiegers (graphic designer), Vinette Maclennan (Studio manager) and Sue Abrahams (production manager).

If youre still looking for the old original Elsje designs look and feel, then fret not! Because all the old Elsje Designs invitation and stationery designs will now be available to purchase in a ready to order range through our studio.

We look forward to a very creative future and in offering as wide a range of stationery and services to our clients as possible!
Love
The Secret Diary Team
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This awesome monogrammed lasercut square card wedding invitation design fresh off the lasercutter here at Secret Diary! The fabulous Ronelle , our in house lasercutting designer did this little gem for us and we are so proud of the result! This invitation options comprises of a square 160×160 mm greeting style flip open fold card with your monogram lasercut out of the centre of the card in a contrasting colour. Matching square envelopes are available.

At Secret Diary Designs we really love our lasercut stationery and try specialise in it as much as we possibly can. For more design possibilities please mail us or give us a call! We would be happy to share some of our design options with you to choose from or can create you a custom design from scratch for an additional fee.

Love

The Secret Diary Team

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Please mail us or book a consultation to chat to us about some of our newest wedding stationery designs and ideas. Consultations are weekdays from 9:00 and 17:00 by appointment and some Saturdays by special appointment only. Mail us on info@secretdiary.co.za

Love

The Secret Diary team

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Beatha had this to say about her time at Secret Diary Designs:

Hello all

My name is Beatha Baatjes, a recently qualified graphic designer and intern at the wonderful Secret Diary studio.  I am extremely interested in working with beautiful typography and creative layout, and my time is spent doing just that as well as working along side the production team making amazing wedding stationery, amongst other things. As a newly qualified designer, Secret Diary Designs has offered me much needed insight into the world of wedding stationery design – which has now sparked an even bigger love and appreciation for this picturesque design style. All the girls have been more than helpful and in turn have allowed my creative spirit to absolutely let loose. I have designed a lovely story invite, inspired by the story invites found on the pin boards around the studio, which is loosely based on my personal experience with my loved one.

Hope you like it !

Love Beatha

SPECIAL!!!
Every Wednesday we will be running a special on all our lasecut words!
Our sought after hardboard lasercut words will be available for R40.00 each for a 30cm size if you place an order for 20 words or more. They are available in both black or white hardboard and have the option of having “feet” stands made for them at an additional fee. These stands come in very handy in standing the words up on your wedding reception tables if they are acting as table numbers.

You also have the option of hiring our vintage pewer crown holders (as seen above) at R45.00 ea for the large size and R35.00 ea for the smaller size. We also have a very wide variety of crystal card holders which hold the laser cut words up nicely.

For more info mail us on info@secretdiary.co.za

A few of our latest passport invitation designs for our avid passport invitation fans! These destination invitations seem to keep becoming more and more popular as we find ourselves being inundated  with emails and requests for these invitations from brides across the globe! We continue to enjoy designing them and welcome any queries regarding them.

Please contact us at info@secretdiary.co.za for a pricelist.

Love

The Secret Diary team

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This gorgeous vintage layered stitched invitation was created for the lovely Deane and Dewald and was a real treat for us to design! These stitched layered invitation generally range from about R35.00 upwards depending on the number of pages you require and the quantatity and come in a variety of sizes. Always remember that each and every design that we create is 100% custom to that specific client.Matching customised envelopes are optional with all our stationery.

Pure laser cut perfection, this invitation captured the heart and essence of local photographer Veronique Norval who will be getting married later this year. Veronique opted for 2 rectangular cards layered on top of one another finished with a gold shimmer laser cut belly band. Her beautiful nude colour palette was a pleasure to work with and this was the incredible result! Keep your eyes peeled for her reception stationery which we will be starting on shortly.

Perfectly purple, these square layered invitations were created for clients of the “oh so fabulous” Jaco from Just Jack Wedding coordination. Again we can bring any design style into any invitation format to suit the look and feel of your wedding!

Because we have been so unbelievably busy this past holiday season, we seem to have been neglecting our fans in terms of posting regular eye candy of our work!

We thought we would catch up and show you a few of our latest and greatest wedding invitation designs we have done in the last 2 or so months!

We would love to hear from you, so let us know what you think?! Email us at info@secretdiary.co.za

Love

The Secret Diary Team

To all our beloved clients, fans and industry friends we wish you all a splendid New Years!

Please note that because we have had a rather long creatively crazy year , a few hundred weddings, laughs, tears, and excitement, our offices are currently closed for a short rest period until the 9th of January 2012.

This is done so that once back at the studio in January we will be able to come back with a bang and give our clients our full creative attention.Unfortunately creativity requires rest in order to flourish! Healthy body = healthy mind

Exsisting pre-arranged orders and weddings will be done before we reopen, but no new orders and consultations will commence until the 9th of January 2012 . For any emergencies please contact Carla on 082 738 1788.

We will be starting off the New Year with a host of new fonts and ideas! The fonts above are just a taster of some of the new gems we have added to our collection! If any of them catch your eye then please let us know and we can incorporate them into your wedding invitations or wedding stationery.

We appreciate your cooperation in this regard and would also like to thank all our clients and industry friends for the wonderful pressies that were sent to us over Christmas. They were muchly apprciated!

With love and well wishes for the New year ahead!

The Secret Diary Team

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