Creme de Luxe is a small design studio dedicated to the creation of couture, handmade hair accessories and jewelry. Creme de Luxe (formerly "Amy's Bridal Accessories") was established in 2002 by published wedding & lifestyle photographer Amy Zumwalt of Amy Zumwalt Photographers. In addition to their wedding photography, Amy and her husband, Chantry,  own Olive & Lace, a vintage event rental company in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.  

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Meet Amy:

I am in my early 30s. I am a designer, wedding photographer, vintage collector, wife and mother, musician, thinker, baker, coffee-lover, and middle child. My perfect day would include breakfast with my four boys; a fabulous estate sale (the junkier the better!); an afternoon with my camera, a model and some new Creme de Luxe designs; a drive to the country in my open jeep with Brandi Carlile playing through the speakers; and an evening with my husband, a movie, and a blanket. I love yellow and olive green. I love the 70s. I love Colorado, Oregon and Washington. I am ALWAYS creating. ALWAYS thinking. ALWAYS looking for any opportunity to be inspired.



I started making headpieces with little porcelain flowers in January of 2002. As much as I hate to admit it, I didnt know ANYthing about crystals, components, metal options.. everything that was available to a designer. I was truly a newbie. You have to remember this was way before the launch of Etsy. In fact, I was able to begin selling on eBay back then. Can you even imagine a day when eBay wasnt saturated with jewelry? Handmade jewelry, then, was NOT popular. Brides still preferred the large manufactured pieces that were filling bridal salons. Wire work, which you see everywhere now, was still in less demand then. In fact, most things that were handmade were thought of as lesser quality than what was factory made. It was always a battle to try to show the beauty in something that was made in a small studio by hand. There weren't many designers doing handmade custom work then either. I can think of less than a dozen. So those of us who were perfecting our craft in those years were really drawing brides who needed customization. The fact that they could choose from all the Swarovski crystal colors was winning them

over. There were no options like that in the bridal stores.

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Between the birth of Etsy and the failing economy, the idea of handmade, vintage, estate-style and custom design took off. Honestly, now I repeatedly see that the most beautiful weddings are the ones with very limited budgets and a taste for handmade things. This has been such a great thing for designers like me because I get to meet so many brides with so many fabulous ideas every day. I still appreciate the bride who gets excited about the little details.