The coolest Invitation!

There are very few people that can make their invites truly personal and unique but I think this invitation deserves that description.  It is the invite of a family friend and I think it is amazing.  A little history behind the person is in order.  Male, early thirties, amusing, interesting, retro and a musician.  His fiance is no less a woman!  Now come on people.....that invite screams all of those things.

This is a great example of how to do it right.  I know it is not a traditional invite but none the less it is an invite of note.  The fact that it all comes neatly in a vinyl sleeve, is just the icing on the cake!

Love it, love it, love it!

NY

Designer Wedding Show Part 3 (yes it is stationary ladies!)

Stationary as promised!

I am not sure if the below stationary needs much discussion as I think they speak for themselves.  I just liked them a lot!

Images from hellolucky.co.uk & sugarlily.co.uk

Images from hellolucky.com & lovelyfavours.co.uk

Images from hellolucky.co.uk & sugarlily.co.uk

Images from augustmoon.co.uk & sugarlily.co.uk

OK I do have to give one little opinion.... I love the invitation directly above this text from augustmoon.co.uk.  It is soooooo cute.

Nx

An Awesome Invitation

I saw this and knew it needed to be shared with you all.

Image from metalmother.com

If you have a great story surrounding your relationship this would be an amazing invitiation to send out.  I love it!

NY

You've Got Mail

Everyone loves getting post, especially when it is not a bill or junk mail, so you can imagine how excited I was to get an envelope the other day with SARA&NIKOS 12.09.10 written on the envelope.

I have posted the images of Sara's amazing invites for you all to see!  I am sure she will have something to say about it but I loved them and felt they should be shared.

They are matched perfectly to her theme of Navy blue and what I like the most about them is they come across as fresh and set the atmosphere of her wedding perfectly.

Sara has also gone to the trouble of having two sets made.  One for the English guests and one for the Greek guests which I think is a lovely touch (one I should have done myself, sorry Dad!).

Sara, they look great.  Roll on the 12th September!

NY

Natty's Wedding Invites!

God, where do I start!  We found this part of the organizing a little trying!  Scouring the Internet to find something appropriate, with a small amount of pressure from my father for a traditional styled invite.  There was only one thing to do, fuse the traditional with the modern!  I found a wonderful style in the Martha Stewart Wedding magazine.  It was named ‘destination wedding’ by www.papercupdesign.com and I loved it!  We wanted a travel theme for obvious reasons and what we liked about it was it was in a vintage style.  

Image care of marthastewart.com

I contacted the company and they were kind enough to send me some samples!  Step one accomplished.  The problem was they were based in the US and even though I loved the design and the concept, it was missing something.  My personal touch!  With the rough concept in hand I approached my wonderful printer, Patrick Dolling.  His wife is my Mothers oldest friend and so I was lucky to keep it all in house! So on to the fun part we went! We had been toying with the idea of giving everyone a guidebook of Crete but as you can imagine the prices were horrendous, so I ended up writing one myself!  It took time but it was so great when it was done and was a hit with the guest!  There is also a company that makes pop out pocket maps.  Sara contacted them for us and had them make up some maps.  What was great was they actually customized them to what I wanted and were extremely detailed as well as being easy to use due to their size, very evening bag friendly!

As the wedding was a three day affair, their had to be three invites. This was where the ‘destination design’ had caught my eye.  The vintage ticket stubs were perfect for the Friday and Sunday events and the wedding invitation was then kept as a more traditional invite with the traditional wording.

I know that these type of things interest me and other people are not that way inclined but I thoroughly enjoyed getting stuck into the designing of all of this.  It was great to work with someone who had such amazing vision and together we took the basic idea and made it into to something really awesome. The finished product was a travel pack (easy to travel with) which opened up to have a guide book, hand drawn map of the area with all the important sites (hotels, wedding venues, etc) on it, three invites, the pocket map, an RSVP and an addressed envelope to return the RSVP.  If I don’t say so myself…they were very cool!  See for yourselves.


NY