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

Welcome Packs...Chicks Dig Pressies! Part 1

Images from stylemepretty.com & Korres.com

We really do!  I love the idea of welcome packs and if I had not incorporated them into the invite pack would definitely have had some at ours.  Done well they are great and a really helpful tool for your guests. The key is to make them  organised and handy.  If  you are having more than one event it is great to have a list of events with all the relevant details, maps times, etc.  There are so many ways to do them and you can couple them with a little welcome pressie of either local produce or some cool local made shower/bath products.  Korres are a Greek company and make beautiful, natural products ranging from shampoos, shower gels to sun screens.  A lot of the hotels in Greece use them now to stock their bathrooms and you can buy small party survival kits which are great.

This then brings me onto your organisation of guests.  For you to be able to put the welcome packs into their rooms you will need to keep tabs on where everyone is staying.  We did this by having a website with all relevant accommodation info on it and an accommodation form that everyone filled in but you can always put a section on your RSVP's.

I am heading down to a friend of mine this afternoon who studied advertising and graphics SO am going to coerce her into running up some design ideas for you to have a look at! But for now check out this gorgeous vintage travel themed idea from Style Me Pretty.

Stay posted

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