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Invitations
Hopefully it’s not painfully obvious, but we haven’t had as much time to dedicate to the blog as we love to have lately. We’ve been freelancing it up, ladies and gentlemen (Hi, Bret!). We’ve had several corporate and personal identity projects lately, two custom invitation suites, our first blog design client (I’ve been studying the beast of CSS for the past few months).
We had a blast working with Jessica and Matt on their invitations. They worked with us on the mixtape invitation set and printing and they were so sweet about the results.
We’re revamping everything in the shop, because, you see…we’ve learned a lot in the past year and we have gotten to a point where we’ve slowly taken everything down because we dislike it. What’s left has left us in a barren state, my friends, so while the shop is empty and we’re revamping, we just wanted to share a little of what we’ve been working on.
Stay tuned this week for a giveaway on Sarah & Tony’s Inconceivable Life as well.
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We’ve been taking more and more design projects lately. We’re having some fun helping people discover their brand and style. Our own invitations, though…well, let’s just say it’s safe to assume we’ll never fully settle on a design. Furthermore, I’m pretty positive that whatever we decide on will be pseudo-regretted for a while…and we’ll wish we had gone with something else.
So just to be sure we really love them, we’ve been digging for endless invitation inspiration..hoping to learn from the paths paved before us (mistakes and wins) to make a rad invitation set.
Check out some of our favorites from around the web recently and geek out!
Design
We love this sleek and clean skeleton key invitation suite designed by Kate of Wit & Delight and found on Oh So Beautiful Paper.
I would feel like a rockstar if my family opened this rad invitation and custom button by The Indigo Bunting.
This cute and kitschy heart-themed invitation suite by Mitchell & Dent found on The Knotty Bride warms my heart quite a bit. I would love to do one with construction paper cutouts as well.
That teal chevron pattern and “The Adventure Continues” won my heart over pretty quickly. The rest of the suite is equally cute by Etsy seller Earmark
Found these on Glamour and Grace and I love that ribbon mixed with the chevron pattern by Etsy seller Cheerupcherup
Okay. This set and I might run away together. The Indigo Bunting really gets me right where it counts, huh?
I love a) how much information b) the illustration mixed with the design and typography c) the color scheme of this super sweet invitation suite found on Style Me Pretty.
Well…these are just adorable, aren’t they? Found on this Pinterest board and there was no credit (gasp)!
I love how chic and minimal this suite is…although quality paper is an absolute must for minimal chic and we’re not sure we wanna break the bank on paper. Also found with no credit via this Pinterest board.
Yes, yes and yes. I love this. Designed by Joe Anderson, pressed by Nomadic Press and found on Head vs. Heart.
Illustrated
This bright yellow invitation suite found on HaystackNeedle has an awesome mix of design and illustration…really a fantastic hybrid, if you ask me.
I don’t have to say much about Cactus & Quail, do I? Except that these are delicious.
I absolutely love Rifle Paper Co. (I know, get in line, right?), although I have to say I think the clean and minimal typography look works a bit better for us and our vibeage…these lovely custom invites will make one very lucky couple.
Super sweet watercolor invitation suite from Green Wedding Shoes.
A custom wedding monogram from Happy Menocal would make such a sweet touch to a simple invitation sweet. How awesome would it be to tell your children you have a crest?
Above and Beyond
Love this illustrated wedding poster invitation by Kevin Dart (found on Beyond Beyond). The colors are beautiful and the illustration is so textured and sweet.
So this super pretty handkerchief wedding invitation from Rock’n Roll Bride might be sticking out like a sore thumb among all of these other invites…but I still think it’s a super sweet way to remember the day (there was no getting away from that rhyme).
LOVE. The design, the idea, the tutorial, everything. Make your own CD sa-the-da’s or invitation suite on Brooklyn Bride
Well, I wish every invitation set had this much personality. This is the invitation suite our invites hope to be like when they grow up. The bride made a playlist and put it on digital vinyl and designed the invitations herself found on 100 Layer Cake.
Sweet, simple illustrated handkerchief map invitations found on Luna and Chloe Weddings
For more invitation inspiration, follow our board on Pinterest or stay tuned, we’re still digging through mounds and mounds of inspiration out there and trying to find the spark.
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I fell in love with Pat’s creativity in her wedding journey when I came across her blog the week that we were freshly pressed. She has impecable style and grace and is all about some DIY projects, including her engagement shoot. Yes, she DIY’d her own pictures. Her entry for the Ruffled DIY contest was featured among their favorites as well.
Pat and her (as of yesterday) husband, Stefan hail from Singapore – which Pat so eloquently described as “warm, tropical and just a tiny red dot on the world-wide map” – to share their engagement session.
Pat and Stefan DIY’d their engagement session to save money and to take control of their photos. She said:
Bridal studios here normally include engagement photography, hair and make up services, gown sale/rental and actual day videography/photography in a packaged bundle that usually starts from S$2500, depending on the package you choose. This is not that much, considering you get almost everything settled in one stop, however I grew tired of the usual cliché shots and am very skeptical of some of the photographers’ style here that mimics the popular cutesy style of Taiwan.
At the same time, I have also been dong my research online and saw so many pictures that are so inspiring and beautiful. And I thought to myself, I can do that too! Granted, I’m not a skilled photographer nor do I have the equipment to back me up, I do however have a DSLR camera and a love for experimenting. There was so much I wanted to try and I got so excited that I forgot about the other options and just decided that we would do the shoot ourselves!
Uhm. Pat. You’re a damn skilled photographer. These images are breathtaking, lady.
Pat and Stefan settled on a 50′s theme for their engagement shoot and did a test run using a remote and their SLR camera. The practice session went marvelously. The day of the shoot, they brought along a close friend to help so they didn’t have to rely on the remote.
Pat has some big plans for the photos. Some of them were included in their wedding invitations (below) and others hung from tiny trees in their venue. She wanted to use the photos as a conversation piece and hoped the guests would take the photos away as souvenirs or write notes to her and Stefan on the back.
They even recreated this gem of a photo from Alfred Eisenstaedt in their shoot!
Pat’s DIY invitations were one of the first thing I saw on her site and I thought she was brilliantly creative. She wanted to give her guests something beautiful to remember and also keep it environmentally friendly. Check out her creation.
Congrats to Pat & Stefan yesterday, 01.11.10! Hope you enjoy her badass DIY engagement session and give her blog a little love. Munch on this, suckas!
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