We love Urbanic Paper! What more can you say about this adorable shop on Abbot Kinney other than it’s pure paper perfection! Obviously, they were the go-to for our client’s Rehearsal Dinner Invitations. We adore this piece from 42 Pressed. This delish invite will be letterpress printed with a blind deboss for the coral and the sea ink for the text. In our book, anything coral is naturally chic! Check it.

When styling an event, we work on everything from sourcing the invitations and linens, collaborating with the florist to create the perfect color palette, and dream up unique ways to enhance the event space. So, when we were brought on to style a wedding at Central Park Boathouse, we knew there was no one better than the lovely and talented Erica from Thoughtful Day to create the custom stationery suite and Jenna from Love, Jenna for the calligraphy! We adore everything about these invitations: from the texture to the color palette and down to the hand-stitched linen fabric belly band–it was all pure perfection! Check it.

PS. make sure to head to Erica’s updated site! Gorg. xx

Ceci worked their magic yet again with one of our clients. This lovely save-the-date is for one of our upcoming Destination Weddings. The wedding will be held in Vermont, and as you can see, the STD is perfectly rustic-chic. Love the muted gray and blue hues. Combined with the subtle yellows and blush. Gorg scripted, elegant font. Brills.

So, it’s no secret that we are huge fans of Mr. Boddington stationery.  Not only do we recommend their fabulous, distinctive custom paper to our clients, but I also use them for my personal social stationery.  In fact, I just placed an order last week for some new stationery–can’t wait to receive!  We were so excited yesterday when we received an email with a link to their new (gorgeous) website.  Full of inspiration, amazing design, and even some adorable Christmas stationery sets.  love. love. love.

We are such fans of Mr. Boddington’s Stationery and so excited to collaborate with them on a wedding this month at our fave Bowery Hotel. Mr Boddington’s created this gorgeous stationery suite for our couple to incorporate their rustic theme and rich fall colors. From the font, to the saturated colors, to the custom monogram–too perfect! Check these lovelies.

Christine created these delicious designs for our client getting married in Portugal this weekend. As you can see, it was no easy feat as each piece of the stationery suite had to be translated in three (yes, three) languages. Check out these truly elegant invitations and gorgeous map. SD&P also created the custom monogram and packaging for the favor–handmade tea towels. Amazing!

Another fabulous design from Ceci for our clients.  Check out these designs for one of our upcoming summer weddings.  As you can see, the palette is a dramatic combination purple and gold.  Purple seems to be the color of the season!  Pure. Loveliness.

We wanted to share with you one of the lovely invitation suites that Ceci created for one our upcoming summer weddings.  We love the simple color palette, mixed with the ornate design.  As always, Ceci creates invitation perfection.

Christine heads Stonington Design & Paperie, which is one of our favorite stationery and graphic design firms.  Not only is her firm creative, but they are always inventive with their approach to design, and most importantly a true pleasure with which to work!  Christine and her team just completed an invitation project for one of our client’s getting married in Portugal.  Because we are pressed for time and due to the complexity of the location, Christine came up with a brilliant approach to this process.  She explains below…


as graphic designers we love working on projects where we can develop multiple layers of communication. so we were thrilled when LHE asked us to collaborate with them on a graphic identity for their client’s wedding materials. we started the design process by suggesting an electronic save the date and custom blog to announce the client’s nuptials in portugal.

a save the date jpeg is an easy way to communicate not only your wedding date, but all types of travel details. the process starts very much the same as any custom design project except we skip the printing phase which ultimately, saves time and expense. links can also be programmed into the jpeg so your guests can have immediate access to even more layers of information.

with lisa and eugenio’s save the date we took the added step of creating a custom blog. by linking the save the date to a tailor made blog, your guest list again has immediate access, but this time to your personal thoughts. . .how cool is that?  plus you have the added bonus of making updates easily and cost-effectively.

blogger or wordpress are great resources for creating free blogs. in addition make sure to create your own hisandhername email account through free sites like yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc. so you can email under a recognizable name. plus it is a good idea to buy your own hisandhername domain name so you can avoid the added characters a blog adds to a site address. again, this all helps to create a recognizable online presence for your event.

in terms of the design, we simply translated the elements we created for the wedding’s overall identity [ie typefaces, color palettes and imagery] into an online format. that way, the electronic save the date and blog start to build equity for entire look and feel of the wedding.

as with any save the date [printed or electronic] the idea is to communicate the necessary information in a memorable but perhaps slightly mysterious way, hinting to your guests that the best is yet to come.

thanks LHE for featuring us today. it is always fantastic to share ideas with you guys.

with appreciation,
ct

A quick blog post…  We just received an email from one of our fave stationery designers, the wonderful ladies at A Day in May, letting us know that they updated their site.  Check it out–SO beautiful!  We posted about their gorg(eous) work a few weeks back…  Enjoy and congrats ladies~