Wedding Field Guide Invitations

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Sigh… today has kind of got­ten away from me.  It’s one of those days where deal­ing with issues on the back end of the blog has eclipsed my focus on the front end.  Don’t we all have days like that?  So I leave you with these lovely wood­grain wed­ding invitations/wedding field guide by Urban Influ­ences and promises to come back tomor­row (with a fun sneak peek at some of the sta­tionery in the lat­est issue of Martha Stew­art Wed­dings!).  Check out the full details of these invi­ta­tions over at Benign Objects.

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In the mean­time, I did a lit­tle Q and A ses­sion over at The B List blog – check it out right here!  Also of note, I had the oppor­tu­nity ear­lier today to attend the swearing-in cer­e­mony for my for­mer boss and men­tor – he’s head­ing off to be an Ambas­sador and I couldn’t be more proud of him.  It’s so nice to see good things hap­pen for good peo­ple; makes my heart all warm and fuzzy.

{image cred­its: urban influ­ences via benign objects}

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Lulu + Dee

Lov­ing these mod­ern, bright, and col­or­ful let­ter­press greet­ing cards from Lulu + Dee:

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I’m quite par­tial to the giraffe and whale cards – too cute!  You can check out the full selec­tion over in the Lulu + Dee shop right here.  Which ones are your favorites?

{image cred­its: lulu + dee}

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Autumn-Inspired Notecards

Happy Sep­tem­ber every­one!  I’m a bit par­tial to Sep­tem­ber, since it’s both my actual birth­day month and my blog anniver­sary month!  OSBP will be turn­ing two years old in just a few short days.  Yay!  How­ever, August doesn’t seem to have got­ten the dis­missal memo and it’s still hot as blazes around here.  Maybe I can will Fall to arrive with these autumn-inspired note cards from Sweet Har­vey?

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Too cute!

{image cred­its: sweet harvey}

*Sweet Har­vey is one of my fab­u­lous spon­sors; for more on my edi­to­r­ial poli­cies please click here.

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Real Invitations — Jeshurun + Ryan

Today’s real invi­ta­tions have one of my favorite themes ever – cof­fee and books!  Jeshu­run took on the task of design­ing her own wed­ding invi­ta­tions and Save the Dates while fin­ish­ing up her Master’s the­sis in graphic design at RISD and try­ing to plan the rest of her wed­ding.  Once Jeshu­run and Ryan set­tled on a gen­eral theme the rest of the design came together organ­i­cally, includ­ing a beau­ti­ful let­ter­press book­mark Save the Date!

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From Jeshuru:  As a graphic designer, there is some pres­sure to make your wed­ding invi­ta­tions a slice of design per­fec­tion.  My hus­band Ryan man­ages a cof­fee shop, and we met in a cof­fee shop, so it seemed nat­ural to incor­po­rate that ele­ment as a design detail.  Cof­fee plants are actu­ally quite beautiful.

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I recy­cled burlap cof­fee bags from his work by cut­ting them into small rec­tan­gles and attach­ing some home­made but­tons of my own design to be used at the place settings.

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I let­ter­press printed my Save the Dates at RISD and attached gor­geous hand-dyed silk rib­bon (from Hanah Silk Rib­bon) to cre­ate the bookmarks.

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To con­tinue the book theme, I stacked books I had at home into the shape of a wed­ding cake, then pho­tographed and traced them in Illus­tra­tor to cre­ate the invi­ta­tions. My friend Elana at Spoon & Sailor han­dled the print­ing of the invi­ta­tions since I wanted a per­fect color-match and some addi­tional let­ter­press expertise.

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A cus­tom rub­ber stamp and scal­loped note cards from Paper Source made the RSVP cards a breeze.  The recep­tion din­ner menu was sim­ply ink-jet printed at home.

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Instead of a guest book, I cre­ated a wish­ing tree to which guests could attach notes.

Fan­tas­tic work Jeshu­run!  Con­grat­u­la­tions, and thank you so much for shar­ing your wed­ding invitations!

{image cred­its: invi­ta­tion photo by Elana at Spoon & Sailor; wish­ing tree, guest book, and but­tons by Jeff Ever­ard Pho­tog­ra­phy, all oth­ers by Jeshu­run Webb}

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Sweet Blue Birds Bridal Shower Invitations

Eleanor from Oh Louise! sent over these invi­ta­tions for an upcom­ing bridal shower.  The shower will be with 20 of the bride’s clos­est girl­friends and an out­door gar­den brunch of mimosas, moji­tos, and yogurt par­fait along a bunch of other yummy treats.  Eleanor ended up going with her sweet flock of birds design in a fun turquoise and twine color palette:

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So cute!  Thanks Eleanor!

{image cred­its: oh louise!}

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