Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Signage Ideas

Too often, wedding signage becomes an afterthought. However, these examples prove that signs are yet another opportunity to add a personal touch to your wedding day. From elephant leaves to vintage windows, don’t be afraid to throw out all conventional forms of signage and get creative! – Annie

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Signage Ideas / Oh So Beautiful Paper

This sturdy sign won’t blow away! I love the combination of the wood, white calligraphy, and greenery. | Photography: Brian Hatton, Stationery: Swiss Cottage Designs via MODwedding

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Signage Ideas / Oh So Beautiful Paper

Give your wedding a tropical vibe by using elephant leaves and calligraphy for your menu. | Photography: Brandon Kidd Photography, Calligraphy: Miss B Calligraphy via 100 Layer Cake

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Signage Ideas / Oh So Beautiful Paper

I can think of so many fun uses for these marquee letters! Wedding hashtag, anyone? | Photography: Kristina Adams Photography, Planning + Design: Rustic Vintage Events, Marquee Sign: My Marquee SD via Green Wedding Shoes

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Signage Ideas / Oh So Beautiful Paper

Add a pop of color with hand painted menus. | Photography: Naomi Chokr Photography, Stationery: Shannon Kirsten Illustration via The Celebration Society

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Signage Ideas / Oh So Beautiful Paper

Welcome your guests with an oversized, typographic banner. | Photography: Wild Whim Design + Photography, Paper Goods: Prim and Pixie via Green Wedding Shoes

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Signage Ideas / Oh So Beautiful Paper

Wes Anderson-inspired campground signs are fun and practical. | Photography: Phil Chester, Paper Goods: Tera Hatfield via Green Wedding Shoes

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Signage Ideas / Oh So Beautiful Paper

Create thrones for the bride and groom by adding personalized calligraphy banners to their chairs. | Photography: Leo Patrone, Calligraphy: Patti Adair, Stationery + Event Signage: OOXX Invitations via Style Me Pretty

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Signage Ideas

It wouldn’t be a celebration without balloons, right? 😉 They’re used as a menu here, but would make great table numbers, too! | via The Merrythought

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Signage Ideas / Oh So Beautiful Paper

This vintage window used as a sign makes me want to write all over my windows! | Photography: Miranda Hattie Photography, Calligraphy: Boyd Shropshire Design, Wood Signs + Vintage Windows: Old Florida Lumber Company via 100 Layer Cake

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Signage Ideas / Oh So Beautiful Paper

Create a scroll backdrop with your favorite passage or quote in calligraphy. | Photography: Rachel Leigh Photography, Calligraphy: Paperglaze Calligraphy via Green Wedding Shoes

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Signage Ideas / Oh So Beautiful Paper

Your guests won’t miss this bold retro-inspired sign. | Photography: Angela Marklew of Fstop Inertia via Green Wedding Shoes

How are you planning to incorporate signs into your wedding day?

DIY Paper Flower Party Poppers

Here in London, spring is slowly (but surely) creeping up on us. The days are getting longer, and our lives a little more colorful with new blossoms on the street corners. As someone that lives in a country that is perpetually raining, the arrival of Spring itself is surely worthy of a celebration with some super bright DIY paper flower party poppers! –Erin from BerinMade Paper Goods

DIY Paper Flower Party Poppers / BerinMade London for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Supplies

Petals Template

Store bought party poppers

Coloured Tissue Paper

Card Stock (in your chosen flower colors)

Glitter

Glue

Fringing Scissors

Floral Tape

DIY Paper Flower Party Poppers / BerinMade London for Oh So Beautiful Paper

To make the paper flower party poppers:

Step 1. Feed your card stock into your printer and print out the shapes, then cut out the shapes with scissors.

Step 2. On the cut out flower, fold each petal towards the center to create creases. Then, between each petal, make a small pleat. Using all the creases you have made, the petals should now cave in towards the center to make a flower.

Step 3. To make the flower center, take the circle, cover it in glue and sprinkle glitter on it. Let dry.

Step 4. To make the centre fringe, cut out strips of tissue paper and fringe about 2/3 of the way in. Paint glue around the party popper and stick wrap the strip of tissue paper around it.

Step 5. Wrap the petals around in the same way, and then secure the petals with floral tape.

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DIY Paper Flower Party Poppers / BerinMade London for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Now test out your first popper!

DIY Paper Flower Party Poppers / BerinMade London for Oh So Beautiful Paper

DIY Paper Flower Party Poppers / BerinMade London for Oh So Beautiful Paper

 

DIY Paper Flower Party Poppers / BerinMade London for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Elegant Gold Foil and Navy Wedding Invitations

Happy Monday everyone! We’re starting the week with some seriously stunning and elegant gold foil and navy wedding invitations – and they come to us all the way from the other side of the world: New Zealand!! I love the way Kate of Make Hey incorporated the couple’s navy, gold, and peach color palette into the wedding invitations, including the deliciously shiny metallic gold foil against the velvety navy blue paper. Kate drew design inspiration from the wedding venue and surrounding southern New Zealand landscape, which includes mountain valleys, lakes, and big skies. Beautiful wedding invitations for a wedding in an incredibly beautiful setting!

Elegant Gold Foil and Navy Wedding Invitations by Make Hey / Oh So Beautiful Paper

From Kate: This gold foil wedding invitation suite was custom designed for Helen and Tim, who were married in spring at the Tuhitarata Estate in Martinborough, New Zealand. I drew my main inspiration for the design from the Tuhitarata Estate and its surroundings. Tuhitarata Estate is located in South Wairarapa, a wide valley fringed by mountains to the west and rugged coast to the south and east. The South Wairarapa is a place of big skies, beautiful rural scenery, historic towns full of colonial character, lakes, and waterways. The 1860s-era homestead, Tuhitarata, is set in a park like setting of old English trees and formal gardens.

Elegant Gold Foil and Navy Wedding Invitations by Make Hey / Oh So Beautiful Paper

Elegant Gold Foil and Navy Wedding Invitations by Make Hey / Oh So Beautiful Paper

Elegant Gold Foil and Navy Wedding Invitations by Make Hey / Oh So Beautiful Paper

Helen and Tim wanted their elegant color palette of navy blue, gold and hints of peach to be represented in their wedding stationery. The main invitation was printed on Bristol Intensive Navy Blue by B&F Papers and provides the most incredible contrast amongst the invitation suite. The envelopes were simple kraft paper with a matching wrap around kraft paper seal.

Elegant Gold Foil and Navy Wedding Invitations by Make Hey / Oh So Beautiful Paper

Thanks Kate!

Invitation Design: Make Hey

Check out the Designer Rolodex for more tal­ented wed­ding invi­ta­tion design­ers and the real invi­ta­tions gallery for more wedding invitation ideas!

Photo Credits: Make Hey

A Bittersweet Paloma

The weather’s getting warmer, and it’s time – yes, already – to start thinking about what we want to drink when summer shows up. In DC, hot and sweaty summer is always around the corner. Fortunately, Tequila makes for some pretty great summer cocktails, including this refreshing Bittersweet Paloma. – Andrew

Bittersweet Paloma Cocktail Recipe / Liquorary for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Bittersweet Paloma

2 oz Reposado Tequila
1 oz Lime Juice
1 oz Simple Syrup
Grapefruit India Pale Ale

Combine the Tequila, lime juice, and syrup in a shaker filled with ice and shake gently. Strain into a rocks glass or highball filled with fresh ice. Top with the IPA and garnish with a lime wheel. Enjoy!

Bittersweet Paloma Cocktail Recipe / Liquorary for Oh So Beautiful Paper

The original Paloma, a popular Tequila cocktail in Mexico, combines Tequila with grapefruit soda. This version replaces the grapefruit soda with grapefruit-flavored beer, keeping the original’s tart fruitiness and effervescence but adding in a big, bitter kick. The lime and syrup, also additions, help tame the IPA’s bitterness a bit. It’s a fun, snappy drink, perfect for watching the sunset on a hot summer evening.

Bittersweet Paloma Cocktail Recipe / Liquorary for Oh So Beautiful Paper

(Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, where we’ve been posting our experiments before they make their way onto this column!)

Glassware by Liquorary

Photo Credits: Nole Garey for Oh So Beautiful Paper

Happy Weekend!

Happy Friday everyone! It’s a gorgeous Spring day here in DC and my three year-old has a day off from pre-school, since Emancipation Day is a holiday in DC. So I’m off to spend some time with my little and enjoy this gorgeous weather! But in the meantime…

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Image by BerinMade via Instagram (from the #dailydoseofpaper feed)

…a few links for your weekend!

The last two weeks on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

That’s it for me this week! Check back in just a bit for this week’s cocktail recipe! I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here on Monday! xoxo