Designer Erin Jang of The Indigo Bunting has an amazingly vibrant and modern design style that just makes me smile each time she posts a new wedding invitation design. Â Erin created one of my favorite wedding invitation suites from this year (Emily and Dan’s modern houndstooth invitations), but she’s created so many other fantastic designs that it seemed unfair to pick just one!
For more of Erin’s beautiful wedding invitation designs, check out The Indigo Bunting!
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So I don’t usually post this early, but these invitations by Erin at The Indigo Bunting are so amazing that I just couldn’t wait.  The entire design is totally bananas in the absolute best possible way – I mean, just look at that letterpress houndstooth pattern in the envelope liners!
Totally awesome.  Design by Erin, letterpress printing by Coeur Noir Specialty Printers – read and see more over on The Indigo Bunting.  I’ll be back a bit later with more gorgeous wedding invitations!
{image credits: Erin Jang}
I was absolutely thrilled when Bella Figura asked me to curate a sample package of five of my favorite wedding invitation designs from their collection. I chose my favorites from the new 2010 collection, which features beautiful designs from Ellie Snow, Erin Jang, Jessica Hische, Ben Whitla, and many others. Here are my selections:
{birch}
{hendrix by jessica hische}
{herald by ben whitla}
{canopy by Ellie Snow}
{ribbon by Erin Jang}
As you can tell, I went for designs with lots of texture and both modern and unusual design elements, like the cross-hatch background on the "ribbon" design and the soft gray (almost blind letterpress) of the "birch" design, as well as nature-inspired details, like the "canopy" and "hendrix" designs. I also really love the "Tara" design by Ben Whitla – if only I had been allowed six favorites!
{tara by Ben Whitla}
If you're interested in any of my picks, you can purchase a sample pack from Bella Figura for $20 Рand 100% of the proceeds will be donated to The Conservation Fund. You can check out my favorites, along with those of other bloggers like Van̩ from Brooklyn Bride, Ami from Elizabeth Anne Designs, Anne-Marie from Perfect Bound, Kathryn from Snippet & Ink, and a few others on the Bella Figura Trendsetters page!
{image credits: Bella Figura}
*Bella Figura is one of my fabulous sponsors, but provided no financial compensation or incentives for this post. I feature their work solely because I think it's awesome. For information on my editorial policy, click here.
Cyd’s wedding ceremony programs were a true labor of love — with a beautiful result! — deserving of a post all their own.  Plus they were inspired in part by my own wedding ceremony programs, so I just had to give Cyd’s lovely blue and kraft paper programs a bit of extra love!
From Cyd: For our ceremony programs, I was inspired by your cute pocket-sized ceremony programs and the lovely programs you featured by Erin Jang which had kraft paper pages and gocco’d covers.
These were easily the most time consuming of my DIY projects – I designed them and laid them out myself in InDesign.  Every cover was individually cut, scored, lined on the inside with the same paper as our envelope liners, and then hand bound (we’re talking old school book binding with a needle and thread here) with blue and white striped baker’s twine.
The pages were kraft paper, which was a material I introduced with the envelopes of our Bookmark the Dates (DIYÂ bookmarks as I’m a literature buff and my husband is an English teacher) and later incorporated in several areas throughout our event.
I gocco’d both the front and back covers, picking up on the flourish from our invitations, and used Paper Source cardstock in Lake for the actual covers.
They were immensely time-consuming, but guests loved them and very few were left behind. IÂ can’t say I’ll be making any more miniature books anytime soon, but I sure did love the way these turned out!
Beautiful! Don’t you all just love the mix of craft paper and that gorgeous lake blue? You can read more about Cyd’s wedding over on The Sweetest Occassion or on her column on Elizabeth Anne Designs. Oh, and for those of you curious about the script font used in Cyd’s programs, it’s called Burgues and can be found at Veer. Thanks so much, Cyd, for sharing your lovely programs and gorgeous wedding invitations with us!
{all photos by Oh So Beautiful Paper}
