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DIY Ceremony Programs and Rehearsal Dinner Invitations

Before I run off to get ready to head up to New York tomorrow for the NSS, I thought I'd leave you with Ellie's gorgeous wedding programs and rehearsal dinner invitations for your perusal over the weekend.

First up, Ellie's lovely ceremony programs – which incorporated a silhouette design and four unique cover designs, and were tied together with a coordinating ribbon:

 

Next up, the gorgeous gocco'd rehearsal dinner invitations:

Head on over to (mint) for additional background on the designs and production process – and to the (mint) flickr stream for more lovely photos!  And if you missed them earlier this week, you can also see Ellie's beautiful wedding invitations right here and here.

For all of next week, I'll be blogging on both the NSS and ICFF from New York – posting might be a bit less regular than normal, but please do check in since I'll be posting photos of favorite booths and new stationery products and collections!  For those of you on twitter, you can also follow my tweets right here – I'll be tweeting throughout the day directly from the NSS! 

{images via the (mint) flickr stream}

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I don't often come across plaid wedding invitations, so I was happy to see this invitation suite over on Beast Pieces – not only is the bold and colorful plaid background print tons of fun, but I love the contrast with the delicate script font and silhouette detail element.

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The invitations were designed by Heather and Barry of Cheeky Design for their own wedding last year, and (very carefully) printed by Studio on Fire.  You can check out more of Heather and Barry's design portfolio over at Cheeky Design.

{images via Beast Pieces}

Happy Weekend!

I’m heading out for a weekend trip to NYC, but thought I’d wrap up with a few favorite posts from this week…

Gorgeous silhouette invitations from Albertine Press:

 

 

These adorable rsvp cards, with drawings from the wedding guests, via Soolip:

 

Invitations to a 40th birthday party from BirdDog Press:

 

Beautiful chevron-striped tables from {this is glamorous}:

 

Fun advertising via SeeSaw Designs:

Okay, I’m off!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend – I’ll see you back here next week! 

p.s.  I’ve got another giveaway to announce next week, so be sure to stop by on Monday morning!

Matt + Brijit’s Whimsical Booklet Wedding Invitations

A couple of weeks ago I featured these engagement party invitations from itsmematt, but the wedding invitations and Save the Dates are just as fabulous!

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{Matt and Brijit’s Save the Date poster}

I asked Matt if he’d be willing to tell us about the design process in creating their invitations, and here’s what he had to say:

When I proposed to my now wife, I knew before hand that I would be designing all of the invites and additional goodies.  I feared that, designing for myself, like most designers can attest to, is extremely hard to do.  So I treated the invites like a collaboration for an event that I wasn’t partaking in.  That sounds stupid right?  Well I knew that if I designed it as though it were my wedding I might seize up.  I mean seriously, I was getting married!?  It’s one of the most frightening/exciting things you can go through in life, I couldn’t add being my own harshest critic on top of that.  So what I did was treat it like my wife was the client (after all, she should be in love with everything for the big day).  Boy oh boy did that make it easier to get started.

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She picked a color scheme: grays, yellow and white.  She then showed me some silhouettes she liked and some calligraphic flourishes she really liked.  I then went to town making silhouettes of the two of us and scanning in some really cool French calligraphy.

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The design process went easy.  We wanted to make a booklet from the get-go and so instead of the traditional
saddle stitch we went for a more personal approach and we sewed each one along the left side.

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I used a typewriter font for a personal story of how the proposal went down to tie in the fact that our guest book at the reception would be an old typewriter with a roll of paper attached.

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It was such a great process from start to finish and it was so well received from everyone in attendance.

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I love the way Matt and Brijit took a more personal approach, using their wedding invitations to tell their story in a completely unique way.  For me, that’s one of the biggest advantages of having an invitation booklet, and I’m so happy to see more and more couples moving in this direction.  Thanks so much Matt, for sharing your invitations with us!

{images via itsmematt}

Kathleen + Jeremy’s Creative Black and White Wedding Invitations

Holy moly do I love these invitations, featured yesterday on A Cup of Jo.  From the vellum of the main invitation to the rsvp tag to the mix of script and typewriter fonts, the whole invitation suite is just fabulous:

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The bride, Kathleen, designed the invitations herself (she’s an art director for a local ad agency) and said she was going for a kind of Wes Anderson/correspondence letter vibe – and she definitely pulled it off!  I particularly love the non-traditional wording on the invitation.  Kathleen’s sister wrote the text with a few tweaks from Jeremy.  In case you can’t read it in these photos, here’s what it says:

The polished presence
of your sincere self and guest of favor

Are requested at the nuptials of
Jeremy + Kathleen*

Date
Time
Venue/Location

heavy hors d’oeuvres . wine . beer

Your prolonged attendance is appreciated
as good cheer will extend into the evening hours
with an open reception, libations, and victuals

Yours sincerely,

And then they signed the invitation below two custom silhouettes!  How great is that?  You can read more about Kathleen and Jeremy’s invitations on their blog right here.

*they use their full names here over two separate lines, but I’m abbreviating it here.

{images via A Cup of Jo and J + K}