Seriously. Love. These.
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{photos by Whitebox Weddings via Brooklyn Bride}
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Happy Weekend!
Hi Everyone!  So, I’m going to try out a new feature – a weekly round-up of paper-related links.  I might make this a more frequent feature if folks find it useful, so please leave me a comment or send me an e-mail to let me know what you think.  Please also let me know if you see that I’ve missed something or have a link that you found useful.
First, I just want to send a huge “thank you!” to  Meg and Christine for their posts about Mike & Emma’s wedding invitations that I featured last week – and say a quick “welcome!” to any new readers who might have found me from A Practical Wedding or pretty.pretty.paper.
So, now to the round-up – here’s what was floating around this week:
- sfgirlbybay featured the witty and somewhat sarcastic greeting cards from Old Tom Foolery
- Freshly Blended loves Joy’s new fall collection.
- Cicada studio has another 2009 calendar.
- Everday design in ordinary business cards from Hi + Low.
- Creature comforts interviews Avie Designs.
- {frolic!} guest blogger Elisabeth clues us into the hand-drawn map association.
- {ritzy bee} features the work of Hello! Lucky and provides a helpful run-down on wording options for wedding programs.
- And Hello! Lucky’s French Deco invitation inspires a wedding cake:
(I am totally and completely smitten with this invitation) - Paper + Cup is now selling the DIY photo display cards seen in the latest MS Weddings
- Oslo Press gives a helpful guide on how to proofread your invitations.
- Paper Schmaper likes Justine Smith’s paper artwork.
- New maple leaf fall note cards from Dingbat Press.
- Super-creative thank-you cards from desert bride via Once Wed.
That’s it for this week — have a great weekend!
Elisabeth’s Floral Letterpress Wedding Invitations
I’ve been waiting for these all week! Elisabeth finally posted pictures of her wedding stationery on her guest blog over at frolic! – you absolutely must go check out the full set here!
Absolutely beautiful. Via frolic!, of course…
Check out the Designer Rolodex for more talÂented wedÂding inviÂtaÂtion designÂers and the real inviÂtaÂtions gallery for more wedding invitation ideas!
{image credits: black pearl press via frolic!}
Wedding Programs – Darling Dexter
I love, love the design that Whitney from Darling Dexter came up with for her wedding ceremony programs. You can just tell that Whitney thought about every detail – from the overlay of patterned paper as a cover to the baker's twine used to bind the pages together:
Whitney also incorporated the nest and other graphics from her invitations into the programs
I love the idea of incorporating quotes into wedding programs. In my own wedding, my husband and I recited poems in lieu of ring vows, and we included both those poems and our marriage vows in our programs.
{all photos by Whitney from Darling Dexter}
Julia Rothman’s Modern Illustrated Letterpress Wedding Invitations
When I saw the photos from Julia Rothman’s wedding on brooklyn bride last week, I knew I had to feature Julia’s amazing wedding invitations:
Then I also remembered that I had seen an initial mock-up of these invitations a few months back on kenziekate’s guest blog on design sponge:
The invitations turned out to be absolutely lovely in all of their letterpress goodness – and it’s so wonderful to see these invitations go from illustration to reality!  I asked Julia for some background on the inspiration behind her invitation design. Julia said that she actually had a hard time deciding what to do for her invitations since there were so many people to please, which I know is a feeling that many other brides can relate to! Since Julia is an illustrator, it made the most sense for her to illustrate her own invitations – she decided to use line drawings to complement the feel and look of the letterpress printing process.
From Julia: I knew I wanted to fill the space as much as possible with line drawings since letterpress looks so nice this way. I’ve had some experience with it since working with Hello! Lucky on a line of cards. I had my colors picked out already so that part was easy. After trying a bunch of different typefaces I decided my own handwriting was so much more “me” and the rest just sort of happened.
Initially I was disappointed with the design. Matt liked it and I didn’t have much time so I decided to go with it. Once I added the rsvp card and the map I liked the invitation card much more. Then after it was printed – by my friend Chris Kyung at Soho Letterpress as a gift – I loved how they came out. I think most things look nice in letterpress no matter what and he did an absolutely perfect job.
After seeing these invitations as a final product (including all of those hand-addressed envelopes!), I really can’t imagine anything else – the design seems so perfectly suited for Julia and her wedding. Aren’t they just lovely?
Thanks so much, Julia, for sharing your beautiful invitations!
Check out the Designer Rolodex for more talÂented wedÂding inviÂtaÂtion designÂers and the real inviÂtaÂtions gallery for more wedding invitation ideas!
{image credits: top photo by jennifer causey, illustration by julia via design*sponge, all other photos by julia rothman}