I love it when my favorite creative bloggers start new ventures! Alyson from Unruly Things is in the early stages of starting up a stationery shop called Postal Press, where she'll be selling letterpress stationery and packaging goodies:
Save the Date Idea – Layered Envelopes
The lovely + talented Cheree Berry is blogging about the details from her recent wedding over at The Bride’s Guide, and today she gave us a more detailed peek into her Save the Dates.  Needless to say, I’m in love:
Cheree’s inspiration for these S/Ds came from Russian Matryoshka dolls – envelopes, each with a different design, were tucked inside each other as nesting layers, revealing the actual Save the Date once each envelope had been opened. Absolute genius!
{images by Donna Newman via The Bride’s Guide}
Save the Date Contest Finalists {Part 2}
As promised, I have more inspiration boards from the finalists of the Save the Date contest from Delphine! Here are the next three finalists (again, in no particular order):
key lime and palm)
My fiance, Lee, and I live in Providence, RI, but are getting married next May in Fairhope, Alabama (close to my family and friends). Lee and I are having to pay for the majority of the wedding, and because of extra costs such as traveling and hotels, our budget is tight. I feel that the Savannah style fits perfectly with my wedding. We are getting married at The Fairhope Inn. It is a small charming bed and breakfast and restaurant in Fairhope, AL. We will have both the ceremony and the reception in the garden courtyard. I want my wedding to be fun and springy and green and fresh. I love botanical anything, and I love, love the Savannah invitations and Save the Dates! They would fit so perfectly with the theme!
Chocolate.
We chose the Fairmont Copley as our venue because of its beautiful architecture, intricate gold detailing and cozy, warm ambiance. We picked the month of October for its rich autumn hues and seasonal food offerings. From there we began focusing on the little details: stacked corks to hold the seating cards, wooden wine crates to give depth and height to our antipasto display, olive oil favors to honor my fiancé's Greek heritage. We started thinking about the flowers; clustered vases with full garden roses, submerged orchids, dripping crystals and floating candles. We want our wedding to reflect the romance and beauty of the California vineyards. We see the candlelight as being reminiscent of the wine cellars with their antique candelabras and cool cement walls. The colors that we chose; gold, champagne, ivory, peach and cream play to the peaceful elegance of the area and the cascading crystals add that sexiness that permeates everything in Napa Valley.
Soup here; wine cellar via flickr; dress via Style Me Pretty; flowers via the knot; vineyard via National Geographic; flowers and escort cards via the knot; submerged flowers via Style Me Pretty; cake via Southern Weddings; bridesmaid dress by Jim Hjelm; Lindsay's venue, the Venetian Room.
Happy Weekend!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and Happy 4th of July…
{images via Country Living}
Printable Favor Bag Labels
Gia Graham from betsywhite recently e-mailed me to let me know about these lovely favor bag labels that she's offering as a free download over on flights of fancy:
In addition to the free label download, you can find step-by-step instructions for this DIY project – all available right here. Enjoy!
Also, Blush Paperie is giving away 100 place cards from their newly-designed collection – a winner will be selected randomly on July 10th, so head on over to Blush Paperie to enter!
p.s. Have you entered our Save the Date contest yet? We've received some fabulous entries so far, but you still have until Friday to submit your inspiration board! Just click here for details on how to enter.