I love weddings where you can just tell that the bride and groom – and their guests – are having a blast. This wedding, captured by our labor of love from the flashdance team, seems like a rockin' good party:
And, of course, I love all the wedding details:
Photography by our labor of love, music by Michael Antonia of the flashdance. Looks like so much fun!
{images via our labor of love}
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!
{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.
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.
The design process went easy. Â 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.
It was such a great process from start to finish and it was so well received from everyone in attendance.
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}
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:
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:
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}
Gorgeous new wedding invitations from Anna Melcon Bond of Rifle Design:
I love Anna’s work, particularly her illustration and wedding portfolios. She’s promised to share a few more pictures of these two invitations on her blog a bit later on, and I can’t wait to see them!
{images via Rifle Design}
What could be a better way to end the week than with a stationery giveaway?  Nothing, if you ask me!  So, as you can imagine, I’m super excited to be hosting a fabulous giveaway from Two Brunettes!
Okay, so here are the rules: Head on over to the Two Brunettes etsy store to browse through the collection. Pick out your favorite design (I’ve put a couple of mine above), then pop back on over here and leave a comment with telling us which one you picked.
The winner will receive their favorite card, as well as a set of initial note cards!
You’ll have until midnight (EST) on Wednesday, April 8 to enter the giveaway, and we’ll announce the winner here at the end of next week. Bonne chance!
{images via Two Brunettes – thanks Carolynn!}