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Weekly Link Round-Up

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{my favorite image of the week – from Alyson Fox’s wedding via Design Sponge}

This has been a busy week in paper goods, so grab a cup of coffee or tea or chai and let’s get started!

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  • Beautiful prints by Clare Rojas via Dear Ada
  • An inspired First Birthday in a Box set by City Bird Design via Inspired Goodness
  • Don’t forget to check out all the DIY projects this month over at EAD!
  • This week was all about Save the Date designs at Brooklyn Bride
  • A new letterpress invitation suite is available at Laura Hooper Calligraphy
  • VintageGlam tells us where to find free Art Deco fonts
  • {ritzy bee} loves escort cards
  • Wedding Paper Divas is offering a special discount on Blurb books – but only until November 30!
  • More lovely work by Bird & Banner over at OnceWed

That’s it for this week — I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Weekly Link Round-Up

Hi Everyone!  Sorry to be a bit late in posting — my husband and I took a quick excursion up to Baltimore on Saturday afternoon before the Decemberists show at Rams Head Live (so good, as always).  But before I get to this week’s round up, I just want to say a huge “thank you!” to Holly from decor8 for linking to my blog this week.  Decor8 is one of my hands-down favorite blogs and I’m honored just even to have been mentioned.  And to any of you visiting my site from decor8, welcome!

So, now onto the weekly round-up:

That’s it for this week! I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend so far, and I’ll be back on Monday with more lovely paper goods — as well as an exclusive discount that I can’t wait to share with all of you!

Modern Preppy Letterpress Wedding Invitations

I’m so glad that Martha Stewart has created an online database for the amazing real weddings featured in the magazine over the years.  The wedding of Tasha and DW Gibson, particularly the wedding stationery, is one of my all-time favorites.  It’s even more amazing when you consider that they planned the wedding in only five months:

Invite - MSWeddings

I adore the fold-out layout of this invitation and subtle use of pattern.  According to MS Weddings, “the bride wanted her wedding to feel like a garden in sunshine, so the invitation and itinerary (with perforated RSVP card) were letterpressed in moss green and golden yellow ink.”

Programs - MS Weddings
I love the use of detail – the scallop edge and ribbon are just too cute…

PlaceCards - MS Weddings

For those of you looking for escort card or place card ideas, this is a great one!  And even if typewriter keys aren’t your thing, you could easily use vintage buttons or another small object and type or hand-write the table number assignment at the end of the paper.

Check out the Designer Rolodex for more tal­ented wed­ding invi­ta­tion design­ers and the real invi­ta­tions gallery for more wedding invitation ideas!

{All images via Martha Stewart Weddings.  For more photos from this wedding, click here for the full slideshow.}

Erica + Patrick’s Modern Folk Art Wedding Invitations

I am SO excited to be able to share these invitations with you!  This invitation set is one of my all time favorites – I literally had to resist the urge to do a complete re-design of my own invitations when I saw them.  Erica of the lovely blog thoughtful day had an absolutely beautiful destination wedding in Jamaica this past May, and her invitations perfectly captured the design aesthetic for her wedding.  Erica was kind enough to send over a few additional photos of her invitations and other stationery elements:

Invite
{the main invitation}

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{the weekend itinerary enclosure}

Envelopment
{envelopes from Paper-Source with letterpress tags}

Envelope_liners
{liners for the external envelopes}

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The image above served as the design inspiration for Erica’s wedding stationery – you can see clearly how the inspiration translated into the actual invitation and Save the Date design:

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{the final, printed Save the Dates – I’m completely in love with the sewn-on patterned backing!}

After her wedding, Erica posted a few pieces of advice for other brides, including this very useful tidbit:

Pick your colors. Then pick your inspiration. I knew my color story before I knew anything else, it helped set the tone and feel of what I wanted our wedding to be. Light, fun, and whimsical. Above is the cover of a vintage American folk art book and to the right is our save the date artwork, it set the tone for the rest of the stationery suite.

You can also see how these design elements were carried over into the RSVP card, thank-you cards, and place cards:

Rsvp
{RSVP card}

Thank_you {thank-you cards}

ThoughtfulDay3{place cards}

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The lemon centerpiece from Rebecca Thuss in the upper left served as the basic inspiration for Erica’s wedding color scheme and lemon theme, inspiring many of the details at the wedding.  You can see how the lemon theme continues with the lemon drop favors and other wedding details:

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Thanks so much for sharing your gorgeous wedding stationery Erica!  If you haven’t already, you can see more from Erica’s beautiful wedding on thoughtfulday.  Erica will also be launching her own line of wedding invitations in January, which will include both custom work and her own line of new designs.  Erica will be back in touch when her new site goes live – and I can’t wait to see her new designs!

Check out the Designer Rolodex for more tal­ented wed­ding invi­ta­tion design­ers and the real invi­ta­tions gallery for more wedding invitation ideas!

{all images by Erica of thoughtfulday}

Weekly Link Round-Up

{My favorite image of the week, by Lillian and Leonard via her alter ego – the always amazing Peonies and Polaroids}

Now onto the round-up.  As promised, here's what was floating around this week:

That's it for this week – I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!