The Bride’s Cafe — Ideas for Wedding Stationery

Hi everyone!  Today I'm guest posting over at The Bride's Café — Janie graciously invited me to stop by, so I'm sharing a few ideas for wedding stationery, from ceremony programs to marriage certificates.  Here's a sneak peek, but you'll need to check out the full post over at the Café!

Ceremony-program-ideas{top photo by Sarah K. Chen, bottom photo by Simply Bloom via EAD}

Fabric-wedding-invitations-vintage-handkerchief-save-the-date{top photo by Max Wanger via EAD, bottom photo via Bird and Banner}

Paper-rosette-flower-wedding-decorations{top row: sweet paul, emersonmade; bottom row: jen curtis via design sponge, kate headley}

Elizabeth-messina-papercut-ketubah{the most amazing papercut ketubah, photo by elizabeth messina}

Check out the full post — and lots more photos — right here!

{images from their respective sources}

Wedding Invitations — Porridge Papers

I first came across the work of Porridge Papers on the Clover & Bee blog – and was instantly smitten with their eco-friendly letterpress wedding invitations, many of which are printed on plantable and recycled papers.  Based out of Lincoln, Nebraska, Porridge Papers creates completely custom invitations, working with each couple to create a suite that captures the mood and style of their wedding or event.

Samantha and Christopher from Porridge Papers were kind enough to send over a few examples from their custom wedding invitation portfolio, so let’s take a look:

Porridge-paper-autumn-acorn-wedding-invitation
Porridge-paper-autumn-acorn-wedding-invitation2{acorn}

Porridge-paper-black-white-damask-wedding-invitation{pfeffer}

Porridge-paper-blue-flower-wedding-invitation
Porridge-paper-blue-flower-wedding-invitation2{marroquin}

Porridge-paper-blue-seaside-wedding-invitation
Porridge-paper-blue-seaside-wedding-invitation2{marilyn}

Porridge-paper-blue-starfish-wedding-invitation
Porridge-paper-blue-starfish-wedding-invitation2{shayla}

Porridge-paper-elizabeth-letterpress-wedding-invitation{elizabeth}

Porridge-paper-green-nature-leaf-wedding-invitation{jessica}

Porridge-paper-jewish-traditional-wedding-invitation{ruth}

Porridge-paper-red-orange-modern-wedding-invitation
Porridge-paper-red-orange-modern-wedding-invitation2{andrea}

Porridge-paper-simple-modern-wedding-invitation{cindy}

From Samantha and Christopher: Many of our invitation packages are printed on our 100% recycled handmade paper that’s made right here in our shop. Our most popular papers are our plantable papers that have seeds embedded in the fibers. Once the invitation is sent, recipients can plant the invite and grow gorgeous wildflowers or delicious herbs. Customizing is really our specialty, the designs we use are all unique and we can customize everything down to the paper color.

For more from Porridge Papers, you can check out their wedding invitation gallery right here, read more about their plantable seed paper here, and follow their blog, pulp obsession.  Thank you so much, Samantha and Christopher, for sharing your beautiful work with us!

{image credits: porridge papers}

{happy weekend!}

Happy Friday everyone!  This weekend I'm looking forward to spending my first full weekend at home in many weeks.  I'm also oddly excited for first big snowfall here in DC this weekend — I'll take any excuse to curl up with some hot chocolate while I finish wrapping up a few christmas gifts.  But in the meantime…

Vintage-drawers

…a few links for your reading pleasure this weekend:

That's it for me for this week!  I'll be back next week with some fantastic real wedding invitations and lots of other goodies before we all head off for the holidays.  I hope you all have a wonderful — and warm! — weekend, I'll see you all back here on Monday!

{image credits: enjoyco via mossière}

Watercolor + Anemone Wedding Invitations

I seriously love everything about David and Cheri’s wedding invitations — from the watercolor details to the anemone illustration to the small emblems repeated throughout the invitation suite:

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I had seen the photos from this handmade wedding a while back, but loved looking through them again and noticing all the little ways that the wedding invitations served as a preview of the beauty and fun to come on the big day!  Check out more invitation and wedding photos here and here.

{image credits: david rager, via bird and banner}