Let's start this Friday morning off with a bit of eye candy, shall we? How about these foil stamped posters with silver foil on blue and copper paper by Marian Bantjes?
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Caitlin + Joseph’s Vintage Aviation Wedding Invitations
I am so excited about today’s real invitations! Â The invitations were submitted by the bride, Caitlin, who is thrilled with the custom design that her stationer, Li Lai, developed for her invitations. Â As you’ll see, Caitlin and her husband Joseph went for a vintage aviation theme in their wedding invitation design. Â The aviation theme was itself inspired by the album artwork from one of their favorite bands, Neutral Milk Hotel. Â I love, love the way Caitlin worked with Li to translate this inspiration to a successful wedding invitation, so let’s get right to it!
From Caitlin: We asked Li to design something flight-themed using a vintagey line-drawing style. We actually gave her the liner notes to one of our favorite albums, “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel, to use as inspiration for the overall design (Aeroplane was also our wedding song):
Li found a bunch of flight images and tweaked them a little bit (adding the people in the hot air balloon on the front, etc.) and created a really wonderful, whimsical invitation:
The invitations include a pocket for the RSVP card and return envelope, as well as a fun bookmark containing all of the directions (and a bird charm tied on with pale green string). I think the bookmark is my favorite part, with all of the weird images of different antique flight contraptions:
Finally, Li made us a custom rubber stamp with a crest tweaked to include our initials, with which all of our envelopes were stamped with on the back:
Gorgeous!  I love the way all the different elements work together, from the kraft paper envelopes and details to the vintage design elements and drawings, while still reflecting the design’s original lyrical inspiration.  You can check out more from Li Lai’s portfolio — including Caitlin + Joseph’s bird-themed Save the Date — right here.  Thanks Caitlin!
{image credits: invitation photos by Li Lai; album artwork by Neutral Milk Hotel courtesy Merge Records}
Heather + Josh’s Botanical Wedding Stationery
Today over at EAD I’m posting about Heather and Josh’s lilac-inspired wedding, and I’ve got a few additional photos of their paper ephemera to share with you!
Heather and Josh were married at the totally awesome venue of a botanical garden, and I love the way they incorporated floral and botanical themes throughout the wedding – from the lilacs in the bouquet and centerpieces to the queen anne’s lace and dandelions used in the wedding paper ephemera:
Heather DIY’d most of the paper elements throughout her wedding, from a recipe book as favors to a Quaker marriage certificate!
From Heather:  We did a recipe book of family recipes as the favor, which I designed and printed along with the ceremony programs.
Our placecards were on plantable paper that we stamped using a rubber stamp from Paper Source and then hand wrote the names and table information.
We did a quaker marriage certificate as a guest book that my Mom hand painted and I designed in Photoshop and had printed on canvas.
I also love the queen anne’s lace details in Heather’s Save the Dates and invitation:
Heather was inspired in part by the lilacs that I used in my wedding last year – and I’m so happy that she (and her fab wedding photographers, Lindsey and April from Sweet Monday Photography) sent over the photos from her wedding to show how she incorporated the lilac and botanical themes in her own way.  You can see more photos from Heather + Josh’s lilac-inspired wedding right here and over at EAD.
{photos courtesy of Sweet Monday Photography}
Garden-inspired Wedding Details
You're going to see photos from this wedding everywhere – and that's because Laura and Ben's wedding is truly beautiful and even a little bit magical – but I couldn't resist sharing some of my favorite details here:
{beautiful floral + butterfly motif invitations}
{ceremony programs with a lovely bird illustration}
{escort cards with hand-stamped butterflies}
{table numbers nestled in geranium centerpieces}
Laura + Ben's wedding will be featured in the upcoming issue of MS Weddings, but if you can't wait until then, you can find photos and additional details here, here, here, and here.
{images from MS weddings, via frolic! and wren handmade}
NSS – Booth round-up, part four
I'm heading out for some early anniversary celebrations (one year on Monday!) with my husband, but before I do, I wanted to share a few more photos from the NSS.
First up, the jam-packed booth of Small Square Design:
{I love these small book notes journals!}
{this last set of invitations is letterpress printed on BOTH sides on super-thick paper – so that green + brown bird pattern? that's actually the reverse side of the invitation. gorgeous!}
{how gorgeous is this foil-stamped holiday card?!?}