Jaymie + Miles’s Calligraphy Gold Foil Wedding Invitations

This beautiful invitation suite from Melissa at Atheneum Creative combines so many of my favorite things: a love of travel, gorgeous calligraphy (in collaboration with the talented Anne Robin), and elegant gold foil! Inspired by the idea of a luggage tag, Melissa designed a keepsake leather tag tied to the invitation suite with twine. Love that idea!

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From Melissa: Jaymie and Miles love to travel and it was important to them to keep their shared travel history a focal point of the design in an elegant way. Jaymie also wanted to attach a luggage tag to her wedding invitations without being too clunky. Knowing we wanted to incorporate leather into the invitation suite, we decided to create a leather tag inspired by a traditional luggage tag that could be attached to the invitation with twine. We tested tons of leather stain options to see which one engraved best and printed the invitations and envelopes with gold foil for an overall elegant look.

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Thanks Melissa!

Design: Atheneum Creative

Calligraphy: Anne Robin

Printing: Crayton Heritage Letterpress

Atheneum Creative is a member of the Designer Rolodex – you can see more of their beautiful work right here or visit the real invitations gallery for more wedding invitation ideas!

Photo Credits: Chelsea Davis Photography

Happy Weekend!

Happy Friday everyone – and Happy Spring! Thankfully it actually feels like Spring today in DC, even if it doesn’t quite look like Spring just yet. Hopefully soon! But in the meantime…

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Pink Hellebore Floral Arrangement by Sarah Winward / Photo by Kate Osborne via Snippet & Ink

…a few links for your weekend!

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Check back soon for this week’s cocktail! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here next week! xoxo

Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Sunshine Yellow

With the unexpected weather that March always brings, I think we could all use a little guaranteed sunshine! Yellow is my most favorite color. It’s happy, bright, and perfect for a wedding! It does best in small “pops” and looks great with so very many colors and styles! Which of these is your favorite wedding-day use of the sunshine-y hue!? —Kelly

Day-of Wedding Stationery Inspiration: Sunshine Yellow

Photo by Ed Peers via 100 Layer Cake

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Photo by Ashley McCormick Photography, Escort Cards by Dogwood Blossom Stationery via Every Last Detail

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Photo by Joie Lala Photography, Seating Chart by Enjoy Events Co. via Martha Stewart Weddings (left), Photo by Delbarr Moradi Photography via Martha Stewart Weddings (right)

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Photo by Paperwhites Photography, Cards by Chris Kim of Imaginate via Style Me Pretty

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Photo by Clean Plate Pictures via Ruffled

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Photo by Lee Bird Photography, Escort Cards by Ham & Pea Design & Paperie via Style Me Pretty (left), Photo by Paperwhites Photography, Cards by Chris Kim of Imaginate via Style Me Pretty (right)

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Photo by Encarnacion Photography via Style Me Pretty

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Ceremony Program by InvitedToo

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Irina + Roman’s Pressed Flower Wedding Invitations

So, this groom proposed using a poem. Can you think of a more romantic proposal?! When Nicole of Umama heard the story, she knew that she wanted to recreate that romantic feeling with calligraphy from M.K. Sadler and pressed flowers evoking a page from a well worn book. I love the soft and delicate nature of the resulting invitation!

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From Nicole: Irina and Roman are lovers of prose, and we were totally smitten when Irina shared that Roman proposed using Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem: Soul Meets Soul on Lover’s Lips. It was completely our muse. For this invitation, we wanted to create a page from a well-worn book with handwritten elements and the notion of flowers pressed between favorite pages. The soft elements are exactly as Shelley said and make for an invite that “points to the heavens.”

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Thanks Nicole!

Design: Umama

Calligraphy: M.K. Sadler

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

Photo Credits: Umama

Chelsea + Brandon’s Rustic Vermont Wedding Invitations

Our next set of wedding invitations comes from Molly at Paisley Quill and was created for a Vermont mountain wedding! Molly dove into the rustic wedding theme with a nature-inspired color palette, a fold out map, and fun envelope liner. Whimsical calligraphy from Lettered Life and vintage postage completed this rustic invitation suite.

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From Molly: Chelsea and Brandon are a fun-loving couple that enjoy traveling, the outdoors, skiing, and hiking. It was only appropriate that they would be married at the base of a mountain. It was important that their invitations were reflective of their personalities, but kept with the rustic Vermont theme and in Chelsea’s words: “not too girly.”

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There were so many pieces, it was like receiving a little present in the mail. Besides your typical invitation and response card, it also included an accordion style weekend itinerary that folded up and fit inside a mini kraft envelope, sealed with washi tape.

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A custom, die-cut, fold out map included directions to all important locations for the weekend. An accommodations card included a tear-off ticket for s’mores at their rehearsal BBQ. Everything was held together with a die cut band.

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Whimsical calligraphy by Lettered Life and vintage postage that the bride’s aunt and uncle collected helped complete the invitation suite. I also designed thank you cards, ceremony programs, and a custom rubber stamp used to stamp each mini envelope.

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Thanks Molly!

Design: Paisley Quill

Calligraphy: Lettered Life

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

Photo Credits: Paisley Quill