Zach + Alexandra’s Elegant Screen Printed Wedding Invitations

You may remember Zach and Alexandra’s engagement party invitations from earlier this year – and today Rux from Lush Prints is back to share their wedding invitations! Rux worked with the talented folks at Mama’s Sauce to produce an elegant screen printed invitation suite with whimsical die cut details and bright pops of yellow. Beautiful!

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From Rux: Shortly after we completed Zachary & Alexandra’s engagement dinner invitations, we found ourselves designing concepts for their wedding invitations. Our goal was to make their wedding invitation memorable and elegant. Listening to how these two souls crossed paths allowed us to unlock tiny details needed to start the creative process.

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One of Zach and Alexandra’s courtship habits really stood out to us: they frequented Disneyland for many date nights. We strategically placed a hidden Mickey on damask pattern (can you find it?). A few weeks before the wedding, Zach & Alexandra posted a Facebook message with a contest asking their guests to find Mickey. The winner was announced at the reception and presented with a honeycomb jar filled with sweet golden honey.

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Other little details included the couple’s bee monogram. We incorporated throughout the wedding stationery and also created a custom cake topper that completed the beautiful honeycomb theme cake.

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Thanks Rux!

Design: Lush Prints

Screen Printing: Mama’s Sauce

Paper: French Paper Co. Dur-O-Tone Steel Grey and  Colorplan Citrine (duplexed)

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

Photo Credits: Lush Prints

{happy weekend!}

Happy August everyone! July flew by especially fast thanks to our trip to California and I’m having a hard time accepting that we’re more than halfway through summer! Luckily, August is my favorite month in DC – the college students are all back home and Congress is on recess, making the next few weeks the perfect time to go to museums, the zoo, or snag a table at a popular restaurant. I’m looking forward to making the most of these last few weeks of summer. But in the meantime…

Cassia Beck: Deserted Beach via Society6

Photo Credit: Cassia Beck, available via Society6

…a few links for your weekend!

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

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

Colbi + Dan’s Rustic Idaho Mountain Wedding Invitations

I’ve had the pleasure of featuring some beautiful invitations and baby announcements from designer Kate Holgate over the past couple of years – and these rustic yet modern wedding invitations are no exception! Kate designed these invitations for a friend’s mountain wedding in Idaho, with some fun ski lift details inspired by the wedding venue – even though the wedding takes place during the summer! The entire suite was digitally printed on kraft paper with turquoise and tangerine accents. So fun!

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From Kate: I recently designed an invitation suite for a good friend who is getting married this August. The ceremony is to take place at the top of Brundage Mountain, a ski resort in McCall, Idaho. Colbi and Dan were so easy to work with; they are such a fun, down-to-earth couple. They wanted an invitation design that was natural yet modern.

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The entire suite was digitally printed on kraft paper, wrapped with stamped belly bands and contained in a bright tangerine envelope. The wedding guests will be riding a chairlift to the ceremony site so we thought that it would be fun to incorporate an old-school life ticket for the RSVP. Colbi and Dan deserve the most beautiful day ever and I was honored to be a part of it.

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Thanks so much Kate!

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

Photo Credits: Kate Holgate

Quilled Floral and Calligraphy Ketubah by Ann Martin & Tara Jones

The paper filigree technique (also known as paper quilling) is intricate, delicate, and incredibly beautiful – perfect for an heirloom marriage certificate! Paper filigree artist Ann Martin collaborated with calligrapher Tara Jones on this floral-inspired ketubah for a recent wedding in Chicago. The ketubah features the wedding color palette – charcoal gray and seafoam green – with botanical quilled details alongside the couple’s initials and Tara’s calligraphy.

From Ann: This ketubah was created for a couple whose wedding took place at the Chicago Botanic Garden early in July. Calligrapher Tara Jones of Dallas, Texas had designed the couple’s letterpress wedding invitation. When the bride was looking for ideas for their ketubah, she came across my website and recognized Tara’s unique lettering style on an earlier certificate. The bride then asked if Tara and I would collaborate on their ketubah – of course we would! The 22″ x 30″ document features the bride and groom’s initials in a quilled olive leaf wreath at the top. Their wedding colors were seafoam green and charcoal.

For the area between the text and signature lines, the bride asked me to take inspiration from a botanical print of a camellia that she had printed as the postage stamp for their invitations. I quilled a stylized leafy vine and created a pearlized paper sculpture camellia.

Thanks so much Ann!

Calligraphy: Tara Jones

Quilling: Ann Martin

Photo Credits: Ann Martin