Wedding at Haystack Rock

Hello there!! I am SO happy to show you all these beautiful invitations. SO happy as in I wish I could show you more, but you only have so long during the day to read through blogs. I get it. It's still not going to stop me from showing you one of my most favorite creations! You all may remember that large peony on the invitation-- I've basically modeled my entire business designs and customer creations by it. It's big, beautiful, and my goodness does it letterpress well.

Amanda reached out to me after speaking with Mayra (remember her invitations?). She was looking for just a few prints, as she is marrying the love of her life with a limited guest list of 25. With venue names like Haystack Rock, and McMenamin's Sand Trap, you can't get much more creative here. How perfect would this be to custom create some thing that she and her guests will cherish forever? It took seconds for me to reach out to Amanda and ask if I could have the guest's names for me to custom print each and every response card, and thankfully she agreed!! These response cards NEEDED that special touch for each of her guests!

In letterpress, to have a new 'thing' printed, you need to physically remove the 20lb 'chase,' alter the image (i.e. put a new plate down inside of the chase), and put it back into the press-- then you can print with it. (here is a photo to help you visualize it.) Imagine me doing that 30+ times. I think I see some noticeable definition in my upper arms from this order, ha, and the results were 150% worth it.

The invitations were printed on 110lb fluorescent white Crane Lettra in blush pink and bright silver; the envelopes are a beautiful soft pink stardream and silver. As a matter of fact, the grand-calligrapher Katrina Centeno will be calligraphing every envelope- and I can't wait to update the blog with her BEAUTIFUL work!

To Amanda and Craig: I can't thank you enough for allowing me to be apart of this special day for you two. THANK YOU! Not only have you pulled my heart strings with the peony, but I have a special place in my heart for intimate weddings such as yours.

Congratulations, Amanda and Craig!!

Modern-Vintage Coral

It was almost a gift of fate when Alexa reached out to me to help design and print her wedding invitations- we had actually exchanged design elements for our weddings a few months previous, so I was already a big fan of Miss Alexa. She was looking for something "kind of beachy but not really a beach theme" and provided a few online card stock samples of what she was thinking, but with the colors: navy, silver, chartreuse, and fuchsia in mind.

How BEAUTIFUL is that? Just the sound of those colors together makes me want to swoon!

Together we developed an idea of a vintage coral invitation- something with texture and simplicity, but not to whimsical or stuffy. Modern-Vintage Coral. I was instantly in love.

Alexa's brilliant eye for design found a perfect coral image that complemented the design scheme like none other, and was a dream to print. The texture of it's jagged edges came ALIVE when it was pressed into the paper.

The 5x7 invitations are printed on a pearl while 100% cotton paper in a light silver treatment and navy text. While the silver produces more of a grey tone once printed via letterpress, it instantly warms and modernizes this vintage coral design while also tying into the response cards in a matching navy. The matching navy envelopes, perhaps one of my favorite elements of the invitation suite, is also one of the most important; they were printed in a bright silver ink and provides the recipients of these beauties the first glimpse of Alexa's vision.

Thank you, Alexa, for allowing me to be apart of this with you!

I now happily (and very excitedly) introduce to you all: Modern-Vintage Coral*!

*Names and personal information have been removed for the privacy of Miss Alexa.