Wedding Invitations

Occasionally I will have brides send me an invitation - sometimes it is so I can get a feel for their colors and overall feel of the wedding. I love stationary, especially pretty stationary! I've kept a few of my favorites in a corner of my desk with the plans to blog them. After totally clearing out my office this weekend, I finally snapped some pictures. Here are some really outstanding wedding invitations from my clients:

The flower on this was embossed (slightly raised). I love the combo of the orange and blue. These colors can be tricky - you can make them look like Florida Gator or Miami Dolphin colors unintentionally - but here it works perfectly.

I'm a huge fan of grey and yellow.

This invite was a lot of fun! It arrived in a padded envelope:

With a box and seashell inside (disclaimer: this originally came with a Sand Dollar, not a shell, as they are getting married at Sand Dollar Estates - but my sand dollar broke):

This actually when with the orange invite above - this is their save the date post card!

A lot of brides ask me about the wording on their invites - I thought this might help:

And like the grey and yellow invites above, this is another "ticket invite" - made to look like boarding passes.

Three "tickets" were inside with RSVP, event information and formal invite.

I had the hardest time picking out my wedding invitations and didn't love what I ended up with. Its important to pick out something that reflects your wedding style and colors. And important to have something you love!

February Recap!

I take so many pictures at weddings during the month with plans to blog certain things or use as a Facebook photo and I often never get around to it or simply forget that I have the photo. I'm diligent about filing my photos in folders each month and since I have this wonderful photo database, I decided to try something new: a monthly post featuring things from that months weddings! So either the last couple days or the first few days of each month, I will make a blog post of my favorite photos from the previous months weddings & events. I'm pretty excited about this new plan and getting to share items that may have previously just sat in my folders!

A gorgeous wedding on Water Island's Honeymoon Beach

A fun little baby's breath boutonniere (wrapped in twine):

Beachside reception at St. John's Oppenheimer Beach

The very best way to travel to your wedding - a golf cart! (also on Water Island)

Loooooooved this groom's seahorse tie clip!!

Absolutely gorgeous weather at every single wedding this month (this one at Lindquist Beach, St. Thomas):

Palms, palms, palms, on Magen's Bay

And at Brewer's Bay...

And pink champagne!

Best surprise of February?

Thank you so much to all my vendors & clients who voted for me!


Congrats to all our February couples!

The hot color for 2013

I often have friends ask me "so what's the hot new things for weddings this year?" - you know, all my old married friends that are knee deep in diapers and what seems like centuries away from our wedding days! It's interesting to watch the trends over the years. When I was married, pink & green were really popular, then it was pink & orange...now its coral, coral and more coral! I got an email from Old Navy this morning with the "coral report" and instantly thought these could make inexpensive bridesmaid dresses:

A quick trip over to Pinterest and you can see board after board of coral insprirations:

Definitely check out our Pinterest pages for more ideas to "coralize" your wedding!