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!

Pretty Destination Wedding Invitations from Wedding Paper Divas!

I really don't know how you brides do it sometimes. Looking through their site, there are just so many options for stationary and it's hard to pick out just one. I liked my wedding invitations but honestly didn't love them. I had that hardest time finding "the one" and of course, flipping through Wedding Paper Divas website today, I found "the one" I was looking for over 7 years ago...

But honestly....that was 7 years ago and I'm not sure it's still the same design I would pick today. While I still love it (and the colors would have worked very well with my wedding), I'm in a place now where I might want to go "funkier".

I love the vintage coolness here:

And the simple boldness here:

Here are some of my favorite destination wedding invitations from Wedding Paper Divas:

And guess what? Wedding Paper Divas is offering 25% through July 1st to my lovely bride & grooms! Be sure to email me for the promotion code and details!

A most wonderful welcome!

Alyssa and Kurt were married last weekend, but my absolute favorite element of their wedding day actually took place the day before at their Welcome Party. Hosted at a beautiful beachside location, Iggies Beach Bar at Bolongo Bay Resort is the perfect spot to celebrate island style. There were so many elements of the welcome party that I loved, so the entire event is my favorite! Here are a few highlights...

A gorgeous sunset...


A meet & greet with a local Moko Jumbie! Moko Jumbies are good spirits dressed up to scare away bad spirits, as local legend goes (a jumbie is a bad spirit, "moko" means mock - a fake jumbie). Having a white moko jumbie at your welcome party keeps away any bad marital jumbies!



Here our bride gets down with the moko jumbie!



Once the sun went down and everyone's belly was full, we had the famous fire eater & broken bottle dancer "Princess Diana" perform for the guests...





Princess Di showed the groom and the groomsmen a few island moves...



But probably my favorite part of the night was a performance by Pyros of the Caribbean! I have some of this on video that I promise to post soon...

Save The Dates!

I'm so glad etsy.com wasn't around when I was planning my wedding in 2005. I'm so addicted to buying things there for my two young daughters, I can't even imagine how much stuff I would have bought for my wedding! Out of curiosity today, I jumped over to the wedding section and typed in BEACH. Found these Save the Dates and fell in love!






They are by beyonddesign. She also has these awesome invitations (you'll have to go to her site to see the larger version!).