Making of a Custom Invitation Series 2 - Comeka & Jose

Hello!I hope your week is going smoothly.
Last year, I began a series called "Making of a Custom Invitation". You can read it here. I was looking through our photo archives and found these lovelies we created for Comeka & Jose.
We first met Comeka at the January 2011 Bridal Extravaganza and she held on to your flyer for several months. Once she was to begin her invitation process, she contacted us back in September of last year. She loved the pocket style and needed her invitations to be bilingual (English & Spanish). To save from having to do 2 separate invitation suites, we decided to go with a larger card size and have both languages on 1 invitation suite. I absolutely love Comeka's colors - Mocha and Pink.
Comeka & Jose were married on December 10, 2011 at the Houston City Club. Enjoy!

Tabs being assembled

Completed Tabs

Printed pieces

Invitation layout

We had 2 backings for invitation. I absolutely love the layered look!

Finished Layered look

The Pockets

The invitations were also embellished with a satin ribbon. This was a last minute addition and I'm glad Comeka opted for it.

photo credit: Rhphotoarts

The completed Invitation. Don't you just love :)

Erin & Peter Pocket Invitations and Boarding Pass Save the dates

Hello Friends!
I hope you had a great weekend! This is an exciting month for us as we prepare for the holidays. But moreso as we prepare for the 2012 Wedding Season (phew!)
Below are some invitations we created some months ago....enjoy

Erin and Peter
Erin was one of those brides that knew what she wanted; which made the process easy. She was also an easy going bride and oh, her mom is so sweet. When they came by the week of the wedding to pick up the ceremony programs, her mom said to me, "you were one of the easiest vendors we've had to work with during this process" That always makes my heart melt :)! Anyways, Erin and Peter were married a couple of weekends ago and the fabulous Bell Tower on 34th. Her color scheme was Black and Red (love those colors btw!)

The invitations were Pocketstyle


We accented them with a satin ribbon to bring in some color


The enclosures - showing off the beautiful raised print


The Ceremony Programs were Layered Style accented with a Satin Ribbon as well.



Brooke and Jeff (Save the date booklets)
Brooke and Jeff are such a sweet couple. I love it when couples attend consultations together and you can totally see the chemistry between them. They are friends with one of our past clients. Because they're having a Tropical themed Destination Wedding in Hawaii next year, Brooke wanted the Save the dates to mimic the old boarding pass booklets. Without further ado, here's what we came up with. [and the couple loved them!]

The cover of the booklet with the hibiscus flowers


We had 4 insert pages for the Travel Information, Hotel Accommodation and Schedule of Events.




Sarah's Sweet 16
Sarah's mom lives in New York so the design process was done mostly via email and telephone. She was throwing a Peacock Themed Sweet 16 for her daughter and wanted a Peacock feather to be incorporated into the invitations. The celebration took place last weekend in New York.

The invitation was a Layered Flatcard with a Satin Ribbon and Peacock feather accent


The peacock feather was also incorporated into the print on the Response cards



That's all for now... I hope you have a safe and productive week ahead!

Some of the great families I work with!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend by yourself, with friends and/or with families?
Over the years we have been blessed to work with some great families through their wedding and special ocassion planning process. One of the things I love the most is the joy that comes with working with these families through the course of several months leading to their big day. I especially love working with Mother - Daughter duos - I think this is such a special relationship.

Angeni & Naren
The Agrawals are one of such special families we were blessed to meet this year. I got to work with Dad, Mom, Bride and Bride's sister. They have such a close bond and they - yep all 4 - made decisions together on every detail of the wedding invitations. I was first contacted by Mr. & Mrs. Agrawal and we immediately set up a time to meet. They loved the "Renee & Damien" style invitation but wanted their daughters (who were not present at the 1st meeting) to see the invitations. Since they hadn't decided on the wedding colors, the invitations set the colors for the day.
One of the biggest compliments [I think] a client can give other than referrals is to include you in their guestlist. It shows they appreciate you well enough to share their day with them. The Agrawals returned to give me an invitation to the wedding and I thought that was very special!
I attended the wedding ceremony which took place at the Intercontinental Houston and it was spectacular. There was so much color and lots of bling!

The wedding invitation was a Large Pocketfold with Satin Ribbon and a jewelled accent. The enclosures were the Mehndi, Sangeet and Response cards.


The wedding invitation


Escort Cards


Ceremony Programs


Courtney & Shawn
I was introduced to Courtney and her Mom, Mrs Redmon by awesome wedding planner, Alia Rdissi of Belle of the Ball. The Redmons are another special family that we met this year. They were awesome to work with. We worked with them on all their wedding stationery from the save the date cards to the thank you notes, cocktail napkins and everything else inbetween.
Here we go:

The Invitation was a large Pocketfold style with a Satin Ribbon accent




The Escort Cards were envelope style with the guests names on the front




We created circle menu cards that went under the Clear Silver beaded chargers at the reception.


Cocktail Napkins


Ceremony Programs were Folded cards with satin ribbon accent




Table Cards


In case you didn't notice, yes, the colors were silver and black with accents of red :)

Enjoy your week everyone.

Wedding Invitations

Hello Everyone,
Again, I've been a pretty bad blogger and it's simply because I've been super busy. I apologize for the lack of images. So here we go, below are some invitations from months ago. Enjoy

"Jessica & Mario"
I began communicating with Jessica via email earlier in the year. Yes, she's one of our many out-of-town brides we never get to meet. She went with the Box Mailer style boxed invitations with the jewelled accent. Jessica was married in Disneyland in October.



The boxes were mailed with custom stamps that we designed. A nice way to complete the look!




Escort Cards



We also created the Table cards that went into frames for the reception


Shayla & Romario
Shayla was another one of our out-of-town bride that we [unfortunately] never got to meet but communicated via email and telephone. She loved the "Birthday Dinner" invite from our online gallery. We replicated that with a little twist. Her wedding colors - crimson and gray - really made the invitations pop. She and Romario were married in October in Tennessee and their wedding was fabulous!

The invitation was a folded card with a satin ribbon accent with patterned cardstock.


Inside the Invitation


Reception Card



Layne & Michael
Here's one from some months ago I never got to post. Working with clients during their wedding planning process means getting to work with the families in most cases. This is one of the joys of being in this industry and we have blessed this year to have worked and still working with some wonderful brides and their families. Layne and Michael were married in Cabo San Lucas this summer.

The invitation was a side Pocketfold.




Well that's all for now. Take care everyone!

February Invitation of the Month

Happy New Month to all!

February's invitation of the month belongs to Erica and Vadim. They got married this past weekend at the InterContinental Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. Congratulations guys... it was a pleasure working with you both!

I met Erica and Vadim towards the middle of 2009 and they were very excited to begin work with us on their invitations. Erica immediately fell in love with the invitations we did for Meera and Nate and she didn't want to change much on it. We began with the Save the Date cards; which were a simple yet elegant Layered Flat Card. She loved the damask emblem and we decided to carry that theme together with "to have and to hold" through their other wedding stationery. We also used the damask emblem and "to have and to hold" for their custom postage stamps. We completed the invitations with Thermography (raised ink) prints. They look fabulous!!!!

Layered Flat Card Save the Date Cards

Layered Flat Cards for the Save the Dates

Square Pocketfold with Custom Postage Stamps

The Ceremony Programs

Tea lenght Booklet style programs

Here's to a wonderful month of March. Check back soon for more juicy updates :)