Isabella Invitations


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Isabella Invitations (formerly Elegant Custom Invitations) is a custom invitations design studio located in Houston, Texas. We specialize in custom and catalog stationery for your special day. Visit our website at http://www.IsabellaInvitations.com.

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Showing posts with label thank you notes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thank you notes. Show all posts

Saturday, May 29, 2010

May Invitation(s) of the Month

May was a very busy month so I wasn't able to blog much. But I do have some fabulous stationery for a couple of our brides that got married this month.

~ Anne & Ryan ~
I worked with Anne and her sister, Margaret on Anne's wedding stationery. They're such an incredible pair and were very pleasant to work it. I have to mention that I have never met Anne nor her sister before. It's always a unique experience working with clients long distance. And I'm ever so grateful that they would entrust such a huge part of their wedding to someone they've never met in another city. We had our first conference call back in September or October last year and they were very excited to begin work with me. The wedding took place this friday in Boston.
The wedding invitation is one that has now become a "signature look" for us (lol). It's a Gatefold style with a Satin ribbon and rhinestone accents.


I have to say that I absolutely love the Ceremony Programs, it's simple yet very classy.


Anne wanted the Menu Cards to reflect the Wedding Invitations.


The Table Cards


We had to incorporate some rhinestone accents on the Escort cards :)


We also created the signs for the couple's Cocktail Signature Drink which went in a large frame.

I do have to share though, Anne requested the stationery be sent to her wedding planner at the Taj Boston and the programs went to her Mom. So she didn't actually get to receive them herself. Once the items were delivered, I got a very lovely voice message from Anne expressing how blown away the wedding planner was with the wedding stationery. That message absolutely made my day. Thanks for the opportunity Anne and Margaret. I wish you and Ryan a blissful married life!

~ Rekiya & Cory ~
I met Rekiya at the Bridal Extravaganza Show in January. And we set up a meeting shortly afterwards. She wanted a simple invitation style with some modern touch. She immediately fell in love with the colors and style of the Obi & DJ invitation. I really love how her invitations turned out. I particularly love the design on it (you're thinking I should love it I designed it right!). Rekiya and Cory will be married this weekend in Louisiana.
Here it is -


The enclosures - We did a Response Postcard instead of the traditional Response card and envelope.

Congratulations on your nuptials guys. We wish you a happy married life!


Last week, I got a nod from one of our brides - Ayesha from Bedazzled Photography. You will remember my post about her Save the date Passports here. We completed her uber fabulous wedding invitations this month and boy are they gorgeous. You can read her post on her blog. THANKS AYESHA!!!!


~ Tara and Kurt ~
This is another fabulous bride. She approached me to create the Save the date cards for her November wedding. Since she'll be having a destination wedding in Hawaii later this year, she had quite a bit of information to include for her guests. So she wanted the booklet style save the date with their pictures incorporated. She and her fiancee, Kurt make such a lovely couple.


We also lined the envelopes with palm patterned stock.


We addressed the envelopes and completed the look with Custom Stamps we created with the Palm logo used on the front of the booklets.

We mailed the booklets to Tara & Kurt's guests so she didn't even get to see them before some of her guests did (It's truly humbling when our brides trust me enough to do that). Once she finally received the extras, I got this nice email from her, "I was out of the office at meetings all day until just now, but received 6 text msgs today saying how amazing the save the dates are. I just arrived home and couldn't wait to see them in person. They are truly perfect. Thanks so much for your hard work and patience (with me) during this process. I couldn't be more happy with how they turned out."

~ Ms. Jackson's Thank you cards ~
I blogged about Ms. Jackson's birthday invitations a couple of months ago - Read here. After the celebration, she contacted me about doing some Thank you cards for her. I thought, "sure, no problem. We'll do something simple since the birthday invitations were somewhat elaborate". However, in the middle of the design process she asked if she could incorporate a ribbon and jewelled accent! Ms. Jackson is such a special and lovely lady though. She gave me call and told me how the guests absolutely loved all the stationery and I'm so glad to have been a part of this special time in her life.


That's all folks. Enjoy the holiday weekend as we officially or unofficially begin summer!

Saturday, February 20, 2010

2010!!!

Hello all,
Welcome into the new year. I know, I know... it's already February but better late than never, right. The wedding season has kicked off in full gear and I have some excited projects we're working on and have worked on that I can't wait to share. I'll do that as soon as I'm at liberty to do so. It feels like it's September already (lol). Well, for 2010, I thought it be nice to feature at least 1 invitation for couples getting married in that month as Invitation of the Month. Even though it's February, I'll still start with January's.


Invitation(s) of the month
We'll have 2 for this month because after narrowing down the options to 2, I couldn't decide which it would be of the 2.

First is Hilary & Sam's Wedding Invitations. I worked primarily with Hilary's mom, Cynthia on these invitations. We met at the Jan 2009 Bridal Extravaganza and they were drawn to "Aleydis & Deji" invitation style. In the words of Cynthia, it was love at first sight for them. So, we began the process and here's what their invitation looked like. Hilary and Sam were married on Jan 9, 2010 in Houston.




Next is Brandi & Harrison's invitations. I particularly love the invitations because of the colors - Black and Apple Green. The invitations were Pocket Folds with a Monogram tab.
The Pocket fold invitation with a custom monogram.
Inside the invitation

Custom Map enclosure
Using the monograms from the invitations, we created this Thank you folded note cards.
I have February's Invitation of the Month selected but the wedding is on February 27. So, I'll share that with you closer to the wedding :)