Posts Tagged Wedding Inspiration
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
For those of you who read my post below, you’ll be surprised to hear from me so soon. Why, oh why, have I come out of semi-blog retirement? It was none other than the fabulous Elizabeth Anne Designs and the launch of their EAD Library that catapulted me back in front of my laptop to write this post. They have built an extensive list of wedding vendors, organized by category…which will continue to grow over time. Do check it out!
Thank you, ladies, for including Regal Tent Productions is on your list of Rental Vendors!
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On my exhaustive hunt through the world wide web for honeymoon hotels I came across Baby Grand. A visual feast for the senses, I was totally inspired by the design of this hotel (the antithesis of virtually every other hotel in Athens, Greece). Just check out the image below. Totally inspiring…and totally easy to replicate on the cheap. Remember those paper dolls you used to create as a kid? This would be so fantastic as a divider between event spaces…
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God bless the Great White North and our love of beer…real beer.
Names have been changed to protect the Canadian.
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I just love these precious lavender dryer sachets via etsy. They would make the most delightful gifts / giveaways. An eco-friendly option (at least for those who still use a dryer) and very elegant…and only $8.00 for a set of 3.
Each sachet:
♥ will scent approximately 10 loads of laundry.
♥ has a generous 1/2 cup of lavender buds in each one.
♥ is made from reclaimed (and thoroughly cleaned) fabrics that have been tested for color-fastness and durability.
♥ double-stitched edges for durability — no escaping buds in your dryer!
♥ measures 7 inches by 4.25 inches (17.8 cm by 10.8 cm.)
Once a sachet’s scent begins to fade, you don’t have to throw it away! They still smell lovely, and would lightly scent a drawer or small closet. Or, you can recharge the scent with a few drops of lavender essential oil, and continue to use them in your dryer.
To purchase: Click here
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Dear Manhattan,
We flew over to see you last week with high hopes of finding the perfect shoes for my perfect wedding dress. I was certain that in the mecca of shoes it would be an easy decision – do I want the Manolos, the Choos or the Louboutins? But Manhattan, I never imagined that we would wander the streets…from Midtown to Soho…during a massive shoe sale week…for 3 days…and walk away empty handed! My fear, at the end of those 3 days, was that our love affair may just be over. But alas, with a little bit of internet research, we found our saviour. A little store on the 6th floor of an unsuspecting building in Chelsea held the key to our happiness. My Glass Slipper had a wonderful variety of designer shoes AND the Stuart Weitzman’s I ended up buying came in at a fraction of the cost of the other shoes I had been trying on. Manhattan, you’ve redeemed yourself. I will see you again when I have to buy my clutch ;-)
Sincerely,
Lara
THE Stuart Weitzman shoes I bought from My Glass Slipper
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I’ve received a number of emails over the past few days with people asking me where the concept for my invitations came from and how I created them myself.
The spark for my wedding began with an inspiration board (which you can see here). And although I’ll be incorporating softer, more feminine accents into the wedding, I still love the tonality of this board.
The invitation design began with a wallpaper I fell for. I scanned the wallpaper and, using Adobe Photoshop, cropped out, adjusted & color corrected the botanical line art that you see in my designs.
The script font I used was Porcelain. I downloaded this for free at Dafont.com. The serif font I used was Book Antiqua, ALL CAPS, and I adjusted the tracking to 150 (note: Serif refers to a font that has small strokes or ‘ticks’ at the ends of the letters. Serif fonts tend to work best for body text as they are easier to read than sans-serif fonts. Tracking refers to the spacing between characters. Generally speaking, increasing the tracking tends to make copy look more contemporary.) Add days of back and forth with printers and craft suppliers, a few nights of assembly and one pissed off manicurist and voila…final invitations.
Now, since 95% of my invites are out (just waiting for a few final addresses to come from my not-so-organized-husband-to-be) I will now be switching gears to bigger and better things. Event design! Our venue is undergoing $20M in renovations. What does that mean? Other than driving by the construction site every day, I’ve yet to see what the inside looks like. But stay tuned…I should be in sometime in the next few weeks.
And, one last and very exciting note is that I’m the official winner of Perfect Table Plan software via Weddingbee’s contest! I’m wonderfully excited and look forward to sharing my software experiences with all of my readers.
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Today was a mixed bag of good and not so good. You see, today was the day that I picked up my invites from the printer…well, actually I was supposed to pick them up yesterday (but that’s a story for another day). Today is also the day that 10 of my best girlfriends got together to cut, glue, splice, fold, stuff and wrap.
First the ‘not so good’…Despite supplying my printer with a complete disk of artwork, PDFs for design reference and printouts proofs to match for color, they still managed to misprint 1/2 of my invitations and destroy the majority of paper that I had shipped from the US. So, two days after my initial deadline to the supplier I still have no RSVP cards. I’ve also just found out that the reception cards were enlarged by about 10% by the printer (so they’re too big). What a debacle!
The ‘good’…my girls spent over 3 hours (that’s 30 total hours of work!) lining envelopes, creating double sided invites, labeling RSVP envelopes and wrapping fan handles. I am soooo proud of the end result!
THE DETAILS
Every envelope was lined with a damask wallpaper print. To do this, I created a simple repeat pattern on an 11″ x 8.5″ paper. I disassembled an envelop and measured the size of the base and the flap and overlayed this template on the wallpaper. I printed the finished templates on a soft gloss photo paper because nothing gives you a finer finish. Each of the envelopes were pulled apart and the cut paper was glued to the inside of the envelopes. The envelopes were reassembled by gluing the edges back. And, voila! Custom looking envelopes.
One step closer to the finish line!
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