Wedding with a View

Whew, this wedding was probably our biggest of the year! We don't usually take on executing a full wedding design, including flowers, by ourselves but we took exception for this one!

This wedding was lovely, feminine and elegant, in black, ivory and blush. My favorite part of the invitations were the black and ivory lace envelope liners, and a pattern we carried throughout the printed materials.

Natasha and Gene had an outdoor wedding in August, so we made the programs fans, repeating the lace pattern paper. The place cards mirrored the invitations, mounted on a blush pink paper. We also created CD cases as favors, with their custom playlist printed and mounted on the inside.

Here is the outside of the CD favor, on the table at the reception.

Photo by Stephanie Burns Images

The reception was held at Glen Oak Country Club, overlooking the golf course. I think I'll just let the photos speak for themselves on this one.

Photo by Stephanie Burns Images

We are loving these chair covers, they're spandex so they fit to the form of the banquet chair. We think it gave the room a much more streamlined look. We also went with floor length black tablecloths for a more elegant look, topped with an ivory satin runner. Table linens and chair covers are courtesy of Thelma and Louise catering, give them a ring if you'd like to rent these for your event!

 The sweetheart table was an ivory lace overlay on top of a floor length black tablecloth, topped with two small black vases holding ivory and blush flowers. In the center of the table was a box with their monogram that doubled as a vase for the bride's bouquet.

Photo by Stephanie Burns Images

In the entry way, like the sweetheart table, we used an ivory lace overlay for the entry table that held the placecards.

Photo by Stephanie Burns Images

Photo by Stephanie Burns Images

We alternated three different ivory and blush centerpieces. One large globe of flowers on an elegant, slender black stand. Another was a grouping of 5 different small black vases with ivory and blush flowers, accented with wispy black ostrich feathers. The last was a small black urn, filled with blush garden roses.

Photo by Stephanie Burns Images

Photo by Stephanie Burns Images

Photo by Stephanie Burns Images

Here is a shot of the lovely ladies with their bouquets, which we also did. They just wanted very simple, small bunches of roses. The bridesmaids carried ivory garden roses, wrapped with black satin ribbon. The bridal bouquet was blush garden roses, and delicate ivory and pink flowers, that {I think} are called tea roses, at the center. We surrounded the flowers with more wispy black ostrich feathers and wrapped them all in black ribbon.

Photo by Stephanie Burns Images

The program on the bouquets.

Photo by Stephanie Burns Images

The program fans hung from the chairs at the outdoor ceremony, which of course we did not get a photo of.

Photo by Stephanie Burns Images

Here is a shot of the ceremony once everyone was sitting, and I think if you check out the front row you can see a program or two left on the chairs.

Photo by Stephanie Burns Images

Phew I think that does it for Natasha and Gene's wedding. Thank you for having me design your beautiful day, I hope you thought it was as lovely as we did.

We Solemnly Swear We Are Up To No Good...

THIS blog post has been a LONG time coming... I have kept putting it off because I wanted to do the invitation – and the couple – justice, and not just rush through it to get it up on the blog quickly. Unfortunately that has left us here, more than 3 months OVERDUE! So here it is, the Harry Potter, Marauder's Map-Inspired wedding invitation for Dina and Travis.

Let me start out by saying how absolutely SMITTEN I was with Dina and Travis from the moment I met them. I already had a soft spot for them before we even met since they had found us through Nickel City Studios, and I can't help but feel a kindred spirit with couples having the same wedding photographers as we did. As I spoke to them about their wedding plans, Dina laid out one eccentric, crazy, awesome idea after another, with the most amazing "I don't care if anyone gets it, we love it" attitude I've ever seen in a bride. It wasn't a Harry Potter-themed wedding, it was just one of the many things they loved that they wanted to be a part of their big day to make it perfectly "them." {i.e. the "table numbers" were Bruce Campbell characters and movie posters, and the pastor started off the ceremony with the wedding intro from the Princess Bride... yeah... #epic}

Every Harry Potter fan who swung through our booth at Brides World this past January noticed this unique invitation right away. We designed the front to look like the outside of the Marauder's Map from the Harry Potter movies, but included Dina and Travis' names in the banner, and a drawing of the small church in Salamanca they were married in in place of Hogwarts.

Any time I get an opportunity to do an old-school pen and ink drawing for an invitation, I am a happy camper... so doing two made me VERY happy...

Footprints (we, unfortunately, had no way of making them move} surrounded the reception information, which had little nods to the story without being all magic wands and owls. Another fun twist, the church was too small to invite everyone on their guest list, so the main invitation was for the reception, and a separate card had the information for the ceremony that only went to closest friends and family.

Sealing the whole thing up was a pearlized white wax seal, with a simple image of a house. I originally designed the seal as red, with a monogram, but Dina and Travis said they wanted white wax, with a house... because Travis' last name is Whitehouse. White. House. We all thought it was hilarious, so of course we ran with it!!

So if you want more, more, more of Dina and Travis' awesome leap day wedding (oh yeah, did I mention  they got married on a Wednesday? Because February 29th just sounded fun) you can check out their feature on Off Beat Bride or the rest of their amazing photos on the Nickel City Blog.

Thank you Dina and Travis for letting me be a part of your incredible day, and for being the epitome of why I love love love what I do, and where I do it.