Merry Christmas

With Facebook, Pinterest, Instragram, etc...I find it difficult to also Blog! 

If anyone is still following, I wish you a Merry Christmas ~ all things Merry and Bright and a New Year full of Comfort and Joy.

 

Invitation Suite ~ Klein

Spencerian script engraved in crisp navy on white.

Engraved stationery, spring green, navy with white and tulips ~  just a few of my favorite things.



Invitation Suite ~ Hakeem

This week was the wedding anniversary of a very sweet bride I had the privilege to work with a few years ago, so I thought this would be the perfect time to post her invitation, as I never like to post them before the guests, themselves, receive them...therefore, I find myself posting them a year or more later!

Also, she wrote me the sweetest note I want to share.  Even when we love the work we do, kind and appreciative words, from a client, are truly priceless. ~

 

Dear Dana,

Thank you so much for creating our beautiful wedding invitations!  Your meticulous and artistic work was the perfect introduction to our wedding weekend.  While researching photographers for our wedding, I kept coming across your work on their websites.  I was so intrigued that I started looking at your website and knew I wanted you to create our special invitations.  From the start, I knew I wanted them to be unique.  A childhood friend created the artwork for the invitation and we wanted "non-traditional" wording.  You made my vision come to life!!  The beautiful Italian paper with deckled edges was perfect!  Coupled with your flourishes in eggplant ink, our invitations are a piece of artwork!  In fact, I had our invitation framed along with my bouquet, and it is displayed prominently over our fireplace!

Thank you for your patience to make everything perfect!!  I wanted the beautiful "loopy" letters and you came through!  You were so responsive to my emails and made sure that you were creating exactly what I was thinking!  When our invitations arrived in the big beautiful box, I could hardly catch my breath!  I teared up immediately and KNEW that everyone would love our invitations!  I can't imagine any other way that I wanted to announce our wedding than with your artwork!!

Sincerely,
Lori Oxley

Invitation Suites ~ Pollard

Maybe a part of me is a little "Emily Post old fashioned" but not many wedding invitation suites are more elegant than classic, hand-written Spencerian script, engraved in black ink on 100% cotton ecru paper, with the family crest.

As much as I love tradition with a twist, some things just never go out of style.

Happy New Year Postcard

~Happy New Year! ~....a few weeks late. :)

 

Anyway, I had fun designing this postcard for the Biltmore Estate's wedding department to send out for the New Year.  It is one of the most gorgeous places to get married. Visit them at www.biltmore.com/weddings. 

 

Now if we would only get the beautiful snow.

 

Letterpress printed, in white, on heavy kraft paper by Real Card Studio.



 

Merry Christmas!

Hand-Painted Table Numbers

A sneak peek at some hand-painted table numbers I created for a wedding a few weeks ago.

I can't wait to get the photographers professional photos of this wedding, showing some other fun things I designed for this special day.