We're not just all invitations here at SJD. It's any paper, creative thing-y you may need for your event. Stationery, favors, guest books, any little 'ol thing that maybe you just can't find somewhere else - we'll create it together - custom, unique, and from scratch.
Last night, I delivered these sweet table cards & menus for Christina & Troy's wedding today! My good friend and planner extraordinaire, Alison of
Alison Ulshoffer Events & Design, called me up for this fun project.
The table cards were oh, so cute with names like - Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch, Chapel of Love, It's in His Kiss, And then He Kissed Me - just to name a few. Are you humming along yet? I like the classic simplicity of numbered cards - but love the idea of naming the cards with either a theme or things that mean something to the couple. They can be a great conversation starter for guests. The menus just as cute, followed suit in the same design palette with a custom monogram heading up the panel. Each card, table & menu, I adorned with Swarovski Crystals for a little surprise and a touch of bling factor for Christina.
Happy Wedding Christina & Troy!!
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One of my favorite holiday designs last year was for the Hewitt Family. Their invitation suite was a three holiday greeting - holiday card, new address announcement and housewarming party invite all wrapped up into one.
Instead of traditional greens, reds and the like, we opted to used colors from their new ranch home - warm browns, antique golds, spicy curry yellow and fiery copper. To bring in the holiday feel - I hand glittered - uh - nearly a thousand little snowflakes. My house and studio were gilded to say the least. :)
The invitation suite was a 7x7 pocket fold, double matte family photo on the front panel, single matte holiday housewarming panel, gilded snowflakes, single matte photo of the girls, six layer invitation panel (yeoweee!), direction panel, accommodation panel, reply card, reply envelope and custom outside envelope. It was a flurry of work here the week before Christmas last year getting these babies ready for delivery.
The Hewitt's have become dear friends of mine and I'm looking forward to more special greetings & invites!!
Happy Holidays to all!!
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Designing, stuffing, mailing ... oh, my. The last thing you want to do when you start receiving replies back is worrying about who's reply is who's. The ever faithful M____________ line is where your guests should write in their names ... or provide a return address on the back flap of the reply envelope. But this is not always the case. One quick step can save you hours worth of detective work.
Set yourself up a spreadsheet or word-processing document numbering all of your addresses - then simply number (somewhere inconspicuous - like the back corner) all your reply cards - making sure to carefully match up the corresponding number to the corresponding address when it comes time to mail. So that when Uncle Fred & Aunt Sally forget to write in their names and supply a return address on the reply envelope - you know to check them off the list. Hello! Genius.
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