Real Wedding Invitations - Farmhouse wedding

Oh, how I love these. 

These are the result of the first round of ideas and proofs with miss Sarah.  Changes will be made, to be sure, but Im loving the direction we're heading!

the front of the invitation is quite simple:

but, flip it over and its backed in the same pattern as the custom envelope liner!

Today's calligraphy work

I had a couple calligraphy projects this week!  The first was a package of table numbers and menus going to Concept Events Design for their display table.  Natrually, I packed the whole thing up quite pretty and addressed it in white opaque ink!

I had an invitation shipment this week...the post office loves to see how I address the boxes - they always get a kick out of me insisting I apply the postage stickers myself so they dont make my pretty box look ugly.  Wouldnt you love to recieve a package like this?

A couple more that got sent out this week:

white opaque ink on seaglass invitations

metallic purple on blush envelopes:

avacado opaque ink on indigo envelopes:

Real Wedding: Courtney & Dan

The gorgeous reception was held at Lowes Coronado.

I simply LOVE Courtneys place card layout!  She had large wooden trays custom made, which were then filled with sand.  Each of her calligraphy place cards were tied onto a starfish, and all the starfish were nesstled into the sand.  Just gorgeous! 

{anyone want to use the giant trays?  oh yeah, I have them!!}

A damask menu in her pattern sat at each pacesetting topped with an amazing shortbread cookie with their monogram PRINTED onto eatable frosting!!  These amazing custom cookies came from my favorite sugar queens at Sweet Cheeks.  A favor tag was tied onto the cookie as well.

Since we used two different fonts and a variety of damask combinations on all her pieces, we did the same for the table numbers.  They varied table to table...

Amazing, beautiful, and quite tasty cake from the girls at Sweet Cheeks.  See the damask pattern?  Yeah, it the same pattern!  The marvelous Elaine printed it on the cake!

I did all the calligraphy for Courtney as well as designed all her stationery products.  Each place card also had a little jewel on it!

Ok, I had to throw this in there as well.  Jenny, at least you know who he is!! Look at that dip, ladies and gentlemen!! Oh, and is she wearing Dolce & Gabbana? 

all photos by the fab Chris & Kristin from CKris Photography

Real Wedding: Courtney & Dan

Courtney & I sat down one day and the conversation went something like this, "I love paper, I love this pattern, what could we possibly put it on?"  I said, "everything!"  We went a tad nuts, but had a great time doing it!

Door signs for the girls room while they were getting ready at Lowes Coronado, where the reception was held.

the gorgeous bride:

  

Her amazing invitations!  We did custom envelope liners with her pattern and the couples monogram.

her programs are one of my personal faves!  Shimmer coverstock with her damask pattern and tied with a purple satin ribbon.  More on these later...

remember these?  I love her custom petal cones with her damask pattern and their monogram on the inside!

Each of the petal cones and the bubbles were topped with little mini tags with cute saying on them paired with the same damask pattern.

Matching lables?  Oh yes.

more from  their reception to come!

Real Wedding: Courtney & Dan {preview}

Courtney & Dan were married back in October and she recently stopped by to drop off her professional pictures!  Here is a quick preview of their wedding, more tomorrow:

photography by the amazing husband and wife team of Chris & Kristin Photography

Real Wedding: Christina & Dave - behind the scenes

The day before the wedding, we got all the champage into the frig to chill.  We also pre-tied all the straws onto the mini bottles so we didnt have to worry about it the morning of the wedding.  Here is Miss Sarah filling our awesome SubZero frig

I love Pellegrino.  I love anything that comes in "mini" form.  I love these bottles:

All our mini bottles all lined up and ready to go:

Sarah making some final adjustments to the straws:

The other Miss Sara (not, having two Sara's didnt get confusing at all!) lighting all the millions of candles in the reception area:

Our amazing bartender, Michelle, along with Sara and I behind the bar.  Dont you love our matching aprons??  You know how much I love black & ivory!

Real Wedding: Christina & Dave - cocktails & dessert

Remember that we greeted everyone with the mini champagne bottles?  following the ceremony, we opened the bar and hosed two signature cocktails that the fab girls at Moira created themselves!

The cocktail hour was hosed in the rotunda of the house. These amazing chandeliers hung all around the room.

Our two signature cocktails consisted of an espresso martini and a caramel apple martini (no, not an appletini, this one was much better!)

The caramel appletinis were garnished with a chunck of caramel. You can see the amaing miss Sarah shakin things up behind the bar...

remember our awesome cake?

once we had sliced it, we used cake flags to mark the flavors.  did I glue every last bead onto the top of those toothpics? oh, yes I did!

Toward the end of the night, we brought out the s'mores tray!

Real Wedding: Christina & Dave - hors d'oeuvres

we held a full hors d'oeuvres hour following the ceremony.  Naturally, I didnt want to be annoying with my camera all over the table with the food on it and all the guests in the room, so here are some shots before the food was set.