Monthly Archives: October 2010

Invitation du Jour

Awhile back I fea­tured fel­low designer Joe Anderson’s ena­gage­ment phở­tos. Since then I’ve been dying to see their invi­ta­tions, so I’m excited to share them with you today. I’m lov­ing the not-so-common very ver­ti­cal for­mat and their bold use of color and type. This lit­tle graphic may be my favorite touch. I love the spot illus­tra­tion of the […]

October 29, 2010 – 8:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Our Wedding: The Guest Books

As wed­ding atten­dees, one prob­lem we always found with guest books was that peo­ple don’t nec­es­sar­ily know what to write (that or they can’t find them, which hap­pens to me sur­pris­ingly often). And as a result, some guests either don’t sign them or just sim­ply sign their names, which is fine, but we were look­ing for […]

October 28, 2010 – 8:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Design, Our Wedding, Paper Goods | Comments (8)

Invitation du Jour

I sure do love me some foil stamp­ing. This exam­ple by Andrew Townsend puts a whole new spin on the oth­er­wise casual, hand-drawn-feeling type.

October 27, 2010 – 9:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Paper Goods | Comments (0)

Our Wedding: The Out of Town Gift Boxes

The out of town gift boxes were one project we were really excited to put together. I per­son­ally love kits or sets of any kind, so there’s that. Plus, since so many peo­ple were com­ing from a dis­tance, we fig­ured it was a per­fect oppor­tu­nity to give them a lit­tle intro­duc­tion to our city. For the boxes them­selves we bought, […]

October 27, 2010 – 8:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Details, Our Wedding, Paper Goods | Comments (1)

Invitation du Jour

Love this whim­si­cal, illus­trated invi­ta­tion designed for Leah and Carl by Anna Hurley.

October 26, 2010 – 9:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Paper Goods | Comments (0)

Our Wedding: The Programs

The pro­grams came together pretty quickly, design-wise any­way, the pro­duc­tion still took a bit of time. We went with a sim­ple small book­let that tied with a cord at the top. Little shop­ping tip: my friend Dana pointed me in the direc­tion of B.B. Crafts, which has a huge selec­tion of rib­bon at rock bot­tom prices. I got a huge 250 […]

October 26, 2010 – 8:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Our Wedding, Paper Goods | Comments (3)

Our Wedding: The Flowers

I never real­ized how into flow­ers I was until we planned our wed­ding. I’m not claim­ing to be any sort of expert on the dif­fer­ent vari­eties (not even an ama­teur one), but when I look at wed­ding phở­tos now the flow­ers tend to be what I’m drawn to more than any other detail. Sarah from Brooklyn’s Blossom […]

October 25, 2010 – 10:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Flowers, Our Wedding | Comments (1)

ila Handbags

I came across these hand­bags on Bēhance of all places, but I imme­di­ately thought how great they would be for brides­maids gifts. (Plus, I loved the phở­tog­ra­phy.) Ila Handbags are hand­made with new and vin­tage fab­rics, and she’ll even cus­tomize a bag for you if you have a par­tic­u­lar piece of fab­ric that has some per­sonal sig­nif­i­cance for you.

October 25, 2010 – 9:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Accessories | Comments (2)

Our Wedding: Attire, Hair and Makeup

We were so so happy with our hair and make-up the day of the wed­ding. Everyone looked gor­geous… Our hair was done by Stacy Pitt of Styles on B. She and her assis­tant did an amaz­ing job get­ting us all done up so early. (I think the first time slot for hair was around 6am  —  I […]

October 25, 2010 – 8:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Accessories, Beauty, Fashion | Comments (1)

New Work: Joanne’s Shower

Here is a new project I recently com­pleted for a friend of my Mom’s, whose wed­ding is com­ing up in the next few months. Her shower will be a small and really per­sonal event, with just a few close friends in atten­dance, which allowed me to do some­thing a lit­tle more labor inten­sive for the invi­ta­tion design. I usu­ally start with […]

October 19, 2010 – 8:00 am | By Courtney | Posted in Design, Paper Goods | Comments (3)