The Week in Weddings: 01.21.11

Another install­ment of my favorite images from the past week. (As usual, click on the image to get to the orig­i­nal source.)

Invitation du Jour: Osamu Akatsu

I saw these invi­ta­tions on Beast Pieces awhile ago, but was reminded of them again via eight hour day just recently. I never got to post about them back then, but upon see­ing them again I got just as excited as I had the first time — I love the sim­ple yet ele­gant color palette and all of the play­ful details. So I fig­ured re-sharing couldn’t hurt.

Invitations by Ryan Feerer

I’m lov­ing these beau­ti­fully hand-lettered invi­ta­tions by Ryan Feerer. More to be seen in his Flickr stream.

Etsy Finds: Valentine’s Day Treats

Though I haven’t ven­tured into pur­chas­ing cloth­ing via etsy, I have pur­chased baked goods and other edi­ble items. There are so many deli­cious home­made treats to be found, and that espe­cially goes for hol­i­days such as Valentine’s Day. Here are a few treats that I think look espe­cially deli­cious, and would make great gifts for kids, friends or sig­nif­i­cant others.


Clockwise from top left: 1. Pretty In Pink Cinnamon Vanilla Sugar Marshmallows, 2. Smaller Double Heart Chocolate Lollipop, 3. Valentines Day Candy Popcorn, 4. My Pinkalicious Valentine — Italian Venetian Tri-Color Cookies, 5. Valentine Day Cake Pops, 6. Heart Shaped Smores.


Clockwise from top left: 1. A Little Box of Valentine’s Day Cookies, 2. Bright Colored Edible Heart within a Heart, 3. Hug and Kiss Cookie Collection 4. Red Velvet Chocolate Dipped Cookie Nibbles, 5. Raspberry Hand-Cut Gumdrops, 6. Sweet and Sassy-White Belgian Chocolate-Cinnamon Imperials.

Paper Heart Garland

How adorable is this col­or­ful paper heart gar­land from Upon a Fold? Love!

Inspiration Board: Melon

Clockwise from top left: 1. Bride photo from Wedding Chicks, 2. Groomsman photo by Punam Bean, 3. Paper chan­de­liers from Martha Stewart Weddings, 4. Table décor from The Sweetest Occassion, 5. Invitations by Hammerpress, 6. Goodie bags from Style Me Pretty, 7. Boutonnière from The Inspired Bride, 8. Pattern by Joe Kievitt, 9. Centerpiece from Style Me Pretty, 10. Cookies from Amy Atlas, 11. Cake from Style Me Pretty.

Immaculate Confections

These liquor cakes by Immaculate Confections would make for quite the boozy — and fun — cake buf­fet. I’m lov­ing the var­i­ous archi­tec­tural shapes of each one — there’s no doubt they’d make a state­ment. And if you aren’t the drink­ing type not to worry, Immaculate Confections offers var­i­ous cheese­cakes, tarts and other desserts that look just as delicious.

via Daily Candy

Andy + Liz: The Event

As promised, Part 2 of Andy and Liz’s wed­ding takes us to the event itself, which was held at the Katherine Legge Memorial Lodge out­side of Chicago. All of their pho­tog­ra­phy, which is gor­geous by the way, was taken by Dustin Miller, who shoots only film. And it’s pretty clear through these images that every­one was truly full of joy and love the whole day.


Previous two images shot by Jason Adduci

Beautiful cou­ple; beau­ti­ful wed­ding. Congrats Andy and Liz!!

Andy + Liz: The Design

Good morn­ing every­one! I don’t fea­ture real wed­dings too often (though I’d love to more — send them my way!); so I am SO excited to share the wed­ding of Andy and Liz with you today!

Let’s get started with the invi­ta­tions. These beau­ti­ful images were shared with me by the groom, Andy Luce, who I’ve fea­tured in the past on design work life, and is respon­si­ble for all the design you see here. I’ve always loved the vibrant com­bi­na­tion of red and turquoise; so add a typographic-based approach to that and I’m hooked.

I love how well the invi­ta­tion design was car­ried through to the web­site to cre­ate a coher­ent and con­sis­tent visual expe­ri­ence for the guests.

Stay tuned to see more gor­geous­ness from the event itself!

The Week in Weddings: 01.14.11

Another install­ment of my favorite images from the past week. (As usual, click on the image to get to the orig­i­nal source.)