Monday, June 28, 2010
ASSEMBLING PARTIES

With Kathy's wedding being less than a week away, things have been very hectic, but incredibly exciting!

Last week, we held an "assembling party" with all of the bridesmaids at Kathy's place and labored away like elves on Christmas Eve. For most of us, our day started at 11 a.m. and ended at 6 p.m.. We ended up being extremely productive and completed the escort tags, favors, and half of the programs. There are a lot of beautiful and intricate details in Kathy's paper items so each item took a lot of time and care.

For example, her favors took up most of the time and required the attention of four out of five of the bridesmaids (I was busy getting an arm workout from the paper cutter).




Really cute sour gummy candy from Candy Warehouse.











After dinner, Kathy came over and we worked on the programs (each one is 7 pages long... why did I make it 7 pages? I don't know... never again!) until 3 a.m.. By the way, I have to hate on the Fremont Kinko's. They screwed up cutting the programs (some of the text is cut off and not everything is perfectly centered for a few of the pages ). However, we were way too tired to care. The rest of the evening was a bit therapeutic--hole punching and ribbon tying while watching My Best Friend's Wedding and swooning over actor Dermot Mulroney.

Also, at the assembling party, the maid of honor brought me two of the homemade jam favors from Kathy's bridal shower (that I unfortunately had to miss). I was still able to make my contribution by designing, printing, and punching out these jam labels.





One of the bridesmaid's cousins makes jam and we had strawberry and grapefruit flavors.






Yum! I especially like the grapefruit jam... tangy and bittersweet.





Five more days until the wedding! My first time as a bridesmaid! Yipee!!!

  JANET posted at 8:31 PM | 7 comments




Friday, June 18, 2010
LEONA & JAMES' WEDDING

Last Saturday, I attended Leona and James' wedding at the beautiful Montclair Church and Claremont Hotel. Yes, I know I STILL haven't posted pictures from Bethany and Bryan's wedding, but I think I'm going to wait until the nice professional pictures come out and post those instead. At the time, I really didn't feel like lugging a huge SLR camera to Southern California.

I can't believe that two weddings are down, and there are still three more to go! Leona and James continued to have their travel theme run throughout their wedding with world maps draping tables and mailboxes and vintage suitcases at every corner.









Leona's program--with the J+L logo at the top of the page, and the same custom border from the invitations framing the text.





Leona and James were gracious and sweet to include me in the program!






These escort cards greeted guests after the ceremony. I wanted each card to mimic the design of an airmail envelope.





The front side of the card displays the guest's name and a number indicating the table number of where he/she is sitting.





For the back side of the card, I created icons for each meal option--beef, chicken, fish, vegetarian (broccoli), and pizza (for the kids!). These were used as an aid for the Claremont servers. Yum, I love my cow.





The reception programs were displayed in the cocktail room in small suitcases.










I need to learn how to act and feel less awkward taking pictures of my design work. Leona's cousins kept staring as me as I was taking a million pictures of each item. Ha.. Ha.. I wish I didn't have to rush through taking pictures, which is why a lot of the photos I took were blurry. I'm slowly learning!

Congratulations to the Hans and their future together in Rochester, Minnesota!

  JANET posted at 12:44 PM | 7 comments




Wednesday, June 9, 2010
SALLY & ANDY'S INVITATIONS

Long before I started on Bethany's  (my first finished "client") invitations, Sally asked me to design her wedding invitations, so it's wonderful to see them finally come into fruition! Andy and Sally love to sing and play music together, with Sally as the vocalist and Andy as the guitarist, and wanted their wedding to reflect singing songs of worship and praise to our Lord. The main design of the tree and birds is from a quick sketch I made on our church's weekly program during a sermon (I know, shame on me).





The branch was also made into their stamp!









Love birds that represent the bride and groom.









Congratulations to the musically talented couple! We bridesmaids are now in search of *musical* elements for further decorations on the day-of (mainly vintage sheet music). Any suggestions?

In other news, Kathy came over yesterday, we cracked the whip, and are finished designing the table number cards, escort cards, and programs...with four weeks to spare!!!

  JANET posted at 4:10 PM | 4 comments




Friday, June 4, 2010
KATHY & WILL'S INVITATIONS

I've been trying to make my invitation debut photos more interesting (must. move. away. from. my. desk). So I took a big step and moved my photoshoot session down to the dining table. My backyard also has a lemon tree that is in need of some picking and pruning. I told Kathy that the tree is her's for her wedding if she needed any citrusy touches to her wedding decorations.

This week has been a bit crazy for Kathy's bridesmaids with the dress vendor making a huge mistake on our dresses, and us frantically searching for new ones. We ended up buying dresses from Ann Taylor that JUST went on sale from $185 to $130. Yay! They're cheaper than the first dresses, and dare I say, PRETTIER.

With the vineyard wedding less than a month away, here are the invitations!






























This weather is proving that summer is definitely near! I was sweating taking these pictures. I think out of all the invitations I've made so far, I'm most pleased with this set. Kathy gave me all the reins for this one, so I had a lot of control. Plus I only spent a few hours designing, and afterwards, barely any revisions! Don't get me wrong, it's great when the bride and groom make suggestions and revision requests. I definitely learn from them as well. But... a break is great now and then, no?

  JANET posted at 5:32 PM | 6 comments




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