Last August, I posted some photos of Corner’s and my wedding invitations. Prior to this project, I had designed very few items that were meant to be printed, much less using the letterpress method (I am primarily a web designer, after all). Since then, several friends have asked me for advice with their own wedding invitations, so I [...]
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I am the world’s worst blogger; life gets interesting, and I stop blogging. Well, dear readers, Corner and I have now been married for 20 days. The wedding went off without a hitch. We didn’t have any no-shows, and we didn’t have anyone show up unannounced. The venue looked GORGEOUS (I didn’t know until the [...]
Our wedding invitations finally arrived! I say finally because I spent FOREVER working on these things. Allow me to present our 3-piece wedding invitation suite, designed by me and printed by Czar Press. Invitations A7 Crane Lettra 220# pearl white 2-color letterpress (pantone 871 & 282) Edge painting (pantone 8863) Additional Information Cards A2 Crane [...]
Corner and I sent out our Save the Dates for our November wedding in early June. Here’s a few (albeit slightly crummy) iPhone photos: The postcards turned out really well, and I have received many compliments, but if I could do them all over again, I would do a few things differently. 3 things we should [...]
ALL OF THIS STUFF IS DONE: Venue We will be having both the ceremony and reception at Waldenwoods Resort in Hartland, Michigan. Attire My dress, the bridesmaids’ dresses, my headpiece, and my shoes have all been purchased. I won’t get to see/try on my dress until late August (it arrived in Michigan 2 days after [...]
I decided to celebrate Valentine’s Day by providing you with a brief wedding planning update: Venue is booked Photographer is booked Photobooth is booked DJ is booked Wedding dress has been purchased Bridesmaid dresses have been purchased Hair appointments have been scheduled I also started designing our invitations. These will also be used as a [...]
So after all of the excitement in mid-December, I drove to Michigan with Nigel and Nacho on December 23. It was a long drive, as usual, made longer by the fact that I was the sole driver, but Nacho was a great travel buddy and stayed awake chatting with me the whole time. We did [...]
Corner is in Ohio for work, and the other night we had a rather long wedding planning discussion via Skype that got us nowhere. We talked about our proposed budget for the event and decided that we want to pull off throwing the party within a year without sacrificing our lifestyle in the meantime. Not [...]
