{"id":3601,"date":"2012-10-02T20:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T20:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studiowednashville.com\/nashvilleblog\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2014-01-09T01:02:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T01:02:33","slug":"kelly-planned-a-wedding-the-invitation-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/kelly-planned-a-wedding-the-invitation-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Planned a Wedding: The Invitation Suite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joining the wedding industry fuels the love of certain things in a bride’s heart. Things like paper goods. Ask any wedding planner if she’s a sucker for stationery — I bet she’ll start swooning. Just look at the following for Stationery Academy!! I love looking at recap posts from the Academy; pretty typefaces and thick cardstocks and gorgeous graphic prints, oh my!<\/p>\n

When Drew and I first started planning out how we’d be announcing our engagement and inviting guests to our soiree, initially we came into things with serious budget-vision. We tried to see what our cheapest options were, looking at ready-made invites online and etsy vendors with low prices. However, over the course of planning and utilizing Brocade Designs<\/a>‘ event design services, we began to fall madly in love with the idea of a custom suite built to fit our specific vision!<\/p>\n

Hillary<\/a> did not disappoint. After filling out an extensive questionnaire, sending pictures of paper suites I adored, gasping over gorgeous fonts, tossing creative ideas around and tweaking verbiage… she sent me several stunning options.<\/p>\n

Here’s my initial inspiration:<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the elements I was drawn to were: \u00a0suites in our color family (pinks, greens, taupe\/gold), calligraphy-esque fonts, graphic (sometimes geometrical) prints, monograms, wreath detailing, and a soft\/romantic look.<\/p>\n

Hillary<\/a> took those ideas and came up with three different models for our invitation.<\/p>\n

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Our favorite of the three was the model on the far right — the champagne backing and paler pink detailing seemed a little less feminine-only (although I tossed the idea of having it be completely gender-neutral pretty early on), I loved the fonts and outline pattern, and it could easily be translated into a cohesive invitation suite!<\/p>\n

We tweaked a couple of things: \u00a0changing the color of the “D” monogram, adjusting the font and design hues a bit, and then changing the reception info\/time (after we fired our caterer mid-invitation design period!). Finished design? See below!<\/p>\n

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For our RSVP cards, I had the strike-of-genius idea one evening to do a cookbook as our guest book*, compiling recipes from guests as they RSVP’d to the wedding. Hillary<\/a> designed a super-cute matching RSVP card for the suite.<\/p>\n

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\"\"(*We didn’t actually make the cards into a guest book per se, but we do have them all to reference whenever we want a great new married recipe to make!)<\/p>\n

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Hillary showed me a pretty little booklet of paper types to choose for our big envelopes, RSVP envelopes, and envelope liners. I opted for the prettiest pink-and-green floral print liner (slid inside a STUNNING sparkly ballet pink envelope) and a little pop of bright raspberry pink for the RSVP cards.<\/p>\n

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After a few months of helping Hillary around the shop with crafts, I couldn’t stop there with the invites.\u00a0To make them extra-special<\/em> fancy and gorgeous, I crafted a multi-layered belly band with lace and ribbon to hold the pieces together. I made my team of dedicated bridesmaids slave away with me putting the pieces all together. It took a week, but the result was amazing!!!!! Way better than I ever could have imagined. Gorgeous work, Hillary<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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\"\"{And in action:: As framed in my little shadow box on display at our reception!}<\/p>\n

Stay tuned next week to see our other paper goods — save-the-dates we created from some favorite photos from our engagement shoot with Brett Price, menu\/programs inspired by Style Me Pretty that tied in our invite suite, the escort cards that I didn’t finish until noon on our wedding day, and more!<\/p>\n

~ Kelly<\/p>\n

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Joining the wedding industry fuels the love of certain things in a bride’s heart. Things like paper goods. Ask any wedding planner if she’s a sucker for stationery — I bet she’ll start swooning. Just look at the following for Stationery Academy!! I love looking at recap posts from the Academy; pretty typefaces and thick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[48,468],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kelly-plans-a-wedding","tag-brocade-designs","tag-kelly-plans-a-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}