When my friend Megan talked to me about her wedding invitations, I thought it was such a great idea and I knew it would be such a fun project (and I was honored to be a little part of her special day!) so I of course said yes… to print on vintage postcards! She had a lot of them and her wedding theme matches with these awesome vintage french postcards so why not make a great use out of them, right? I thought it was so original and cute and so Megan.

Look at all the cool postcards…

She sent me few extras, but to set the plates in the right position, I used another paper to determine the placement…

Mixing brown color…

Matching Pantone.

and ready to print.

The postcards came in 2 different types of the back and this is #1:

#2: adjusted the position to this background.

and it came out just lovely!

I love how it came out! So special. :)

I am actually looking for a wedding stetinary project (from save-the-date, invitations, RSVP cards to Thank you cards, programs…. everything!) if you are interested or if you know someone who just got engaged and you think they might be interested, please let me know!

Happy Friday!

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I had to post this here, for my inspiration and for your inspiration, but when I saw this wedding invites over at Design*Sponge today, I was in shock! How creative! I loooove the story and the design; lots of typography, very simple, cool, and you can easily follow their lovely story in such a fun way, it is definitely one of the best wedding invites I’ve ever seen. (besides mine… hehe)

Makes me want to design our story like this… :) How cute would that be? Maybe for our 10 year anniversary or something :)

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Remember, my post about printing my friends’ wedding invitations a while ago? I printed just the texts of the invitations, direction cards, RSVP cards, and my friend, Shizuka was going to do the art… and when I received the final invitation, I was blown away! Came out so great! She did such an awesome job “stenciling” (I think I mentioned silkscreen before, but I was wrong) each art, color by color, one by one, all by her hand…! GREAT JOB, Shizuka! So gorgeous, letterpress gives a very nice quality, too.

The outside:

She hand wove this Japanese knot thing (I don’t know what it’s called… it has a name, though) called “Mizuhiki”:

and inside of the package:

I love the gold she used throughout the invitation set and when you see the actual piece, it really has nice and warm yet very sophisticated feel, I am super happy to get to help her with this! and CONGRATULATIONS! :)

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I was in the letterpress studio yesterday printing my friend’s wedding invitations. My friend is going to do the illustration on the invitation all by herself (I think she’s going to silkscreen them) so I was just printing the letters/texts – I will share how it turns out when she is all done with everything, but here are some photos from the studio…

Mixing color – I love mixing colors. So fun.

The plates set on the base on the Vandercook Press, plate is from Boxcar Press.

Color matches fine, love the impression, keep printing and printing…

I printed invitations, RSVP cards, and direction cards – 150 each. I can’t wait to see the final product with her illustrations, it’s going to be beautiful, I’m sure.

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Continue from yesterday’s invitation design, I wanted to share some of the designs and hand-made things we did for the day of the wedding. I can’t believe we pulled this all together, it really was a lot of work, but it was the most amazing, memorable, loving, fun and beautiful day ever in our lives!

Tossing Cones: I took the same graphic I used on my invitation, the growing plants, and made it grow more so it looks like it’s about to bloom. Printed on 8.5×11 papers and cut them into square, roll them so it holds the rose petals and handed to everyone at the ceremony.

I also designed and made the programs, but nothing was left at the end of the day… I made a few extras, of course, but I don’t have it any more… on my computer, I do, though.

Guest Book: Each guest had their polaroid picture taken, placed on the guest book and they wrote us really nice things – thank you so much!!!

Reception:

For seating, we named our tables with our initials, my side with polka dots, Randy’s side with stripes, all different patterns and color combination. All the guests got this little vellum envelope with their name and the little cut out letter I made to show which table they were seated at.

and the big letters all wrapped around with each pattern were placed on each table. I bought the letters and wrapped around with the patterned paper I designed and printed.

One of our favors – chopsticks; one side in English and one side in Japanese – We folded the chopsticks sleeves for each one to match the table pattern.

Another favor: Jordan Almonds – we custom made this embosser and we made this little note that was attached to each organza packet. Inside, you can read about the tradition of giving away Jordan Almonds.

Another favor: CD – since we both love music (we met through music) and lots of the songs we picked for the wedding was one of our favorite genres, Jazz, and so we compiled our favorite Jazz songs into one CD.

The cover was embossed with the embosser.

Inside: CD entitled “Perennial Sounds” and a booklet “Perennial Sights” – noticed the flower design on the CD? Yes, the flowers bloomed on this day! (from the concept) Jazz was perfect for the title and our concept matches with the name completely. We brainstormed together so much and Randy came up with the name!

For the booklet, we gathered all the pretty pictures we took together from our travels and just put the name of the place, the month and the year. Hoping these things would never change…

and at the end, we gathered all our happy pictures together.

Each table had a black and white disposable camera and I designed this little note with each pattern to match the table.

Wedding Cake: Of course we designed it to match everything! It was the cutest cake ever and I actually entered a drawing and won this cake!!! It can be really expensive, but for us, it was free and still custom designed! Thank you!

I hope you enjoyed it! Happy Friday, everyone!

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2 years ago, on February 19th, we got married in Hawaii – it was the most beautiful thing ever and the biggest thing we’ve ever planned together. I wanted to design everything, make as many things as possible, and I did design/make a lot of things and I wanted to share some with you here today and tomorrow.

Save-the-date Card: This would set the tone of the wedding so I wanted to do something unique, something fun, something conceptual… and came up with this hand-made save-the-date card with flower seeds. I used paper, stamps, flower seeds, eyelets, vellum envelope, and printer and assembled it together, it was fun! I made the envelope liner, too.

I also made the same size note cards and we wrote to everyone. Also, this is how I asked my bridesmaids to be in our wedding (with nice note). And yes, our colors were set for shades of blues.

Invitation: So the save-the-date was with flower seeds and said the flowers will bloom on the wedding day (that was the whole concept behind it!) so I wanted to design our invitation with growing plants. I designed it and had a printer letterpressed them for us.

and the map and more information – we didn’t have budget to letterpress these so I hand assembled with nice papers.

(I then had the invitations together with ribbon and everything, but I have to look for the final assembled ones still…)

Tomorrow, I’ll share our wedding day pictures, things I designed and made, etc!

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