


Hello! Marva & John are a creative couple getting married at the beautiful Patrick Haley Mansion, built in 1891 & full of Victorian decor, original wood carvings, stained glass windows, intricate friezes, ornate adornments, & six fireplaces {fancy!}.
The mansion is surrounded by beautiful stone patios & gardens.
For their invitations, Marva was looking to continue the feeling of a laid-back Southern wedding full of historic charm. Marva is planning to incorporate some wonderful details into her wedding including a display of her three living grandmothers' wedding dresses by their escort cards, the guest book is going to be a vintage typewrite with a long scroll of paper & the centerpieces are going to be gold metal votive holders.
Using their color palette of ivory, gold, navy blue, & a peachy-pink, I designed an invitation with bold floral & leaf scrolls to mimic the interior of the mansion. I paired the images with bold, serif typefaces accented with a swirling script typeface. The suite included an invitation, RSVP, & information card which included the couples website. Everything was gocco screenprinted on 100% cotton Lettra paper in pearl with navy blue and peachy-pink inks with a coordinating envelope. For the return address I had a custom rubber stamp made & Marva stamped them herself.
I have some fun news to share! So, some people who have been reading this blog for quite sometime may have known {or, if you know me in real life, of course!} that I was working for a local non-profit doing event planning & marketing. I started working there in 2005 & then started my studio in 2007. I continued both...for three years! My daily routine has basically consisted of 9 - 5ish work at the non-profit, come home, eat super quick, 6ish - whenever I was done, usually 1 - 2 am work in my studio, sleep for 5 - 6 hours...do it again! Weekends were spent entirely in the studio as well.
The last year of my life has been, in a word, crazy. Notice there is no mention of: spend quality time with Rich, walk the dogs, see friends....plan my own wedding!! So, after my last big event was over in April, I finally gave my notice & started working in my studio full-time last Monday. Now my days look like this: Yesterday - shopped for wedding-related things including a veil with my mom & sister, came home, worked on some designs; Today - walked the dogs {for the first time since I fell three weeks ago, yay!}, worked on a few invitation designs & revisions, buying a new copier, & printing a wedding invitation & baby announcement followed by...a date with Rich...in the middle of the week. I think this is going to be a very good thing!