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The winner is Rebecca Struchen! The following entries have also won $150 off any order: Cathy, lil9cc, and Daniel. Congratulations to all our winners, and thanks to everyone who entered!
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We have a fantastic giveaway from Bella Figura, an eco-conscious artisan letterpress shop based in Syracuse, New York, and we couldn’t be more excited! Not only do they create some of the most stylish invitations around, they also use 100% cotton paper made from reclaimed fibers, donate 1% of sales to environmental causes, and are 100% wind-powered and carbon neutral! They are a green company through and through. Plus I totally swooned over their in-house antique letterpresses!
Today we’re giving away up to 200 letterpressed save the dates or 100 invitations to one lucky couple, but there’s a little twist! First check out their wedding gallery and choose a favorite design, and then comment below nominating your daughter/friend/sister/fiance (male or female)… and let us know why they should win the invitations! It can be anything like why they’re so great, what things they’ve done to help the planet or themselves, etc. We want to hear your stories! 
You have until 8pm PST tonight to enter when we’ll select one winner. Good luck!
this was an easy one. the botanicals tulip invitation, my fiancee has been drooling over it and it would be perfect for our may 2nd wedding!
my fiancee deserves to win this because not only is she making a commitment to an environmentally friendly wedding, but she tries to live an environmentally friendly life. we eat local grown organic food, we use biodegradable green cleaning products, and she makes a point to conserve and reduce unnecessary waste.
the opportunity to give her these invitations (that fit perfectly with our wedding) would be a really good gift, and only a small thank you for being a wonderful partner.
I nominate my sister Amy because she is a great role model and I lover her very much. She helps the environment in simple ways by using canvas grocery bags, recycling and conserving energy. I think she would love the MAISON by AMY GRAHAM STIGLER because it is classic and beautiful.
I nominate my sister because of her devotion to our family. Our mother was diagnosed with a progressive disease last year and she arranged her final semester of school around our mother’s treatment and never missed a single appointment. She also was by our father’s bedside for a week for over 12 hours each day when he was hospitalized with cardiac issues, and made certain that our father received the best care possible. She was our rock during the scariest times, and is an inspiration to me and others.
My sister is an amazing woman and she would love these invitations. I know she has been trying to work her wedding budget to afford calligraphy, and would love the classic calligraphy invitations.
Thank you.
I nominate my MOH and bestest Jennifer. She and her fiance (matt) are not only studying for the Bar exam but putting off planning their own wedding until it is over because they know that the wedding is only a day and their life together is forever. I love them both and I think my Jennifer will LOVE your Jennifer design but i think her fiance Matt would like the Circolo 2 because it is our college colors and that is where Jen and Matt first met. I hope you pick them because they are a deserving couple.
I nominate my Fiancee. He is going back to school next month, for the first time in over 10 years, for Sustainable Communities. He’s always the one making sure I have cloth bags when I go to the store, he’s changed all of our lightbulbs, recycles and composts everything, and he makes sure that we walk when possible. With going back to school, the budget has gotten tight- and as crazy as it is to say- he loves letter pressed invites and it’s just not in the budget. That said, I think he’d like the Amy because it is simple, modern and green- just like all the details of our wedding.
I nominate one of my closest friends, Colleen. Colleen and I are both studying for the bar exam, and she has been invaluable in helping me calm down and focus so we can both get through this exam. Additionally, Colleen is very much so deserving of these invitations for her generosity and her willingness to help others. During her tenure as editor-in-chief of our school’s environmental law journal, she worked on many a project to further the journal’s green focus and produce a quality product. I know she would love The Amy by Amy Truncali because it fits her style, simple yet elegant. I hope you pick her because I can’t think of anyone else who is more deserving!
I nominate my good friend, Marie for the Soleil. Marie is one of those friends that you know you’ll keep in your life forever. She and and I have bounced ideas off each other for each of our weddings, and she is always a wealth of good ideas. In fact, she’s the one who introduced me to Wedding Bee!
Marie deserves to win these invitations because she is known to be so eager to help others. For example, Marie mastered the art of dairy-free baking when one of my friends discovered they were extremely allergic to dairy. Additionally, Marie has been a shoulder to cry on and a friend to call whenever things get tough. She is one of those rare friends that you cannot find just anywhere.
Of anyone, I believe Marie truly deserves to win.
My housemate Staci deserves to win the Guild invitation. She and her fiance have been working so hard to have the wedding of their dreams, and the Guild design reminds me of feathers, one of her thematic elements for the wedding.
Staci and her fiance deserve to win because of the difficult family circumstances they have both survived and now risen over, including but not limited to losing her father to MS as a girl.
They got engaged in Sept 2007 and are waiting and working towards a Spring 2009 wedding, but in between they’ve survived car crashes, horrible jobs, difficult school situations. They’ve just worked so hard and this invitation seems so perfect for her that I would love to see her win it.
My friends E. and J. deserve to win this. They are both graduate students, so they are living close to the bone. I would love for them to be able to have this little bit of luxury for their wedding.
First of all, I love the Nantucket letterpress. Next, I nominate my financee. He is wonderful man trying to give me the wedding of my dreams even though money is tight. He deserves it because he is the most caring guy in the world. He not only makes time for me, but makes sure that he sees his dad who is in a skilled nursing facility everyday. Ever since his dad had a stroke 5 years ago, which left him a quadaplegic (bedridden, with a ventilator and a g-tube), he makes sure that his dad is cleaned and properly positioned every night (even if that means seeing him at 12AM). He also takes care of his 73 old mother. He works so hard that he barely gets 5 hours of sleep each day as his work and life schedules are demanding. I love him so much and a little thing like this will make his day as our wedding comes closer and the bills add up on his credit card.
I’m nominating my finace b/c I don’t think he’ll survive the stress of watching me design our invitations 
He hates even watching me designs pieces for friends’ & family members’ weddings & other parties!
And the Papavero designs would be perfect–Ok, I admit I love it, but after making him look at tons of designs–I know it’s just modern enough, flamboyant-yet-refined enough for his (manly) tastes. Save him from my diy adventure!
I love the Moderno 2. My Fiance deserves to win these. Not only would he drop anything and everything for a friend or loved one…but he has and would do the same for his country. After serving in Iraq in the Army and losing several friends he had to decide to stay in or retire. Not only has he stayed in the Army Guard but he will commission as an officer in 3 weeks. And he does that while balancing a career in finance, family committments and being the most wonderful father to our puppy. I would love to use those invites for his commissioning party. He deserves a blowout event.
I nominate my Fiancee to win the Champagne invitation. When we first got engaged, she stumbled across the Bella Figura website and she fell in love with that invitation. It became the inspiration for the entire wedding design. Unfortunately, it’s not in our budget. I can’t think of a better, more meaningful gift for her than the Champagne invitation set, since she’s also the “green living” champion in our household and wherever she goes. She’s convinced everyone that we know to change their lightbulbs, is unfailing about recycling, and uses every excuse available to give people cloth shopping bags as gifts (she even makes them herself!). On top of all this, she’s done nothing but make me happy for the last 5 years, and I would love use this opportunity to make her happier, and hopefully make her day.
I’m nominating my fiancee. She is extremely dedicated to her job teaching third grade to low-income kids. She routinely works 10-hour days on top of her two hour round trip commute. She still makes time to plan our wedding and help raise our puppy.
I think that winning these invitations would alleviate a lot of her stress and give her a much needed surprise!
I really like the Nouveau pattern - it is clean, classic and unique. It matches her tastes perfectly.
I love “the Amy”, it’s so simple, classy, and sophisticated-
I nominate my fiance Dan because he is one heck of a guy. He commutes to work and school via bike every day. School is about 15 mins away by car, and work is about 10 mins away by car (on the highway). He goes out of the way to make sure he does not drive a car in order to reduce pollution. He’s also an architect and his dream is to build us a completely green shipping crate house (with a living roof and solar panels!)
I nominate my fiance. She’s an environmentally conscious person to the core (degree in Envt. Studies, avid recycler, will trudge in the snow to avoid driving) and this is a surprise that would make her (and our green wedding) day!
I nominate my fiance, Erika. She is from Syracuse, NY, where this company is based. She really wants to have a green wedding, as do I. She would be thrilled if she knew that our invitations will be produced in upstate NY, where she originally wanted to have the wedding (we’re having it in Washington, DC).
I looked at all the invitations with a fine tooth comb, and decided that her favorite would be the Empire. I can just picture the smile on her face after receiving them.
We are both good people who try hard to live an environmentally conscious lifestyle. These invitations will help us complete our green wedding.
I love the Odessa invitation! It is gorgeous!
I nominate my best friend and future sister in law! She is an amazing person and completely selfless, and puts everyone before herself. She always takes care of everyone and never complains and would do anything for anyone no questions asked. I am also very lucky because she is marrying my brother, so she is going to be my sister! They have an extremely tight budget and are having a hard time finding invitations that they love and can afford. They truly deserve this and it would be awesome to help them out in this way.
I adore “Tender Is the Night”–it’s an elegant, clean-lined, simple look.
My dear friend Christine should win some beautiful invitations from Bella Figura. Chris is one of the most ethical people I know. She cares deeply for the environment and also believes in prevention being a key to good health. For these reasons and simply for the love of it, Chris cycles many miles to work and back daily. She and her partner, who is in rabbinical study, are two of my favorite people. They spread their joy and warmth wherever they go, and I’m overjoyed they are marrying. They take care to source materials they use to be sure they are healthful and come as much as possible from green producers, so they’d be thrilled to have invitations made by such a conscientious company.
I’d nominate my fiancee, for numerous reasons.
He built a dual-chamber compost bin for our house with scrap wood and found nails leftover from building our fence. He’s also vice-president in charge of recycling for our house, taking not only our household recycling to the large recycling center, but my office’s, after I started a recycling program there (to conserve trips to the center after I bring things home). He’s pretty great about collecting greywater from our house and then watering the vegetables with it, and actively works to improve the efficiency of our home. This weekend, we’re (he’s) installing more roof vents on our house to assist with the cooling. He’s researched and charged with (when needed) more environmentally-friendly refrigerant for and in our cars and house (as a bonus, it works better than R22!) He’s also been working on both his car and our 1968 truck to improve efficiency, both lowering emissions on the antique vehicles and raising the fuel mileage. All this while completing his PhD.
I think he’d really like “Estrella,” because it’d remind him of the waving fields of the farm he grew up on.
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