M Is For Monogram
February 29th, 2008 @ 12:55 pm by Mrs. Toucan
After attempting to make my own monograms in PowerPoint, I decided to ask my cousin for some help. You see, the monograms I had made for myself were fine and all, but I really wanted to use something that reflected a little more personality. I had all these ideas on how to I wanted my ideal monogram to look like, but I didn’t have a clue on how to execute them. My cousin, who is finishing up her college degree in fine arts and computer science, was the perfect person to ask for some help! Check it out:
The Chosen Monogram
Filigree Monograms
April 3rd, 2007 @ 6:14 pm by Mrs. Strawberry
I’m a well rounded individual. I have many talents. I can sing, I can dance and can even draw. However, I also have my limitations. Limitations that I am well aware of. I can’t cook. I don’t clean. And I never learned to sew.
As I approach my new life as a married woman, I’m realizing that these too are important talents. Talents that could potentially save me money and heartache in the long run. If I knew how to pick up a needle and thread, I could probably complete many wedding tasks myself. Alas, this is not the case and I must rely on others.
At Filigree Monograms, they understand my pain. Dress labels, table runners and bouquet ribbons are all delightfully embroidered.
I’m A Collector
March 29th, 2007 @ 10:26 am by Mrs. Snow Pea
I have been collecting magazine clippings since I was a kid. I don’t know why I do it, but I just like it. When we got engaged, I picked up a habit of collecting anything that had our initials in it. Not to mention I love monograms, but it just became a game for me. No one else knows that I do this (until now). *The only rule is that whatever the picture may be, it has to be of our initials only. I can’t cheat and snip off a letter that doesn’t belong.*
Here’s what I have so far. Feel free to send me more if you see something!
from Paper Source
I Do Originals
March 27th, 2007 @ 12:58 pm by Mrs. Kiwi
I love things with my name on it. Ever since I was a little kid I wanted something to represent me. I coveted those golden labels to stick inside your books, and collected the address labels we got for free from the WWF after donating. The first item of business after moving in together? Make custom labels with our names on them. They were promptly lost, but whatever.
My point is, this wedding is my chance to personalize something perfectly. Nowadays (did I JUST say that?), monograms are a theme to itself, like on a cake:
Black Tie Collection At Wonderful Graffiti
March 23rd, 2007 @ 5:39 pm by Mrs. Bee
Wonderful Graffiti has just released a new Black Tie collection of products inspired by formal attire. They’re offering traditional stationery items like programs, hang tags, napkins, but I think their monogrammed products are the most interesting… some you may even endeavor to diy!
“Branding” Our Wedding
February 20th, 2007 @ 2:55 pm by Mrs. Emerald
I asked my invitation designer, Sarah of Truly Smitten, to come up with a monogram that we can use throughout our wedding. She came up with this, which I absolutely love, love, love! (The image quality is rather low)
The same flourish is also used in our actual invitation design, so I was happy to see it incorporated into our monogram. Then I asked her to add in the first letter of Mr. E’s last name, since most of the monograms I see are 3 letter ones.
It turned out to be a monogram rather than logo after all. A bit anticlimactic, I know. Ignore the square and dashed lines. I may or may not carry that through. This is just a quickie I made for use as a placeholder on our wedding website.
Logo/Monogram Trouble
January 20th, 2007 @ 8:11 pm by Mrs. Raspberry
I hung all of these monograms, plus a couple of others on the door in our apartment. We have been looking at them for a couple of days, and still can’t seem to decide on which one we want to use.
I thought that we would use it on the programs, favors, menus, out-of-town baskets, maybe the invites… It is all up for debate.
My only concern with the long, skinny ones is that they will be hard to use on things, yet I like them so much better. And I really want to use gold, but since it will be coming out of a regular printer, I don’t want it to look brown - I tried it and it looked ok.
Help!
January 10th, 2007 @ 3:10 pm by Mrs. Emerald
I am looking for inexpensive initial pins like this:
I have been scouring ebay and google for like a month now, but can’t find anything under $20 (the one pictured above is close to $30). I need 5 of them in different letters. I remember these monogram brooches used to be all the rage a few years ago, and you could find them in any department store like Sears, but not so much anymore. I would even be willing to DIY the crystals if someone could tell me where to get the backing. Has anyone seen them recently?
DIY Monogram Stamp Kit
December 12th, 2006 @ 12:46 pm by Mrs. Bee
One of our favorite sites, Impress Rubber Stamps, now carries a Self Inking Monogram Stamp.
Each kit comes with two sizes of interchangeable letters and four border designs. You can create a one, two, three, even four letter monogram with or without a border. Use your imagination and stamp away on all your wedding stationery. And at $29.95, it’s quite the deal! 
