Wedding Blog

I found these paper cut illustrations from Designer Yulia Brodskaya on the SeeSaw blog, and I think they are awesome!

Just imagine how cute the Save the Dates could look! (If you have a very limited number of guests.)

Because I have some recycled purple and green paper left over, I decided to make a sign! Well, not exactly a sign, but a heart with our names on it like a monogram. I thought it could look cute on our guest book table.

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…

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…

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…

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!

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…

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.

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…

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…

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!

With the bit of extra time I had at my parent’s house this weekend, I got into a crafty mood and experimented with a few projects. First, I made Mr. Lemon a stocking for his apartment, and then I decided to “experiment” a little in preparation for wedding day crafts. I decided to make a moss-covered letter for my parents as a Christmas decoration, just…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again–I am obsessed with monograms! I’m always trying to figure out new and different ways to incorporate it into our wedding. I think a custom gobo is the next “must have” on my list!

Gobo(definition from Wikipedia): A gobo is a thin circular plate with holes cut in it to create patterns of projected light.

Miss Lime’s post brought to mind our monogram. It’s a lot like a few of hers, but “colorful.” My friend Laura designed it for us, completely unasked! I am so excited because from the very start of our engagement I’ve wanted a monogram - our very own blending of initlals. I’ve tried to make my own, and failed miserably. Why is something like that so…

…but the process is killing me.

First of all, sorry for being so MIA. Here comes a nice, long, stream-of-consciousness post for you all to attempt to make up for it. Work is kicking my booty big time right now and probably will until year-end. I’ve been trying to get some real wedding planning done too, so that takes up most of my non-working hours.…

They look so much better. I spent a lot of time on them. Painting. Cutting. Measuring. Okay… that’s a blatant lie. I had my maid of honor do them. I have about 25 tables, so I have a lot more to do and I’d like them all to be different. Any ideas?