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01. 19. 2010 Much love

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These heart shaped doily prints from Ashley Goldberg would make lovely Valentine’s gifts, thought I could also seem them worked into an uber-cool save the date! And through Jan 26, $5 of each sale will go to the Red Cross for Haiti.

[image from Etsy]

posted by Vane

labels: art ashley goldberg etsy heart
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01. 18. 2010 Parcel Post for Brooklyn Bride [no. 13]

Hi everyone over at Brooklyn Bride, Happy New Year!

In case you don’t know me, my name is Audrey, I blog over at Parcel Post and have a shop called Urbanic Paper Boutique. In the past I have guest blogged here occasionally but have plans to be here more often in 2010! I’m excited as it is truly an honor to contribute to Vané’s fantastic site!

Valentine’s day is on the horizon and so many couples are busy choosing invitations for their spring and summer weddings – so these days there is definitely a lot of love in the air over here at Urbanic! Inspired by it all, here are some fresh finds!

I capital L – love this scratch-off Save the Date by Unless Someone Likes You! • heart garland by unknown, but seems pretty easy to make right? • cute patterned paper by every jot and tittle • “good luck i love you” print by Bread and Butter (a perfect morning of wedding gift!) • Love Joy Vodka- the packaging is incredible to say the least, would be fun to have around/give! • bakers twine in adorable colors by Divine Twine which comes in large amounts! There are endless possibilities to use these for all of those special little details!

I’m happy to announce that Audrey will be posting her fabulous stationery finds and wedding inspiration on Brooklyn Bride on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, so stay tuned for much more goodness from the West Coast!

posted by Vane

01. 08. 2010 Real wedding: Amber + Joe

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Its not every day you see a wedding with practically no flowers used…but thats just the case with Amber + Joe’s wedding! They had some pretty talented family and friends helping them out, but Amber can explain it better…

us: We met in our first class in the graduate program in anthropology at The New School for Social Research. We were casually disinterested friends for two and a half years before we were in a study group together and realized we were in love. We decided to get married because we love each other so much, and a wedding seemed like a really good way to celebrate that with the people in our lives. We both love books (ok, we’re nerds), our friends, and don’t care for impersonal wedding traditions, so we decided from the start that we could make our wedding whatever we wanted it to be. When things got stressful we would just say to each other, “At the end of this we get to get married!” Most of all, we wanted everyone to have fun.

Our parents helped us so much, but as struggling anthropologists, we still had a very small budget to work with, so we and our friends constructed, created, wrote, and made every part of our wedding. It was truly collaborative, and truly us.

posted by Vane

labels: amber + joe baked books diy gary's loft jenny ebert photography real wedding
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12. 14. 2009 Real wedding: Stephanie + Trev p.2

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More from Steph + Trev’s wedding…its all about the cool details!

It would be considered a sin as a graphic designer not to do my own invitations. I created all of the paper accessories for our wedding, with major help from my friends and family with the assembly.

We created a save the date that embraced the Bavarian spirit of Leavenworth by taking a photo of ourselves in rented authentic Bavarian costumes that really showed off Trevor’s sexy long legs. haha!

For the invitation I did a simple illustration of two people in Bavarian attire holding hands with the mountains in the background.

Our programs, which doubled as fans were cut outs of either Trev’s or my face on one side and program information on the other. These led to many great photo ops, including a group shot of everyone at the wedding holding them up to their faces after the ceremony.

Trevor being a sexy bald man wanted to name our tables after bald celebrities, so I created table signs and escort cards that had coordinating bald heads on them. Don’t worry I didn’t forget that Britney Spears was once a bald celeb.

For the long road trip home Trev and I made our guests cds to take with them.

A few of my other favorite wedding details were our roadside story and our rubber chicken boutonnière. Instead of spending money on traditional flower boutonnières which I new the guys wouldn’t appreciate we bought miniature rubber chickens and glued them to pins. It was way more fun and the yellow went great with the ladies’ accessories.

My grandparents house is about 5 miles in on a windy country road with no cell service, so we came up with a way for people to know that they hadn’t gone too far and that they were almost there, a roadside story. Trev and I bought about 20 pieces of poster board and wrote out a nursery rhyme style story of how we met and fell in love. The signs were perfectly spaced and lead guests right to the ceremony. Here is what they said,

This is a story that begins at age 10,
Boy falls for girl. Girl “just wants 2 b friends.”
Boy builds a go cart, she thinks it’s cheesy
However in reality it was off the heezy (for sheezy)
The girl moves on with her life, The boy does the same…
but in the back of their minds…
is the rear section of their brains.
Then their Jr year of high school…
he decided to ask her out…
she obliged with plenty of (crossed out with no next to it) doubt
Their relationship progressed through high times and low…
nearly six years had passed…
and they were ready to give it a go!
The dude got down on one knee…
and pulled out a ring…
which brings you here today…
to Steph & Trev’s wedding.

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