Karen & her sister (from my previous post) wanted a vintage style luggage tag that they could send out as save the dates. They also wanted them to be magnetic. Magnetic save the dates are a great option because instead of misplacing your paper save the date, many guests place these on their refrigerator as a reminder. A very popular option is to have a photo of the engaged couple to give guests more than just words to look at for months to come.
These magnets fit perfectly in a 4bar envelopes and come ready to mail! I love the ways these turned out.
Karen found Fine Prints online and wanted to host a post wedding reception in honor of her sister's upcoming destination wedding. From the start, the girls knew that not everyone would be able to attend the wedding so they wanted to hold a party locally for the happy couple when they returned. Both Karen and her sister really loved the look of my Aloha Palm Boarding Pass Invitations, but wanted a calm beach feel to them with cool blues and light browns. After a few modifications, and some proofing back and forth, the Sea Side Star Fish Boarding Pass was born.
Christine was another wonderful Bride that we meet at the Fall Washington Bridal Showcase. She and her mom came by for a consultation to talk about her wedding invitations and save the dates. Christine really wanted to incorporate her love of Gerber Daisy into her wedding stationery in an elegant way. Wanting to stray slightly from the traditional formal style for wedding invitations, she talked her mom into the idea of including light pink and green font colors.
Like many Brides, she loved pink and wanted it in her wedding but needed to keep her mother's and groom's tastes in mind too. Pleasing so many tastes can often be a challenge. I was able to create a beautiful Gerber Daisy Save the Date post card that received everyone's approval. I just love the way these turned out. They look very soft, elegant, and romantic. Everything a wedding should be, right?!?!
I am excited to begin working on her wedding invitations and ceremony program jackets soon.
A few days after the Fall Washington Bridal Showcase, Jennifer contacted me to tell me that she had fallen in love with our "Come Fly with Me" boarding passes and wanted to place an order. We were able to work out all the details over the phone and via email to come up with her perfect invitations. Modifying the original design slightly, we added an extra pass to invite everyone to a special dinner the evening before the wedding. Jennifer also wanted to incorporate our custom hand made boarding pass sleeves that were personalized to coordinate perfectly with her passes. I love the way they turned out and I've very pleased to say the Bride did as well.
Cami found us at the Fall Washington Bridal Showcase and came to me wanting her perfect pink and red invitations for her garden wedding. Using a fun modern script I created a monogram style invitation.
I love the wedding day time line included as an enclosure. This is a great way to give your guests an idea of when the wedding starts and what will be happening when. Since the exact times of each event during the wedding has not been finalized yet, I only included the start time and end time. Such a fun and useful addition to any event invitation. Guests will thank you for giving them all the information they need to plan their evening accordingly. Plus, they look great too!!!
Cami loved the idea of being able to hold everything together with a beautiful satin ribbon that wraps around the back of the invitation adding that perfect pop of bright red we needed.
The trick with Cami's invitations was to incorporate her colors without it looking too "Valentine's Day". To tone down the colors, I used pink for the font outlined in red in several places. I think they turned out great!
It's been really busy around here finishing up orders and working on samples for new orders. Recently, I had the pleasureful of meeting Kari at the Washington Bridal Showcase. She and her mom came by for a consultation to discuss her Save the Dates and Wedding Invitations. Kari really wanted something fun, simple, and a little modern, with an elegant flare. She also really loved the idea of using an "H" as a monogram since both her last name and her fiances last name begin with an "H".
Immediately she was drawn to our Modern Script Save the Dates she had seen on our Facebook Page, so we modified the original design to incorporate the monogram and I think they came out beautifully. Initially Kari was going to add a photo as well, but in the end chose not to. Below are a few example of the samples I came up with, as well as Kari's final order. I love, love, love the way the envelopes look with the custom postage we designed for her.
I recently had a Bride contact me that loved my Aloha Palm Boarding Pass Wedding Invitations, but wanted to incorporate orchids. She found my boarding passes online and we worked together to customize them perfectly for her. I was able to match the color of the orchids on the invitations to the orchids she would be carrying on her wedding day for a truly unique look. We also included an additional pass to provide guests with directions and accommodation information, as well as the wedding website. Both passes were placed with the response post card inside a custom handmade vellum sleeve.
Since the Bride lived in Florida she chose to have us address, stuff, stamp, and mail all her invitations for her to allow her guests to receive them right away. I really love the way these turned out.
Program Fans, Place Cards, Specialty Cocktail Signs, and Guest Packets
We used Meg's custom monogram (ordered from Fine Prints) in so many fun ways, like on these Program Fans. We alternated light and dark pink backings for these program fans paired with the opposite colored ribbon. Each fan featured the wedding party on the front and ceremony information on the back. Guests adore these program fans and really appreciate their functionality during outdoor weddings in the hot sun.
I love the beautiful detail of the custom engraved fan handles
we offer paired with a generous double satin bow.
To indicate guest's meal choices, we came up with a few designs for her place cards. Some had Starfish on them to indicate Fish, Some had Silver Dollars on them to indicate Beef, and the rest had a Sea Shell to indicate Chicken. Each Place Card was backed with alternating dark pink and light pink metallic shimmer tented cards.
These Out of Town Guest Layered Packets are such a special way to welcome your guests. Tucked in with a basket of treats, maps, and brochures, guests picked these up when checking into their hotel room. Invaluable in so many ways, they provided a warm welcome message from the Bride & Groom, a schedule of weekend events, and other important information. Guests would look to these guides to find addresses, phone numbers, shuttle information, available activities, and more. All while beautifully coordinating with Meg's Starfish theme and colors.
Meg came up with some fun specialty cocktails that reflected both her and her groom. These signs were framed and placed at the bar.
The Eat, Drink, and Be Married Triple Layer Design is so fun for a couple who has gotten married already and wish to have a party to celebrate. These would make great non-traditional wedding invitations or rehearsal dinner invitation. As always with custom, this design style can be applied to any invitation.
The Rhinestone buckle really sparkles in the light.
Be sure to stop by the Fine Prints booth at the Washington Bridal Showcase for fun giveaways, special offers, and sample invitations to check out. If you are among the first 500 brides to attend you will receive a one year subscription to Brides Magazine included in your ticket price. Plus, every bride can register to win thousands of dollars in gifts and prizes, including a honeymoon cruise.The showcase will be held on Sunday, September 12th from 11am-5pm at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Hope to see you there!
Washington Bridal Showcase
Dulles Expo Center
4368 Chantilly Shopping Ctr., Chantilly, VA
This upcoming season there will be 2 Winter Bridal Showcases hosted by the Washington Bridal Showcase for 2011. The 1st one will be1/16 at the Washington Convention Center and the 2nd one will be 1/23 at the Patriot Center (George Mason University), in Fairfax Virginia.
Help us decide which Showcase to be involved with by answering the poll below. Please feel free to answer even if you are not planning to attend (including those Brides that have already had their wedding). We would like to make sure that we are a part of the showcase that is most desirable to our clients.
If you'd like to give specific reasons why you answered the way you did, please let a comment at the end of this post.
Thank you very much for your feedback!
Which Winter Bridal Showcase would you be more interested in attending?
Let's face it, Brides know that there is more to a wedding than just the wedding day! There's planning, gown fittings, bridal parties, searching for the perfect reception location, selecting vendors, and so on. You can bet that with all the "wedding related" activities, there will be an ever growing folder on your computer labeled "WEDDING". It may seem overwhelming now, but years down the road you will want to look back on all the stressful days of planing and fun times out with the girls. The best way to do that is with Photo Books!
Photo Books will help you relive all these memories and may give you a few fun options to make your wedding extra special in a creative way. There are lots of great companies out there for creating Photo Books, but one of my favorites is Picaboo. Simply go to their website and download their FREE software to get started. You will find that there are tons of great features to really make your book unique. Below you will find some great ideas for Photo Books that will help get the photos out of the computer and displayed for everyone to enjoy!
A personalized "Guest Book" is a great way for your wedding guests to leave you a special message on your big day. Include pictures of you and your fiance as children, pictures from when you first met, and from when you were engaged. Trust me, you will look at this way more than you would a "traditional" guest book!
Other Fun Photo Book Ideas:
Celebrate friendship with a "Bridal Shower" or "Bachelorette Party" book.
Take her breath away with a "Proposal" book that tells your love story. Already engaged? Make a photo book telling how he proposed. Include photos that show when and where.
Have tons of engagement photos from your photo shoot? Turn your engagement photos into a stunning album. Why spend all the money and only use one photo when you can display them all!
Design a unique customized "Wedding Album" you will cherish for years to come. For a more complete album, include photos from the wedding rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, and reception. Or, choose to focus on the ceremony alone.Placing disposable camera's on the table at your wedding? Scan the photos and add any other photos sent your way to create a wedding album from your guests point of view.
Give your bridal party members a gift book that will remind them of the special role they played in your wedding each time they read it. Include photos spanning from the day you met up to the wedding!
Relive your honeymoon again and again with a stunning "Honeymoon" book.
Jill came to Fine Prints looking for boarding pass style invitations for her formal Grand Cayman destination wedding. With a classic black, white, and red color scheme, we designed elegant and fun invitations that really put Jill's guests in the mood for a tropical adventure. One of the details we loved the most about these invitations was that Jill wanted each boarding pass personalized for the guest(s) they were sent to! To do this we had each guest listed as a passenger on their boarding passes.
This wedding invitation set features 2 boarding passes. The first pass is the actual wedding invitation and the second pass has reception and response information. Guests would tear off the perforated RSVP post card on the second pass to mail back their response. Both passes were presented in a boarding pass sleeve to complete to overall look of the invitation.
Jill was able to be a part of the creative process for her wedding invitations by purchasing the boarding passes and sleeve from us and adding her own personal touches. Working with Jill to make her vision come true was a pleasure. We love the way these unique invitations turned out! Best wishes to Jill & Matt!
What did Jill have to say about working with Fine Prints?
"I was looking for something that tied together with our destination wedding as well as our theme colors (black and white with a pop of red). After doing some research, Fine Prints offered the “entire package”. The invitations were the perfect “marriage” of beautiful, contemporary, good quality, unique with the added touch of personalization…so the choice for me was obvious. Amanda really listened to my thoughts and ideas and brought them to life! The best part is that my guests didn’t stop talking about how different the invitations were and thought is was a great touch that we personalized each boarding pass with the guests name…I even had a few guests call to respond because they didn’t want to ruin the invite by sending back the response card!!! Thanks Amanda for helping me set the initial theme for the wedding!!"
Vendor Recap - Who did you choose for your big day?
Ceremony:The Great Lawn at The Ritz Carlton in Grand Cayman Reception:Ballroom at The Ritz Carlton in Grand Cayman Bride Apparel:Tara Keeley Groom Apparel: Men’s Warehouse (purchased tuxedo) Cake:The Ritz Carlton Floral:Lion’s Productions, Grand Cayman Photography: Aaron Rebarchek from Picture Thisin Grand Cayman
Invitations/Stationery: Fine Prints (That’s Us!)
We are very happy to announce that the Fine Prints - Flora Boarding Pass Wedding Invitations we featured in the fun new indie magazine, Styl Mag. Check out their site for lots of tips on fun indie finds. http://www.stylmagazine.com/issues/styl-mag-issue-1.html
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