Mirror Mirror…

Honored to be featured in Style Me Pretty’s new “Living” Blog.  I worked with Loli Events, and FaceTime Beauty  to create a Sprinkle Party – a second baby shower!  The Sprinkles are in the manicures, pedicures, cocktails and treats.  I hand lettered thoughts and menus on mirrors.  Trent Bailey Photography captured all that glittered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The British Are Coming!

Recent work for a client.  Ephemera and Sundries courtesy of Myers of Keswick.  

What would we Anglophiles do without such a shop?  They even carry Fairy Dish Soap.

However, still miss the individual instant porridge packets.

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Spring Up!

Featured in the D.C., Maryland and Virginia Edition of The Knot!

 

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Spreading the Words…

I had the pleasure of working with Gillian Simon, one of the masterminds behind the stationery line, Quotable.

Gillian started this line twenty years ago, born out of a simple frustration for finding cards that would inspire friends and loved ones.  The line now includes calendars, mugs, magnets and other sweet ephemera.  ’Each item features a quotation or proverb written in a distinctive style and script.’

As I do, you probably have one of those cards hanging on your refrigerator right now!

As Ms. Simon says, “They’re inspirational, everyday cards. They have universal sayings, but depending on what place you’re in mentally, the quotes mean different things to different people.”

Avid surfers, Simon and her betrothed used a Bob Marley quote for their Wedding Invitation.  {In high tide or in low tide, I’ll by your side.} It is the first Wedding Invitation of its Quotable kind!  So I was honored to add my white cursive style to her simple and classic quotable style.

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Let It Snow!

Winter Wedding Season has arrived!  Busy with Christmas Card addressing, Announcements, Save the Dates, Invitations and Place cards.    Around here it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas with Event Blossom’s seed paper snowflake place cards – embedded with a handful of annual and perennial wildflower seeds for your guests to plant.  It will certainly remind your guests of your special day, long after Winter has gone.

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Red Letter Day

My recent client chose red and gold envelopes for her Wedding Invitations, both colors in traditional Indian Wedding Ceremonies represent luck and wealth for the future couple!

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Listed!

Officially listed in the 2013 Winter Edition of the New York Magazine Weddings Issue.

On stands now!

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Purple Ways

One of my recent clients chose a pretty lavender ink and a condensed version of my signature style.  Shot at the über cool Lavender Lake Lounge.  Perfect spot  for a pre or post wedding planning cocktail.    {I recommend the St. Basil.}

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‘Signing’ The Blues & The Ins and Outs of Inner & Outer Envelopes

My client chose blue for her invitations, kind of apropos to feel the blues as I write them as Summer begins to wane and the Olympics are no longer my background music!    

As you can see she chose the classic outer and inner envelope style.  You can find out more about how to address these two envelopes from both Martha Stewart  and Crane & Company.  As Crane & Co.’s blog explains, long ago, Wedding Invites were delivered by the Bride’s footmen to guests homes.  The guests’ servant removed the pristine inner envelope bearing only the guest name from the outer envelope. 

“Though footmen have since been replaced by postmen, the inside envelope is still de rigueur. It gives something as important as your wedding invitation a certain je ne sais quoi.”

Having addressed many envelopes, both formal and informal, I often tell my clients, that this is the first opportunity to present your guests with the ‘style’ of your Wedding, whether formal or casual.  If your Wedding is informal, the inner envelope is an opportunity to write your guest’s nickname or the name you’ve come to know and love them as.

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Business is Blooming

A recent frugalista client used the “Love In Bloom” collection from  VistaPrint for her invites and envelopes.  The envelopes and invite were not only inexpensive, but surprisingly vintage looking!  Photographed at the incredible Opalia Flowers in Brooklyn.

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Art Nouveau

My work is featured in the Fall Anniversary Edition of Nouveau Magazine, the digital and print-on-demand bridal resource for intercultural couples and multi-ethnic weddings. Issued quarterly, it offers insights into “real fusion wedding inspirations.”

I was part of Ana and Andre’s Dream Team which included destination photographer KT Merry, and Invitation Designer  Cheree Berry, among others.  A destination wedding, the ceremony took place at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.  

“…Drawing from many influences – Judaism, Catholicism, Quakerism even Atheism – we tried to create a ceremony that resonated with who we are.” – Ana Rosansky, Bride.

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Olive You

My calligraphy got to Italy before I did!

My client Ravenel, used Olive Branches with my work on her place cards for her Wedding in La Selva, Tuscany.   Olive branches are one of the traditional symbols of an Italian Wedding.  It’s often given from the Bride to her Mother in Law.  Brides are also known to wear olive branches in their hair, as a sign of fertility, peace and perhaps like an Olympic Athlete – victory!   Some strange and some lovely Italian traditions are listed here.

The photography is by the incomparable Italian artist, Leila Scarfiotti.

More of this amazing wedding on Leila’s blog under the “The Sacred Veil.”

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