2009 Wedding Invitation Style
This season features a vibrant fruit inspired color palate. Lime, tangerine and watermelon are sure to stand out as the ”it” colors for 2009 weddings. Beautiful, bold stationery is a great way to incorporate this seasons color palate into your wedding. Accent your venue with programs, place cards, table card numbers, menus, drink menus, station cards, favor tags and much more to splash color through out your wedding and reception.
Popular for the 2009 wedding season is the use of a monochromatic color scheme that utilizes varations of the color selected to create a dramatic effect. For example choose from different shades of the color in different textured papers like linen or cotton and finishes such as matte or metallic paper to create a stunning final product. Finish the invitation with a coordinating embellishment such as a ribbon or rhinestone design.
2009 is the ecofriendly wedding invitations year to shine! In our design studio, The Classic Invitation offers FSC certified paper and envelopes, SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) certified paper and envelopes, recycled paper and envelopes in addition to virgin paper products. In addition we are proud to purchase all of our paper from Paper Mills located right here in the USA. We only seek out and purchase ribbon and embellishments that are made in the USA. We are also proud to say that one of our main paper suppliers operates on 100% renewable wind energy and ships our paper orders using carbon neutral shipping! Buying local helps to stimulate our economy, supports American employees, saves on fuel costs and lowers our carbon footprint. Interested in Green Stationery? Contact us at http://www.theclassicinvitation.com!
Are you inspired with the idea of ordering Environmentally Friendly invitations and stationery? Finish your environmentally friendly invitation by choosing from a wide variety of natural embellishments instead of the traditional embellishments that are often manufactured using petroleum(such as satin ribbon or plastic rhinestones). Choose from natural fibers such as cotton ribbon or bamboo fiber. Beautiful natural pressed flowers are a great way to adorn an ecofriendly friendly invitation with beauty and style. The Classic Invitation offers a wide variety of natural pressed flowers in just about any color or flower, including leaves and greenery. http://www.theclassicinvitation.com
Planning the Ultimate Winter Wonderland Wedding!
Turn your winter wedding into a winter wonderland with a few great ideas! When planning for your winter wedding we love the idea of silver glistening in the soft glow of candles and white Christmas lights through out your venue. For a dramatic effect drape silver fabric through out your venue along the walls and from the ceiling. Using silver fabric through out the venue creates the feeling of being in an extravagant ice palace.
A glass vase filled with greenery and dangling snowflakes creates a beautiful accent that can be featured through out the room. To save money, purchase fresh winter greenery and silver metalic spraypaint to replicate the look featured in our winter wedding.
Elegant table cards, menus and stationery create a custom look for your wedding that carries the look and feel of your invitation stationery through out your venue. Visit www.theclassicinvitation.comto design your custom stationery. Combine your elegent stationery with a simple yet dazzeling centerpiece that won’t break your budget and doesn’t even require an expensive florist! Consider using branches and long twigs to create an elgant display. To finish the look you will need a white spray paint, silver spray paint and glitter spray paint. Take the branches a spray 3/4 of the branches white and 1/4 of the branches silver. Then take all of the branches and coat them in the glitter spray paint. Use a stand or tall vase to display. The finished centerpieces will create the look of winter trees covered in snow.
For a winter wedding a disco ball is a plus. Create the look of snow flying in the air with the sparking light of the disco ball. You can easily rent or purchase a disco ball at a party store or party rental vedor.
Mini chandielers dangling from the silver fabric ceiling will add sparkle and ambiance to your venue in an elegant fashion. Adding crystals to the chandeliers will help create the effect of snow in your venue.
Welcome guests and prepare them to enter your winter wonderland with a beautiful winter display outside your venue that is gorgeous and easy!
A favorite photographer of mine www.jessicaclaire.net shot these beautiful photos. Please visit her website. Need stationery to coordinate with your own winter wedding? Contact The Classic Invitation at http://theclassicinvitation.com.
Find us on Martha Stewart Weddings!
The Classic Invitation is pleased to announce that we are now a featured Connecticut vendor on MarthaStewartweddings.com! We can be found under the invitations and favors section for Connecticut using the “Find a Vendor” feature on Martha’s wedding homepage at www.marthastewartweddings.com. If you stop by to visit our page on Martha Stewart weddings be sure to rate our service! We work hard to provide each customer with the highest level of service and would be pleased to have you rate our service to let other brides know about your experience!
Free Custom Designed Monogram!
For a limited time only www.theclassicinvitation.com is offering a free custom designed monogram when you sign up for our newsletter. To sign up email: newsletter@theclassicinvitation.com and include your name and email address. Contact us today to receive your own custom designed monogram.
By: Sheila Elizabeth
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Plan An Out Door Summer Wedding and Save Money!
An outdoor wedding is not only beautiful but a way to save money. By taking the natural elements of the location and incorporating those elements into your wedding, you can create a beautiful, unique ceremony with out spending a lot of money!
Ceremony Alter: One great idea is to create your own outdoor alter! Why spend alot of money to purchase or rent an archway to frame your ceremony, when you can create your own archway at a fraction of the cost!
Photography by Jessica Claire www.jessicaclaire.net
This approach creates an intimate ceremonial location that is sure to impress your guests! Using natural potted orchids (or other potted flower) to decorate the archway is a great alternative to expensive cut florals for the ceremony. Enhance the look of the potted orchids with tall twigs and tree branches. This element can be gathered outdoors and utilized without any cost at all. After the wedding the orchids can be used to decorate your home!
Photography by Jessica Claire www.jessicaclaire.net
The Reception: By having the wedding in the summer you can save money by skipping the tent! Set up your tables and chairs outside and enjoy the sun set, moonlight and the twinkeling stars! Be sure to place a lot of candles on the table to provide enough lighting for your guests after the sun sets.
The Center Pieces: A great way to carry the look from the ceremony to the reception is to use smaller potted orchids (or other potted flowers) as the centerpieces. Shop around to see if you can get a bulk rate for the orchids. By using the potted orchid as your center piece it can also serve double duty as the “guest favors”. Purchase enough orchids to give one plant to each couple or family. Place the extra orchids on a favor table and voila, you’ve saved money on by using your favors as center pieces.
Photography by Jessica Claire www.jessicaclaire.net
The Stationery: Create a custom look for your outdoor wedding with unique stationery, it’s an inexpensive way to create an expensive look! Table number cards, place cards, programs, menus, tags for your favors, table cards for the candy bar, gift table, guest book table, favor table, et cetera. Simple touches can create a dramatic effect! The Classic Invitation specializes in creating a custom designed “look” for your wedding regardless of the budget! Contact www.theclassicinvitation.com for a free consultation!
By: Sheila Elizabeth
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Special thanks to Jessica Claire Photograpy for the use of her beautiful work. You can contact her at www.jessicaclaire.net.
Diamonds are a girls best friend: 10 ways to create a sparkling Wedding!
Your wedding is probally the most lavish event that you will ever plan. You know you want your wedding to be gorgeous and memorable. You want it to be the best night of your life. How do you choose a theme to accompany such a grand scale event? Think diamonds… from your engagement ring, to your bridal attire, your invitations and stationery to your reception decor. A diamond theme can be the perfect choice! With the high cost for “real” diamonds, other than your bridal jewlery why not use rhinestones? They have all the glitz without the cost!
How to incorporate a diamond theme into your wedding:
1) Your engagement ring! Why not coordinate your wedding to the style of your ring? Is your engagement ring classic, princess, simple, modern, heirloom, et cetera? First determine your ring style!
2) Bridal Attire: Once you have determined your ring style, find a dress that incorporates that style. For the classic or princess style find a dress that incorporates rhinestones and pearls. For a modern style try crystals and rhinestones to add sparkle to your look. An heirloom look is perfect with pearls featuring a hint of a rhinestone accent. Go for the glitz!
3) Tiaras and Crowns: A diamond themed wedding screams for a beautiful diamond or rhinestone encrusted tiara or crown to finish your bridal attire. Your fiance can even choose rhinestone or diamond cuff links to coordinate with your bridal jewelery!
4) Your bouquet: A perfect way to incorporate rhinestones into your floral display is in your bouquet! Your florist can place rhinestones into the flowers and can even encrust the handle of the bouquet in rhinestones. From simple to over the top, it is your choice!
5) Table Centerpieces: Tall floral displays are perfect for stringing crytals and rhinestones to hang from your centerpieces. You can also place crystals into the vases to anchor the florals. Place candles under your centerpiece and the crystals and rhinestones will shimmer and glow!
6) Invitations and Stationery: The Classic Invitation offers many unique ways to incorporate rhinestones and crytstals into your invitations and stationery. To create a custom look that incorporates all the glitz and glam of diamonds contact www.theclassicinvitation.com today to customize the look of your wedding. From programs, menus, place cards, to table number cards The Classic Invitation can create a look that will wow your guests!
7) Chandeliers: Hang chandeliers or strung crystals from the ceiling of your venue. Add the proper lighting and you can create a look that have your venue shimmering from the ceiling to the floor.
8) Napkin holders: Go over the top with Rhinestone encrusted napkin holders, or for a more simple look a round gold or silver napkin holder is perfect with a few tastefully placed rhinestones. This is a great do-it-yourself project that doesn’t cost a lot of money but will leave your guests with the impression that you spent a fortune!
9) Cake topper: A rhinestone encrusted monogram cake topper is the perfect way to accent your cake with a diamond look! Take the look over the top and have your cake designer add a diamond and pearl design to the frosting of the cake. Arrange for dramatic lighting on the cake table and your cake topper will shimmer. A rhinestone cake topper doesn’t cost a lot but adds a lot of drama.
10) The food: The food? Yes! Plan to have your caterer plate the food served to your guests with an orchid that has a rhinestone glued in the center. It will be a garnishment that will be sure to be remembered. And it is the ultimate finishing touch to a diamond themed wedding! Have you ever been served food with rhinestone encrusted garnishments? Enough said! Mr. and Mrs. Jones who?
Custom Designed Invitations
Searching for the “perfect” wedding invitation can prove to be a daunting task. You have a color scheme and a theme for your wedding. Why should you have to choose an invitation to fit with your wedding when you can have an invitation designed for your wedding? As many options as there are out there to choose from, you may have already found that ready made doesn’t offer what you have in mind. Choosing to have your invitations designed by a custom studio is the perfect solution!
What is your vision? Before you decide to place an order you should try to envision what you would like the final product to look like. Giving your designer a general idea of what your looking for will produce better samples and will shorten the design process. Don’t worry if your not sure what your looking for. www.TheClassicInvitation.com offers professional designers that are experienced in guiding you in the right direction!
The key to successfully ordering custom designed invitations is finding a designer that will listen to your ideas with out imposing their own personal taste. It is your invitation! It should look the way you want it to. Why should you settle for anything less?
Know your time frame. When ordering custom designed invitations you need to allow for the design process, production, shipping, addressing, stamping and mailing! Planning ahead can minimize the amount of time needed for design. Pictures, digital color swatches, web site links to your venue or dress maker all can be very helpful in designing your invitations! The more information that you can provide upfront will cut down on the time needed to design the invitations and stationery.
What are the limits to custom designed invitations? Envelopes! The only real limitation to the design of your invitation is whether or not it will fit into an envelope. Standard envelopes come in square, standard rectangle and thinner rectangular shapes.
Contact The Classic Invitation today for a free consultation! www.theclassicinvitation.com
By: Sheila Elizabeth
Plan A Summer Garden Wedding
Summer is the perfect time for a garden wedding.!
Location:
Save money on your floral budget by taking advantage of the season and choosing a location with lush gardens full of beautiful flowers as the backdrop for your wedding. A word to the wise: be sure to choose a venue that has indoor bathroom facilities unless you plan to rent portable bathrooms.
Time:
Summer offers long but hot days. Plan your garden wedding for late afternoon. This way you avoid the heat and enjoy the late sunset.
The Logistics:
Set up for your ceremony in the most beautiful area of the garden. Many venues will offer gardens that are groomed just for the occasion. This will allow you to save money on your floral budget. Place your dining area in open area but choose smaller, more intimate tables for your guests limiting 8 guests per table. Be sure to leave room for the dance floor! After dinner you will love dancing the night away under the stars.
Unique Ideas:
Paper Umbrellas: One great idea is to have your bridesmaids carry beautiful floral paper umbrellas. You can find some really beautiful, inexpensive Asian umbrellas. Look for cherry blossom or orchid themed umbrellas. It is a gorgeous unique twist on the traditional bouquet of flowers.
Old Fashion Icecream Station: Hire a vender or ask your cater to operate a homemade icecream maker. It is delicious and will be the perfect late afternoon treat for guests. Add fresh whipped cream and strawberries and you have a memorable treat!
Table Center Pieces: To create a great inexpensive center piece take a tall glass vase, fill it with water and seasonal fruit that matches your decor (apples, raspberries, pomegranates, et cetera). Then add seasonal floral such as honey suckle or aranthera and arrange them in your vase for a striking display!
Table Lanterns: Once the sun begins to set table lanterns will create a beautiful ambiance as your wedding celebration continues into the night.
Invitations: Set the mood for your wedding long before the event with a garden inspired invitation. Let The Classic Invitation create an invitation that will set the mood for your wedding and have your guests anticipating a beautiful garden wedding! Send a classic invitation that your guests will cherish long after your wedding has passed. Visit www.theclassicinvitation.com today for a free consultation.
By: Sheila Elizabeth
Unique Wedding Invitations and Stationery for 2008.
This year send out Wedding Invitations with panache! Your dream wedding deserves dream invitations and stationery. Add drama, add variety, add your personality. Who says that your wedding invitations have to be “traditional”? For 2008 the unconventional is most conventional!
Variety
Traditionally invitations are printed on paper that is all the same color. Why not try varying the color of the paper used for your invitation? This season we recommend trying jewel toned colors. Pick 3 or 4 colors that you love, The Classic Invitation can accommodate any color selection! Or, use the accent colors that you have chosen for your wedding decor. If your ordering 100 invitations why not try 25 of each of your selected colors? Visit www.theclassicinvitation.com to request online color swatches.
Destination
If your planning a destination wedding why not try ticket style save-the-dates! Using a faux boarding ticket is a great way to get your guests excited about your destination wedding. Another great idea is to use a small map featuring the location of your wedding. The Classic Invitation can design a map and print it with your save-the-date information. For example, if your wedding is in Bermuda, an aerial picture of the island of Bermuda featuring your save-the-date information would make a perfect save-the-date!
Seasonal
Snowflakes, Autumn leaves, Spring flowers and Summer seashells! Choosing a motif for your wedding invitations helps to set the theme for your wedding. The Classic Invitation can create a custom designed motif that can be carried through out your wedding. From your save-the-date cards and invitation sets to the escort cards, programs, table cards, place cards, menus and more custom stationery can create a signature look for your wedding. Autumn leaves indicate a fall wedding, snowflakes tell your guests that a winter wedding is on the way, beautiful blooms foretell a springtime bride and seashells and sand dollars are a sure indication that your wedding will be beach side!
Formal with a modern twist
Sophistication merges with modern this season. For a modern twist on a traditional formal invite ask for a soft card stock or linen paper in the traditional white or ivory but make it pop with a vibrant ink choice. Another great idea is to invert the traditional color selection. Try black or chocolate colored card stock printed with white or light colored ink.
Visit www.theclassicinvitation.com for a free consultation today!
By: Sheila Elizabeth
