Stationery Sets the Tone 💌
How Designing Custom Wedding Stationery Can Help You Enjoy the Journey of Planning Your Wedding 💌
Thinking about designing your wedding stationery might just feel like another item on your never-ending wedding planning to-do list. It might seem easier to simply download a template off Minted, or even forgo them altogether. But, as with most things in life, you get out what you put in, and designing custom wedding stationery can become something that really supports and connects you and your partner throughout the planning process, if you let it!
I’ve seen it firsthand - on design calls with clients, the collaboration that comes through as you navigate different preferences, interests and aesthetics together; in questionnaires, each partner holding and savoring different parts of your story; and in the design process, as we weave together all these different parts in a way that feels super personal - how taking the time to really create something one-of-a-kind connects couples, and really becomes an opportunity to reflect on the journey you’ve gone on as a couple to get to this stage - as well as the experience you want your guests to have on and leading up to your wedding day.
A lot of people talk about how stationery sets the tone, and I think that’s true - but it sets the tone not only for your guests, but also for you. Getting to go on this creative journey together, with myself or another designer as your creative partner, is an opportunity to step away from the planning spreadsheets for a moment, and towards the colorful, magical and romantic world of your love, for a little bit. It’s a process that is meant to reconnect you and your partner to what this whole wedding this is all about, it’s a process that will help anchor you during inevitable moments of stress, and it’s a process that I hope you’ll enjoy as much as the stationery itself.
Your love story. It’s like no one else’s. So let’s create stationery that celebrates that, and reminds you to - as best you can - enjoy the journey of coming together along the way.
Wishing you all the best, wherever you’re at in your planning process.
Sage
Reminder to all the stressed out brides - Your love story is worth sharing. Worth celebrating. And worth investing in.
But if you’re anything like me, maybe you grew up feeling otherwise. You weren’t “born a bride” like your other friends whose weddings you’ve attended previously - you haven’t been building your mooboard since before you met your person, and your life and your love story have been anything but traditional.
And so, when it comes time to plan your marriage to your person and you find it hard to see yourself in the copy-paste weddings you see everywhere, you figure it’s better to shrink down. Maybe you have people in your ear saying things like “what a waste of money for just one day,” or “ugh, another wedding.” Maybe you consider eloping, or doing a courthouse ceremony, to avoid the stress of it all. But deep down? You want more. Something bigger, bolder, and more you than you know how to explain - simply because it hasn’t been done before.
But here’s the thing - your wedding isn’t just one day, and it isn’t just another wedding. It’s your wedding, celebrating your love story, which you and your partner have been building for years, through all the ups and the downs. And that is so worth celebrating - even and especially if it hasn’t been traditional!
Does that mean you need to invite 300 people and invest in every possible item on your budget? No, of course not. But it’s a reminder not to think small just because you’re scared to take up space.
Your love story is a work of art - full of its imperfections, beauty, and a whole lot of hard work that went into getting here. Your wedding is the same. If you’re looking to make a work of art out of your wedding and want to create stationery and signage and magic that’s as colorful and different and nontraditional as you are - reach out today to get the creative process started 💌 I want to help celebrate you!