Three Ingredients for one-of-a-kind wedding stationery 💌

So you want unique wedding stationery that tells your love story, and feels like it could only belong to you, your partner, and the beautiful journey you’ve gone on together. But sorting through the sea of inspiration on Pinterest can make it seem impossible to get there - so I am going to break down the three ingredients of truly one-of-a-kind stationery.

💌 Infusing elements from your love story

This is what takes a design from “pretty” to “personal, meaningful and deeply ours.” A portrait of your wedding venue could belong to any couple getting married there; a tower of Espresso martinis might not mean much to you - but illustrations of you and your partner interwoven with those things? Language you use when talking to each other, or from favorite love songs? A color palette that pulls from your favorite places and flowers? An overall design concept that carries threads from your story, things that inspire you, and memories you share? These are the things that take your invites beyond the trendy and towards the heart of the matter - you and your partner.

💌 Pulling original inspiration beyond the realm of weddings

Let’s come back to the sea of inspiration on Pinterest. First of all, I love Pinterest and use it for inspiration all the time - that is not the problem. The problem is pulling inspiration solely from other weddings on Pinterest. This leads to copying, or keeping the creativity of your talented vendors constricted into one specific vision. But you? You’re wildly unique, and you want your invitations to reflect that. So let’s gather inspiration beyond the world of weddings! Think album artwork, restaurant menus, interior design, architecture, fashion, artwork you love - the options are truly endless! The idea is to pull inspiration from things you already love - not reach for something that feels inauthentic - and use it to create something that feels like it already belongs to you.

💌 Working with an actual person - who you actually connect with!

The most important way to tie the first two pieces together? Working with a real, human designer who you have a real, human connection with. Because that person just getting you, is what leads to those intuitive insights and design ideas that go outside of the box and bring your love story together for you. And, it makes the design process that much more enjoyable. Having a compassionate creative on your team who genuinely cares about you and wants to celebrate your story, means they are going to go that much further in bringing it to life in the best way possible. Weddings are, at their core, about relationships, so investing in the relationship with a designer is going to be your best bet in a design that really reflects your relationship.

Ready to dive into the design process? Inquire today to start bringing your one-of-a-kind designs to life!

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