This map of Hartley Farms in New Jersey (which was featured on TLC's Wedded to Perfection!) was purchased six months after the wedding as frameable art for the couple's home.
Thank you to Jen Stiebel at Soco Events for sending us these pictures from a Washington, D.C. wedding at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium.
We love these adorable personalized ceramic dishes from Sash & Bustle in Toronto, Canada!
It may only be January, but we've created many maps for 2010 weddings - including this map of Lake Michigan for a July 4th Weekend wedding!
This past week was all prep for the engagement party. As of Friday night, I felt like we spent as much effort on this party as some do on a small, intimate wedding. We were up until the wee hours of the night just putting together details, in addition to me trying to finish up my "real client" orders. Beth was able to pull every detail of our vision together the day of and it all turned out great! Seriously, these are the moments when having a wedding planner is so worth it. They do this for a living, and are used to the stress. I, on the other hand, work with a very tiny portion of the wedding planning process, and I am constantly telling my planner colleagues that I have no idea how they do what they do!
A few weeks ago we shared a post on simple versus elaborate placecards. Here is a wedding that included simple placecards, in a creative display. The flowers were lush, and the green moss perfectly welcomed the swirled card holders.
This is a map of St. Helena, CA that we did for a wedding last year. It was full of fun icons including hot air balloons, galloping horses and of course the grapes and vineyards common for wine country maps! Here the map is in black and white:
In addition to maps and wedding work, we sometimes also do logo work! Here are some examples of logos we've created for various companies.
Being the bad maid of honor that I am, I just realized I completely forgot to blog about the recent activities in my sister's wedding planning world. The engagement party is this weekend and last week I was in charge of decor and coordination with Beth. Since my poor sister is down in San Diego all alone (well, not completely alone, at least she has Ryan), we had to do the planning without her. So, we took a trip out to the restaurant in Santa Monica, had a lovely brunch, and then went upstairs to scope out the party space, since Beth hadn't even seen it yet.
To go with the Mexican theme, we opted to have several potted succulents on each table, a cupcake table, and do a few other fun things with the decor. The invitations turned out so nicely, so I decided we had to have matching menus, which will have each person's name in calligraphy on the front, at each place setting. We'll also use some simple votives on the tables and that'll be it. Since the space has a charm all it's own, we didn't want to overwhelm it with details.
This wedding is full of character and charm, starting with just the venue ~ Glen Manor House in Rhode Island!
Sometimes couples like to do insets in their maps to showcase a town so far away from the main location that it doesn't fit. And then there are couples that have two cities that are so important to them that they want both cities to be the main focal point! When that happens we create dual maps that showcase both cities side by side.
We were so honored yesterday to see our work featured on Style Me Pretty as a Little Black Book vendor.
In going through this wedding planning process thus far I've learned something about my sister that I never knew before: She is really bad at making decisions. And, I actually witness this a lot with many of my brides. You have so many options to sift through, what do you do? It's hard to visualize some things (even if you have real wedding photos from someone else's wedding right in front of you) with regard to your own wedding.
Case in Point #1: The Dress -- Alyssa tried on about 20 dresses and really liked 2 of them. She had no idea which one to pick. She looked gorgeous in BOTH of them (I know, such a problem to have). She and my mom thought that maybe we should go somewhere else and look at more dresses. But why go and add 15 more dresses to the mix and then you have to pick between 3 or even 4 dresses? I know some people relish going and trying on dresses and maybe it's just that I don't care for shopping very much, but the answer was clear to me - to pick the (albeit more expensive) dress with the Wow Factor. I mean, it was fabulous. She looked amazing. And there was no way she would even remember the other (still gorgeous) dress in question 11 months from now.
Case in Point #2: The Shoes (for the Engagement Party) -- So, Alyssa and I found this cute dress at Anthropologie and then of course we had to find shoes to go with it. One morning we went back and forth with links via AIM but it's really hard to tell how something is going to look from a product shot on a website. I happened to be shopping after Christmas and saw these really cute soft gold Stuart Weitzmans that in my humble opinion would be perfect. I know if Alyssa were looking she probably would have passed them over because A. Way too expensive and B. Heels too high (3" on a 5'8" girl). Luckily, I don't think like a 5'8" girl since I'm only 5'5" and Ryan happens to be 6'1" so who cares if you end up being 5'11" in the heels anyway? So, I bought the shoes! (And I really hoped she would like them, because they were just so cute - strappy sandals with little rhinestones going across the two straps on the front, and they were on sale for what came out to being about 70% off the original cost.) I just really could not go through any more links and "what if scenarios" with regard to the shoes! And, we still have to find her shoes for the wedding so I felt the need to check something off the list for her. I think we both feel a sense of gratification when we get to cross things off the list, which is a good thing in avoiding stress.
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