Style Me Pretty | Real Wedding: Maui, Hawaii

We love being a part of the inspiration found on Style Me Pretty, and this wedding at Haiku Mill in Maui is no exception! Designed by the lovely Beth Helmstetter and photographed exquisitely by Jose Villa, the finished product is romantic and beautiful in every way.

We began by creating the wedding invitation suite using our Summer Butterfly Garden set featuring Ella script in pink and grey letterpress. The soft look set the tone for the entire wedding!

For their menu, the couple chose to have one large menu board to coordinate with the table settings.

The overall look designed by Beth Helmstetter Events was simply perfect!

Congratulations to the bride and groom...

To see more details from this gorgeous wedding, visit Style Me Pretty here and here.

Welcome Bags for New York Hotel Guests

It's no secret that we think welcome bags for your out of town guests are a great idea (and of course think a personalized map tote is the perfect way to package the welcome!), but if you simply don't want to think about items to include then you most likely don't want to think about stuffing the many bags yourself either!
Well Sara's Gracious Goodies in New York can take all the hassle out of this special detail (for you NY brides)!

Not only is their website completely adorable, but it's also easy to navigate and place your order! This mother-daughter founded company specializes in hotel packages, party favors, gift baskets and custom creations. The best part is, Sara's Gracious Goodies will deliver your assembled bags directly to your hotel(s)! It doesn't get any easier. This is great not only for weddings, but they also cater to corporate events as well.

Plus, they use the finest local New York vendors including Tate's Bake Shop, North Fork Chips, Hampton Popcorn Company, Selmas, Route 29, Delancey Dessert Company, Serendipity and many more!

Visit the Sara's Gracious Goodies website or blog for more details. And if you aren't in the New York area, this is a great to simply get ideas for what to staff in your own wedding day welcome bags!

Blog "Love"

Gorgeous photography by Corbin Gurkin

Many times I have had clients or other wedding professionals (or even my dad) come up to me and tell me they follow my blog loyally (religiously even!) and tell me how much they love reading the posts and looking at my maps and the various eye-candy photos I like to put up for you all to see. While this is so flattering (who doesn't love to hear this??) my reply is usually something along the lines of, "Really!? I didn't know you follow my blog!"

After discussing this with several other bloggers, I've found I'm not the only one to feel that way. As a reader you may not know it, but we bloggers love to hear when you are happy with what we are writing. When you like our work and you comment on it, it encourages us to keep writing. It can be somewhat discouraging when we bloggers hit up the major sites (Style Me Pretty, anyone?) and there are 50 comments! So please, if you have feedback, leave a remark and I will be ever so grateful  =)

While we're on topic, let's address a few courtesies about commenting (on all blogs, not just ours):

The comments are a great place to ask questions about the post! Like most blogs, the comments my readers leave come directly into my inbox, so if you ask a question, I will respond to you, either via email or back on the comments feature. Sometimes the blogger will even take your question if it's a popular one and write an entire post about it, so please, ask away.

The comments feature is not a place to use as free advertising for another site. On our blog, we require that all submissions be sent via email, so that we can choose who we would like to promote on our blog. If you have a suggestion, we thank you for thinking highly of exposure on our blog, but please send it via email!

Please know that many blogs do moderate their comments. We are one of those blogs. We tell you in our sidebar that we reserve the right to delete any inappropriate comment, or any purely self-promotional comment.

On that note, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who does follow. Please, leave a comment (it doesn't have to be on this post!) and have a safe and happy holiday!

(The calligraphy in the above photo is Elegance Script.
Photo is courtesy of Corbin Gurkin Photography.)

LH Calligraphy on Style Me Pretty

We were SO excited {as in falling out of our chairs} to see our work from a recent Santa Barbara wedding showcased on Style Me Pretty. The stunning photography of Jose Villa truly captures the beauty of this gorgeous wedding - the bride, groom, details...everything.

Our favorite element is the white calligraphy on grey cardstock for the menus and table cards - a fabulous detail! You can read more about this classic wedding here, here and here on Style Me Pretty.

In the Press: Town & Country Weddings

You can find Laura Hooper Calligraphy listed in the Fall 2009 issue of Town & Country Weddings as one of their recommended "Blogs for the Bride!"

Congrats to our friends Abby Larson of Style Me Pretty, Kathryn Storke of Snippet and Ink, and Maria Cooke of Ritzy Bee who are also included in the group!

Attention New York area brides!

Laura Hooper Calligraphy has partnered with Elisabeth Events for their 2010 Designed to Dream Wedding contest. Visit the Elisabeth Events blog for full details on how to win the prize package valued at $15,000 - including your very own Laura Hooper Calligraphy map!

{Be sure to enter by October 15th!}

Spotlight on: Micah Dahlberg Photography

A few months ago we were introduced to the husband and wife team behind Micah Dahlberg Photography, and we are so happy to share their work with our readers!

{Micah and Megan themselves on a camping trip!}

You can immediately sense the love of art, photography and people shared by this couple, and it truly shines through their work.




Micah Dahlberg Photography will capture every moment and emotion on your wedding day (or engagement session!), and share your love through a vivid story of photos. Micah describes it best in these words: "Through my lens I aim to tell your story in a way that is fun, fresh, unobtrusive, and photojournalistic, but most importantly, reminds you time and time again how lucky you are to have found one another."


Please visit the Micah Dahlberg Photography website and blog to enjoy more of their fantastic work!

Truly Smitten

For more exciting invitations, check out Truly Smitten and their blog. I am absolutely loving their new logo! The blog is updated daily {I am jealous} with unique wedding inspirations and trends. It's a great find for all you blog stalkers out there so be sure to add it to your blogroll.