Wedding Tip Tuesday ~ 12.18.12

 

At DG Invites we have been busy with an order from our wonderful loyal customers the Palos Verdes Chapter of the National Charity League.  We always look forward to this time of year as things go from busy, busy to the calm before the storm.  More on that later!  We apologize for a break last week from Tip Tuesday while assembling that order and well just being sick...blah!  Being sick is getting kind of old over here so I'm hoping the worst is behind us.  So to get to why you are visiting us, a few tips as promised (to make up for last week).

CHECK, CHECK and CHECK Again!

The proof for your invitation that is. When it comes to something as important as your big day you can never be too careful.  I have to admit that over the years, things have for sure been missed.  By me, the client, the printer, the clients mom, the clients sister and well everyone it crossed paths with.  However, there are ways to avoid this.  Review your invite for all of the correct information....date, time, location etc.  Then read it again LEFT to RIGHT, WORD by WORD.  Look for any spelling or typo errors you can possibly find.  Reading it this way is how a copy writer would.  There is no chance of being lazy as you read and missing something as your mind assumes it says what you want it to say.  Once you have done that read it again for an grammatical errors.  Then...have other people do the same thing.  For me after looking at an invite for what can be months at a time, over and over it all blends together.  There is always computer/human error involved as the process goes on. Slip of the mouse could delete a random letter in a random line.  So before you say Print...Check, Check, Check!  You will only save yourself, time and money.


When to Mail??
Save the Dates should be mailed out anywhere from 6 months to a year prior to the wedding.

Invitations should be mailed out 6-8 weeks prior to the wedding, allowing your guests adequate time to respond and ensuring that you will get a reliable head count a week or two before the event. This is a pretty standard time frame. If you have a lot of out of town guests or are having a destination wedding that requires more complex travel arrangements then you would send them closer to that 8 week mark and in some cases even earlier.  Your invitation designer should be able to clarify this for your specific event. One thing to note: Make sure you are not sending them out too early.  In the past we have had some local weddings, with almost all local guests, with a bride who wants to mail them out 3 months before the wedding....We say STOP right there!!  If you mail them out too soon most people will not RSVP right away, or ever.  They will sit that fancy invite down thinking I have no idea if I can attend 3 months from now, I have plenty of time to decide and respond.  Well that fancy invite will get lost, buried and forgotten about and that RSVP will never come.  No one wants to have to call half the guest list! Timing is everything...


Well, we hope you enjoyed this installment of Wedding Tip Tuesday.  Hoping to get a few more events on the blog the next couple weeks for your enjoyment....still MANY to post.

Amy & Andrew ~ 6.09.12

When Amy and I first met {at a GREAT hipster place known as Central Coffee in Plaza Midwood} little did I know where our journey would take us. Unsure of really what she was looking for in an invitation, we explored several ideas. It came down to a lovely classic invite with ecru linen, ecru satin ribbon and a layer of navy linen. All printed with black raised fonts. It was a beauty and oh so perfect for their day. 

 

From there we worked on a ceremony program, rehearsal dinner place cards and a wonderful masterpiece of a table assignment display for the reception. We loved the table assignments for a number of reasons.  Their simplicity, the green shutters they hung from that were perfect for a wedding at The Vanlandingham Estate and the different shaped cards to add just enough of something special.  All again were printed on an ecru linen stock with black writing.

So where are the pictures of this masterpiece?  Well we couldn't just show you pictures of the printed items now could we....so they are among others taken by their wedding photographer Jenna Thomas of 

Red, White & Green.  We do not know her personally as of yet, but we think she was the perfect fit for Amy & Andrews wedding!  You can view more pictures from the wedding here on Jenna's Blog. Or you can visit our Facebook Page for additional photos as well.  We hope you enjoy!!

 Thank you Studio SGS Photography for the great photos of the Invite, Program & Place Cards.

Pretti-otic

We just wanted to say thank you for allowing us to be part of another wonderful styled shoot put together by Lisa Crates Photography and RoShel Events. It was a blast as always working with our great vendor friends... Skys the Limit! Custom Cakes and more (cake), MAKE ME BY JOYA (make-up and hair), eXtravaganza - Events and Props (linens), Bridal Flavors (shared paper spotlight) and the amazing models!! 

For this shoot we used a shimmer navy card stock, matte red card stock and printed in black on white matte card stock.  Everything was embellished with a gorgeous red satin ribbon bow and crystal accent.  We did His Bride/Her Groom Signs, a square pocketfold invitation, tented fruit/water signs, menus, a table number, place cards and Thank You Signs.

Here we present out Pretty version of Patriotic...Pretti-otic!!

View the entire album HERE.

Melissa & Zach ~ 3.17.12

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Ya we realize we are slow to catch up on blogging from everything we have done this year but you have to notice the effort...maybe?!!?  Well back ON St. Patty's Day was the ever so elegant wedding of Melissa and Zach.  With most of our couples grooms tend not be be very involved in the invitation process...with these guys it couldn't have been more opposite!  Zach was completely involved in the process and had lot's of great ideas.  With both of them so eager to plan the wedding you can see why it was so fabulous!!  They were married at Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte and continued the celebration at Carmel Country Club.  

Carmel Country Club is pretty well known for their lanterns throughout the property.  Melissa & Zach really wanted to incorporate this without being too over the top.  We started out with a three layered Save the Date. A textured blue, shimmer mint green and a matte white top layer.  We printed it in both black and blue raised (thermography) printing.  The invitation we kept with the same idea but switched it up to a horizontal style invite. It included an rsvp as well as an additional information card.  We also custom lined the inner envelopes with the great shimmer mint green and printed all of their guest names/addresses.  Beyond the invitation we did their table numbers, ceremony programs, thank you card, some additional reception signage and the touch of St. Patrick's Day....4 Leaf Clovers as the escort cards. They put them on champagne glasses filled with Guinness...AWESOME!

To see the entire album go to our facebook page HERE.

Photos of event provided by Critsey Rowe Photography

Photos of the invitation & printed items in product shoot provided by Studio SGS Photography

Maria & David....the continuation!

As we have already previously mentioned in our blog here we REALLY enjoyed Maria & David and their wedding.  So to get right to it we have TONS of additional pictures to share with you.  See the complete album on our Facebook Page.

Product shoot photos by Studio SGS Photography THANKS!!

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose

Thank you Elizabeth for featuring our Rose Invitation with bellyband in your Etsy Treasury as well as your blog!!

Chautaugua Wedding



Sheila & Stephen

I know we always say this and it's hard not to when you truly have so many amazing clients...but we loved Sheila!  We met her at the Bridal Showcase in Uptown last August and she fell in love with one of our other ticket invitations.  Her and Stephen were just married this past Memorial Day Weekend.  She had so many great ideas, knew she wanted a ticket invitation, knew her colors were silver and green, knew she wanted some form of the Charlotte skyline and a postcard rsvp. So the challenge?  Organizing all of the information... accommodations, invite, rsvp, music requests, itinerary of the weekends events and then some. I think we did a great job of organizing!  All held together in a custom silver pocket with matching monogram sticker.  From there we also designed custom stationery for her and the flower girl.  Enjoy!