Arrrrrrgh Matey!

So as we get caught up with all kinds of wonderfulness since our relocation to Ohio we would first like to bring you another amazingly styled Birthday Party by our dear client Jessica. Captain Troy and his Crew celebrated his third birthday this past August in full Pirate fashion!  It features our Pirate Party Collection which included the invitation, a banner, drink labels, party picks, signage and sooo much more.  A big "X" marked the spot so other little Pirates could find there way.....really there was a big red "X"  on the driveway :) The party was full of treasures, a water slide and even a plank!  Here are just a few...view them all HERE.

THANK YOU Adam Pope Photography for all of the great pictures documenting this special day!

Moving to Ohio!!

September has brought us a lot of things....new vendor friends, amazing new and returning clients, visits from family and most of all a new job for my husband.  We are so excited for him and this new adventure.  His new job has us packing up and moving to the Cleveland, Ohio area in exactly one week.  The movers will be here on Tuesday.  I will be the first to admit that we have moved A LOT over the last six years and moving is not at all fun.  But even with all the stress and backaches it brings we would never have met all of the wonderful people we have along the way.  We are so grateful and are sad to be leaving the Charlotte area, but excited to most of all be much closer to family.  We just want our current clients and those that have recently booked with us to be reassured that even with the move everything will be done in a timely manner and to the highest standards that strive for everyday. With that we would like to say thank you to all those in the Charlotte area for making our time here amazing. And we look forward to continuing to work with those here from afar!!  THANK YOU : ) 

Here are some quick pics of Cleveland....snow here we come! We apologize for the lack of photo credits...we just quickly pulled these from the internet.

The NEW DG Invites is here!

Well after what seems like months and months we are finally able to show you where all the behind the scenes has taken us.  The revised logo design we showed you a while back but now the website is finally here too!  We really hope you enjoy it.  We will be adding new photos periodically until we have it totally updated.  We have A LOT to still add.  We did not want to wait any longer because we have been meeting lots of great new vendor friends and potential clients and first impressions are everything!  Plus we really feel a great website is a huge key to success in the wedding industry.  Check back often to see the latest and greatest that DG Invites has to offer our amazing clients!  But stayed tuned more BIG news coming soon....

Carolina State of Mind

We did a style shoot a while back...well technically three in one day.  But one of those three was titled Carolina State of Mind.  It was a lovely Nautical theme where for all of the printed materials we used paper bag, yellow, Carolina blue and white card stock.  We printed in a darker navy blue.  The best part of all of the printed items was the added twine that was wrapped around each piece.  It was a great thickness to allow the top pieces to look as though they were floating above the rest. We did an invitation set, thank you signs, menus, a table number and escort cards.  We are very much in love with all of these items!!  You can view the entire album HERE.

Many thanks to the following amazing vendors:

Lisa Crates Photography 

Roshel Events

Sky's the Limit! Custom cakes and more

Aprils Floral Expression

eXtravaganza Events

Enjoy!!

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

Bippity, Boppity, Boo!

So it was Princess Ella's 5th Birthday and what better way to celebrate than with a more grown up Cinderella!!  At the request of Ella's mom Jessica (who by the way we LOVE) we changed up our traditional Cinderella printable party set to be just that...more grown up!!  This family is so great and they just love to throw amazingly styled parties.  To be honest I wish they lived closer! But that is why these printable sets are so great.  We look forward to Troy's Pirate Party and Violet's Storybook Party!!  Here are some photos from the Cinderella Birthday, but to see the entire album visit our facebook page HERE. Enjoy!

Photos Courtesy of Bloom Photography...Thanks!!