MaeMae Paperie: Wedding

Debra + Josh

This was such a unique and fun wedding suite I worked on last year with the talented and very funny bride, Debra Chow and brilliant event designer, Rebecca from Duet Weddings. Debra is an illustrator and animator and she created the sweetest and most hysterical polroid illustration series of her and Josh's relationship/life that was sent in a box along with the tags and invitations I designed. PURE JOY.

Smith + Smith

The (stunning!!!) bride, Erin, had a vision to pull snippets from this other design I had created earlier that year for her own wedding stationery. My favorite part of designing stationery is variation, so to take one design and turn it around for something fresh is so much fun. Erin and Casey's last names are both Smith so created the Smith Squared logo for the wedding and I LOVED see it on the beer glasses that they used for give their guests as gifts filled with their family's own tap. WOWIE.

These photos are a mix of Phoebe Joy's photos from the wedding along with some of my own. You can see more photos from Pheobe here.

Resources: Ceremony – St. Monica’s Church, Reception – Bel Air Bay Club, Dress – Jenny Packham, Shoes – Jimmy Choo, Florist – Commerce Flowers, Event Coordinator – Paola Spagnoletti of Just Chic Events, Cake – Vanilla Bake Shop, Stationery - MaeMae Paperie !!

A Stamped Fête

Oftentimes I try to ~~push~~ suggest new ideas to clients for printing or presentation. Dana was such a champ and jumped on board with the stamp invitation idea. I first made a rough design in the computer and after editing that together I hand drew the invitation, extra info piece, and address stamp to make them feel, well, hand-drawn. Those designs were turned into a huge stamp, medium stamp, and little stamp respectively that Dana and her bridesmaids stamped onto kraft paper. Yay, baby.

See this wedding and my stamped invitations on both the Martha Stewart Weddings and Green Wedding Shoes.

Photos of my work by moi, other photos by Sean Walker, and the signage is by Kelli Murray.

Georgia on my Mind

I have two types of favorite clients: 1) those who give me very little info because because they just want me to run with it 2) those who have a brilliant vision and come with lots of inspiration and excitement in their eyes. Megan, the bride for which these pieces were created, was the second type of client. When we met she came armed with a variety of inspiration - lipstick colors, over-sized postcards, photos of her family's beautiful garden, pillows, and food. YES.

The save the dates were double-sided letterpress printed on dangerously thick chipboard (and by that I mean it's like a mini weapon) and topped off with edge printing. The envelopes were kraft paper with brown letterpress and metallic gold foil.

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Back in Action + a Little Martha

Hello, Bloggies!! I missed you all and am excited to be back in action. The first half of this year has been formative, challenging, and joyous. I became an aunt to the sweetest little girl, Ava Jayne, I spent Mother's Day with mom for the first time in six years, I traveled to NYC and feel in love with a new city, eight stores across the country will be carrying my new wedding stationery collection in September (!!), I am returning to the Valley Ho in Scottsdale for an early third wedding anniversary this week with Jae, and my fabulous intern, Katie, has agreed to stay on as my assistant! WOW WOW WOW! Glory!

I had the privilege of working with Enjoy Events Co. on a shoot for Martha Stewart's Wedding Blog that was posted last Friday. I have to say that my eyes were kind of bugging out of my head as I looked through the gorgeous work that Megan + Emily had put together and the beautiful way that Kate captured it all. I am obsessed with the violin casts! AH! How do you even find that?! I love how the shoot is a great mix of interesting textures and themes that fit so perfectly together - not matchy matchy. The stationery is from the Dakota suite and I will be sharing the inspo board on Friday.

Planning + Styling : Enjoy Events Co.

Photography : Kate Harrison

Location : Swarm Gallery

Rentals : Archive Vintage Rentals

Flowers : Florali

Papergoods : MaeMae Paperie !!

Brides Dress : Sarah Seven

Tabletop : Classic Party Rentals and West Elm

Model : Wonderful, beautiful Megan

Artist (wood blocks): Amanda Williams (Chicago, IL), "My Grandmother Was Not One to Repeat Herself" (2011)

Artist (violins): April Banks (Oakland, CA ), "Possession is Nine Tenths" (2011)

Raleigh Save the Dates

This magnet save the date is for a lovely client getting married in downtown Raleigh. I am finishing the review for the formals today and I can't wait to hear what Krishna thinks of them!

The beautiful calligraphy is by the talented Molly from Plurabell who is such a love. If you need a calligrapher for your Christmas cards give this girl a call!

Sweet Love

Photos above by me, photos below by Amelia Lyon

Schemed up by Nancy from So Happi + Melissa from The Loveliest Day, this beautiful shoot was featured in Southern Weddings magazine. Any shoot that involves a white horse and two black great danes gets me excited. So thankful to have been included. xx

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