Invitation Love

Your wedding invitations are your guest’s first impression of the day celebrating your love, and a cherished heirloom as you look back at your wedding, so you definitely want it to be special. Choosing the perfect invitations can seem like an overwhelming task, but with incredible choices like Paperlust, it’s easy to find the stationery you love!

They popped the question, you said YES, now what? It’s time to set the date and share the happy news with your friends and family! Photo save the dates are more popular than ever, and we’ve teamed up with Minted to show how you can let your personality shine through with your save the dates, and incorporate your engagement session too!

If you’re a paper-lover like me, swooning over paper goods is one of your top wedding priorities! I’m here to introduce you to a veritable wonderland of stationery: Wedding Paper Divas.

We’re so excited to introduce you to one of our favorite resources for wedding invitations, Basic Invite! With over 100 fonts, virtually unlimited color options, and multiple paper options, Basic Invite is a truly custom invitation company. Once you select one of their wedding invitation designs, you can change the color of each element using over 160 color options to build a suite that is perfect for your palette, down to the smallest detail. Even better? You receive an instant preview online and can order a printed sample of your exact invitation before placing your final order. We love that each of their invitations are part of a matching set that includes complementary designs for save the dates, programs, reception and RSVP cards, menus, and more! The variety of designs available means that there is a suite for every wedding style (we’re especially crushing on the classic Calligraphic Slant and the pretty Illustrated Corner Wreath. So what are you waiting for? Visit Basic Invite to learn more!

You may have heard us say this before, but we are pretty much madly in love with Minted. Haven’t heard of Minted? It’s an amazing community of independent artists creating unique wedding designs, from save the dates to invitations, decor, and more! Minted designs are printed on premium papers and have luxe, quality finishes including foil-pressed designs and die cut shapes. We love how stationery suites have coordinating place and escort cards, programs, and menus. I’ve personally used Minted and can tell you first-hand that their customer service and quality is amazing. They even offer free matching envelope designs and calligraphy-inspired guest addressing. I mean, how gorgeous are these? [Scroll down for a major GIVEAWAY from Minted!]

We’re sure you’ve heard about the fabulousness that is MagnetStreet Weddings, and today we’re thrilled to show off some of our favorite designs. When we received our box of goodies in the mail it was like Christmas. There were invitations, RSVP cards, magnet save the dates, programs, and envelopes galore, as well as a fabulous sample pack with information about all of their papers, fonts, and colors (including a swatch card in your own color palette). The Luminous Charm was one of our favorites, with its cheery yellow and gray, photo magnet save the date, and adorable “I Spy” reception card, inspiring your guests with a fun little photo scavenger hunt! We love how MagnetStreet makes it easy to customize your stationery set, that each set has so many coordinating extras, and that the same design is available in multiple styles.

We are head over heels for the letterpress wedding invitation collection at The American Wedding! The American Wedding Marketplace offers a full suite of wedding stationery, from save the date cards to wedding programs and everything in between, and best of all is their growing collection of affordable letterpress wedding invitations—you can purchase 100 letterpress invitations and response cards for less than $500! Their suites include several choices perfect for the EAD couple, and for some invitation inspiration, we’ve paired some of our favorite designs with real weddings from the archive!

We just love the sweet simplicity and unique designs offered by Crafty Pie Press! From modern to vintage, Crafty Pie Press features a huge variety of incredibly gorgeous invitation suites (we are partial to the lovely Vintage Botanical and the Elegant Script), each completely customizable including cardstock, envelopes, colors and wording. And in addition to all of the customization options, Crafty Pie Press offers unlimited rounds of proof revisions, and free shipping within the US.

I hope you are as in love with yesterday’s teal and mint inspiration board as I am! I’m so excited to have one of our newest vendor guide members, Tweedle Press, here today to share an amazing custom designed wedding stationery suite based on the board!

Nothing makes us giddier than pulling a pretty wedding invitation from the mailbox.  Whether the stationery is fancy and formal or spunky and sweet, we love getting a taste of a couple’s personality from their invites.  This is one of the reasons why we’re head over heels for Val Marie Paper—Valerie Woerner’s work is simply stunning!  We, along with many brides and grooms, love her variety of modern styles presented in 20 wedding suites, each consisting of coordinating invitation and reception pieces to ensure that your entire wedding has a beautiful, cohesive theme.

We love giving updated uses to simple techniques, and these splatter-painted notecards from Rebekah J. Murray fit the bill!

Wedding Paper Divas has our heart when it comes to oh-so-pretty stationery. Fresh designs on beautiful paper and a simple shopping experience is the perfect combination for busy brides, and we’re so excited to share some of their 2013 collection with you today.

Escort cards are one of the first things your guests will see as they enter the reception, so why not create something unique and memorable for when your friends and family arrive? We absolutely love these escort cards with their natural botanical touches like cotton, seeded eucalyptus, lavender, and silver brunia, and are thrilled to welcome Suzy Rohan of Lily Red Studio to share the how-to!

Y’all, have you heard about Twenty Pages?  Can we tell you how much we love them?  Because we’re pretty obsessed with their personalized wedding magazines, and we would love to take a moment and let you gaze on these gorgeous publications.

One of our very favorite aspects of a wedding is the lovely stationery that comes with it!  It’s like a little printed preview of the main event, stirring up excitement for what’s sure to be an amazing wedding day.

There may be nothing we love more than classic hand lettering. Whether it’s that little moment of joy when we see a thick, luxurious hand-addressed envelope in our mailbox, or that lovely keepsake escort card from our best friend’s wedding, we simply swoon over calligraphy details both large and small! At the top of our list? Elegant white ink. Beautiful on paper from soft dove to bold black and every color in between, white calligraphy is our current crush!

It’s no secret that at EAD, we’re head over heels for pretty paper and design. A lovely letterpress invite can take our breath away, and a sweetly designed envelope lining will probably result in some major swooning. As serious stationery admirers, we completely melt over everything by Courtney Callahan Paper, one of our treasured vendor guide members, and are thrilled to show off some of her gorgeous recent work today on the blog!

Here at Elizabeth Anne Designs, we heart Minted.  With hundreds of unique, current, and stylish wedding stationery designs, all sourced from a global community of independent designers, Minted is a paper lover’s dream!  Their extensive portfolio ensures that no matter what your wedding style may be, you are sure to find your perfect invitation design. And we are beyond thrilled that one lucky EAD reader will be the recipient of a $350 gift certificate to Minted!

UPDATE: Congratulations to our winner, Sara!