Destination weddings have become increasingly popular over the last decade, and creating destination wedding invitations usually requires an elaborate design process that often involves the close collaboration of the couple & their planning team, the stationery designer, the venue, and other vendors. Because the idea of traveling to Provence, Tuscany, or Cabo to celebrate your love with your friends and family is a fun idea - we have created this list of tips to help guide you through some of the nitty gritty details to consider, to hopefully keep the planning (and printing!) process fun too.
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Natural Yet Sophisticated; Autumnal Wedding Inspiration from Upstate New York
Not sure what I love more about these images…the long neutral-tone tapered candles and dark florals proving that less is always and definitely more, the boldness of the typography beautifully standing out amidst the calm and understated decor, or the glorious autumnal foliage of the Catskill Mountains that reminds us nature’s scenography is tough to beat. Even the sparse scattering of tiny clouds seems somehow immaculately part of the design. Fall wedding inspiration is my absolute favorite, and the intentionality of every detail here speaks volumes. Grateful to the talented team of creatives who put this together…scroll through to see the full list of credits at the end, and a special guest dachshund appearance.
Read MoreA Verdant Kind of Love; Scottish Highlands Elopement featured in Magnolia Rouge
We know the city elopement imagery well. The couple gets ready in a hipster design hotel in downtown New York, LA, London, or Paris…there are some intimate moments in front of city hall, a stylish walk to their favorite coffee shop, bakery, or pizza place…some laughter, some kisses, a few amused onlookers, great sunglasses, and inevitably, two sidewalk-served pretty coupes of champagne.
But now its time for something a little different. Moody and dramatic landscapes, verdant autumnal florals, all the warm and woody shades of terracotta, and just enough wind to blow you back into the pages of Wuthering Heights. There is something decidedly romantic and cinematic about this elopement in the Scottish Highlands, (in what was once the holiday home of Constance Spry), and yet all the details are strikingly modern, minimal, and right on trend.
A little sip of scotch in Ferm Living’s ripple glasses, Kamperett’s iconic wrap around Adelaide gown, Laure de Sagazan’s romantic angora gilet, Moss Floral’s effortlessly composed Ikebana-inspired bouquet, and our most minimal stationery collection, The Curator, offering all the white space, blind embossing, vellum layers, and soft nude tones to complement and balance out the richly verdant landscape and moody color palette. All this captured by one of our favorite wedding photographers, Taylor and Porter, on 35mm film.
Scroll down, fall in love, and discover this dramatic yet simple way to say I Do.
That Arizona Sky; A timeless and elegant desert wedding
As a typography-focused wedding stationery designer, one of the first things I look at when we receive an enquiry are the words and letters. I scan through the names, dates, venues and addresses looking for something that might stand out - words or numbers I can immediately visualize and imagine looking great in a particular typeface, font size or layout in one of our collections. I get excited about names like Quinn & Braxton - a Q, R, X, and ampersand are a typographic feast! I like dates that are “tidy” - like 04.04.24, or ones with lots of curves in them, like 06.09.25. I like twos and threes and eights. Oh, eights! I love long and foreign names…and as far as I’m concerned, the more glyphs, the merrier. I love tightly packed letters and lines of text, so glyphs always present an interesting design challenge in getting everything to slot together nicely.
All of which is to say, this project - from the minute I laid eyes on the enquiry, was a dream. The wedding venue was in the SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS. The welcome dinner was in, come on, PARADISE VALLEY. And the groom was Swedish, so they politely asked if we could do a dual-language version of the invitation, in English and Swedish. Swedish is glyph city!
Read MoreL'amour, champagne, et disco forever after; Rat & Boa Founder Stephanie Bennett's Wedding Featured in VOGUE France
We had just launched The Hedonist collection when I first heard from Stephanie and Tom, and within minutes of our first call…I knew I had just met two veritable hedonists who would allow me to truly bring this new collection to life. It was obvious right away, this was going to be a party with no end time. They had chosen Le Grand Banc for their wedding venue - an exclusive private hamlet in the Luberon which has long been a stomping ground for artists and royalty alike. Hello Princess Margo, and hello real Warhols on the wall.
Read MoreLavender Lovin' - Utah Wedding Inspiration
Pleased to share the results of this beautiful creative collaboration at last year’s Hybrid Collective event in Park City, Utah. A big thank you to one of my favorite planners - Emmily Jones of Gatherist Co, for inviting us to join the impressive team, and everyone who was a part of making this magic so lovingly happen. See the full list of credits at the end of the post.
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