Thoughtful Day in Martha Stewart Weddings!

I've been waiting for well over a year now to show these invites I designed for my good friends, Jenna & Jon. Jenna of Love Jenna Calligraphy, and I went to art school way back and have known each other for 10 years! As you can imagine, I was beyond honored when they asked me to design their invitation suite. Being the creative couple they are, Jenna sent me tons of beautiful inspiration, ranging from images of Marie Antoinette to photos of Coney Island. Jon, a very talented copy writer, wrote all of the copy throughout the suite.

I know Jenna pretty well, so when she approached me, I knew there had to be layers and layers of stuff to make up the package. I hunted far & wide for the candy striped bags way back, which thankfully are easier to come by now. Custom designed tickets were then wrapped around the bags, tied by gold cord. All of the illustrations throughout the suite were illustrated by Thoughtful Day. We don't use clip art around here for custom invites! Not only are these invites super fun, but they were printed with some of the finest methods available - Gold foil stamping combined with pink Letterpress all backed with vintage wallpaper. It's hard to get more luxurious (and awesome) than that when it comes to an invitation suite. Needless to say, Jenna & Jon were the dream clients!

And to top it all off, the invitations made their way into the current Martha Stewart Weddings out on stands now. Wait until you see all of the photos of Jenna & Jon's wedding. It was absolutely fabulous & full of love, and I'll be forever grateful that Thoughtful Day was asked to be a part of it.


100 Layer Cake will be posting more photos of Jenna & Jon's wedding the rest of the week, wait until you see all of the details!

Thoughtful Day updated!

Hello! How I've miss you all!

Well, there are a few things I'd like to quickly stop in to say....I finally updated my website Thoughtful Day showing some of the projects I've worked on in the last 8 months. Please visit my site for lots more photos and projects! I hope you like what I've been up to....

I had an amazing photo shoot with the super talented Jenny Ebert of 1. Art Beauty Life. Jenny was the consummate professional and truly did an amazing job. I couldn't be happier with the results and I have to say, having a professional photographer shoot everything was BEYOND worth it. All of the styling was done by Anne Le Geurn. Do you remember her sweet illustrations I posted about a while ago? Yes, the girl is one talented little lady! Barb of Hatch Creative generously let us have the photoshoot at her amazing loft space called the Nest Event Loft, which you can rent for events. It is an incredible loft located in the Flatiron District - corner building with views beyond your dreams.

Thank you so much ladies!

So, we finally finished the renovations - over 3.5 mths. Stressful, and fun and beyond worth it. I feel so blessed and lucky that I get to call this our family home. I could just pinch myself. I can't wait to share some of the stories, trials and tribulations, and last but not least photos. It was an incredible experience and I'm beyond thankful for it. But I'm still knee deep in boxes and have a ways to go before I can sit down and write and post about everything. So until then, I'll be back to blogging about some of my favorite things and I hope to show you photos over the next couple of months.

Thanks for all of the sweet comments throughout my break - you guys are the best!

Beautiful Bunting

I am a little bit obsessed with bunting banners and these by Lobster and Swan are my favorite to date! Look at all of the vintage gorgeousness layered on the top banner, and the stitching on the bottom blue one? Seriously, these are just perfection!

{all photos from lobster and swan}

Thoughtful Day!!!

I am overjoyed to finally announce my new wedding invitation business, Thoughtful Day! As many of you know, I have been working on this for many months now and am so happy and excited to finally share it with all of you! Since last summer I have been designing the website, Melodie Collection and doing some custom work. The design and function of the website took quite a bit of time, especially with the Melodie Collection; trying to make the shopping experience as user friendly as possible! And I hope you agree!

The Melodie Collection is a set of four themed wedding collections that allow you to mix or match your wedding invitations. The option is completely up to you and allows you to come up with a unique and custom collection as well as pricing that fits within your budget! In addition to the three colorways, custom colors are available too.

SO many people were of huge help to me in this process. First and foremost my amazing web developer Will from screenminded was a rock star in making everything happen! Seriously, if any of you are ever looking for an amazing web programmer, he is your guy! I know from my experience, web programmers (good and reliable ones!) are hard to come by so reach out to him if you need a website programmed! He is amazing!!!!

And of course so many of my friends were so helpful in giving me feedback throughout my entire design process (thanks Patrick, Vané, Jenna, Jeff, Christine, Lindsey!). It is so crucial to get feedback from creative friends when you are working solo.

And a HUGE thanks to the many blogs that have been picking up my work over the last couple of days!
Brooklyn Bride
100 Layer Cake
Once Wed
Oh So Beautiful Paper
The B~List
Swanky Tables
Casando Ideias
Delighted and Charmed
The House That Lars Built
Furi Kuri Travels
Wedding Chicks
Taxidermy Church

(If I am missing anyone, please send me an email!)

Again, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for all of the support. It has been a big year for me and I am so excited and fortunate to share it with all of you. The blog community is amazing and really makes it feel like such a small world.

I am back to blogging next week, and I can't wait!

Have a wonderful weekend!!!!

It's All In The Details

Michelle Rago has created some of the most stunning weddings that I have ever seen. All of the details she puts together are incredibly thoughtful and I couldn't resist posting these gorgeous little boutonnières. Her combination of materials and colors is irresistible.

{photos from michelle rago}

Couture Choiseul

One of my favorite shops in all of Paris was called Couture Choiseul. Sadly, I can't seem to find it's website on the internet, but if you are interested in checking it out next time you are in Paris, it is right across the street from UltraMod (here is the location).

Couture Choiseul had an amazing selection of buttons, tassels, ribbons, trim, you name it, both old and new. A definite dream store for a designer, craft maker and admirer of beautiful things. I wasn't able to get any photos of the inside or products, I was already scarred from getting yelled at one too many times by this point. But I did try to capture the feeling and the beauties inside the store through it's display windows. Why is Paris soooo good?

Note: Thankfully a reader corrected me on the actual name of the store, it is Couture Choiseul and not Mercerie as shown in their window. Thank you Alice from Paris!

{photos from Thoughtful Day}

More Wedding Details

Last week I posted photos of the reception details and here are some more of the design elements from our wedding. In the first set of photos are the welcome totes I designed for each couple, with Jenna Hein's calligraphy gracing each welcome tag. Below are the custom made ceramic tags by Paloma's Nest that were enclosed in each little hand stamped pouch. I had a couple of stamps made for the wedding; they are such an easy and cost efficient way to carry your theme throughout all of your wedding details, a no brainer if you ask me! The following photos are part of the stationery suite I designed, I had so much fun designing my own invites that I started helping and designing other bride's stationery. Thanks Vané for the shout out last week!

Over the next two days I will be posting more of our wedding pics, then that is it. I PROMISE!

Our Wedding Details

The backyard of the ocean front villa where the ceremony was held.


My two beautiful sisters in their J.Crew bridesmaid dresses.



All of our flower arrangements were a mix of daisies and white dendrobium orchids, I then had lemons submerged in the water to add that extra punch of yellow. Here is our lovely wedding cake with the most precious cake topper ever designed by Jennifer Murphy. The cake was vanilla rum with buttercream frosting under the fondant, it was so yummy!



I stamped each little favor pouch (thank you Lis!) that held our little ceramic tags by Paloma's Nest. The little birds were the ongoing theme throughout all of our stationery, so it was only fitting that the last song and dance of the night and one of my favorite moments was to Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds". Also included in the stationery suite was this lemon drop packaging. My advice to anyone getting letterpressed invites is to try and fit as much as you can on a plate!



The dinner and dancing set up.



Here is the gorgeous ring bearer pillow that Vané so kindly made for me. The Hable Construction fabric fit perfectly with our theme. My wedding band is from Ritani and Patrick's band is from Wedding Day Diamonds.




Jenna Hein's beautiful calligraphy adorned all of our place cards and lucky for us, Jenna and her boyfriend Jon were in Jamaica for our wedding.



What a perfect coincidence that the steel drums were painted yellow! These guys were awesome!



Here is the pool area of the villa where the cocktail reception was held and our lovely guitarist for the ceremony. He did an outstanding job playing Paul Simon's "Mother and Child Reunion" while our mothers were escorted down the aisle and José González's "Heartbeats" when my dad and I walked down the aisle.

Whew! I have so many more photos to share of all of the events that we had while in Jamaica, I will be posting the rest next week. I never thought I would have this much fun planning our wedding. Don't get me wrong there were definitely some trying moments when planning but I completely fell in love with the process of designing and putting together all of the little elements that made up our wedding. It was so much fun!

{photos by Anna Wolf}

Our Ring Pillow

I just had to share our ring bearer pillow. Vané surprisingly made the pillow for me, literally less than a handful of days before her wedding! She used some of the leftover Hable Construction fabric she had for her vases. I then tufted it with one of my vintage buttons and some Mokuba ribbon. It was my first tufting job and it was so easy, took me less than 5 minutes!

I haven't been posting many details of our wedding because I want to surprise all of our guests, so this is it until after the wedding. I will be back a few more times throughout the next week and then I am off to Jamaica to get married! I can't believe it is finally happening!

Jayson Home & Garden

I love these floral arrangements from Jayson Home and Garden, all so very sweet, simple, fresh and colorful. Any floral arrangement in a fish bowl gets me excited, especially with yellow orchids blossoming out of it. How sweet are the purple vanda orchids ?

{images from Jayson Home & Garden}

Cake Topper Inspiration

As soon as I finished up our invites, I sent Jen Murphy (our cake topper designer) our stationery suite along with these images for our inspiration boards. Along with images, I sent her some Mokuba ribbon I picked up a few weeks ago. I can't wait to see what she comes up with, she is so talented! I will be sure to post her creation as soon as I get it.

I sent some of the cake toppers I love from Patch NYC as well as Anne Wood for inspiration. Although I love their designs, I can't wait to see what Jen comes up with for our big event.