rock & roll elegance...new design company

i'm doing something different for music mondays this week....i'm featuring awesome music-inspired wedding invitations.

how amazing are these invites & save the dates created by new design firm riot structure ? the save the dates are actual 45's that they re-purposed and added their own design to...and the invite harkens back to the extra cool rock posters back in the 60's & 70's...

well, design duo katie & josh designed these super cool invites for their own wedding. after they pulled off that event, they decided to make it a living & launched riot structure design firm with a third partner, mike. katie & josh just ooze style & taste...don't you want their eyes on your invites?

they have also done a rock doc {full disclosure: they did the graphics for HIT SO HARD, the documentary about patty} and album covers...they definitely take your interests into consideration when designing. for example, they did a bookmark style invite for some avid readers...

want to have your wedding invites designed by riot structure? they would like to do a creative design for an aesthetically adventurous couple. is that you? just mention steady happy and get 10% off your design fee {not printing}.

{photo credit: riot structure}

hello {cactus & quail}, fabulous paper & design studio...

jamie at a desert fete has just launched her new business {cactus & quail}, an amazing design & paper studio. she offers both custom & ready-made options, which can be helpful when on a budget. there's even a flea market with some great handmade pieces hand made my jamie. how beautiful are the cactus blooms...

clean, beautiful design...go check it out post haste!

{photo credit: cactus & quail}

wedding invites {leigh from milkfed press}

i know my blog hasn't been very wedding-y lately...but i *had* to repost these when i stumbled across them on design*sponge.  this fabulous invite suite is a collaboration from victoria at milkfed press and artist leigh wells.  not only are the colors fab and fun, but you can choose the icons that suit you:  boy/girl, boy/boy, or girl/girl.  genius. way to go and include every couple!  i love it.  more information here, scroll down to leigh.

{images from milkfed press via design*sponge}

gorgeous green paper {smock}

i had such a struggle finding fabulous eco-friendly invitations for my wedding. i absolutely love paper, but it's such a guilty pleasure.  check out these beautiful designs--all on bamboo paper.  from smock in upstate new york.  gorgeous.

project brigade: {stuff invites}

 georgia stamping the address stamp

almost all stuffed!
rsvp cards waiting for stamps!

the "suite":  wedding invite & rsvp postcard.  we decided to do an rsvp postcard to save paper by not having an envelope.  the invites & the envelopes are made from recycled paper. and they are printed in soy ink.




so georgia, wedding planner extraordinaire, came over on friday night & we stuffed the invitations!  we are still waiting for the custom postage stamps--which better come today!!  patty will help me stamp & seal, and hopefully they will go out tomorrow!  yay! 

check it off the list

we checked these off the list this week:

- met with caterer

- booked photographer

- chose linens, tables, chairs, plates, etc

- received invitations

i'm so excited about the caterer--she's a friend who i've worked with before--she had lots of great ideas and was totally into our "upscale italian picnic"!  she also knows a lot of organic, local farmers in pasadena, where she will get her veggies from.  her company is called geschenk and it means "gift" in german.  perfect. (her website may not be up & running quite yet, but check back, it's worth it!)

i'm also thrilled with our photographer, chris strother ...a friend of georgia's and coincidentally, an old neighbor of patty's!  her work is amazing.  she uses several different mediums, and yes, she uses film.  i know it's not the most green option, but it's so classic & beautiful.  another non-green splurge that i'm not going to beat myself up about!

photo copyright chris strother from flickr

monogram

i love our monogram.  tristan from bella bella co created it.  it's on the invite & i'm trying to incorporate it into other areas.

invites, rings, outfits

i can hardly believe it's mid-july & the wedding is next month!  this week, a lot has happened:  my ring arrived (more later...i need to take pix!), we got a beautiful vintage ring for patty, picked out her outfit (our "non-green" splurge!), and FINALLY sent the invites to the printer.  i'm really hoping to have the envelopes this weekend so i can begin to address them!

i also got most of the backyard planted (with some help, of course), but more on that later!