Jarrod & Lanie's Wedding

So my brother and his fiancé

are getting married in less than a month.

I can hardly believe how much the time has flown by... which reminds me that I will be celebrating my one year anniversary in less than 3 months!  Where has the year gone?!  My mother was right... the older you get, the faster the time flies by.  Anyhow, on to my brother's wedding...

I figured since everyone has received their invitation by now, the design is no longer a secret, so today I am sharing the design that I created for Jarrod & Lanie.  It's probably one of my favorite wedding pieces I've done so far.  I love it more than what I created for my own wedding!  Lanie was so open to look at anything I designed.  She was a blank canvas and really didn't have any preference.  The only definite was that their wedding was to be formal and elegant with black and ivory as their color scheme.  I knew that I wanted to add a pop of color to the invitation, and "blush" is what we went with.  It's one of my favorite hues right now.  

The font I used for their names is called Burgues Script.  It's a beautiful and elegant font.  I am so happy that I have it now... I will be using it quite a bit.  It comes with all of these beautiful swashes (called glyphs) which is what I used to created the swash design around their name.  I thought it looked so vintage, and let's be honest... vintage NEVER goes out of style.  It'll be one of those themes that people will be using until the end of the world!  I mean, that's what vintage is!

My favorite part about this design is the rsvp postcard.  Why oh why didn't I think of this when designing my own stuff!  Not only did Lanie save money on postage, but she didn't have to worry about buying RSVP envelopes either.  I think from now on, I will be suggesting rsvp  postcards to everyone.

Here is the design:

I also stumbled upon these beautiful pictures (from this photographer) of a vintage wedding which matches perfect with Lanie and Jarrod's invitation design.  A theme like this really can be used year round... you just have to change out your colors and flowers.  I hope this inspires some of you to plan a vintage themed wedding, bridal shower, dinner party... or to arrange some little vintage centerpieces or decorations around your house!  Oh, and send me pictures if you do so I can share them on my blog and live through them... my husband will kill me if I bring home anything else for the home that he can break!

And lastly, I have a special project that I'm working on.  I hope to have it finished within the next few weeks.  I mentioned it about a year ago and then got engaged and never followed through with it, so hopefully this time around I'll have a finished project to share with you all.  Keep checking back here for an update!