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Sep 12, 2017

It’s tip Tuesday on the blog, and we are reinforcing the information regarding assembling your wedding invitation suite.  Fall is a big wedding season here, so it’s about that time that people will be getting invitations out in the mail, so we hope this helps with any assembly questions. Thank you again to the William Aiken House for the always gracious location, and to Page Palmer for her impeccable knowledge and talent!

9.12.17   |   TARA GUÉRARD
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Sep 06, 2017

dress

We couldn’t think of a better way to spend Wedding Wednesday than with this pink and white floral affair that celebrated the couples’ love of golf.  After a wedding ceremony at First Baptist Church in downtown Charleston, the couple welcomed friends and family (including her cousin, who is a former bride of ours) at Runnymede Plantation outside of town and Adrienne Page photographed the day. Dress is by Vera Wang

paper materials

Lettered Olive designed a letterpress suite of wedding papers using coordinating die cut shapes, envelope liners and backings.

Guest bag

Guest welcome bags were canvas shoe (golf shoe specifically of course) bags filled with local goodies and custom printed packaging.

Wreath at churh

A sweet ceremony was held at First Baptist Church…Lush pink arrangements adorned the doors and gates of the church, while the aisle was dressed with a custom aisle runner, an archway, and candelabras running the length of the aisle.

The bride and groom rode together from the ceremony to the reception. A great way for the two of them to reflect on the marriage and ceremony before joining all of the guests at the reception.

Floral Collage

In contrary to the traditionally masculine golf aspect, the bride added her romantic girly touch with an abundance of pink and pink flowers!

Cocktail hour Collage

Once onsite at Runnymede Plantation, guests enjoyed an al fresco cocktail hour on the lawn overlooking the Ashley River.

Golf Collage

Because of the family business, golf is huge with this couple. The groom was gifted a rare vintage golf photo from the bride, the table numbers mimicked greens flags, guests’ seating arrangements were embroidered golf flags, and a chipping green and equipment was set up so that guests could hit balls off of the river banks.

Food Collage

Cru Catering provided the delicious spread and cocktail hour bites were all about elegant display..

place setting Tent Collage

Guests enjoyed dinner and dancing in a tent with flowing drapery and full of lush pink flowers. One of my favorite features we did were the floral cornices framing the chandeliers hanging over the dinner tables.

cake

A lovely flower wall was the perfect backdrop for Jim Smeal’s wedding cake.

party at night smores station

A glam “back porch” set up was built off of the back of the tent overlooking the river… Guests enjoyed a S’mores station and fire pit of course under the glow of soft pink lighting.

Going away Collage

The bride and groom bid their guests farewell by the glow of fireworks.

9.06.17   |   TARA GUÉRARD
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Invitation set

Fall is a very popular wedding time for us here in Charleston, so if you are working to get your invitations off to guests, we have step by step instructions for you here. And, if you haven’t seen our latest episode of Life is a Party with Page Palmer, we talk more about etiquette there as well.  We do this service for our clients all the time, but realize this is the first time many of you are doing this, so here is all you need to know.  P.S. that tissue paper that comes with your invitations, you don’t need to include that in the mailed set- it was introduced to make sure any ink that may still be wet wouldn’t transfer onto other invitations!

Step 1

Step 1- Tuck the RSVP card into the upper lid of the reply envelope as shown.

Step 2

Step 2- Place the Reception card on top of the invitation on the left hand side (this will eventually become the bottom edge of the set). If you don’t have a reception card and only have a reply card- the same would apply.

Step 3

Step 3- Place the reply card and envelope on top of the reception card. Make sure your reply card envelope is pre stamped for your guests’ convenience.

Step 5

Step 6

Step 4- The stack then slides into the inner envelope- reply card in envelope on top, reception card next, then invitation card on bottom.

Step 7

Step 5- Insert the inner envelope into the outer envelope. The inner envelope should be addressed to the guests you are inviting using just a Prefix and last name. If you are including a couples’ children, they should be separately listed in the same manner using the proper prefix. Also, the inner envelope is not sealed.

Step 8

Your package is complete and ready to be mailed! We also take one of these completed envelopes to the post office to make sure we have sufficient postage. If it’s oversized or weighs more than  a birthday card, you’ll need more! We also like to use a wet envelope sealer to make the job go by much faster.

Thank you to Lettered Olive for the beautiful designs and make sure to see our step by step video below.

9.04.17   |   TARA GUÉRARD
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