Wedding Wednesday: Designers We Love ~ Bella Figura

Wedding invitation by Bella Figura

Welcome to another Wedding Wednesday! We love working with Bella Figura. Smock‘s sister company designs and prints beautiful letterpress and foil wedding, business and social stationery.

The 70 + member Bella Figura team includes staff, designers, calligraphers and printers that produce custom heirloom products. They work in a hundred-year-old warehouse on the outskirts of Syracuse, New York.

Bella Figura is also a green print shop {they print sustainably, use environmental papers, work to reduce their carbon footprint} and they support many eco friendly causes.

With so many unique designs, it was difficult to pick just a few to showcase here ~ each has its own personality! Below are a few save the date designs that we’re loving lately.

Save the Date by Bella Figura

Save the Date by Bella Figura

Save the Date by Bella Figura

Save the Date by Bella Figura

Fabulous, right? From bold and graphic to soft and sweet, Bella Figura has a save the date for every personality.

Next up are invitations. There are so many personalities that we thought it would be fun to invent brides perfect for each!

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Inspired Parties ~ Kramer Drive Invitations

Bridal Shower Invitation by Kramer Drive

Whether you’re planning a children’s birthday party, a bridal shower or an adult affair, the perfect invitation is a must! It sets the tone for the entire event and either sends the recipient racing to their calendar to mark the date or sighing to the trash to pitch “just another invite”.

Kramer Drive is a great company that both we and our customers can’t get enough of {obvious from all the blog love we give them!}! Their designs are fresh, fun and best of all totally customizable. You can change all ink colors, font styles and can even add glitter on any invite.

They are also well-priced {starting at $48.75 for 15} and have a quick turnaround rate {around 8 business days}. Kramer Drive doesn’t just do invitations, they also do gift tags, thank you notes and all sorts of custom accessories. Take a peek at a few invites we are loving this spring…

Cocktail party invitations by Kramer Drive

Cocktails? Yes, please! This cocktail party invite works for any occasion ~ keep the background in a pewter gray for a more formal couple’s event or make it bright fuchsia for a girl’s night out.

Flower invite by Kramer Drive

This birthday party invite is pretty for girls of all ages. We often see it dressed up a bit with glitter in the center of a few of the flowers.

Diamond birthday invitation by Kramer Drive

Picking out an invitation for a man’s birthday party can be tricky. You don’t want the invitation to be too “girly” {with the design or fonts} but you still want it to feel fun and not corporate. This invite accomplishes all those things in a modern style.

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Wedding Wednesday: Triangle Vendors We Love ~ Jessica Arden Photography

Salutations Triangle Vendors We Love Jessica Arden Photography

Thanks for joining us for another Wedding Wednesday! Today we are excited to feature Jessica Arden Photography! Owner, and photographer extraordinaire, Jessi has been passionate about photography for as long as she can remember. This passion has taken her from the Durham School of the Arts darkroom, to the acclaimed Tamara Lackey Photography studio, to her own business.

Other than her infectious enthusiasm and sparkly personality, we love Jessi for her ability to capture the most intimate of moments with a charm, grace and playfulness.

Salutations Triangle Vendors We Love Jessica Arden Photography

{Oh, hi, Edie! You’re adorable!}

There’s something unfussy and natural about Jessi’s photography, which we love. Never contrived or too serious, her work still manages to be perfectly appropriate for the amazing, once in a lifetime moments it captures.

Salutations Triangle Vendors We Love Jessica Arden Photography

We also love the composition of Jessi’s work. Light, perspective and space are all utilized perfectly to create images that are just as beautiful on their own as they are important to capturing the mood of the day. All of this attention to detail assists in creating a story of a couple’s wedding day, that plays out from one beautiful frame to the next.

Salutations Triangle Vendors We Love Jessica Arden Photography

Jessi’s attention to detail elevates her work from simply wedding photography to fine art photography, which in a market saturated with wedding vendors is hard to find {and equally hard to miss}. Simply put, Jessi’s work is magazine editorial quality, from its composition to its style.

Salutations Triangle Vendors We Love Jessica Arden Photography

{Hi Kate! You are stunning!}

We can’t recommend Jessi and Jessica Arden Photography enough for discriminating Triangle brides {and beyond}. And what we love about Jessi is that to be as talented as she is, her personality is even brighter and more charming than her photographs.

Any couple would be lucky to work with Jessi, who is sure to make the wedding photography experience an amazing one!

Want more Jessi/Jessica Arden Photography? Check out her Pinterest page and blog, full of wonderful inspiration!

Thank you for joining us for another Triangle Vendors We Love post! Check out our past posts here, here and here for more great inspiration for your Triangle wedding or event!

Inspired Gifting ~ Graduation Gift Guide

Graduation Gifts from Salutations

Welcome back to another Inspired Gifting post, featuring our top picks for graduation gifts. Can you believe it’s that time of year again?! Time flies when studying hard! Whether that special person in your life is graduating from high school or college, Salutations has the perfect gift for them!

Personalized Notebooks {above} and Planners

Salutations Graduation Gifts

Whether taking notes in first semester college classes, or planning all of the important events of the coming year, we love personalized notebooks and planners by Dabney Lee. There are so many great colors and patterns to choose from, ensuring that that special graduate in your life stands out from the crowd!

Personalized Stationery

Salutations Graduation Gifts Custom Stationery

There’s really nothing like great, quality custom stationery. Currently we’re loving beautiful engraved and thermography options by Crane & Co. They are sophisticated, special and just as perfect for writing a quick note home to mom and dad as they are for writing a follow up thank you note to a potential boss following a great job interview!

Salutations Graduation Gifts Stationery

Custom stationery can be as formal or casual as you like thanks to an endless variety of color, font, motif and pattern choices. Because it’s functional, personal and versatile, we think custom stationery is the perfect gift for almost any occasion, but it seems especially fitting for graduation!

Custom Stampers

Salutations Graduation Gifts
We love custom stampers by Three Designing Women! You can even purchase the stamper and let the lucky grad choose from thousands of designs to truly make it their own! We love that!

Leather Envelopes

Salutations Graduation Gifts

The ability to tuck photos of family and friends inside make these leather envelopes, available in a plethora of sizes and colors, chic, functional and sentimental. That is a combination that is not easily found in many gifts. And we have been known to carry ours, by Graphic Image, as clutches during evenings out!

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Wedding Wednesday: Real Brides of Charlotte ~ Shervon Stoutamire

Shervon Stoutamire wedding picture

Sassy birdcage veil? Check.

Carrie Bradshaw drool-worthy shoes? Check.

Flawless complexion and brilliant smile? Check.

Too cute fiance that was also your high school sweetheart? Check.

And a southern chateau wedding located on a lush, private vineyard? Check, check check!

Shervon Stoutamire, turned Robinson {yes, she is now officially Mrs. Robinson…something Shervon often joked about in the days leading up to her wedding!}, had all the components of a dream wedding. At our first meeting, she couldn’t hide her excitement over marrying her high school sweetheart Robert at stunning Chateau Elan in at Atlanta. I loved chatting with Shervon over the months as we worked on her invitations and then programs, menus, table cards and thank you notes. Her warmth, excitement and kindness was always on display and Shervon is actually prettier on the inside than she is on the outside ~ a cliche that is very true in her case. Shervon’s color palate was a sleek salmon pink paired with chocolate and khaki browns. For her invitations and accessories we created all custom pieces using pocketfolds and cardstocks that look and feel like wood. An ornate vineyard motif completed the look and was carried through on all her paper pieces.

Take a peek into Shervon’s fabulous wedding below:

Wedding image

Is this picture even real?! Too gorgeous! Would it be weird if I framed this and put it in my own house? You’re right…totally creepy. But it is reeeally beautiful!

Shervon Stoutamire Wedding Image

This mermaid has nothing on Shervon. Sorry, girlfriend. Stunning shot of both the couple and Chateau Elan.

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