Wedding DIY & Templates

June 24, 2009

A purple, chocolate and gold invitation suite by Lilah Paper

I’m so excited to be able to share our invitations with you!! As many of you know, the first item I purchased for our wedding was my shoes. They’ve been my muse for the entire event and have guided me toward the most amazing gown, linens, and paper. When I set out to have our invitations designed I knew of only one designer who would be able to take my shoes and make an invitation out of them!

Paper is one of my loves, and Kalyn from Lilah Paper and I have worked together on several events and her style really compliments my own. We came up with a custom invitation suite based on a variety of different inspirational pieces that I sent her through out the process. When she sent me our first round of proofs I was blown away. It wasn’t something I had envisioned but it was exactly what I wanted — which is a true testament to her talent! Much like a proud mama, I happen to think I have the most beautiful wedding invitations ever made.

We started out with a pretty belly band holding all our paper goodness together.

Inside, a tri-fold invitation suite. It starts off with lyrics from our soon to be first dance song by Van Morrison…

Our actual letterpress invitation to the ceremony with double backing layers. Photographs cannot do it justice! It is so gorgeous!!

Our pretty letterpress enclosure cards. We’ve gotten so many compliments on the cute vintage inspired food selections. We’ve also received A LOT of interesting first dance songs!!

Our envelopes were hand written by the extremely talented Lisa Ridgely of Pen and Ink Calligraphy. I LOVE working with Lisa — she is SO good to my brides and it was so much fun to be one of hers! We chose this gorgeous red ink color for a fun pop.

I had so much fun working with Lilah Paper and absolutely love the couture suite she came up with for us. The quality was so important to me, and our invitations are above and beyond what we could have imagined. We were SO thrilled to mail them all out (except for the $.78 stamps on each one) and have gotten so many RSVP’s back. Its a joy every afternoon to run out to the mailbox!

I’ll have some prettier pro pictures after the wedding with the rest of our amazing paper!

  1. Robin Dini says:

    Now I know the secret masters behind the wonderful designs. I’m totally adding them to my vendor list!

  2. Eliana@BYSE says:

    Love love love it! Candice you are a roll.

  3. Gorgeous! and I am so excited for you! Can’t wait to get mine in the mail! :)

  4. Tammy of A Splendid Affair says:

    Just beautiful Candice!

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  6. Rhoda Wilder says:

    They are gorgeous I love them!!!!!!

  7. Love the invites! Wish I would have remembered to save one of ours for our photographer, now we only have amateur photos of them, taken on a late night… :/

    BR
    /Adriana/LoveEvent

  8. i so love your invitations! i’m all about purple and chocolate. you too did a great job…cant wait to see more of your details. loving lilah papers – new fan!

  9. GORGEOUS GORGEOUS GORGEOUS – love them and LOVE letterpress……so so lovely.

  10. Candice says:

    Thanks ya’ll for all the love!! :) <333

  11. Designing for Candice was great! It’s easy when you have a beautiful bride with beautiful taste :)
    I just love the red calligraphy, Candice, what a beautiful finishing touch, it is truly the icing on the cake!

  12. Weddingistas says:

    Agree with everyone… very beautiful details!

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