Karri Lee Designs is a custom stationery studio specializing in personal, custom pieces. Karri, the Owner and Creative Director behind the self-named business, and though we work with her most often on wedding stationery, she does so much more! She has the mind of magic, as she takes such ordinary, everyday details and puts them on paper in the most beloved way!

In the digital age, stationery has proven to be important and valuable to its recipients. Stationery is the introduction loved ones have to the coming celebration. It’s also an element of impact that provides memories of some of the most significant times in our lives. Looking back at a friend’s RSVP cards she saved, there were handwritten notes from her grandparents who were no longer here. The sentimentality of their handwriting, their quips, and their love is something that she has because of that piece of paper.

One of the best parts about stationery is you can do anything with it. You can introduce new and different materials and be as adventurous with colors, styles, and shapes as you’d like. We’ve been fortunate to partner with Karri Lee Designs on a number of weddings, celebrations, and editorial shoots over the years — even some personal projects!

Each and every time, she brings new life and zest to the project at hand, elevating such a significant detail. She is wildly creative and makes this part of the process fun, engaging, thoughtful, and oh-so-beautiful! She also embraces her work with personal touches and authentic memories. She creates a moment within her work that’s unique to every single person she designs for.

Below are a handful of our favorite pieces from Karri Lee Designs!

 

Wedding Stationery by Karri Lee Designs

One of our favorite elements about this stationery was including Martin, the couple’s pup, and the MVP of the day. No soul in M+M’s life doesn’t know and adore Martin, and it’s clear to see why, even from a watercolor image. See more of how their stationery ties into the full wedding design here.

 

 

This stationery suite was for a dear friend and colleague, Flowers by Justine. Married in Florida with the inspiration of golf, whiskey, and flowers, Karri involved these elements for a cohesive suite. Excitement was abundant with the inclusion of color and pattern within the suite. You may even notice the nod to the linens we brought in!

 

More Favorites from Karri Lee Designs

 

These various wedding stationery images include elements personal to the couples. You’ll see a family home where the celebration was held. You’ll also see a collection of locations documenting the pivotal moments of one couple’s relationship.

 

The last photo showcases one of my favorite details from a past Fall wedding. Here, Karri created a custom bar panel that emulated the pattern of our bride’s dress. It is exquisite and unexpectedly fresh!

We’ve produced an eclectic variety of weddings, but our favorite might just be tented weddings! Starting with a blank canvas allows us to create a venue from scratch, creating a unique design. We often times see tented weddings take place at private residences or home properties, which tend to carry a very special sentiment behind them. Tent decor, furniture rentals, and a thoughtful spatial layout add to the personal setting of an outdoor wedding and allow us to embellish the personality of the couple in a location that already holds so much meaning!

The tent design is where we spend much of our time. It equates to designing your home, which is something we all love to pour ourselves into one way or another! Tents don’t speak to just one or two styles of weddings — they can quite literally be dressed up to evoke whatever vibe you’re drawn to.

Tent Decor: The Ceremony

For Nicole and Mark’s wedding day, we wanted to design a space that embodied the rest of their aesthetic: colorful, vibrant, and whimsical. Two frame tents were constructed on the property, one for the ceremony and one for the reception. It’s essential to have a rain backup plan with an outdoor wedding, so why not use what we had reserved, even in perfect weather?

Our ceremony took place in the front of Nicole’s childhood home, which is the perfect shade of yellow!! We enlisted the talents of Drape Art Designs to execute the cheerful setting of our dreams! Bunches of colorful ribbon swags created a slight canopy of shade around our guest seating. Lavender fabric draped around the side poles, softening the space a bit further! As the first space that greeted our guests, this gave a perfect introduction to the rest of our home for the evening.

photos: emily kirke photography // tent decor: drape art designs // tent: greenwich tent co.

 

Tent Decor: Dinner & Dancing

One of the reasons why I absolutely love clear top tents is it allows you to really immerse yourself in your surroundings. It creates an open air feeling while still protecting you from the elements. With that, you don’t need too much tent decor, but a bit of something to tie into the design creates a memorable experience for you and your guests.

Together, Drape Art Designs and I carried the ribbon design over to the reception tent, creating a focal point over our dance floor. That floral chandelier by Botanique pushed our heart eyes over the edge and dropped our jaws to the ground!

It’s always an absolute pleasure collaborating with Drape Art Designs! Complete with a wide range of lighting styles to accentuate your tent decor and vision, their inventory completes our design perfectly. Not to mention, we love their bar selection, too!!

Dessert is a way of life at Jubilee Events, so getting to explore the various sweets to offer guests is a treat — pun entirely intended! For Nicole and Mark’s wedding cake, it was a must to embellish the colorful, whimsical aesthetic of their wedding design, so we enlisted the talents of Sarah and Simon Cake Design! To see how their full design came together, take a peek here.

The Cake

Nicole and Mark’s main confection was the perfect complement to the scope of the day and provided some serious eye candy for all guests and vendors alike! Like the rest of the wedding design, each tier was packed with bursts of colorful bubbles and petals traveling down the sides. Each tier was a mixture of flavors like lemon on lemon!

photos: emily kirke photography

Sweet Details

No dessert display is complete without its sweet counterparts. Remember the Love Cats from our stationery suite? They made another guest appearance as the cookies. Sarah and Simon completely blew us all away with the detail on each cookie. It made it almost too hard to eat. Almost! We couldn’t think of a more perfect nod to our couple’s story together than to have a Cookie cookie!

In addition, guests snacked on rainbow mousse, colorful macarons, marshmallows, and tri-colored donut holes. We were in heaven!

We couldn’t be more grateful to have Sarah and Simon’s talents as part of the day! Having a history in art and design brings about the most detailed and eye-catching confections you’ll ever come across. Get lost in her story and more of her work on her site! Whether abstract, colorful, traditional or clean, it can all be done!

Thank you, Sarah, for your amazing cake and cookies! We still smile every time we come across these sweet images! XO

Wedding stationery is one of my favorite and most expressive elements of a wedding design! It’s the first real introduction to the experience your guests will enjoy on your big day — it invites so much personality!

Colorful Wedding Stationery: Save the Dates

Nicole and Mark’s wedding was every bit whimsical and vibrant as it was exciting and festive! To start, we decided to ignite a bit of buzz with our Save the Dates. Employing confetti poppers from The Confetti Bar, a mixture of color, sparkles, and custom name and date monikers gave guests all the need-to-know wedding details. The best part? Receiving videos of all of our guests popping open their Save the Date, bursting with the same level of excitment!

confetti poppers: The Confetti Bar // packaging + custom labels: Coral Pheasant

Colorful Wedding Stationery: Invitations

The invitation is the part of our stationery suite where we further tailor to the wedding design, giving hint to the day that’s unfolding. For Nicole and Mark’s suite, we introduced our colors of coral, pink, lavender, and serenity blue with punches of other tones throughout our vintage postage and hand-tied ribbon hugging everything together.

We love to infuse our couple’s story into the design in every way possible. It’s this that makes our wedding designs so memorable and experiential. Think about it: you attend wedding after wedding, but the ones that really stick out are those whose story evolves from the couple you’re celebrating! It gives you a story, however you walk away with many more memories.

One of our personal details came by featuring Nicole and Mark’s cats, Cookie and Stevie, who we affectionately donned the Love Cats. Though they couldn’t celebrate with us in person, we were sure to incorporate their presence in a few elements of the day with stationery being the forefront of those details! Making it even more meaningful, our Love Cats were designed by Nicole and Mark’s talented brother-in-law, Salvador. They came back in our day-of stationery, in our escort card display, bar signs as well as our dessert bar (more to come on this in a later post)!

invitation suite: Coral Pheasant

 

As always, much love goes to Nichole from Coral Pheasant for bringing this whimsical, burst of energy to life!!

To take a peek at other stationery suites we cannot get enough of, take a peek here!

invitation image courtesy of Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine

What happens when THE paper designer for all the fabulous, high end clients gets married herself? Well, pure art! Our friend and bride, Vanessa Kreckel of the acclaimed company Two Paper Dolls married her wife, Lauren in a beautiful Maine destination wedding. Vanessa is known for designing some of the most gorgeous, luxurious, and outside the box invitations and paper suites. Her work will drop your jaw the ground and invite you back for more! She definitely knocked it out of the park with her own invites and stationery — so we wanted to share some of the magic!

Wooden Invitations: The Details

Vanessa & Lauren’s guests received this beautiful destination wedding invitation suite (I still have mine y’all it was THAT pretty!). The focal point is the wooden invitation, laser engraved with all the details of their wedding.

Tying into the vibe they created was a bit of unconventional verbiage: Lauren Elizabeth Martin and Vanessa Diane Kreckel together with our children, Landon and Cash, invite you to celebrate the greatest love we have ever known as we get married in a beautiful place, surrounded by beautiful people. Truer words have not been spoken. The suite was perfectly summed up with: dress snappy, be comfortable, you’ll be in a lot of pictures.

The accompanying cards included a double-sided letterpress itinerary card, a letterpress RSVP card and a wooden tag in the shape of the state of Maine that bore the following quote from Tao: the journey is the reward. An envelope liner with vintage drawings from Maine’s cost was nestled into a clean, ivory envelope. The most perfect touch was the rainbow color story of vintage stamps, a collection that varied across each envelope.

We absolutely LOVED these invitations! Aside from the custom language that graced the suite, the texture and unique details of each piece created such an impact for all. It invited everyone to prepare for all the love and excitement that they witnessed on that June day and became a special keepsake that none of us will be letting go anytime soon!