Wedding Decor: Table Numbers for wineries

Another piece of wedding decor, perfect for summer winery wedding season – coming up just around the corner! This design is available as a digital download in my Etsy shop, making it easy to add unique design to your wedding day. These table numbers are tall, standing out at your reception tables and fit the ambiance of a winery wedding perfectly.

Wedding Decor: Winery themed table numbers

Last fall, I attended and designed for my friends’ beautiful wedding in the California wine country. As I worked to bring their vision to life and created elements that fit their venue, I got thinking about how many weddings (at least in California) that take place at vineyards. So, I continued designing items for a winery wedding, starting with these table numbers, now available in my Etsy shop. This design is available as a digital download, making it easy for you to add custom design to your event.

Wedding Decor: Denise & Jared (St Helena, California)

I really enjoy being able to design for weddings beyond the invitation and work on all the little touches that personalize the wedding day itself. Once the wedding invitation was in the mail, there were a bunch of items to make for Denise and Jared’s winery wedding. It was quite the variety, from hand-lettered signage, to favor hang tags. My personal favorite was the bar signs, so much fun (and gold ink)!

Probably the best thing about working on this wedding was being able to make the day beautiful for my friends. I really enjoyed brainstorming with the bride and the groom and bringing back the finished pieces that fit right into their vision for their special day.

Wedding Invitation: Denise & Jared

I’d been hoping these two would tie the knot for some time now. When they were ready to walk down the aisle, I got to help make their wedding day extra special (and be a guest at their wedding). We started early, working together to build a custom wedding invitation set that tied into their St. Helena vineyard wedding. The final set was so much fun to put together!

I got to have some fun creating the wine glass stains from scratch with watercolors and combining a bunch of different elements the bride and groom liked to create one unique wedding set. My favorite little piece, requested by the bride, is the heart etched into the wine barrel illustration on the back side of the invitation card. So creative!

Wedding Decor: the Hajdukovics

Another wedding full of personalized items! So glad to have these projects come my way and add some custom pieces to such an exciting day. Congratulations to the Hajdukovics!

A very unique seating chart – each table was designated a different board game, since it’s one of the couple’s favorite pastimes. Keeping board games in play (ha, see what I did there?), their guestbook was pieces of the Jenga game that guests personalized.

Wedding Decor: the Grohs

Wedding decorations are always fun, because each couple has different ideas about what touches they want to include at their wedding. For this wedding, there were a bunch of signs to make and a very unique piece shown at the end. I also got to bring out some different skill sets to put all these elements together. Congratulations to the Grohs!

This was the most interesting piece to me – a quilt block. The couple decided to have guests sign a piece of fabric, later to be made into a keepsake quilt, rather than a traditional guest book. I was asked to paint a rose in their wedding colors that would be the centerpiece of the entire quilt, which I was definitely happy to do.

Wedding Decor: Andrea & Scott

My favorite part about weddings (besides the photography, of course) is how much they can be personalized to fit the bride and groom’s vision for their big day. I absolutely love small touches that make weddings feel unique, and get really excited when I’m the one who gets to create those pieces. Once the wedding invitation calligraphy was finished, Andrea (the bride) and I started discussing other elements for the wedding. She had some projects in mind for the reception and bridal party gifts, and I was more than happy to work on them for her. My absolute favorite project was the seating chart, designed on an old window!

Calligraphy: Andrea & Scott Wedding Invitations

I always enjoy adding custom touches to projects, adding some personalization for a special event. A lovely bride, Andrea, asked me to do the calligraphy for the wedding invitations she had already ordered. She chose a lovely and unique invitation layout and wanted an elegant touch to finish them off. I mixed up a custom navy blue calligraphy ink to match the wedding colors and the final piece turned out great.

Bridal Shower Invitation: Mallory

One of my favorite things is to bring a client’s vision to life, to discuss their ideas and then develop designs based only on their ideas. It often will challenge me to produce something that is not my normal style and I really enjoy being stretched creatively. For this bridal shower, the host wanted a theme that is a bit more formal, and simple without being bland. Cream, taupe and rose create an elegant color palette that is enlivened by a geometric design motif. A touch of gold calligraphy ink finishes the set perfectly.

Design: Modern Calligraphy

Calligraphy has always been beautiful to me, but it seemed a little too formal, too aloof. In the past couple years, a new style being called “modern calligraphy” has started to make its way into invitation design. I was intrigued from the very beginning and finally decided to take the plunge and learn the skill and make it my own. I’m now proud to offer this as an additional service. Samples I’ve completed are below, I’m looking forward to tackling more extravagant projects as my skills strengthen in the future.