When Shannon approached my about designing her wedding invitations for their fall-time Massachusetts wedding on 10-10-10, I was so excited! You must check out their wedding photos, everything was so beautiful! Shannon and Chris wanted to incorporated that autumn feeling into their wedding by basing the design around an acorn – a symbol of good luck! The wedding venue was The Fruitlands Museum which celebrates the native people of Massachusetts. When I sat down to design them, sort of a folk-art feel began to emerge in the design and it worked perfectly!

Here is the invitation front and back.

Close up of the invitation front.

Here you can really see the acorn-infused folk art pattern I designed to use throughout the invitation suite. I isolated one of the acorn groupings for them to use as sort of a monogram.

Chris and Shannon decided to go with the wraparound address labels which are super-easy to print at home and look great.

The ever popular RSVP postcard — saves on stamps and envelopes!

Finally, the full suite: Invitation, envelopes with wraparound address labels, RSVP postcard, and information card. All pieces were printed on an extra heavy linen card stock that went perfectly with the design. Love it!

I am SO super excited to share Mike and Melissa’s awesome wedding design! It has been such a journey working on all of this together with them and we could not be happier with the outcome. I loved getting to see everything come together at the wedding too! When they contacted me with their ideas for the design, I was immediately excited. Mike and Melissa wanted a vintage-looking design with a touch of modern edgy-ness while incorporating their colors of magenta and grey.

The Save the Date was the first piece we designed. We took inspiration from vintage carnival and show posters when going through the design process to make this adorable postcard Save the Date.

The back of the postcard has lyrics from The Wedding Singer, one of Mike and Melissa’s all time favorite movies. What is even cuter is that Mike is in a wedding band himself!

Next up was the wedding invitation. We jumped on the coattails of the Save the Dates to further incorporate the vintage theme. I am so in LOVE with how these turned out. Easily one of my favorite invitation suites! It consisted of three flat-printed cards: the invitation, information card and RSVP postcard. The pink candy striped envelope liners and vintage stamps were icing on the cake. Here is the full suite.

Melissa wrapped the components up in grey and white baker’s twine. The adorable die-cut mailing labels we found were PERFECT!

Invitation and envelope front.

Information card.

RSVP Postcard.

Mike and Melissa ordered one of our guestbooks, so of course, we incorporated the design into the book. It was such a hit at the wedding!

We even had their wedding logo on these cute photo folders that were handed out to hold the Shot Spot prints.

Another thing I designed for the wedding was the seating chart poster. Mike and Melissa used famous couples as the table names. Such a cute idea!

This wasn’t the only way Mike and Melissa incorporated the design elements into the wedding day. Check out some of the other little touches. They used the font from their invitations and the logo to make this cute mailbox for the gift table.

Love the photo frame with the Save the Date and invitation!

Even more incorporating the typeface. Way adorable.

The final piece of the puzzle is the Thank You card. These beauties will be hitting mailboxes very soon. Mike and Melissa wanted to incorporate their wedding photos into their thank you’s. The inside even has a photo from their Shot Spot!

I had SO much fun designing all of this for Mike and Melissa! They brought some awesome ideas to the table and did a FANTASTIC job incorporating the design into the wedding, which is exactly what using The Goodness for your wedding design is all about! Want to learn more about wedding invitation design? Check out our design rates page and contact us if you are interested.

Oh, and you simply MUST come back tomorrow to see all of the wedding photos! There was cuteness galore!

Lisa Welge Photography is now The Goodness!

We are SO happy to announce our new brand and business name — The Goodness! In 2008, Geoff and I started Lisa Welge Photography shortly after we got engaged. So with my impending new last name, we knew a business name change was on the way too. Needless to say our re-launch has been in the works for QUITE some time now. Hey, good things take time! We wanted something that sounded unique, yet classic, with just a touch of rad. Believe it or not, I was inspired by a pizza place in San Francisco! We dreamt up “The Goodness” last year, finally purchased our fancy new domain, thegoodness.com, and with that the design wheels were rolling! I designed the website myself and the awesome guys over at Treeline Interactive coded my design into reality. I also designed all of our marketing materials: the logo, business cards, our new pricing guide and more! I’d love to share some of them — take a look!

The first thing to do when designing our brand was to come up with the logo. We wanted something with a classic, fun look, with a kind of retro quality, but not too far off from the feel of our Lisa Welge Photography brand.

With the popularity (and just plain cuteness) of our previous elephant, we knew they HAD to stay. Our new elephants were born, this time as a couple in love. I think these guys are my favorite part! So cute. And of course, trunks up for good luck!

These are our new business cards. The photos don’t do them justice. They are a silk laminate with spot UV coating and feel great. You must see them in person! Business cards printed through DPI Perfect.

These are our new consultation folders for our initial meeting with potential clients. I SO cannot wait to start presenting these at our upcoming consults! Folders printed through 48Hour Print.

Folder front.

Ellie’s on the inside!

Slipped inside the folder is our brand-spanking new, full-color pricing guide. I put a ton of work into these and am so in love with how they turned out! Inside are lots of photos and descriptions of all of our products and services. Pricing guide printed at Next Day Flyers.

I also designed some thank you cards and anniversary cards which turned out super cute! Cards printed at Catprint. Envelopes from Paper Source.

We also got some awesome pens with our logo!

Another one of my favorite things are these rubber stamps with our logo and elephants. They are great for stamping shipping boxes and envelopes or whatever fun use we find for them! Stamps from RubberStamps.net.

The full identity suite. I love the colors, the cohesiveness, and had so much fun designing everything. So much heart and soul went into creating this and it makes me overjoyed to finally share it with the world.

Overall, we are SO HAPPY with how everything has turned out so far and could not be more excited to be The Goodness. As a husband and wife team, it has been amazing to watch our business grow (while working our butts off!) and having a blast meeting so many amazing couples. We feel so lucky everyday for the wonderful life we share and we can’t wait for all the goodness the future holds for us.

While we will leave our old blog, lisawelge.com/blog up and running, it is no longer being updated and all new posts will be on thegoodness.com. Update your bookmarks! Lisa’s new twitter is twitter.com/LisaBardot and Geoff’s remains twitter.com/GeoffBardot. Our new Facebook page can be found by clicking here.

I had so much fun designing Adam and Stacy’s wedding invitations. I love that they wanted to go with something that was modern and colorful. Stacy was inspired by the peacock feather theme that she weaved into the wedding decor, so the design we came up with was a bit of an abstraction of that. She wanted something simple but still organic and I really think these hit the nail on the head! Here is the front of the invitation.

Here is the whole suite, including invitation front and back, RSVP card and envelopes with custom address labels. We went with a shimmer paper for the invitation and RSVP and metallic envelopes, because Stacy said she loved “shimmery”.

The RSVP card.

Here is Adam and Stacy’s engagement session guestbook, which I designed to match the wedding invitations. On the cover I matched the typography….

…and on the inside I incorporated the design elements. Each page even included a little bit of design from their invites. This is one of the things I love about designing the wedding invitations — because I custom design ALL of our products, everything gets to match! I can’t wait to design Adam and Stacy’s wedding album soon!

Now that I’ve shared Dorothy and Teddy’s wedding photos, I get to share their invitation design! When Dorothy approached me about designing their wedding invitations, she told me was inspired by an adorable Downtown Sacramento Boutique, Le Petit Paris. She wanted something simple and elegant incorporating the colors of blush and espresso. The full suite included the invitation, RSVP postcard, reception information card and map, and post-wedding announcement.

I designed a monogram that appeared on each piece. Dorothy even used the monogram on her reception menu and favors! I love to see the design elements get used throughout the wedding.

This is the front and back of the postcard RSVP. Dorothy and Teddy applied a stamp to the back, so all their guests had to do was fill our there names and preferences and drop it in the mailbox.

Here is the reception card with a custom map of Downtown Sacramento.

I think my favorite part of the suite has to be the map. I adore the way it turned out. It was so much fun to design! It told guests were to find all the wedding events and pointed out parking and hotels.

Dorothy’s mother commissioned some announcements to send out after the wedding as well. Overall the design turned out elegant and pretty, with a modern flair. And now, having attended the wedding, I’d say they matched the day perfectly!

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