Wedding Wednesday: Together With Their Families

Just a quick Wedding Wednesday post today, dear readers, because I have a big one being published on Friday!  (Why, you ask?  Well, {av} suggested we feature shoes for her link-up this week, so shoes it shall be - bridal shoes!)  But I did want to introduce you quickly to Kelly Edwards at Beflourish, who did the gorgeous calligraphy that you see below for our invitations.  She was fantastic to work with - when Jon and I picked a font and I emailed to ask how much it would cost, Kelly wrote back saying that we must have great taste as it was her most expensive option!  We did end up going with one of her cheaper but still elegant fonts, and she was incredibly patient as Jon and I scrambled to finalize our guest list and all the addresses, and she even emailed me a few times afterwards just to confirm one detail or another that I hadn't sent through properly.  We really hope we can hire her again for a few other pieces of our wedding when we get closer to the date!

I also wanted to give another shout-out to our amazing stationary superwoman, Caroline Russo from Pink Orchid Invites, who is creating all of the paper goods for our wedding - thank you!

We're sending everything out over the next few weeks, which might seem a bit disorganized but I promise there is method to the madness!  The invitations being sent to US addresses and the handful that are going to countries other than the UK are being put in the post this week from Washington, DC.  (Happily, our invitation suite is relatively simple so we can use a normal stamp for the domestic ones.) When my parents and I go to England on the 20th, we'll bring over all the invitations that are being sent to UK addresses; that way we can post them domestically, too, which will cut down on the expense a bit.  See?  I've thought this through.  As they say in England, "every little helps!"

Anyway, I wholeheartedly recommend both of these ladies for any stationary/calligraphy projects you might need help with - though my photography skills are atrocious, you can see that their work speaks for itself: