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Here is some information from Paper Source about their demos this weekend.
Complimentary Creative Wedding Demos
February 21, 2009
All Paper Source Store Locations
We invite you to join us for an afternoon of complimentary demos, make-and-takes and inspiration for your big day!
11:30 am – Announcing the Big Day
12:45 pm – Inspired Invitations
2:00 pm – Tasteful Tabletop Décor
No matter [...]

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If you’re a do-it-yourself bride it can be difficult to coordinate all of the aspects of your wedding so that they go together and it doesn’t
necessarily look like a DIY wedding.  Wedding colors used to be an easy way of coordinating a look and feel for a wedding but now there are wedding “color palettes”, [...]

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 Seeing this pumpkin makes me want to have a fall wedding to pursue the endless creative possibilities!  It’s a great example of twisting something formal like a monogram and making it your own.  More and more I see couples using things like monograms, wedding colors, fonts and graphic designs to create a really cohesive feel [...]

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I was reading the paper yesterday and came across an article about a Seattle company with a fresh approach to wedding invitations.  It almost made me wish I were planning a wedding again…almost.  Poster Bride is the name of the company. They create unique silkscreened rock posters for wedding invitations, need I go on?  From [...]

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Wedding Invitations: Labels vs Handwriting
So you have the invitations made and ready to mail out the door 6-8 weeks before your big day.  How should you address the invitees?  You could a) hire a calligrapher to elegantly address your guests, b) print labels on your home printer, or c) write out the names and addresses yourself, [...]

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What level of etiquette do you want to use in addressing your wedding invitations?
There are three groups you could fit into based on invitations I’ve seen.
1. The Free Spirit – unencumbered by the word “etiquette” at all.  In this case feel free to address the envelope (if you even use an envelope) however you’d like: [...]

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This book saved my invitation process.  It was my lifeline in a stormy, tumultous sea of paper and ink….
The Wedding Invitation Handbook by Julie Holcomb
 
Typefacing, fonts, colors, how to order, etiquette and wording.  Julie covers all of the bases for invitations; whether you make your own or order them.  If you are sending invitations, this book [...]

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Wedding Invitations – A Return Address Stamp
If you don’t have your invitation or reply card envelopes preprinted with your address you might want to consider having a personalized rubber stamp created for you.  Handwriting is nice but time consuming and labels can sometime feel like an impersonal, last minute afterthought, slapped onto an otherwise beautifully [...]

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