Natural Yet Sophisticated; Autumnal Wedding Inspiration from Upstate New York

August 04, 2024 in Weddings

Not sure what I love more about these images…the long neutral-tone tapered candles and dark florals proving that less is always and definitely more, the boldness of the typography beautifully standing out amidst the calm and understated decor, or the glorious autumnal foliage of the Catskill Mountains that reminds us nature’s scenography is tough to beat. Even the sparse scattering of tiny clouds seems somehow immaculately part of the design. Fall wedding inspiration is my absolute favorite, and the intentionality of every detail here speaks volumes. Grateful to the talented team of creatives who put this together…scroll through to see the full list of credits at the end, and a special guest dachshund appearance.

Modern Love - A Collaboration with Taylor & Porter and The Fall Bride

August 01, 2024 in Weddings

Poetic, playful, minimal, modern, architectural…really felt at home in this recent collaboration with Taylor&Porter and The Fall Bride, and incredibly grateful to all who were involved. Full list of team credits with links to their Instagram profiles is included below.

A Tuscan Kind of Love

August 01, 2024 in Weddings

If, as the saying goes, a picture says a thousand words - then these beautiful images could fill an entire tome, and it was no easy feat having to select just a few to share in this post. Beyond honored to have collaborated on this spectacle of a shoot with the uniquely talented photographer Gradisca Portento, event designer and stylist Giulia Lazzarini, floral designer Mary Poppies, and bridal couturier Kaviar Gauche, all set upon the backdrop of a gorgeous villa in Tuscany. Be warned, they may inspire you to get married, move to Italy, buy a villa, and bathe yourself in orchids. Full list of creative credits at the end.

The invitation suite featured is one of our custom pieces, with all of our favorite things - a neutral palette, blind debossing, gold foil stamping, handmade paper, and the obligatory vellum band.

A Romantic Oregon Wedding in Shades of Blue

July 22, 2024 in Weddings

Hand-painted acrylic brush strokes on a letterpress wedding invitation suite, menus and signage galore, an Oscar de la Renta wedding dress, a cocktail bar complete with oysters and custom signature ice cubes, endless florals, and oh so many shades of blue…this is Kelsi and John’s wildly romantic Oregon wedding - recently featured on Junebug Weddings.

A Verdant Kind of Love; Scottish Highlands Elopement featured in Magnolia Rouge

July 04, 2024 in Weddings

We know the city elopement imagery well. The couple gets ready in a hipster design hotel in downtown New York, LA, London, or Paris…there are some intimate moments in front of city hall, a stylish walk to their favorite coffee shop, bakery, or pizza place…some laughter, some kisses, a few amused onlookers, great sunglasses, and inevitably, two sidewalk-served pretty coupes of champagne.

But now its time for something a little different. Moody and dramatic landscapes, verdant autumnal florals, all the warm and woody shades of terracotta, and just enough wind to blow you back into the pages of Wuthering Heights. There is something decidedly romantic and cinematic about this elopement in the Scottish Highlands, (in what was once the holiday home of Constance Spry), and yet all the details are strikingly modern, minimal, and right on trend.

A little sip of scotch in Ferm Living’s ripple glasses, Kamperett’s iconic wrap around Adelaide gown, Laure de Sagazan’s romantic angora gilet, Moss Floral’s effortlessly composed Ikebana-inspired bouquet, and our most minimal stationery collection, The Curator, offering all the white space, blind embossing, vellum layers, and soft nude tones to complement and balance out the richly verdant landscape and moody color palette. All this captured by one of our favorite wedding photographers, Taylor and Porter, on 35mm film.

Scroll down, fall in love, and discover this dramatic yet simple way to say I Do.

That Arizona Sky; A timeless and elegant desert wedding

April 19, 2024 in Weddings

As a typography-focused wedding stationery designer, one of the first things I look at when we receive an enquiry are the words and letters. I scan through the names, dates, venues and addresses looking for something that might stand out - words or numbers I can immediately visualize and imagine looking great in a particular typeface, font size or layout in one of our collections. I get excited about names like Quinn & Braxton - a Q, R, X, and ampersand are a typographic feast! I like dates that are “tidy” - like 04.04.24, or ones with lots of curves in them, like 06.09.25. I like twos and threes and eights. Oh, eights! I love long and foreign names…and as far as I’m concerned, the more glyphs, the merrier. I love tightly packed letters and lines of text, so glyphs always present an interesting design challenge in getting everything to slot together nicely.

All of which is to say, this project - from the minute I laid eyes on the enquiry, was a dream. The wedding venue was in the SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS. The welcome dinner was in, come on, PARADISE VALLEY. And the groom was Swedish, so they politely asked if we could do a dual-language version of the invitation, in English and Swedish. Swedish is glyph city!

L'amour, champagne, et disco forever after; Rat & Boa Founder Stephanie Bennett's Wedding Featured in VOGUE France

January 08, 2024 in Weddings

We had just launched The Hedonist collection when I first heard from Stephanie and Tom, and within minutes of our first call…I knew I had just met two veritable hedonists who would allow me to truly bring this new collection to life. It was obvious right away, this was going to be a party with no end time. They had chosen Le Grand Banc for their wedding venue - an exclusive private hamlet in the Luberon which has long been a stomping ground for artists and royalty alike. Hello Princess Margo, and hello real Warhols on the wall.

From Birthday Girl, to Bride, to Wife, all in one night at the Ritz.

December 24, 2023 in Weddings

When Rachel reached out to me in January to design an invitation for Dan's and her joint 40th & 50th birthdays, she wanted something special that would inspire people to travel to New York from all over the world to celebrate this occasion with them, turning "The Decades Party" they had thrown for their 30th & 40th years earlier into something of a tradition.

They had booked the new rooftop restaurant Nubeluz by José Andrés at The Ritz Carlton NoMad in New York City, and were planning sunset cocktails, stylish passed nibbles, and dancing the night away in some serious platform heels. I immediately envisioned blocks of ritzy and stylized typography reminiscent of the inimitable New York City skyline...and we played around with several versions of the wording that would allow us to highlight the letters LET'S PARTY, sparsely scattered around the page in gold foil.

She didn't want white paper - "I don't want it to look like a wedding invite!" I remember her insisting...so we chose a light warm grey and created a dramatic folded piece that would unfold and introduce both scale and surprise.

The Letterist featured in VOGUE Australia

March 07, 2023 in Weddings

Thrilled to share these images of Holly&Shaun’s 50s-style Chateau wedding recently featured in VOGUE Australia. Holly opted for our sophisticated and minimal collection, The Editor in an understated monochrome palette of ivory, black, warm grey and vellum. The square ceremony invitation was letterpress printed with the large text subtly blind debossed, and finer details in charcoal grey letterpress on 710gsm Pur Coton Absinthe. The details were digitally printed on translucent vellum, and the RSVP was foil stamped in gold on warm grey. Their return address was also foil stamped in gold on our signature heavyweight ribbed-texture envelopes. Save the Dates, also from The Editor collection, were printed in charcoal grey letterpress on warm grey and paired with an ivory envelope. All vendor credits listed at the end of the article.

Lavender Lovin' - Utah Wedding Inspiration

June 16, 2022 in Weddings

Pleased to share the results of this beautiful creative collaboration at last year’s Hybrid Collective event in Park City, Utah. A big thank you to one of my favorite planners - Emmily Jones of Gatherist Co, for inviting us to join the impressive team, and everyone who was a part of making this magic so lovingly happen. See the full list of credits at the end of the post.

Casual Chiaroscuro - With Love from Italy

May 07, 2022 in Weddings

Chiaroscuro, minimal styling, and every shade of stone…pleased to share this beautiful recent collaboration in the inimitable Italian countryside, with the talented Frances Wynne of Allegory Events and photographer Jessica Withey. Model - Lisa May Jolley.

Sacred Modern - An Intimate Reception in a 17th Century Chapel

December 06, 2021 in Weddings

Embossed sans-serifs, a scrunchie, a black t-shirt, a silk wrap dress, sunglasses, modern statement rings, wistful country florals, and a vintage Citroen all converged in a 17th century former chapel to give new meaning to the Old English wedding rhyme “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.”

Shot on 35mm and medium format by Taylor & Porter. Dress by Kamperett via Bridal Boutique The Fall Bride. Florals by Ecru Floral. Jewelry by Completed Works. Venue and Catering by restaurant and retreat At the Chapel. Sunglasses by Bird via Truce. Paper Goods by The Letterist.

Bruton, Somerset - September 2021.

Finding Comfort in Nature - Styled Shoot, London 2020

March 04, 2021 in Weddings

Having followed and greatly admired the work of Anne Ladegast-Chiu of Hilde Stories for years, I was thrilled to finally have the opportunity to collaborate with her on this styled shoot in London last December. What made this even more meaningful, is that it came on the heels of a long and unsettling year of wedding cancellations and postponements that had left us all somewhat weary and creatively unfulfilled.

We may not be able to celebrate at the moment, but what this project showed me, and I hope shows you, is that we can still come together in some small way…to pretend, dream, imagine, and hope. I am forever grateful to everyone on this team…for enabling me to close the unforgettable twenty-twenty on this golden and rather mythical note. A full list of credits is included below. A special thanks to Anne for her inimitable vision, and to Emilie for capturing it all. Love is always, in the air.

The Letterist Featured in The Lane

August 19, 2020 in Weddings

For years I’ve told clients and friends searching for wedding inspiration…look to Australia! That’s where its at. While the US wedding industry is by far the largest and most pervasive, their well-oiled consumer media machine tends to draw out a line of neatly defined seasonal trends and then vendors color safely and convincingly within them.

Australia, on the other hand, either because it is smaller or further away, gets away with pushing those boundaries and consistently setting new, striking, and unexpected trends.

I can almost assume that when an interesting dress, seating chart, or cigar bar set-up catches my eye and stands out of my overly full wedding Instagram feed…8 times out of 10, its from Australia. (And at least half of those times, its in The LANE).

Which is why I am THRILLED to announce that The Letterist is now featured in Melbourne-based The LANE - by far the most unique and aesthetically-driven online wedding magazine and curated vendor directory there is. See the post and some wedding stationery advice here.

A Modern Cocktail Reception, Featured in PNW Weddings

December 03, 2019 in Weddings

Deep teals, wistful florals, classic cocktails, and delicious nibbles in a striking and intimate setting…what more do you need? Featured in this month’s Pacific Northwest Weddings issue, this gorgeous editorial is bound to leave you inspired, hungry and thirsty.

The Letterist Featured in The Knot

August 15, 2019 in Weddings

Four runs of letterpress in CMYK, exotic florals, and that stunning Alexander McQueen dress! Definitely the wildest and most colorful wedding in Letterist history, held last fall at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and deservedly featured in The Knot.

Click here to flick through the print magazine, and see more photos below. Eternally grateful to Caitlin & JT for truly entrusting me with creative liberty, and for the many cocktails we shared together as we worked on these. All event photos by Anagram Photo.