Come See Us At The Rockford Bridal Show-Sunday March 4th

Hitched Invites will be at Rockford's Most Elegant Bridal Show. Sunday March 4th 2012. 700 West Riverside Rd. Rockford, IL 11am to 3pm. Come out and see us! We will be offering 20% Off for any bride who purchases a wedding invitation package from this event!

http://cliffbreakers.com/rockfords-most-elegant-bridal-show-reservations/

25 Wedding Color Combos

I saw this article on the knot.com and thought it would be nice to write about it. From time to time I suggest color combos on my blog. I figured I would mention this article because it cover so many options and that is awesome. I am a fan of bright colors and loved the green and orange combos. Another one I that I liked was the silver and gold. I have used those colors independently of each other but never together! The yellow, gray and silver is also popular as I have just completed a design for a client in those colors (I will post pics when I have spare moment). All these color combos are great and the next spec design(s) I start working on I will have to remind myself to refer to this article. If you have not decided on a color scheme or are looking for ideas check this article out!

http://wedding.theknot.com/wedding-colors/choosing-wedding-colors/articles/wedding-color-inspiration-boards.aspx?page=1

Temecula Wedding Suite

The latest creation to come from Hitched is the Temecula wedding invitation suite. Designed in a bright purple, chartreuse, casaba and brown (however it does not have to stay that way) reflects a vineyard color scheme but does not go full on vineyard with a grape vine design. This design incorporates a vignette design with a serif and sans serif font, airing out the design with tracking, kerning and leading. A simple but striking invitation suite that includes the invitation, rsvp card, map, outer envelope, rsvp envelope. We also took it a little farther incorporating a menu, wine bottle tag, place card and table number. Take a look... And of course you do not need to get married in a vineyard to love this design!

Stationery Is Now Available!

Our shop is now ready on www.hitchedinvites.com. We have also added some stationery available for personalization and purchase on Etsy.com. View our shop here. http://www.etsy.com/shop/hitchedinvites

Stay tuned for more news regarding our new stationery line, more designs will be released once our shop is open!

Coming soon in 2012!

Coming soon in 2012! Hitched Invites will be launching a stationary line called Just Write. Just Write will feature flat and folded note cards that will feature various forms of saying "Thank You" and the ability to personalize some pieces with your name! We are super excited and a shopping cart will be set up on our site in the near future. We will also be able to be found on Etsy.com. Stay Tuned!

This Years Xmas Card

As promised, but a little late! I planned to get this up earlier. I decided to use a few different colors this year that are non traditional. Fuchsia, Purple and Lime Green with some Grays. I used a purple pocket card to to house the card. The card has a fuchsia backer. I used a big blocky text with some smaller text. The outer pocket card also has a band that incorporates the ornament from the actual card and a band that says "happy holidays" in lime green. To add a little touch I included an ornament hook on the ornament.


I also designed my mom and dads Xmas card. For this it goes along the idea of a car scent tree. We used traditional Red and Green and made the tree red with a catchy holiday saying. The Tree has a hole punched in it and a ribbon is tied through. To add some extra kick we sprayed a holiday scent on the tree!

Last of the Surprise Birthdays!

Earlier this summer I had mentioned that I had a lot of Surprise Birthday invitations to create. I can finally share the last of them with you. My Aunt Darla turned 60 this past weekend and her children put together a surprise party for her.

I was asked to design the invitations and the place cards for the guests. We also added some trivia cards. My cousin Farrah was in charge of the decorating. She will be a certified party planner at the end of December and she is starting her own company called Simply Azure Events. This was her first event!

We discussed a theme and it was heading towards Egyptian but upon research we quickly learned that most of it is hokey and with a limited budget to get it exactly how she wanted it would have been impossible. We decided the use the peacock feather for it's meaning and incorporate her as the Queen and her 60 year reign. With the invitations starting everything off Farrah was able to do a great job with the rest of the decorating. The invitations feature a teal, brown, cream and gold color scheme. They were accented with teal crystals and depending on which invite you received you had a gold or brown ribbon. There was also an en enclosure for hotel booking info. So take a look at the finished products!

Coming up next... This years Holiday Card and a recap of the past designs!