Comments on: Wedding Invitation Giveaway by Elum!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:27:22 +0000

We are going to get married on the beach in Florida. It will be a large wedding as we have many family members and friends, but we want it to feel laid back and relaxed– just fun, low stress. The watermark suite would be perfect! Clean, elegant and beautiful.
Thanks so much!!

By: Alicia

Alicia — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:00:50 +0000

James and I are high school sweethearts, and got engaged just after our 7 year anniversary. We’ll be getting married August 2010, and we haven’t chosen a venue yet because we’re looking for the perfect place. We want our wedding to reflect our personalities and style – something that is very clean and well put together, yet still gives off a fun party atmosphere. We want everyone to a) have the time of their lives, and b) leave the wedding thinking how beautiful everything looked.

The Clean Lines invitation would give guests the perfect first impression of what our wedding will be, while still leaving enough room for lots of (fun) surprises!

By: Meghan

Meghan — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:40:12 +0000

Our wedding is planned for September 18, 2010 at a historic house in Leesburg, VA. Our ceremony is outdoors in a brick courtyard behind the house with the reception in a permanent tent right next to it. I wanted to do something very earthy and natural because I love being outdoors. My fiancee and I met on match.com and even though we dated for a few months and he wasn’t ready to commit, he realized a month later that he couldn’t be without me! That was two years ago. We already have a lot in common, but together we grew to love and appreciate wine. We have a bunch of fantastic wineries in VA and we have taken many trips to do wine tastings. Our wedding will be a winery type theme because of this. I have already collected a bunch of corks from each winery that we have visited to put into a centerpiece for each table. Our favors will also reflect my love for cooking and for providing a favor that people can take home and do something with–mulling spices for wine. I think the ‘fields’ or ‘jubilee’ invitations would capture the classy and modern aspects of our wedding, while also keeping in the natural, outdoor setting. My invitations will definitely say ‘join us for celebration and merriment’ rather than ‘reception to follow’. We are all about dancing and celebrating!

By: Sondra Himmelreich

Sondra Himmelreich — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:35:23 +0000

Jake and I are high school sweethearts that have been together for almost 7 years. We have decided to have our wedding ceremony and reception in my parent’s backyard in Rockwall, TX. It is a natural setting with lots of trees and a pond. Jake and I grew up together, spending most of our time during the beginning of our relationship in our backyard. The bridge going across the pond is the very spot he first told me he loved me.

The invitations we are looking for would capture the natural, fairy-tale of our story and the setting of the backyard ceremony and wedding. The Garden Aviary is perfect as its whimsical design will perfectly reflect both the natural theme of the wedding and the playful symbolism of childhood sweethearts.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:31:29 +0000

Congratulations to each couple!

My fiancé and I have been friends since childhood. Despite the urging of most of our friends—and even our families—we refused to date each other, but remained good friends through most of college (even though we went to school in separate states). We began dating after college, and he joined the military. In the past two-and-a-half years, our relationship has taken us from the distance of living in separate states, to life in the same community, and now once again to a very long distance due to a deployment to Afghanistan.

We plan to marry when he returns, a date that has been in the making for many years. As so many of our friends and family have been influential in our lives and our relationship, and are still seeing us through this challenge of 8,000 miles apart, we hope to give our guests—a relatively small group of friends and family—a wedding that conveys our thankfulness for all they’ve meant along the way. However, sometimes I think our guests are more excited than we are about our own wedding, mostly because it gives them the chance to point and say “I told you so”. The “Ampersand” design would fit wonderfully with our wedding vision. Not only is it elegantly modern yet classic and stunning in its design, which sets the stage for a great event. But its simplicity and emphasis on our names and the date of our special day says everything the guests who know us best (and made sure they knew we’d make a great match so long ago!) have been waiting to see for a very long time! Please pick me!

By: Lindsay Ruck

Lindsay Ruck — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:45:00 +0000

Cody and I will be having our wedding at the Farm at South Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona. It’s an institution in Arizona and is still a working pecan farm. The enormous trees create so much atmosphere and the garden areas make what is usually an arid desert seem lush and full of life! We both grew up here, went to the same high school (some how we never knew each other), and lived just a block away from one another as kids (in fact our parents’ backyards touch). It took me moving to Tucson for us to finally meet.

This year I will be moving to North Carolina to go to school and he will be staying here with the house we just bought. It will be hard being away, so with our wedding we want to celebrate our home of Arizona. We’ll serve traditional southwestern food, encourage our out of town guests to soak up the sun (and 70 degree weather in March) while they visit and introduce them to one of Arizona’s hidden gems in The Farm.

As for the invitations, Salon would be the perfect compliment to our simple garden wedding in the sun.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:03:02 +0000

Romance! We want our invitations to convey the romance of our wedding date, location, and style. Our wedding is in February (near Valentine’s Day and our 6-year dating anniversary). The reception will be held at a historic garden in Florida. Guests will be able to enjoy the gardens and the lake from the rocking chairs on the enormous porch where the bar will be set up.

Garden Aviary is so PERFECT for us! The flowers, birds, and wicker-like weave pattern just fits our venue and style perfectly!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:18:35 +0000

My fiance and I quite literally just decided on a date! Even though we have been dating for 7 years, and have been engaged for 2- we are very laid back! Despite taking our time with it, we both agree that we want our wedding to reflect our relationship. This is why “simplicity” would be the perfect suite! On our wedding day, we want it to be about us, and nothing else!

By: Celia

Celia — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:58:50 +0000

Nik and I will be getting married in January 2010 in New Zealand. We want our wedding to reflect a sense of old-world charm and elegance and the ‘Guilded Frame’ suite captures this fully. These gorgeous invitations provide an illustrative dimension to our imaginations!
We love letterpress printing and the chance to win an Elum suite could not have occurred at a better time for us.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:40:22 +0000

Our wedding will take place at one of San Francisco’s historic grand hotels; The CLIFT is now a fusion of old-world hotel elegance with distinctly contemporary energy and glamour. The Rococo Suite, which is inspired by the Hollywood Regency design, perfectly represents the old 1940s Hollywood glam of our black tie preferred wedding style.

By: Megan M

Megan M — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:12:38 +0000

After only 4 months of dating, my fiance and I pretty much knew we would get married someday. In our classic laid back style though, we waited a while to announce it to everyone else! Now, a year and a half later we’ve made it official, and we’re getting married May 8th, 2010! We chose to get married in early May because we love the outdoors, and wanted to be close to the water without being too chilly. I love the idea of a garden wedding ceremony, and want our guests to receive their invitations and get a sense of the casually elegant garden event we have envisioned that so matches our personalities. Because the reception will be indoors we don’t want the invitations to have an overwhelming garden theme but enough of a hint, with the classic lines that a sunset reception also inspires. We think the “Fields” suite perfectly embodies this mood (in our colors of bright blue and pale yellow, for spring!) and we would be incredibly excited to announce this happy day to our friends and family with these beautiful invitations!

By: Kendra

Kendra — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:50:09 +0000

Our wedding will be on Sunday, October 10, 2010 (yes, 10/10/10) in Washington DC. Both my fiance and I are from the south, but lead very hectic and demanding lives with work and graduate school here in DC, so a wedding in Louisiana (my home) or Florida (his home) was out of the question. However, we still want our wedding to exemplify southern elegance and charm. However, DC weddings are much more expensive than weddings down south, so we were forced to cut as many corners as possible to ensure we could still have a nice event that is reflective of our classic, traditional style. To cut costs, we decided on a Sunday morning ceremony followed by a wedding brunch reception. However, as I told my wedding planner, we definitely cannot compromise on our stationery because “I can’t STAND the look or feel of cheap paper!” Also, we want the invitation to set the tone for an elegant affair, even though it will not be the typical formal, evening event. The Elum “Rococo” invitation design in buttercream with sunshine ink would be the perfect way to introduce our guests to what we hope will be a beautiful wedding morning, and a beautiful start to our new life together. Elum certainly sets the gold standard for invitation design, and I would be honored to use them.

By: Allison

Allison — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:02:29 +0000

My fiance and I are both from Indiana, but college and grad school took us to opposite coasts (him to Seattle, me to Boston). We have been long distance for the past four years, with me spending my summers in Seattle and heading back east each September. I just graduated, and will be moving to (finally!) join John in Seattle in two weeks. We will be getting married next May in Indiana, meeting in the middle of the two places where our relationship has grown. Our venue is an old warehouse building in downtown Indianapolis, complete with the original wood floors and loads of beautiful exposed brick. Our goal is to bring natural, organic elements into the industrial space, creating a beautiful synthesis of the city life John and I love so much with our more country roots. The “fields” suite is perfect for our day, as it combines sleek, clean modern design with more organic flower/stem motifs. Elum, you do beautiful work, and Abby, thanks for continuing to provide beautiful inspiration for all of us!

By: Kristina

Kristina — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:42:11 +0000

My fiance and I will have our wedding in October. We’re excited to have a wedding in the fall. Even though Texas is still relatively warm in October, there’s a feeling of change in the air. Pumpkins are set out at roadside stands, leaves slowly begin to change, and there’s excitement about cooler weather. We plan to take full advantage of the beauty that will surround us. The church is simple, two wreaths made of berries will hang on each door. No other decoration is needed. At our reception, instead of flowers, we’ll use pumpkins and acorns, leaves and lanterns to create a warm and cozy feeling. Our day will be simple and beautiful, hopefully focusing attention on the ceremony that will join two in marriage. The invitation that would best suit our goal at our wedding is “Simplicity.”

By: Heidi

Heidi — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:54:09 +0000

I consider myself to be the luckiest girl in the world to have found my PJ. He’s so perfect for me it baffles me still. Our wedding will be the happiest day of our lives, high in hill country of Austin, TX surrounded by the people who mean so much to us and who brought us together. The Poster Suite is so perfect for me and my musician fiance, what an awesome way to invite everyone we know to the live music capital of the world! Thank you for this giveaway!