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Style Me Pretty Texas Welcomes Our Advertisers!

Dawn — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:00:47 +0000

Good morning, SMPers and a very happy Saturday to you! If you are anything like me (and I know you are!), then you have one very serious obsession with all things pretty paper. Sweet, sweet save-the-dates, gorgeous menus, fabulous wedding invitations… when you see some beautiful stationery, your heart SINGS. Well, lovelies, call this your lucky day, because we have one brand new advertiser to introduce you to this morning and they just so happen to be a FABULOUS boutique paper studio specializing in making your wedding dreams come true. Yep, an entire day of lovely paper goods lies before you, all courtesy of Tangerine Paper Space and all of the pretty, pretty inspiration they bring. I know… we are excited, too! So, join us in giving them a big SMP welcome and then head on over to their website to show them some love!

From Tangerine Paper Space… T A N G E R I N E P A P E R S P A C E is a boutique paper studio based in Houston, Texas specializing in freshly made custom products for local + international events. We love paper, the smell of fresh ink, good old snail mail, handwritten notes, people in love, hazelnut chocolate and ever after. We believe in quality by using the finest papers and fabrics, offer excellent design and craftsmanship, and, most importantly, we prioritize you: the bride.

We are pleased to offer 50 complimentary thank you notes with every new client’s invitation order. Just “like” our Facebook page and mention SMP in your e-mail or call. Deal expires March 30, 2012.

P.S. >> Paper dreams do come true.

Photography: Amy Dunn Photograpy

Gorgeous, no?!? Welcome to the family Tangerine Paper Space! We’re so happy to have you!

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Post tags: Houston, Invitations, Paper Goods, Tangerine Paper Space, Texas, TX, Wedding Stationery
Post categories: Houston Weddings, Texas Weddings, Welcome Post

Style Me Pretty California Welcomes Our Advertisers

Emilia Jane — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:00:40 +0000

I know it’s early and you probably haven’t finished your Saturday morning coffee yet but I have a little task for you. Take a look over to the right of the screen. Did you know that you had an awesome assortment of local vendors at your fingertips? Not only do we pile on the pretty week after week but you can find any vendor you could ever possibly need. And if you see them here you know they have to be good! We have savvy stationery superstars like BG Design Studio who create oh-so chic handmade paper goods (LOVE that chevron!). Then there’s Milk and Honey Shoes who bring a little extra sparkle to your feet so you can look amazing from your perfectly coifed hair all the way down to your tippy toes! Please join me in welcoming these two rockstars to our California team!

From BG Design Studio… BG Design Studio creates stunning handmade paper goods that are individually tailored to your personality and style. We specialize in wedding invitations, stationery, signage, table numbers, programs, favors and more. Our elegant and chic designs are created not only for aesthetic pleasure, but to instill a sense of wonder and anticipation for your wedding celebration. Let us design custom invites for your special day, and we’ll take your breath away.

From Milk and Honey Shoes… When you’re tired of looking everywhere else, it’s time to take matters into your own hands and design your perfect shoes. You’ve been able to have input on ever other detail for your wedding — the color of your flowers, the font on your invitations, the exact shade of bridesmaids’ dresses — why should your shoes be any different? By designing your own shoes through milk & honey you can get the heel height you want, the style you want, the color, embellishments and have shoes that are uniquely yours!

We hope you love our newest Advertisers as much as we do and make sure to stop by their sites and show them some SMP support! Welcome aboard everyone, we’re happy to have you join our Style Me Pretty California family!

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Post tags: BG Designs, California, Chevron, Handmade, Invitations, Milk and Honey Shoes, Paper Goods, Stationery, Wedding Shoes
Post categories: California Weddings, Welcome Post

Style Me Pretty Destination Welcomes Our Advertisers!

Dawn — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:00:21 +0000

Happy Saturday, lovelies! It’s the beginning of a new month here on Style Me Pretty Destination Weddings and that’s great news, because it means that we have some fabulous advertisers to introduce you to! So fabulous, in fact, that we absolutely adore each and every one and are so very honored to have them as part of our Style Me Pretty family. So, without further ado, please give a big SMP welcome to Alea Lovely, Chic Weddings In Italy, Deposit a Gift, The Pressroom and Readyluck!

From Alea Lovely… Our company is unique, because we offer Photography or Video services focusing on the couple’s story. We love to tell a story. We are constantly looking for moments that are meaningful and pure. We are looking for what usually happens in between the family photos or the ceremony – the times when a couple is most honest and real. My hope for our work is that it would always be a beautiful marriage of elements that tell an effortless, yet emotional story. Where the subject is more important than the background and the content is more about the story than the poses. We are photographers, cinematographers, but most of all story tellers. We are a husband/wife team that values the importance of not just a wedding, but a marriage and the gift that these memories are to clients.

We would like to offer SMP Destination Brides a free post-wedding photo session.

From Chic Weddings In Italy… Chic Weddings provide a boutique wedding design and coordination service all around Italy and offer tailor made assistance with all the aspects involved in the organisation of your big day. Our clients tend to choose us for our glamorous style, for our unconventional & flexible approach and especially for our focus on event design. Each one of our events is different from the others and reflects the personality and wishes of the bride and the groom. For this reason we don’t propose already-made packages but work with our clients to create a completely unique wedding from scratch each single time.

We strongly believe in the pursue of freedom and in the beauty of each person’s individual taste. We encourage our brides to express themeselves in full without worrying about what others expect from them. Never try to be like someone else, never forget who you are and what you love.

Chic Weddings’ Italian founders, Clara & Eva, have a mantra: “Weddings should be fabulous and fun.” With this in mind, we are committed to creating experiences of truly rare quality while enjoying the planning process.

Clara described by Eva… Curious and enthusiastic, Clara has the courage to try innovative concepts and as if by magic is always able to make impossible dreams happen. A talented communicator, she has worked for many years in public relations in London and is a highly skilled event manager. Clara likes: Persian cats, The sea of Palmarola, Blue and white stripes, Her pink car, White simple shirts with vintage jeans, The green tea chocolate cake of Roka

Eva described by Clara… Full of passion, energy and life, Eva has a wonderful ability to understand other people’s visions and transform them into reality. After working for many years for the United Nations, she has finally decided to make the most of her creative flair and dedicate herself entirely to the development of amazing ideas. Eva likes: Blue velvet, Polka dots, The colour of lavender, The scent of grass after a rainstorm, Anything that has a cool packaging, The softness of cashmere

If you tell us more about you, we will design a wedding that reflects your inner self.

From Deposit a Gift… Deposit a Gift gives engaged couples what they want most: Flexibility. Our cash wedding registry lets friends and family contribute monetary gifts towards the dreams and experiences they actually want, not ‘stuff’ they don’t. It’s incredibly user friendly, and offers a great alternative to traditionalregistries. Simply put, it’s a less crass way of asking for cash.

Deposit a Gift works like a traditional registry to be easy on gift-givers, but allows couples to register for anything — from honeymoons to home down payments, newlywed activities to charities. We are also the only site that includes a free wedding website, and room to list your other registries, so it truly is a one-stop-shop. No shipping. No gift wrap. No need for returns.

From The Pressroom… The Pressroom & Company (TP&C) is a select group of experienced and passionate stationery designers who came together to showcase their beautiful designs through this new venture. Our renowned designers are from all over the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Their styles showcase a wide variety of artwork from modern to vintage, formal to understated, whimsical to elegant and more. TP&C is operated by Spark Letterpress, an experienced and trusted stationer so you can be assured your order is handled with the utmost of care.

Our exceptional yet affordable letterpress printing is a perfect match for all of life’s events. A 100 quantity, 4-piece set in 1 color letterpress is only $850, which is an amazing deal for those of you who might have thought letterpress was not in your budget.

Be sure to take advantage of their special offer for Style Me Pretty readers – 10% off your order – by using code SMP when you place your order.

Whether you’re internet-savvy or need a little guidance, the experts at The Pressroom will help you make all the right moves to end up with custom stationery you’ll treasure for years to come.

From Readyluck… Luck is being ready – in life and in love, as we carry ourselves along with open eyes and minds. Readyluck is a collective of photographers whose passions lie in creative, articulate storytelling told through a diversity of talents. To be in the right place at the right time involves preparation and an acute awareness of light, form, and detail. It also requires an agreement of chance, of unknown paths crossing, a coming together. Being invited into your life to document the immensity of this miracle is a privilege that’s not lost on us.

We approach the wedding as a documentarians – mixing photojournalism with both formal and creative portraiture, while striving to capture the unedited emotion that articulates the day. We work unobtrusively, and are always flexible to couples’ needs. We’ve covered weddings and been on assignment from both coast to wonderful coast as well as internationally. You can see samples of our recent work at the Readyluck website. Our published images and projects have appeared in print and online at The Knot, Martha Stewart Weddings, TIME magazine, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and others (Style Me Pretty!).

Fabulous, right?!? I suggest stopping by each and every lovely site, because not only are they awesome , but you can also show them some SMP love and support at the same time! (Psst… I have already spent hours on each one!) We couldn’t be happier to have them here! Welcome!

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Post tags: Alea Lovely, Chic Weddings In Italy, deposit a gift, Destination, Destination Weddings, Gift Registry, Online Registry, Paper Goods, ReadyLuck Photographers, The Pressroom, Wedding Invitations & Stationery
Post categories: Destination Weddings, Welcome Post

Wiley Valentine Invitations + a Giveaway!

Emilia Jane — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:00:05 +0000

If you haven’t had your morning coffee yet, don’t fret, because we have an extra special treat for you that will certainly have you buzzing through the rest of the day. We all know and love the stellar designs of California paper goods designers Wiley Valentine around here. They were part of the genius team behind this dream proposal that we all swooned over a few weeks ago. Well, now it’s your chance to get a little piece of paper heaven from these remarkable artists because we have a fantastic giveaway from the new collections!

Beyond pretty, right? Each piece is whimsical, modern and chic and has its own adorable personality! The new collections feature their signature textured paper, the perfect solution for the bride who loves letterpress, but may not have the budget. All the paper is 100% cotton, tree free for those of you looking to keep your invitations environmentally conscious!

So here’s the drill. Wiley Valentine is giving away a set of 75 save-the-dates (with coordinating printed envelopes) from one of their four latest collections! Head on over to Wiley Valentine and check them out – Tag Love, Flower Forest, Happily Ever After and Banner Love. Once you’re done perusing all the pretty come right back over here and leave us a comment below to fill us in on your favorite collection. One lucky SMP Reader will be randomly chosen on Friday, June 24th. Full terms and regulations of this giveaway can be read here.

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Post categories: California Weddings, Wedding Invitations & Stationery

Travel Inspired Paper Goods by Sara Giessen

Erin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:00:42 +0000

There are insanely cute paper goods and then there are these. Invites that are so stinkin cute, so beyond , so over-the-top amazing that they get their very own category. These fun bits of paper were designed by Sara Giessen for a lovely wedding abroad in Iceland and they involve, maps, travel, scrabble letters, twine, books – are you dying yet? Not only that but they also come with a cute little diddy of a film by KC Giessen that gives you a behind the scenes viewing of the making of an invitation…set to really cute french music of coarse. I ask you, what could be better? If you aren’t on beautiful paper overload yet, check out the gallery for more pretty images from KC Giessen and Kyle Hale.

Creating Christina & Mark’s Wedding Invitations from KC and Sara on Vimeo.

From Sara Giessen:

Christina and Mark married on June 26, 2010 in Budir, Iceland. We were inspired by the locale, using travel, maps and books as the basis for all the wedding design. I designed and crafted a wedding package for Christina and Mark including a Save the Date postcard, hand-bound hardcover books for the invitations, vintage train ticket styled programs and personalized tags for the escort cards.

Photography: Kyle Hale (on-site) and KC Giessen (detail photographs) / Save The Dates, Invites, Programs, Escort Cards: Sara Giessen / Wedding Styling: Jillian Clark

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Post categories: The Blog, Wedding Cinematography, Wedding Invitations & Stationery, Wedding Photography

Chewing the Cud + Elizabeth Messina

Abby Larson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:30:04 +0000

Any day that chewing the cud cozies up with Elizabeth Messina is a really good day in my book. These two ladies are what I consider to be THE most talented artists in our industry…with Viola designing the most beautiful wedding invitations and paper goods, and Elizabeth photographing in the most romantic, ethereal, gorgeous way possible. So to see their latest adventure come into my inbox, well…swoon central.

The shoot was based around Viola’s new product line including those fabulous eco-chic gift wrap pieces and her adorable collection of invitations, announcements and greeting cards. I have one of the wraps and when I tell you that it’s insanely gorgeous, not to mention a super chic alternative to paper wrap, I am hardly doing it justice. The design work, the color palettes, the textures…everything is gorgeous. And for those of you that can’t hold off any longer, all of these little goodies can be found at her online shop right here.

Thank you so much to Elizabeth Messina and Viola at chewing the cud for sending us this little tidbit of inspiration. I am trying to hold back from gushing about just how great I think the two of you are, so I’ll just say this. Love, love, love both of you.

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Post categories: Wedding Invitations & Stationery

Tiny Notebooks by Every Jot and Tittle

Abby Larson — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:15:03 +0000

I looooove these little notebooks that Every Jot and Tittle is making! They are a hodge podge of papers, bound together with a tiny brad. How cute would these be as a gift to bridesmaids so that they can make notes of things going on, of to-do’s for the wedding, of fun little tidbits along the way…

We are totally in the spirit of giving today, so SMP is giving away 8 of these to one lucky reader! Instructions are a little different than the last posts…just leave a comment as to what your favorite SMP post is, with a link to that post, and we’ll choose a reader at random! Fun way to see what you guys are loving!

Oh and guess what…we have one more giveaway coming today!

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Post tags: Etsy, Every Jot and Tittle, Give Away, Handmade, Paper Goods
Post categories: Contests, Wedding Favors & Gifts