What will you do with all of your wedding keepsakes? You know the programs you spend all night making, the invitations you lovingly chose, and the place cards you hand wrote? Well if you’re like me, you want to save those as a treasured reminder of the wedding and everything that went into your big day. One option is to create a shadowbox which includes your wedding picture and anything else you want to display. Another idea that is pretty simple is to keep everything in a photo box. Beau-coup has one that is modern and elegant.

One thing I might do is store all of our wedding memorabilia in a scrapbook, labeling everything with place cards. You can handwrite different descriptions on each card with funny stories about how you used or created each item. Here are a few from Wedding Paper Divas that would beautifully decorate any wedding scrapbook.

When I began thinking about the whole wedding planning process, I knew that I wanted to have a wedding website. Especially since the majority of our guests were making a big trip to get here, I thought it would be nice to provide them with detailed information about our special day. There was a ton of websites out there to choose from but my fiance and I were looking for something specific. We wanted a site that allowed us to play music and show pictures and of course one that wasn’t extremely expensive. We finally settled on a site called MyMemoryPage.com.

Because we paid for the service up to a year, I had the idea of transforming our wedding website into a thank you website for guests. That way those who didn’t attend could get a sneak peek of our wedding through photos and the music that was played.

Months later, I heard about another website called Mywedding.com. I wish I heard about it before because while I love our website, this one allows you to coordinate Wedding Paper Divas invitations with their fabulous website layouts and it’s free! Here’s an example of what I mean.

Used for practical purposes in Medieval times, chandeliers have taken on a whole new meaning as a popular decorative piece. Most recently, as Diva blogger Lea has previously mentioned, chandeliers have also invaded the wedding scene and has become in its own right a sole wedding theme. Not only decorating and adding glamour and beauty to historical mansions like my wedding site seen in the picture below, but chandeliers are now being moved outdoors for a look that is simply to die for.

Chandeliers bring a feeling of grandiosity and luxury to any room and because of this they are also finding its way onto wedding stationery. If you love the look of chandeliers and want to add this to your wedding, take a look at Wedding Paper Divas’s glamorous Chandelier Rehearsal Dinner Invitations in Almond. They can be easily made into Wedding Invitations.

In the eighties, a white wedding referred to a popular Billy Idol song. Today it signifies a popular color choice for couples look for a chic, modern theme. Why save white only for your dress? White goes with everything and when used consistently adds light and fresh style to your wedding.

Adding a hint of gold or silver transforms a refreshingly white wedding into an elegant affair. Here’s a few invitation design options for couples wanting a white theme.

We’re definitely in the wedding season! With spring and summer at the peak of the wedding season, you might be either planning your own wedding, attending a few or doing both. As for me, it hasn’t stopped raining weddings since fall and I continue to embrace and enjoy every wedding that I get to experience.

Going to weddings are a great way to get ideas for your own. This past weekend it opened my eyes to the beauty of a simple celebration. Held outside near a beautiful river, the couple invited a mere 30 guests. It was an intimate ceremony made special with the beauty of nature and the sounds of a single violinist. Guests signed in on a scroll designed with the couple’s picture and we all got a taste of a light, airy and fruity cake which was perfect for such a sweet celebration. Here’s a few pictures from that day.

These are few invitations that would go great with a simple wedding.

There’s a lot of little things you learn about your own wedding that no one can really tell you until you go through it. I hope this post will help prevent the same thing from happening to you. When choosing your wedding stationery, don’t go conservative. With your costs exceeding your original budget, it’s easy to understand why some, like me, try to keep costs down by limiting the number of stationery ordered.

This was a BIG mistake! I later realized that there were a few people who we wanted to invite but thought we could not accommodate for. In addition, there were just some guests that we forgot to add to our original list. Talking to some other girlfriends I found out that this is really common. Some friends have had to ask families to return their invitations and RSVP cards so that they could reuse them for other guests.

As for my fiance and I? We were extremely embarrassed but were lucky that we found some extra invitations hidden among all our wedding things. Save yourself from having to ask your guests to return their invitations or worse, having to invite additional guests verbatim. Buy several extra sets to keep you covered and safe from having this happen to you.

Here’s a few new designs I love.

We love when we receive kudos from the press! Currently on stands, InStyle Weddings is featuring our Solid Monogram wedding invitation in an article titled “Extraordinary Invites.” We invite you to check it out:

In honor of Wedding Paper Divas’s newest luxury letterpress line, I decided to devote an entire entry about letterpress printing. What is letterpress? If you are not planning a wedding, it’s possible that this word is not a part of your regular vocabulary.

Letterpress is a type of printing used hundreds of years ago that involves the pressing of movable type onto paper creating an impression of the image in reverse. This is how you get that great textured look and depth characteristic of letterpress invitations.

Chinese woodblock printing started as early as 750 AD with well-known printer Johannes Gutenberg being cited as the inventor of movable print in the 1400’s. This was originally created as a faster alternative to hand written calligraphy.

What was once a fading art for hobbyists has now emerged into a cultural revival. One place where you will see letterpress printing as popular as ever is in wedding invitations. Because of its beautiful, rich look, it’s obvious that this type of printing will remain in style and continue to capture the hearts and attention of couples for a long time.

Resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterpress

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of our exclusive Letterpress Collection and partnership with stationer William Arthur. Our new line of stationery expands our product line to include more luxury stationery options and the ability to continuously provide you with the superior quality craftsmanship that you expect from us. Now, your invitation options are expanded as you can order complete wedding suites or individual wedding stationery pieces from either our Wedding Paper Divas Signature Line or Letterpress Collection.

The Wedding Paper Divas Letterpress Collection represents the marriage of contemporary designs, state-of-the-art technology and personalization tools, and outstanding customer service with the most traditional printing method available. Our exclusive Letterpress designs will only be available on the Wedding Paper Divas, and each order placed will be printed by William Arthur on their fine signature papers.

To view our new line, click here.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it will be like to have a new last name. It’s so weird and something many of my girlfriends went giddy over while they were all engaged. I didn’t agonize over hyphenating it or not changing it at all. My full name is so long that adding another thing to it would be excruciating. And leaving my maiden name was never really an option for me. I wanted to change it as a kind of ritual. Anyway, I’ve been web surfing reading about all the things you have to do to go through this process. One thing I remember reading somewhere was that it is important to do all of your name changes on important stuff like your ID and passport before your honeymoon bound. With all the restrictions at airports these days, your vacation will end a lot sooner than you think if you don’t have the appropriate identification. It is another thing I need to think about in the midst of all the wedding planning. But good to know that there are kits you can buy to help you make all the necessary changes. Before I got that far, I realized suddenly that I really need to embrace my name as it is. Soon I will have a whole new name all together. It seems so strange to suddenly have that changed after it has been part of my identity my whole life. Then I realized how important my save the dates and wedding invitations are. I get to see my full name, maiden name and all, in fancy font and in print. That’s something I can treasure forever!