My friend Ali is recently engaged and in the very early stage in her planning. This is all very exciting for me, it gives me an excuse to keep browsing. The Bride's Guide blog, on MarthaStewart.com, posted about Felix Doolittle a while ago. His images are a great! These are just a few of many- from farm, nature, food, and ocean inspired watercolors. Congrats Ali & Pete!
Pics from Felix Doolitle
Having a wedding at Blue Hill at Stone Barns is simply amazing. It is romantic and fresh, lush and modern all at once. Needless to say, many couples have chosen it for these very reasons. Browsing on Brides.com, I came across this wedding that was designed by the editors of Modern Bride and Michelle Rago at Blue Hill in the Hudson Valley... see more pictures and read all about "A Little Bit Country" here.
Pics from Brides.com
We felt we did not need to include all of the pain staking details of our wedding event on paper... we created a website (from scratch, not from a wedding website). It was great to have more control over what the final site looked like. It was nice to save a little paper too.
As for the directions, Blue Hill at Stone Barns has thier own that we included with the invite (one less thing to design!).
So, We sent an invitation to ourselves- and received it today! As with the save the dates, we designed it together. It was a little bit more involved, but, here is the breakdown...
Our invitation designs are done. AC and I sweated over them for a few weeks, and they are now out of our hands and into Coeur Noir's. Alex there has been more than a printer- he's helped organize so many little wedding practicalities. Letterpress printer extraordinaire! They are on Wythe and N5th in Williamsburg.
I sent out our Save the Dates with the new Pollination stamps- how perfect for a Farm Affair! I might just use them again for the invitations...
When I found those at The Postal Store, I came across these tropical fruit stamps that would be great for an island destination wedding.
Of course we could always Zazzle an adorable picture of Molly. Either of these would work.
Last but not least, is Brooklyn resident Love Jenna. Word is she can doodle you a little creature in addition to your names and addresses. The example fonts below are just a few of the ones shown on her blog. Choosing one calligrapher will be a tough decision with these talents available!
A few months ago this calligrapher/artist blew up all over the blogs (Brooklyn Bride, Thoughtful Day, and d*s). No one I have seen has done whimsy as beautifully as Betsy Dunlap. These are 2 examples taken from her website.
There are so many calligraphers out there. Very few take their type to another level and strive to do more than just everyday calligraphy. These next 3 posts show the best I have come across.
Below are examples of the work of Pretty Pen Jen. These pictures are from her website- and do not even represent half of her available fonts. 
Our Save the Dates went out a few weeks ago. I know I wanted them to be letterpressed, but all of the great letterpress studios I knew of (Greenwich Letterpress, Sesame Letterpress) were a little out of our price range.
So I rolled up my sleeves, used copyright free images, and a free font and designed them myself. Don't laugh; I did it in Microsoft Word. Being a science-medicine girl, I never really needed Adobe other than for PDF health alerts. No worries, I am doing the invites in Illustrator.
The back was blind letterpressed- I wanted to evoke the simple and fresh feel of the wedding, but hint at the fun elements that could be counted on. We had them printed at an incredible letterpress printshop in Brooklyn, Coeur Noir.
