cake table from wedding...making me hungry

(photos by Monika Elena)

Ann's Wedding

(All these gorgeous photos are by Monika Elena Photography. Ann's flowered hair clips are from Emerson Made, her bouquet by Kari Schrever, and the delicious food and cakes by Saffron caterers).

Ann's invitations

My little sister kindly gave me full creative freedom to make her wedding invitations this summer. It was really fun, and - bonus! - I got to watch pretty much the entire first season of Little House on the Prairie on DVD the Saturday I printed/assembled. Indignation towards that Nellie Oleson and her mother fueled my creative energy.

On the top is the little map. Dan proposed to Ann this spring at the cherry blossoms, so I wanted to include that romantic detail from the cutest couple in the whole world. Fortunately most of the people who came to the wedding reception already knew where my parents lived, or had GPS, because this map was not actually helpful in the traditional map-sense of the word.

I used my trusty gocco machine to print most of the pieces, with the exception of the announcement.

Ann and Dan got married in a beautiful and small ceremony in the LDS Washington, DC temple. We thought it would be friendly to hand-write the cards for this part, since it was a small group.

We had the announcement itself letter-pressed by Jordan Ferney. She did a beautiful job.

and then everything got bundled together and tied up with hemp string.

Congratulations, again, Dan and Ann! I love you guys.

more pictures from the wedding

(all by Monika Elena)

sneak peek from Ann's wedding...

My sister was married on Saturday. It was a gorgeous day in Virginia (amazingly the rain waited until after we were all tucked into bed that night) and the ceremony (they were married in the Washington D.C. LDS temple) was intimate and beautiful. These polaroid shots are by the amazing Monika Elena and they totally capture the feeling of the day - Ann and Dan are so, so happy to be married. I am so excited for my little sister to start this next part of her life. Isn't she such a gorgeous bride?

More pictures to come!