Vendor of the Week: Dogwood Blossom Stationery & Invitation Studio

Custom wedding invitations are one of my favorite things ever about a wedding, which is why I’m so excited to introduce you all to Dogwood Blossom Stationery & Invitation Studio this week! Check out some of their amazing work, and get to know them a little bit more…

Vendor of the Week: Dogwood Blossom Stationery & Invitation Studio

Why do you see yourself as being Modern, Vintage, Classic, or Eclectic?

While I definitely have my own personal style, I keep it out of the equation when it comes to working with clients! It’s your style that matters here. At Dogwood Blossom Stationery, we collaborate with you to bring your vision to life. Our design process is one-on-one – whether in person, over the phone, or by email. We create custom samples specifically for you based on our conversation, and then tweak them into one perfect invitation with your input.

Vendor of the Week: Dogwood Blossom Stationery & Invitation Studio

What is your favorite wedding detail you’ve ever seen or created?

Color, embellishment, dimension. It’s our tagline, and my favorite wedding details contain those elements. I’m at my best when I’m challenged with something new. My favorite example of this is the first time a bride asked me to incorporate fabric as a major part of her invitation. The result was amazing, she was thrilled, and I couldn’t wait for the next opportunity to use my new skill. We use fabric so often now that it seems weird that it wasn’t part of our repertoire before – even my business cards use fabric now. Dogwood Blossom Stationery takes things to a totally different level by stepping out of the realm of paper alone, and by incorporating dimensional elements that really make things pop.

Vendor of the Week: Dogwood Blossom Stationery & Invitation Studio

What is your favorite store or brand?

Maybe it’s a strange response, but Martha Stewart is my favorite “brand.” Over so, so many years, she has created a trend that is allowing us now to think outside the box regarding events, entertaining, and style. She has shown us again and again that you can take literally any object or theme and – with some creativity and ingenuity – find a way to make it intriguing, interesting, and beautiful.

 Vendor of the Week: Dogwood Blossom Stationery & Invitation Studio

What is your favorite thing about weddings?

In addition to being one of the biggest milestones of your life, your wedding might just be the biggest social event you’ll ever host. This day offers you the chance to express who you are, in this moment, in a big and fairly public way. It is a celebration of you, of your love, of all the prospects and possibilities your future together holds. These are the reasons why weddings are so magical, so captivating, so obsess-worthy. These are the reasons why I feel so honored to be even a tiny part of your big day.

Vendor of the Week: Dogwood Blossom Stationery & Invitation Studio

What qualities do you possess that enable you to work well with brides and grooms?

Our stellar communication and listening skills allow us to hear your vision and ask clarifying questions – ensuring we’ll create the invitation and paper goods you’re envisioning. Our strong emphasis on service, responsiveness, and thoroughness ensures your needs are fully met and prevents you from having any stress or added effort. And taking pride in our work guarantees that on every item, every piece, for every service, we are doing our absolute best work for you.

Vendor of the Week: Dogwood Blossom Stationery & Invitation Studio

What steps do you take to ensure that your clients will have amazing wedding days when working with you?

We’ve got your back, to put it simply. Personal service is a major part of “who” Dogwood Blossom Stationery is. Our one-one-one custom design process is only the beginning of our relationship. We ask you lots of questions and set up a timeline to ensure your paper needs are fully met and your planning progresses as smoothly as possible. We think ahead about how each of your paper goods interacts with your guests, your event flow, and your event décor. We offer full-service on every order, meaning we’ll do absolutely everything on your behalf, including hand-canceling and mailing your invitations, if that is what you’d prefer. And this is our full-time gig, so we can always be reached when you need us, and the work we do for you takes priority.

Vendor of the Week: Dogwood Blossom Stationery & Invitation Studio

Dogwood Blossom Stationery & Invitation Studio

email: Denise@DogwoodBlossomStationery.com | phone: 321.639.2552

website: http://www.DogwoodBlossomStationery.com

twitter: Follow @DBSinvitations | facebook: “Like” Dogwood Blossom!

location: Florida, International | type: Paper Products | style: Classic, Eclectic, Modern | price: $$$, $$

 

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Classic and Eclectic Purple and Blue Wedding

Hello all! I’m excited to share this classic and eclectic wedding full of purple and blue details from Karen Harrison Photography with you all today!

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How sweet! I absolutely love the wine and letters in a box tradition for the ceremony! How fun must it be to open the box down the road and remember such a special time! What are you doing to make your ceremony your own? Any traditions or extra elements?
Can’t wait to hear!

Cheers,
Samm

 

Vendors who made it all happen…

Photographer: Karen Harrison Photography / Reception Venue: Sunken Gardens    / Wedding Planner/Coordinator: Laura Walsh Events  / Transportation: Embassy Limousines    / Harpist: Sara Sterling Ansley    / Flowers & Decor: 2Birds  / DJ: ude with Grant Hemond and Associates  / Catering: Olympia Catering  / Cake Baker: Cakes by Carolynn / Lighting: Tampa Bay Lights / Hair & Makeup: Jackline, Salon Posh   
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Country Vintage Pink & Green Wedding

Happy Friday everyone! This beautiful pink and green wedding from Ashley Batz Photography that I have for your all today is full of beautiful vintage details with a touch of country! From doily adorned programs and escort cards, to burlap runners, this wedding is all kinds of gorgeous!

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From the bride, Danielle:

What (or who) helped you most in your planning process and/or on your wedding day?

My fiance and now husband was my biggest supporter and the most amazing help in the entire planning process. From cutting the burlap table runners, to helping me drink and soak wine bottles to remove the labels, he played such an important role throughout in the entire process.  It was very important to me that he was involved. It wasn’t my day it was our day. He constantly reminded me everyday not to stress and have fun.  

My father was the best go to person throughout the wedding process. If I ever came to a problem with a vendor returning my calls, emails ect. or feeling a bit like a bridezilla he found a way to help with every situation. He truly was the best support system Ryan and I could of asked for. 

Our wedding day was executed perfectly. Kimberly Roberts (LVL events) was our Day of Wedding Coordinator. She was professional and we put our trust in her hands. After the wedding, I had numerous complements on the activities and how smoothly there were transitioned. Big thank you to her for keeping everything on schedule and ensuring all the people were where they needed to be.  

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What was the most important thing to you when deciding who to work with for your wedding?

Picking out vendors and hiring them was so much fun! It was such a relief and exciting to scratch each vendor off the list during the planning process. It made the big day feel that much closer. We decided to ask our family and friends for recommendations. After we established a list of recommendations for each vendor, we then met up with them. We called them and even had a few skype conversations. We also read tons of yelp reviews on past weddings our vendors were involved in to make sure we were picking the absolute best person or group. It was important to us to like the person and get excited about their services.  We made a list of questions for each vendor prior to meeting them. This helped us to remember to ask important questions …and we realized that even the smallest questions or detail was important.  

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What was your inspiration for your wedding details and/or design?   

We wanted to bring a bit of vintage country into our big day. Together our favorite color is green. So we absolutely knew Green was going to be our color. We decided on a sea foam green dresses for the Bridesmaids…they looked amazing! Going with the theme the groomsmen and ushers wore grey suites. And they couldn’t of looked anymore handsome.  We along with family and close friends started to collect wine bottles. They were the main focus on our tables and really tied the vintage theme together. My florist Bella Hicks (Twig and Petals) did such an amazing job putting my vision of flowers to reality with the wine bottles.

Together we hunted garage sales, antique shops and our families homes for perfect vintage pieces to complete our vision. We collected old doors, windows, shutters … and dressed up the ceremony and reception with burlap, candles and little odds and end antiques. 

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What is your best piece(s) of advice for other brides?

Come to terms that something may happen in your wedding…that may not go as planned. Let it go and Roll with it. and Most importantly….HAVE FUN ..you’re planning your wedding day!

Oh yes, I say that all the time- not everything goes as planned! It’s so important to remember!

I love how Danielle and her family collected wine bottles for her centerpieces! Are any of you doing something like that?

 

Vendors who made it all happen…

Photographer: Ashley Batz Photography / Reception Venue: Lucie Stern Community Center / Flowers & Decor: Twig and Petals / Wedding Planner/Coordinator: LVL events
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Wedding Planning Printable: Wedding Detail Checklist

Hey friends! I’ve been crazy busy lately, prepping for the THREE inspiration shoots that I’m doing today (I am SO excited to put them together to share with you all)! Amidst all of the craziness this week, one of my friends asked me if I had a detail checklist. Being that details ARE a main focus of mine, I thought that I surely would have created a full-out checklist for wedding details by now! Well, I searched through the ELD archives, and as it turns out, I haven’t yet created a wedding detail checklist- until now!

Wedding Planning Printable: Wedding Detail Checklist

First, let’s start with my definition of wedding details. Wedding details are anything and everything about a wedding that provide some kind of *look* to a wedding. This “look” could also be seen as a general style or theme. The amazing thing about wedding details is that a lot of them are things that are common to a wedding- centerpieces, bouquets, table numbers, etc. But then there are details that sometimes get overlooked, like menus or escort cards. And then there are details that aren’t *necessary*, but are just plain fun! (These types of details can be perfect to help further infuse yourselves and/or your theme into your wedding! This is one of the big reasons why I love details so much- because they can really help to define *your* wedding.) There are lots of options for wedding details, and just about every wedding has them!

Being that I was going through my own mental checklists for my shoots today, I went ahead and scoured my brain for every possible wedding detail that you could have, and created a checklist for you all! Below is a little preview of the full list- click on the preview to download the full checklist! Everything on the list isn’t *required*- as I said, it’s every possible wedding detail. Use this checklist to make sure that you have your wedding details covered- and who knows, maybe it will give you some new ideas too!

Wedding Planning Printable: Wedding Detail Checklist

Brides, what kind of details do you already have? Did the checklist help you remember any other details?

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