Calligraphy my !#$(*&%@!

I didn't want to pay for calligraphy... At $1++ for addressing outer envelope, I just don't have enough budget for it... I thought I could do calligraphy myself.. until I tried on an envelope and it looked god ugly... GAH..... THIS SUCKS

To that end, I decided to now just use a wrap around label... yea yea yea ok tacky not the etiquette bla bla bla.. i'm blaming my non american root for my ignorance :P

On the other hand if you need a calligrapher, a friend and a lot of people refer me to this person Michelle Clark
She's pretty affordable and her works looks good but she booked up fast so please reach out to her if you need a calligrapher.... and I'm on the hound for a wrap around label templates... I've found a couple :

Martha stewart
ruffledblog
ruffled
again

I'll post more when I found more

Cheap Letterpress Invitation: Mercurio Brothers

So some of you who follow my blog, might have heard of my invitation woe.. I want letterpress.. I don't want to pay for the price..and I can't do illustrator.. great combination... So what's a girl gotta do to afford it... I perused lots and lots of boards, emailed a bunch of letterpress company and ask for their rates and I finally found the most affordable with a great quality letterpress: Mercurio Brothers.

I worked mainly with Nicole there and she's great... At first it's really hard to get any email reply from her.. but she's always available when I call her. and she quoted the most affordable wedding design cost (compared to again all the etsy vendors I've reach out to/letterpress company). The good thing is I know which invitation as an inspiration so things have worked marvellously. The only problem is of course, I printed two colors on a Somerset 300 gsm paper and also printed out an information ticket and now I spend almost all my stationery budget on these invitations (and I have not budgeted enough on the program/placecard/thank you card). Kill Me... who knows program is soo bloody expensive....

So i plan to print all these other stationeries at work and cut them at work (sssh... dont tell anyone at work ok...) will give you guys picture next month after I send it out to my guests..

Inspiration: Stationeries/ Decorations

Our fake Save the Date video..

Okay I say fake because this is not really our Save the Date, I tweaked a couple of the search keywords... and also this may not make sense to some of you but we met at Bodega wine bar in Santa Monica (thus the map search), we are both a graduate of UCLA Anderson MBA. I'm Indonesian and not used to dating American and I needed to get a US working visa to stay here. Also both of us work in the internet industry, so the google search STD is a lil within our realm of career. And then at the end of our real STD video.. I put in my wedding venue and website information...

I'm being green coz I didn't save any STD card.. yay.... and I saved some money too haha...

If you want to copy this idea, which one of my friend whose fiance works at Google plan to do, it's totally fine because I have sent out my STD :P

You can do so here