blogGoogle’s vast knowledgebase has expanded into customizing my map search results to include our wedding! I was looking for Container Store locations on Google Maps; Google put our reception/hotel on the map of results. Does Google know that I’m looking up Container Store locations for gift boxes for the wedding?Google is like, “hey, looking for […]
blogAt every place setting will be a box of chocolates from the local gourmet chocolate shop, La Maison de BonBon. Just one and a half miles from Sarah’s condo is a tiny little shoppe that sells all sorts of truffles. Sarah and I had great pleasure selecting the various flavors of chocolates. The owner of La […]
blogSarah came over to the Tribune Tower Friday night to help me trim the wedding rehearsal invites. In total there are seven different pieces that make up the wedding rehearsal invites:Front photoInside top textInside bottom textGold paper (fancy!)MapEnvelopePocket inside envelopeHere are some photos of the invites being trimmed.All the paper, untrimmed. (except for the envelope)Matt […]
blog postA Thursday night. Eager to send our wedding invites out, I don’t waste a moment to order our paper. Two o’clock on a Tuesday morning? Let’s get this paper order out! I was very excited that the paper vendor would prepare the envelope liners for us! Anything that would save us time.With seven different items […]
How much time does it take to print wedding invites with an online printer? One of the top wedding invite printers is cardsandpockets.com. Many wedding invite designers on etsy use this paper and printer vendor. If you ask them how long it will take to print your invites, you’ll get an answer that goes something like […]
One of the things that paper vendors will do when quoting your job is that they’ll give you a quote ONLY for the PRINTED pieces. Things like your cards will be included. But the non-printed items may be mysteriously missing. When you get your quote, you’ll be happy with the super-low price. But some items […]
With so many materials in a wedding invite, getting a quote can become quite complicated. If you are doing anything like a traditional wedding invite, you’ll have things like: Various cards: reception card, accommodations card, RSVP card, main announcement card Folder: gotta hold all these cards together Envelopes: RSVP envelope, outer envelope, inner envelope Optional […]
Paper Source may have a nice selection of paper, but cardsandpockets.com’s spectrum of color options blows Paper Source off the rainbow. Does Paper Source offer a swatch deck of all their paper? Answer: no. But Cards and Pockets does! Get over 80 different colors of paper. Metallics galore, wood grain texture, many mattes are overflowing […]
29 pounds of loveA large heavy box arrives at my work desk. What could possibly have such weight? Why, the paper for announcing our wedding, of course! Despite our smaller-ish venue (and hence smaller-ish guest list), the paper for our invites comes in at a total of 29 pounds.29 pounds. In our age of digital […]
flowersSpring has sprung! This season sometimes gets overlooked in Chicago. Yet I have declared it my favorite season since I was a young girl. Spring means: I-spy the first tulip bud, wake up to white blossoms on trees, and breathe in fragrant lilac bushes. The color and new life announces the start of flower season. […]
In our semi-annual tradition, Sarah and I headed downtown to see the green Chicago River. Fittingly, we rode the Green Line downtown from Oak Park while wearing green shirts. In a break from Irish traditions, Sarah brought her Paris book given to her from Erik and Andrea last Christmas. We both read the book together on the […]
Paper Source got a visit today from Sarah and I as we begin to research the look we want for our wedding invites. We really enjoy the classic vintage look. After looking through five or six huge binder volumes, we had enough wedding designs in our head to carry us forward to the next step: […]
blog postWhen thinking of what to do for Sarah’s Valentine’s day card, I had lots of sketches and illustrations from developing our Save the Date card. This card is a collection one series I explored illustrating a photo of us in the Chicago Cultural Center. Our wedding photographers, Gina & Tony, took an awesome photo […]
blog post This Valentine’s day Sarah gave me three clues via a poem that brought us on a little adventure with a sweet ending.Clue #1Says he: Curious… why the secret? Wondering where we’ll go?Says she: A little mystery never hurt…But–a hint–for us, this place is approposClue #2For this little date, You may need Google translate.Clue #3Let’s […]
textA life-long lover of words, symbolism, and poetry, I became captivated with the concept of found poems about seven years ago when developing a class assignment. However, I grew to appreciate these poetic collages even more when trying to write myself. Crafting these poems is a linguistic jigsaw. I love finding scraps of language (quotes, […]
Impromptu billboards were created on Michigan Avenue late Wednesday night. The sidewalks were completely cleared of snow, because a great majority of the snow was piled on top of the large sidewalk planters. These huge mountains of snow provided people with the opportunity to express themselves.The contrast of the white snow against the midnight sky […]
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