Real Weddings - Martina and Lindsay

Martina & Lindsay's wedding was held at Eagles Landing Country Club in May. The weather was not on our side that day, but the wedding was still beautiful! The couple shared a love for travel, so we incorporated that into the wedding design. Ginger of Serendipity, did a fabulous job with all the wedding day stationery.

Vintage postcard table signs

Passport ceremony programs with the couple's compass monogram

Vintage map seating chart

The wedding colors were a bold purple and green and Blueberry Spring Florist did a beautiful job on all the flowers.


Martina was a stunning bride
Gotta love the shoes!
Thanks to Atlanta Mediaworks for all the photos!

Kemba Celebrations

Today I am happy to feature the culturally inspired stationery of Kemba Celebrations. They offer standard collections but also offer exquisite custom designed stationery to reflect the culture and traditions of the couple. Kemba has stopped by today to share her work.
Lemiga: What services does Kemba Celebrations provide?

Kemba: Kemba Celebrations creates cultural and theme invitations and stationery. In addition to custom design and printing we also offer an exclusive letterpress invitation line based on cultures from around the world that allows couples to customize inks, paper colors and matching reception designs.

Lemiga: How did you get started in the stationery business?

Kemba: We run a marketing design and copy writing business and one of our clients and a dear friend was getting married. She couldn't find any thing she liked in the stationery books, so my husband and I volunteered to design her invitations and stationery.

Well, we ended up branding her Persian wedding: designing a wedding logo, translating phrases into farsi (the native language of Persia) and developing everything from the save- the-dates to the thank you cards. And in the process we got completely hooked. We realized there wasn’t a lot out there for brides looking to celebrate their heritage in an elegant, distinctive way. And Kemba Celebrations was born.

Lemiga: What makes Kemba Celebrations different from other stationers?

Kemba: We are distinctive in a couple ways, in what we design and how we do it. We help brides celebrate their heritage or cultural and theme interests through design. So whether custom or not, our designs involve lots of research. We look at decorative arts, textiles and architecture of the cultures we are designing in.

Plus we love color and dimension. So even when flat printing that dimension comes through with custom illustrations that often involve intricate patterns. The results are unique pieces that guests have not seen before.

Lemiga: What has been your favorite invitation to design?

Kemba: Each of our designs has been fun in some different way. But for pure sentimentality our first design for our friend’s Persian wedding has been our favorite. We just loved the collaborative process of working with the couple and interpreting traditional Persian tile design into a stationery suite. And the excited feedback, even from her relatives in Iran, was great.

Lemiga: What new products or trends will you be introducing for 2009?

Kemba: We are working on a new line using decorative paper from around the world, ribbons and diecut shapes to create unique stationery for cultural, destination and theme weddings, like beach weddings. We are also looking to make our letterpress designs available as flat printed pieces.

Plus we want to be a resource for information on stationery, and cultural and theme celebrations. So we are looking to offer more articles and advice on our site in coming months.
Thanks for stopping by today Kemba. I'm so looking forward to seeing your new designs!

Etsy Wednesday - Stationery

Invitations are the first indication to your guests what they can expect at your wedding or event. A spectacular invitation definitely raises the excitement and anticipation for what's to come. Etsy has no shortage of phenomenal stationery designers, and today I'm featuring a few of my favorites.

I'm so drawn to the unconventional printing methods that Letterpunch Design uses with their invitations

This invitation is called "Country Chic" and is such a fun design
The monogram printed on plain paper bags coordinates perfectly with the overall theme!
It's all the little touches that makes these so great - look at how the envelope is lined with newspaper to go along with the newspaper save the date card!This invitation includes a hand-made origami daisy flower - so beautiful!
And although this one isn't wedding related - how cute is this!


Decadent Designs offers charming stationery each with its own special touches

These two are perfect for a fall or winter theme weddingI love the ribbon on this one
Love the patterned envelope liner and beading



Serendipity truly designs for the the client to make a one of a kind invitation!


The bold colors scheme and graphic are so eye catching!
I love everything about this invitation - the graphics, the burlap wrap, and the sand dollar Christmas ornament! Your guests would never forget an invitation like this.

Betsywhite Stationery Discount!

BetsyWhite Stationery Boutique is offering a 10% discount to my brides, valid on any purchase in their store. All you have to do is enter Coupon Code LEMIGA1108 at checkout to redeem the discount (one use per customer, expires March 31, 2009). So take a look at their website - you won't be disappointed!

Betsywhite Stationery

Betsywhite is a new stationery boutique, featuring reasonably priced beautifully designed invitations and stationery. Founder, Gia Graham sent me a sample pack, which I received yesterday, and the pictures really do not do them justice! I love the texture of the papers and the printing is exquisite. All of their stationery have such a fresh clean look to them.

Here are a few of my favorite designs.

(All photos are from Betsywhite's website)

Also, be sure to check out Flights of Fancy, Betsywhite's blog which is full of great wedding inspiration!

Lucky Paperie's Open House

I had a great time attending Lucky Paperie's open house event at The Paisley Umbrella last Sunday. Melanie of Lucky Paperie, did a great job adding color to the space with these cute tissue paper pomanders.
Of course there was beautiful stationery to look at

There was plenty of yummy food from Wolfgang Puck Express

and even cute cupcakes with Lucky Paperie flags from Sugarplum VisionsCongrats to Lucky Paperie on a great open house!