We Won the Miss Pinot Noir Contest

July 26, 2008 Invitesite Stationery

Days of suspense kept everyone at InviteSite on the edges of their swivel chairs and stools and, for those who don’t get to sit down much, they just kept their fingers crossed. Finally, on July 10, after Miss Pinot Noir had blogged about her mulling over of choices of invitations for days, she announced to [...]

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Plastic Bags to be Sacked in Los Angeles!

July 23, 2008 Los Angeles Green Vendors

City Council unanimously approves Reyes’ motion to ban plastic bags in Los Angeles As Los Angeles residents, we have been whining, fighting, and writing letters to City Council and waiting for news on this new proposal, long in the making. Today’s news has everyone hoarding their plastic bags for the day we have to leave [...]

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More History of the Modern Wedding Invitation

July 16, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

Wedding Invitations were really really boring until about 10 years ago. One company (Taylor Corp) owns most of the large commercial wedding invitation companies. They pretty much controlled the entire market. About 13 years ago, right when the web started to gear up, a few brave couples wanted to individualize their weddings. They didn’t want [...]

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Brief History of the Modern Wedding Invitation

July 16, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

So what does desire for a fabulously modern wedding invitation have to do with Oscar Wilde? We think it’s delicious that the trend for highly creative wedding invitations has its roots in the Aesthetic Movement of the early 20th century. Beautiful papers (inspired by the opening of Japanese design to European artists), fine letterpress printing [...]

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Postage Lowdown – the 20 cent bump surcharge

July 16, 2008 Green Wedding Business

Almost all invitations will cost more than 42 cents to mail. If it’s square, if it’s thicker, if it’s more than 6-1/8 inches on two sides, it will cost at least 20 cents more. The Post Office increased rates about 6 months back, and finally sorted out the increases. If any of your wedding stationery [...]

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Greening the Dem Convention

July 7, 2008 Eco-Donations

The Democratic National Convention, held in August in Denver, has created strong environmental mandates and standards about food (local and healthy), catering supplies (compostable), transportation, and Democratic Party related consumer goods. (fanny packs, totes, etc) Some good people are on board to help them pull it off, but so far, the press has reported only [...]

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Launching the new Invitesite website!

June 30, 2008 Green Wedding Business

So here we are getting ready to launch the brand new Invitesite. Almost a year of work. The new site is all custom coded by Alex, and we’ll be able to offer loads of new designs for your Green Wedding pleasure . Lots of new letterpress decorated designs coming too. (We just rebuilt a lovely [...]

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Green Weddings segment on ABC

June 10, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

Invitesite’s eco wedding invitations are featured in the upcoming local ABC News feature on Green Weddings. Great stuff and good suggestions.

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Green Wedding Exhibit Los Feliz Street Fair

June 3, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

Yipee,  a group of local green wedding vendors will be exhibiting at the upcoming Los Feliz Street Fair, Sunday June 8th, 11 am – 8pm. We will be located in the “Green Scene” Eco Showcase.  Our group includes Angelica from Angelique Events and GreenWeddings.net. Cake, signature drinks and some neat giveaways are in the offing… [...]

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Event Planners : Can We Stop the Styro Madness?

May 23, 2008 Green Wedding Business

I just came back from the National Stationery Show in New York.  Yes, Green was marketed as the NEXT HOT TREND. Concurrently, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair is held at the same time. Lots of very modern, eco furniture and building materials companies exhibit. Great. Terrific. Then why, why, why isn’t someone putting pressure on [...]

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