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Wedding Invitations

Tara and Mike’s Resourceful Coordinator

October 9, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

With a 15% rise in wedding supplies this year and predicted next year, Tara and Mike were delighted that their wedding coordinator was resourceful and found them real value in InviteSite. They say that Do-It-Yourself wedding invitations are well worth the savings. Updated to October 15th, news about the couple’s wedding appears on this blog.

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Black is Back — but as a Border?

July 30, 2008 Green Wedding Trends

We’ve been seeing a lot of black used as an accent color for the past year. We use a black satin ribbon for our Garbo wedding invitation. Something to consider, though, if you are thinking about using a black border framing your wedding invitation: black bordered cards have a rather grim use historically. Called “mourning [...]

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Dynamite! InviteSite In Another Appearance

July 30, 2008 Invitesite Stationery

InviteSite Mentioned on Kate and James’ Entry in Dynamite Weddings InviteSite makes the invitations long before the event, but we are not forgotten. After all these years it’s still a thrill for us to be listed as a part of such a beautiful event. All of our couples’ events are beautiful, but Kate recalls the [...]

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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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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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More Lush

February 22, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

Okay, back to the lush life – these are some of our garden eco wedding invitations From a recent bridal show — our first after being in business in for 13 years!

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Lush Green Weddings

February 18, 2008 Green Wedding Business

For SoCal green weddings, consider Angelique Weddings, a local green weddings expert. Lush lush lush. This is what Green Weddings can look like:  

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Green Business Conference

November 19, 2007 Green Wedding Business

Last week, I attended the Green Business Conference in San Francisco, run by Co-op America. http://www.coopamerica.org/greenbusiness/ It was fabulous and a completely carbon nuetral. Biodiesel Bus Transportation was provided by http://www.teacherwiththebus.com/ Highly recommend this company for weddings in the Bay area! Really fun. I am going to add Jens-Peter (the owner) to our resources list [...]

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The Glory of Hemp

October 3, 2007 Green Wedding Invitations

Timothy posted some great information about hemp oil yesterday. (check out his comment) Both flax and hemp could be considered the printer’s plants. There is more than a little elegance here: Flax oil (linseed oil) for printing and the flax (linen) fiber for papermaking. Hemp is a superior (and the original) fiber for papermaking. Hemp [...]

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Recycled Paper: Use it or Lose it

December 7, 2006 Green Wedding Invitations

An Invitesite customer wrote us the other day about a three-fold invitation design with a tear-off rsvp postcard. My first response was Ugh! how ugly. It would look like an invitation to a tag sale. (paper-snob that I am…) No stature. No specialness. But the customer brings up an interesting issue. She wants to do [...]

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