For a few months this year, Lucky Luxe will be stepping outside the norm of wedding world and designing rock show posters for Live At The Garden, a summer concert series in Memphis. In college I was an intern at Red Deluxe Brand Desire and I was flattered when they contacted me to design the posters for each of the 5 concerts coming up. Last week, the first bundle rolled off the presses:

It’s been a very hectic and exciting week here at Lucky Luxe! We have been featured several times over the last couple of weeks including a Style Me Pretty post on one of our recent brides. Graceann Miller and Kyle Falkenhagen’s March wedding in Austin, Texas, is quite possibly the most beautiful wedding we’ve ever seen featured on SMP.

I’ve been eagerly awaiting the day when I could finally design this particular invitation. Hope has been my best friend since our 7th grade art class. That year we painted little ceramic tiles of our names, and later they were glued side by side into the backsplash of the classroom. Just like those tiles, we’ve been stuck like glue ever since. When she and Jonathan began quietly dating a few years ago, I had no clue I would someday be writing their names on such an important document! She wanted her invitation to reflect the fun, informal setting of their upcoming wedding with lots of bright colors and hand-drawn nature-inspired elements, with silhouettes of their likeness to add a touch of tradition.

The wedding will be a colorful and festive affair on the lawn of a beautiful 1900-era home, with floral print bridesmaid dresses and games on the lawn, and they’ll be serving corn dogs and candy apples from a carnival wagon while dance music from the 50s and 60s plays for the guests. I am just dying for June to arrive so I can see my sweetest friend become Mrs. Staples.

Last week, we shipped out this lovely Deco suite in vintage blue and metallic gold:

I think this suite feels especially French-inspired in this palette.

Although Lucky Luxe is truly a wedding stationer, every now and then an expectant mama sends us an inquiry that we can’t refuse. Justice was just such a mama, except she already had a tee-tiny little baby girl who was born prematurely. With such a blessing to share with their friends and family, the Duhons asked us for an announcement that would be delicate and beautiful, just like their baby girl.

I especially love the scripture they chose from Proverbs: Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways, acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.

As we were working together on the suite, baby Cecilia was still in the neonatal unit. Can you believe my dear friend and photographer, Sam, was able to take such an angelic photo under the glare of hospital lights? This photo was tucked beneath the belly band of the announcement.

Today’s post is a little personal project for my best friend Hope who’s getting married this summer. Since 7th grade we’ve been attached at the hip and when she asked me to be her matron of honor, I was… Well, completely honored!

When Ben and I got married she wanted to throw us a shower that was out of the ordinary—a basket shower. Have you heard of this? Ladies were assigned a certain kind of basket to bring, say a “Mrs. Fix-It” basket or a “Gourmet Basket”, where a related container is filled with all sorts of goodies that you can’t register for—the things that make an empty house into a home. As soon as she set a date, I decided to throw the same shower for her. If you’re ever in charge of planning a shower, I highly recommend it. We needed and used every last thing that we were given at that shower! My neighbor Mallorie and I are hosting at her loft apartment and whipping up a yummy brunch. She’s even going to attempt making cake pops like the ones from Starbucks!

I wanted the shower invitations to have the look of a vintage, springish postcard, but in a greeting card format with more information inside:

Since bridesmaids and friends are also receiving a card inviting them to a bachelorette party, I bought these great little cellophane envelopes for mailing them:

We’re so pleased with how the cellophane envelopes turned out that Lucky Luxe will now be offering them for our postcard clients. That’s pretty exciting, huh?

I just stumbled upon one of our sweet couples’ wedding on OnceWed! Nichole and Tom were married in New York City and commissioned this postcard for their wedding invitation:

Their wedding day aesthetic was full of eclectic surprises set in a dramatic and cool venue. I’m in love with the look of it all:

Photography by Josh Goleman

Photography by Josh Goleman

Andrea and Sean are having a destination wedding in Malta and she requested a Bespoke invitation suite that would be art nouveau-inspired. Somehow, no one has ever requested that of Lucky Luxe and I was thrilled to give it a whirl. I love working with the celadon color family, so we mixed in some grey pieces for contrast and here are the lovely results (many thanks to our new pressman, Friedrich Kerksieck):

For the first time in the history of Lucky Luxe—I have a real, honest-to-goodness co-worker!

Which (frighteningly) makes me somebody’s boss. Which is awful and weird sounding. So I won’t call it that.

Me, Annalee, and Hope at Annalee’s baby shower last summer. Look how Photoshopped the photographer made us! We’re very… Stepford.

Annalee and I have been friends since we were wee little girls. Our parents were childhood friends, our grandparents were the very best of friends, and we first got to know each other at sleepovers and play dates. There is a photo somewhere out there of the two of us, 8 years old, holding balloons posing for the ‘No-Cavities’ club at her daddy’s dental practice.

We lost touch in high school and college, not for any reason really—we just went to different schools (I was a rebel and she a bulldog) and had different extracurriculars. After we were both college grads we got reconnected (thanks facebook), and were excited to be planning our weddings at the same time. I went first, then she followed a couple months later, and when it was time to design her wedding invitations she trusted me to do the job. My very first paid wedding invitation job. She gave me total creative freedom, and I gave her the now somewhat famous handkerchief save-the-dates. Because of that single blog post, a wedding photographer in New York found me and ordered them for her own wedding and thus, Lucky Luxe Couture Correspondence was born.

She knows everything about etiquette, is a genius in public relations (she should be—she has a master’s degree in it), and knows all the ins and outs of event planning. Naturally, she was at the top of my list to help me make Lucky Luxe grow someday.

And now, we’re finally there. Her official title is general manager and design consultant, meaning she helps new clients navigate the laws of etiquette, choose a design, and place their orders.

If y’all have a chance, leave her a hello!