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Collegiate Posters are Here!

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The first round of collegiate posters arrived over the weekend, and they look even better than we imagined. These limited edition 11×17 letterpress prints are numbered by hand and will be part of a print series. As soon as we sell out of this first round of prints, we will create a brand new design for each school.
The Lucky Luxe team will have a booth at the 2011 Loblolly Festival in Downtown Laurel this Saturday, so all you locals come by and see us!  You can also find the posters at Quinn’s Pharmacy and Frames Unlimited (both in Laurel).
We ship the posters in a tube for added protection. If you order online, it’ll arrive at your doorstep in a matter of days! 🙂
If you are an out-of-towner and would like to purchase a print, click here to order Ole Miss or here to order Mississippi State. We are gauging interest for other schools at this point, so if you want to see your school become part of this series let us know!

Lots of folks are ordering these early for Christmas gifts, so be sure to place your order while supplies last!

Anne & Josh in Martha Stewart Weddings!

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While designing a Bespoke suite for Anne & Josh, we became fast friends and before long conversations turned from invitations to recipes and weekend plans. Last November, Ben and I got the chance to meet the Lustyans while we were in New York for our anniversary and it turns out they’re even sweeter people than we ever imagined.

This is hands-down one of our favorite weddings in the Lucky Luxe portfolio, and maybe it’s because we’ve seen with our own eyes how kind and loving Anne and Josh are. We’re so proud to be credited as their stationer in the article about their wedding hitting newsstands October 3! Here’s a sneak preview of their Turks & Caicos wedding and message in a bottle themed suite:

Cover credit: Photograph by Rodney Smith/Martha Stewart Weddings, 2011. Copyright © 2011.
 
Story credit: Photographs by Anna Wolf/Martha Stewart Weddings, 2011. Copyright © 2011.
 
Pick up a copy of it! I know there’s going to be more inspiration on its pages than you can shake a stick at. You can also read all about the wedding on the Martha Stewart Weddings website on Friday, September 30.

Art Deco Weddings

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Sarah at Art Deco Weddings featured our Gatsby save-the-date postcard this week! The Art Deco Weddings website is a fabulous resource for all things vintage. Sarah created the site to help brides seeking inspiration for their upcoming nuptials.

She explains: “I’m a vintage-loving lady who, when planning my own wedding last year, spent hours upon hours roaming the internet looking for art deco/vintage wedding related goodies. There are lots of great vintage wedding resources, but I felt like the wedding planning community needed one central hub for deco delights, so here we are!”
The site is filled with ideas for 20s-inspired dresses, stationery, music, jewelry and more. She even has tutorials for makeup and pin curls! If you have an upcoming wedding or if you’re just looking for nifty ideas, visit Sarah’s site!
Click here to read the full post on our Gatsby postcard.

Storybook Invitation

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Get excited! We’ve added a new design to the collection called Storybook that has tons of customizable iconography. Beach wedding? We’ve got an anchor, seashell or whale. Farm wedding? We’ve got a pig. The sample shown was a vineyard wedding with a vintage engraved icon of grapes. If you have something in mind that’s not shown, we probably have that too so inquire for details!

Rustic Wedding Chic

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Look who was featured over on the Rustic Wedding Chic blog today!
I just recently discovered this blog and I’m loving the style of the weddings featured. So Lucky Luxe-ish, isn’t it?
I can’t wait for y’all to see tomorrow’s blog. Found a great new Mississippi-based company that I know you’re gonna love!

Green. Vintage. Fabric. Bouquets.

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We’ve built our business on textural pieces like the handkerchief invitations and letterpress invitations, so you know I’m a sucker for anything textile and nostalgic. How gorgeous is this bouquet from Cotton Gin Events? It’s made from vintage muslin, linen, and the bride’s own sentimental collection of fabrics.

The bride’s grandmother’s vintage pillow case became roses with whipstitching along the edges.


The buttons were a part of an aunt’s collection, and the tulle came from the bride’s mother’s wedding dress.
Can you think of a more perfect way to carry the memory of a loved one on your wedding day? Because I definitely cannot. You can keep it forever! I think sentimental fabric bouquets are about to give the floral industry a run for their money.

The ladies at Cotton Gin (another Mississippi-made company!) create custom bridal bouquets starting at $200, and smaller bridesmaid bouquets starting at $125.

Boston with a punch of pink

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In case you’re considering the added expense of edge painting on your invitations, I think you need to see our first-ever hot pink edge painting on a Boston suite in double-thick Crane Lettra. We love a punch of color in unexpected places—especially on a black and white invitation!

Ilene & Larry

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This morning the sun was perfect for photographing letterpress and showcasing what is possibly the finest invitation suite we’ve ever done. Ilene’s wedding will be French-inspired so we took cues from our Paris postcard and the Deco suite to create a lavish, ornamental and textural invitation that I can’t stop picking up and touching:

The belly band and 2nd color ink throughout is a barely-there cameo pink that I hope we have the opportunity to use again and again. Oh, man. I want a do-over on my own wedding invitations!

Addressing Hemingway

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The travel-inspired Hemingway suite is certainly our most popular letterpress Collection design, but this is the very first time I’ve seen them addressed so simply and beautifully:

Tahlia discovered the perfectly understated FREE font called ‘Telegram‘. I think it’s awesome for addressing your airmail envelopes on the cheap. Isn’t she clever? She had them hand-cancelled at the post office as well so the postage mark coordinates with the icon on the envelope flap. I love when brides send us photos of the finished product! Congratulations, y’all!

Steve Miller Band

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Next up in the Live At The Garden concert series—the Steve Miller Band! Everyone loves The Joker, and in a nod to that song we put some vintage peach engravings in the flourishes and in reference to Fly Like An Eagle, the words ‘tick tock’ are quietly mixed into the framing. I wish I could take credit for those lyrical references, but that was all Martin, my former boss at Red Deluxe. Many thanks once again to the killer job by our head pressman, Friedrich!