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!

Kate and Bill are having a Seattle wedding with reception in England, and they wanted to use an absinthe green for the Manhattan invitation suite. I am loving this suite so much:

I’m also loving this springish weather we’re experiencing in Mississippi. It’s 70 degrees and sunny out there. Merry Christmas!

Hi folks! Yesterday was a banner day for Lucky Luxe—our sweet clients, Molly & Ken, were featured on Martha Stewart Weddings. It was the first time for me to see their smiling faces and I felt all mushy in my heart seeing their precious wedding photos.

My favorite photo is of Ken, a big tough guy, getting emotional as Molly walked the aisle and he laid eyes on her for the first time that day. I have a thing for sentimental men because I’m married to one myself.

I’ve had the pleasure of working with 2 brides over the last couple of months with amazing visions for their Bespoke wedding invitations. Hallie and I met as art majors at Ole Miss, and I was flattered that she (a talented designer herself) called on Lucky Luxe to create her wedding invitations. She’s getting married in the same chapel at Ole Miss where Ben and I were married, then having a throw down wedding reception at the Big Truck Theater near Oxford. She wanted the invitations to reflect a mix of soft, traditional elements in desaturated grey, green and blue tones, and a rustic touch with kraft paper envelopes. The results turned out beautifully—possibly my favorite thing we’ve ever done:

The flowers are so dimensional it’s like they’re real.

Heather & Jesse, a couple from London, wanted a glamorous invitation—silver script and formal serifs, with a monogram crest and painted edges. Her wedding will be a New Orleans soiree, and we wanted to bring the architectural and ornamental styles of the French Quarter into the design.

The blind embossed ornaments are the star of the invitation.

Don’t you love it when the paper takes an impression so beautifully, it’s like butter?

Great news for all you brides who need a ceremony program without the higher cost of letterpress printing! Lucky Luxe is now offering digitally printed folded programs on archival quality cream linen stock. Your invitation design (Collection or Bespoke) is on the front, your wedding party and ceremony are on the inside, and a short ‘thank you’ note to your friends and family adorns the back cover. Let us know if you’d like to place an order!

My dear friend and soon-to-be Lucky Luxe PR gal, Annalee, and her husband Chad just had their first bambino and I had the pleasure of creating the birth announcements. She also had me try my hand at newborn photos, but again let me say I am a total NOVICE at photography. Here are the results:

They’ll be slipping this photo in the envelopes with the announcements.

Shanna Lumpkin Events contacted us a few months back about her Mississippi bride who wanted a custom invitation for her Christmas wedding. She had her calligrapher, Jennifer Gillespie, send us her gorgeous script for the invitation to use for the retired design Spencerian from the old Lucky Luxe catalog. We obliged — and I can’t wait to see these old Britain/Narnia/Christmas themed invitations fully assembled with their envelopments and family crest!

Hot off the presses, Jessica and Shawn’s version of the Boston invitation with a mod damask pattern debossed into the supple 100% cotton Crane Lettra:

And so is the first ever Lucky Luxe Christmas Collection! Starting November 10th, we’ll be offering 3 notecard designs with envelopes in little box sets of 10.

These sweet 100% cotton letterpress notecards come with unprinted envelopes in box sets of 10 for $16.95. To pre-order, send us an email!

‘Wreath’ — Olive green ink on 100% cotton ecru Crane Lettra