wedding

Graphic design software is so cool sometimes! I was playing around with that photo of the oak brackets in Illustrator when I remembered that they had come out with a new tool that would make this a breeze. Live trace instantly converts photos into outlined vector images (I know, this doesn’t really make any sense…

I was browsing Google Images for oak leaf designs and found photos of these incredible old porch brackets. Aren’t they gorgeous!? Click here for a closer look. I think I’ll try converting this design in Illustrator to use for the letterpress wedding invitations? It would be a great tie in with the oak tree and…

I haven’t done much wedding registry work yet, but I do have a few distinct ideas about what I want. One thing was a set of nice versatile glasses that could be used for wine, water, etc. More specifically, the exact shape of glasses that made appeared in both Something’s Got to Give and Sweet…

I know it’s really early, but I’m a graphic designer and I’ve started playing around with some ideas for the wedding invitations. Here’s a rough sketch I’ve created using oak leaves and a repeating clover pattern. The oak is for the giant oak tree outside the club and the clover from the Julia Morgan designed…

Why do so many modern china patterns fall into one of two categories: boring or bizarre? I’ve been to Replacements and to the porcelain room at the Legion of Honor, I know that there used to be some gorgeous china patterns. Luckily, there is hope in the name of designer china collections. Kate Spade’s designs…

How many places do you think I could register before officially being labeled a crazy person? How about just Gump’s, Sur La Table, Crate and Barrel, REI and The Conran Shop? It’s not that I want that much stuff, it’s just that each store has a few things I really love. If I had to…

Here we go again! I think Rob and I have found our wedding location and my new favorite yellow color has made a comeback: The Sausalito Women’s Club was designed by Julia Morgan and finished in 1918. Still actively meeting, the club now also rents out the facility for weddings. It’s gorgeous, with lots of…

I’m becoming convinced that the entire wedding industry is set-up to make you either a) lose your mind or b) lose your mind and go completely broke. The Knot should itemize psychiatry bills in their budgeting worksheet. After our nice meeting with the Ahwahnee wedding coordinator last weekend, Rob and I were pretty convinced that…

Say hello to our new friend, Pantone 141. This is the color of the main wall in the Yosemite Solarium, the color of dogwood trees in October and a close companion of mine for the next 516 days. (Yes, I took my Pantone swatch book to Yosemite. Huge. Nerd.) There are so many colors at…

I received our first real, official wedding present earlier this week. A business associate sent us two crystal champagne flutes from Tiffany’s! It’s so fun to have a giant robin’s egg box with a white satin ribbon on my table. Plus, the glasses are perfect for my favorite spring beverage: Lambic. This is a Belgian…