The Basics

Here's a little teaser leading up to when I'm able to post some of the professional photos back from the wedding which took place on May 1st at Stephen's Gap (Nathan) and then the Reception from May 3rd (Justin). Hoping to get some of them in the next couple days.

So lets review what it takes to have a wedding:

1. Love


(now I have "All you need is love" going through my head.. "love, loooove, love is all you need")

2. A letterpress invitation printed on our 1924 Chandler and Price press (Preston) to join in on the wedding weekend fun


3. A wedding license and an officiant to marry Paul and I (thanks Angela!)


4. A (slightly nutty) Bride and Groom who want to get married in a cave


5. A group of (equally nutty) awesome friends to help with the wedding-in-a-cave.
Including (but not limited to) sherpa-ing, marrying, reading, photography, rappelling, witnessing, signing and of course laughing about it all.

Lea, Paul, Sabrina, Nathan, Michelle, Tommy and Angela

6. A bouquet of the orange-est Gerbers I've ever seen, and boutonnière for Paul


7. A really pretty dress for the bride and a tux for the groom (We told the rental place it was an outdoor wedding .... oh if they only knew!)


8. An incredible venue - Stephen's Gap Cave - with perfect weather - complete with complimentary 100'+ waterfalls and an after-wedding 130' rappel.

A Little Ink Goes a Long Way

Paul and I were busy printing and setting type this weekend. The invitations are coming along nicely. Colonial Graphics (offset) printed the interior of the envelopes and the back of the cards that will become the invite and itinerary. Paul and I printed my flower pattern design on the front Friday evening and Saturday, so they'd have a day of dry-time. (I drew the above artwork in Illustrator and sent the file Owosso who made a copper die out of it.) Tomorrow I'll bring everything back to Colonial to have the envelopes die-cut and the cards cut apart. (Preston is just a 10x15 - and the envelopes are larger than that.) Then on Monday or Tuesday evening we'll print up the text for everything. Wednesday - Thursday - Friday will be stuffing and addressing.


We made these great labels too. I randomly stamped the flower pattern over sticky label sheets and then we used a little rounded-corner square die-cut that I'd gotten for free from a letterpresser in Canada for just postage! The whole process took a bit of time - especially since it was a 1-up die-cut - but the labels turned out SO fun.