Author Archives: Sarah Pattison

Southern Living Magazine

This past February, we got a surprising phone call from Southern Living Magazine. (I suppose any time a magazine calls you, it’s surprising and fun!) They do a feature called, “An Insider’s Guide ” and follow “insiders” around the city they are spotlighting at the time. What do you know, a little birdie dropped our [...]

Invitation Transformation… “More Than Meets the Eye”

You know, one of the great things about being a custom business is that we can take a little bit of this and a little bit of that to create the “totally YOU” invitation. We’re not limited to pre-existing templates. Working with brides all over the world is really fun, but it’s always a special [...]

Crisp Black and White Floral

We just finished a few reeeeeeally cool wedding invitations… it’s hard to pick a favorite. Don’t worry… we’ll add pictures at a later date of some others, but for now, I just want to showcase my very favorite, super cool little invitation. I think that one of the reasons I’m so in love is that [...]

Mr., Mrs., Miss, and Ms.

Just touching base with my inner Wedding Nazi today. Here’s an FYI for those of you who have wondered about titles: Okay. Let’s use a real life couple as an example: how about Sarah and Ty Pattison? (First Tip: did you notice that I put my name first and my husband’s name second? Kind of [...]

A Little Bit of Lace

Hey guys! It’s Emily, here. I just wanted to make a quick board of lace inspired invitations! Lace can be the perfect addition to a feminine and vintage themed wedding. Here are a few different ways to incorporate the fabulous material! 1) Cut and Paste designed the beautiful invitations featured on Oh So Beautiful Paper [...]

Vintage Princess Tea Party

For those of you who have girls, you’ll understand. The rest of you… just keep jumping in those mud puddles and rolling around on the ground {getting unimaginable grass stains} because tea parties just won’t make a lick of sense. But for anyone with a little girl (or two,) I know I’m speaking your language: [...]

Hand Illustrated Look Book

This new year has been busy, busy, busy… as you may be able to tell from my seriously slow blog frequency. Thankfully, help came along at just the right moment when Emily walked in the door seeking an internship for this spring. Emily is a 5th year senior in graphic design at University of Tennessee [...]

Color Me This!

I’m excited about this first post in a new series I’m calling, “Color Me This!”, looking at color and inspiration. One of the first questions that I ask a bride when we meet to discuss invitations is about her color palette. Color (or lack thereof) seriously informs the design of a wedding from the beginning [...]

Wave Your Banner High!

Here and there and everywhere: I’ve noticed this trend of cool, fun banners everywhere I look. Check out some of these perfect banner motifs… and wave your own banner high! 1/ DIY Stamp tutorial showcased on Oh So Beautiful Paper by Antiquaria. 2/ Ex Libris banner book plate rubber stamp by Extase on etsy.com. 3/ [...]

Crane & Co. Top Five Designs of 2011

We are so honored to be chosen by the grandfather of paper companies, Crane & Co. as one of their Top Five Favorite designs of 2011. See the article posted by Crane here. We love being a part of the stationery design community and feel that it’s such a thrill when established people take notice [...]