Lucy Rose LaRue Schwartz. You gotta love this girls name! It’s playful cadence inspired us to use a hand drawn flowers theme for her upcoming Bat Mitzvah. 
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A New Bat Mitzvah Invite
Summer Wedding Invitations
We are pleased to add three more custom designs to our collection of summer wedding invitations.
Kelly and Fabiola were inspired and taken by our “spy couple” save the date and wanted something similar using the Washington DC monuments. They also requested that 2 love birds be included for which we designed a special logo for them to use throughout their wedding stationery.
Kelly and Fabiola Invite
Kelly and Fabiola RSVP
Kelly and Fabiola reception
Kelly and Fabiola accommodations card
If you have followed our posts this spring you will remember the save the date we designed for Sara and Todd. We love to play with typography and wanted to reflect the the save the date theme in the invitation suite. A bold navy and rich gold border frame the calligraphic-like text in a fanciful french manner. The suite was packaged together with a bellyband. Tres chic!
Sara and Todd invite
Sara and Todd RSVP
Sara and Todd reception
Sara and Todd Bellyband
Nature brings the beauty, you supply the love. This bride wanted a garden of lavender theme and attach lavender sprigs to her invitation. Unfortunately, the harvesting season is later than the wedding. The next best solution… her mother, a painter, provided a beautiful rendering of the lavender to feature on the invitation.
Anna and Joseph invite
Anna and Joseph RSVP
Anna and Joseph welcome card
Anna and Joseph Accommodations
Stay in touch for our next round of posts.Weddings from Bald Head Island, NC, Washington, DC and we reveal our “spy couple” invitation!
Celebrating the grand view of the Washington monument
Sarah and Adam are getting married this fall but wanted to showcase the beauty of spring’s cherry blossoms. The grand view from their ceremony site includes the Washington Monument. Quintessential Washington, DC captured in a vintage style postcard.
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Destination Dominican Republic Update, Celebrating at home!
Coming home to celebrate with an “Old Hollywood” themed reception. Black tie optional but smoking jacket and fedora’s preferred. This invitation called for classic letterpress in black and white.
New Studio Releases!
Our new and latest invitations for late spring and early summer.
Elizabeth and Luke
This energetic young couple has chosen an english garden theme and wanted to combine their love of vintage teapots and romantic Williamsburg. The blue and yellow palette on clean white and design motif reminded us of one of our favorite bone china patterns. We also designed a Spanish version for her to send to extended family in Mexico.
Elizabeth and Luke Save the Date
Elizabeth and Luke Invitation Suite
Sara and Todd
Sara and Todd’s reception site is at the La Maison Francaise at the Embassy of France. Vintage engraved notes and calligraphic flourish came to mind for this typographic design. We fell in love with the swirls and swashes of the Indenture English Penman font and couldn’t resist adding the extra flourish with ASTYPE Ornaments. Mais Oui! Invitation to follow soon.
Sara and Todd Save the Date
Heather and Gavin
A spy theme for an intriguing Washington couple whose last name is not Smith! Inspired by the iconic Mr. and Mrs. Smith movie poster we set out to create a silhouette of our mysterious couple lounging under a canopy of cherry blossoms. In place of the ubiquitous guns, we gave our spies a reason to celebrate with champagne. (Their invitation is on the drawing board but don’t tell anyone)
Heather and Gavin
Paper Fashion Show Returns to Denver, Seeks Designers
Project Runway fans will fondly recall the sixth season challenge that had the designer-contestants crafting dresses out of newsprint because, as Tim Gunn reminded them, “Fashion is news.” The episode also involved some on-deadline duplicity from one contestant, which led Gunn to proclaim, post-judging, “I am incredulous at that utterly preposterous spewing of fiction that Johnny [Sakalis] did on the runway.” Zing! But we digress. The Art Directors Club of Denver (ADCD) is once again bringing Project Runway-style creative feats to the masses with the seventh installment of its annual Paper Fashion Show.
“The ADCD Paper Fashion Show is like an event at the Art Olympics,” says Lonnie Hanzon, the first-place winner of last year’s show and a “wizard in residence” at the Museum of Outdoor Arts in nearby Englewood, Colorado. “It is the best place in Denver to showcase wildly creative work within very specific parameters.” This year’s participants will craft their fashions out of paper donated by Xpedx. On March 24, the looks will take to the runway and be assessed by a panel of judges that will award prizes to the top designs. The most crowd-pleasing look will take home the “audience favorite” honor. Part of the proceeds and auctioned fashion designs from the event will benefit Downtown Aurora Visual Arts, which provides after-school arts programs for at-risk youth. Designers, art directors, professionals in marketing and communications, and plain old fashion enthusiasts can register to participate in the Paper Fashion Show by February 18. In the meantime, get inspired by this footage from the 2010 event:
Destination: Dominican Republic
Kit and Joe, a delightful couple and one of our favorites, decided to wed in the Dominican Republic in April 2011. This is probably one of the most luxurious locations ever. Kit and Joe decided to send out invitations based on the fact that their magical destination wedding was limited to a small number of family and friends. They are planning a much larger reception after the Domincan wedding in early 2011 for which we have been designing a special invitation. We will be posting that creation later next year. http://www.casakimball.com.
Celebrating a wedding weekend in the Dominican Republic
Kit and Joe Dominican Republic
Kit and Joe Invite back
Our 1st Design Dossier: Summer/Fall
A brief view of our design process and inspiration for “A Capitol Wedding Celebration”. Congratulations to Amy and Matt who will be wed this weekend.
A Capitol Wedding Celebration
Washington, DC professional musicians Amy and Matt wanted to make sure that their invitation included an iconic image of their hometown. The capitol dome? Too corporate. Washington monument? Too phallic. We suggested that they scan to the tippy top of the capitol and consider the “Freedom statue“. She is one lady who’s got it going on, graphically speaking that is. Throw in a mix of dollar bill fonts and we think we captured the essence of DC.
The reception is across the street from the ceremony site. The couple had thoughts of using a marching or zydeco band to lead them across the street.
The envelope design
Inspired by a photograph
An old red barn summoning all to convene at the wedding reception of two good friends who are to be married in Washington, DC. A photograph of the site taken by the couple on a scouting trip turns into their invitation. Perfect symmetry of architecture and text.
Red Barn Invite
Inspired by a photograph
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ByHand Invitations was started in 2004 by award-winning ABC News television broadcast designer Steve Bottorff creating wedding invitations for Washington, DC brides. Our reach has expanded to include clients from Europe and Africa!
