Category Archives: custom wedding invitations washington dc
A Special Offer for spring brides!
Have us design your Save the Dates in January or February and receive 10% off your custom designed wedding invitations!
We Travel to Germany, San Francisco and Vegas to Play Poker
Two fall destination weddings and a chance to win $50,000!
We would love to jump aboard and fly off to San Francisco and Mittenwald, Germany. We can dream can’t we?
Kara and Ryan’s favorite place to vacation is in Mittenwald, famous for its violin making. With it’s majestic mountain scenery and quaint painted Bavarian houses, they planned the ultimate getaway for family and friends. They wanted to feature the mountains on the invitation and made sure that their beloved dog Chance was included as well.
Lauren and Geoffrey live in San Francisco and decided to marry by the Golden Gate Bridge at nearby Baker Beach. We never did personally meet the lovely couple, but the bride entrusted her delightful, creative and crafty mom Kathy to oversee the invitation planning. Since there were many events leading up to the big day we agreed that a 4 part tiered invite tied together with navy ribbon fit the bill. We began by designing a special stamp which was prominently displayed on the invites and decorated the hotel welcome baskets and reception menus. Once assembled and be-ribboned, the invitations were placed in an over sized envelope with handmade wrapped address labels carefully crafted by Kathy.
Vegas Baby!
Seneca One Finance asked us to design an exclusive event invitation promoting a “Winner take all” poker game in Las Vegas. The challenge for us was to create an invitation that would stand out amongst the mountain of flyers flowing through the mailboxes of 2,000 potential clients. We suggested an over sized playing card printed on 2 sides announcing the event in bold “Texas Hold ‘Em” style typography with rounded corners. Imagine having a whole deck of these to play poker with!
ByHand, Cape May Style!
A refreshing dip in the ocean is certainly what this beauty is prescribing. We are setting ourselves free for a couple of weeks and will be back to the design boards in August. We still want to hear from you. Our email is always open. We’ll get back to you when the sun goes down. Cheers!
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!
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
Some of our favorite Invites
All invitations that we design are considered special but these are by far the most admired by new brides searching for inspiration.
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
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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!
