Custom Vintage Wedding Postage Stamp

Brides looking to personalise literally every details of their wedding day, will love these bespoke wedding stamps. Follow Studio {possibly my favourite wedding stationer in the world} have created these gorgeous stamps, inspired by vintage postal marks. Each one includes your name, the date of your wedding and the location. They're the perfect addition to your wedding invitation envelope, or you could even use them to add a DIY touch to a simple white wedding invite or Save the Date.

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How To Say Thank You For Your Wedding

In all the madness of all your frantic wedding preparations, it's hard to think of the days afterwards, when you'll be relaxing on your honeymoon. But the one thing you can be sure of, is that there'll be tonnes of people you'll want to thank. Your suppliers, your parents and all your friends and family who gave you wedding presents. A great way to truly personalise your wedding thank you cards, is to ask your wedding photographer to take a picture of you on your wedding day with a Thank You Banner. Try these pretties from Etsy Wedding on for size...my favourite is the burlap bunting, how about you?

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Unique Etsy Weddings: Jolly Edition Wedding Stationery

Every day this week I'm introducing my secret UK Etsy wedding discoveries. We've had a fantastic response so far - please do leave comments with your own favourite Etsy sellers. Today we're all about hand-painted wedding stationery by Jolly Edition, run by married couple, Laura and Tom in Cambridge. Together, they design beautiful, custom wedding stationery and bespoke wedding portraits, with a fun, vintage feel. I love the personality they bring to their work - their wedding stationery is truly a work of art. Don't miss the Jolly Edition website, including fabulous dog-walking cards and cat portraits!

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Possibly The Best Wedding Stationery Ever

My husband says that he can tell when I've found something I'm really excited about featuring on the blog. Apparently I hum happily and work at super-speed until I've written it up, and I do a happy drum of my fingers on the table. {Weird!}. He's not here as a write this, but I reckon I might be humming as a type, because I've just discovered an AMAZING wedding stationery company. Amelia Lane Paper is a London-based studio, run by Chanel. They specialise in gorgeous wedding invitations with quirky calligraphy, and clever destination designs, and every one is a winner! I just wish I'd discovered them in time for my own wedding. Take a look the fabulous pictures below, I'm loving the cute little hearts, the bright stamps and the watercolour effect on the Union Jack invitations. Don't miss the Amelia Lane Paper Etsy shop.

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Personalised Vintage Wedding Portrait Stationery

After a massively hectic week, I'm having a lovely morning web-wander around Etsy Weddings. It's a fabulous source of wedding inspiration - there's no end to the wedding details you can personalise! My eye naturally gravitates towards wedding stationery, and I'm thrilled to have stumbled upon Willow and Lark's Wedding Supply. This little online boutique stocks vintage wedding finds, with garters and hair pins and ring pillows just a few of the lovely wedding items. My favs are this customisable Couples Portrait Notebook, and the Will You Be My Bridesmaid notebook. I reckon the Couples notebooks could make fantastic Save the Dates - what do you reckon? Click back on the blog later for the cutest wedding favours in the world!

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Designer Wedding Maps & More

Worried about your guests getting lost en route to your wedding? Or just planning a destination wedding and want to have a bit of fun with the Save the Dates? Try these gorgeous mini-works of art by Couture Maps. For $400, Stephannie Barba will draw a bespoke design, with as many of those cute icons as you like. You can then use the map on invitations, welcome bags, napkins, tablecloths, favours....you get the idea. Stephannie also designs wedding stationery, so if you're looking for a one-stop-shop, she's your girl!

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Introducing Dolce Roopa Wedding & Bespoke Stationery

Brides looking for bold and beautiful wedding stationery are going to L-O-V-E Dolceroopa Bespoke Wedding Stationery. Roopa creates gorgeous bespoke designs for your Save the Dates and wedding invitations, so whether you're getting married on the beach, up a mountain, or in London town, you can be sure your wedding stationery will perfectly reflect the style of your big day. With twelve years of design experience, Roopa loves creating that 'something special' for her clients' big day. If you take a look at the fantastic designs below, you'll see the influences of her multicultural background - having lived in Abu Dhabi, Milan, New York and London, Roopa brings a truly international sense of style to her wedding stationery. For more fabulous wedding stationery inspiration, don't miss the Dolceroopa website.
 

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Pretty Hand Painted Save the Dates

With hand-drawn wedding invitations the choice of every fashion-forward bride this season, the fabulous independent illustrators on Etsy Weddings have started to get in on the act. I'm embracing the whimsical, floral trend with this cute Save the Date by Loft Life Press. There's something about it that reminds me of an old-fashioned sampler. Every design is unique, because the Save the Date is hand-painted before being digitally converted for printing. Make sure none of your guests get booked up early, and order them this week!

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Botanical Themed Wedding Stationery Ideas

If you're feeling inspired by the fabulous prettiness of the botanical wedding we've just featured, try these gorgeous wedding invitations, thank you cards and place markers on for size. Designed by Rifle Paper Co., I'm a lot in love with all of them. P.S. Their customisable wedding stationery is coming soon this year - can't wait!

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Possibly The Best Save the Date Ever?

This Save the Date is the reason why I love the web. It's such an enormous swimming pool of creativity and inspiration. Isn't this just the coolest idea? The bride and groom got engaged in Paris - a location they subtly acknowledged in a nod to Albert Lamorisse's short film The Red Balloon when designing their save the date announcement. Designed by L'Office Optimiste, and first seen on For Print Only, I'm in love! If you want to recreate this invitation, check out Balloon Print, who will put your image on a 100 balloons for only £5.

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Wedding Lace Theme & DIY Doilies

Doilies! They're back! Yes, the must-have item of the seventies has made a return, but with a 21st century twist. It's amazing, add a touch or colour, or a few more swirls, and all of a sudden you've got a classic-gone-modern. Add them to your wedding day in every which way - tie them to jam-jars like the pic below, make them into bunting, use them to line the inside of hurricane lanterns, or add one to each table setting. Alternatively, you could always just use them the old fashioned way, to pretty up plates. Throw in a couple of the lace accessories below, and you've got a match made in heaven. Big love to Papermash, where you can find all the products below.

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Lovely Secret Garden Vintage Key Themed Stationery

When it comes to wedding themes, it's often difficult to choose your favourite. I know that I found it super-hard to pick between an Alice in Wonderland wedding theme, and a Secret Garden wedding theme. In the end my wedding venue, with its walled garden and secret chapel made the decision for me, and we used a vintage key motif throughout our wedding stationery and favours. We designed our own stationery, but I wish I've found these gorgeous wedding invitations by The Paper Sentiment. I'm loving the texture of the paper, and the combination of fonts, plus the grey, pink and gold colour palette. Do take a look at graphic designer, Carrie Beach's other wedding stationery sets - they're all as gorgeous as each other!

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DIY Bride Wedding Stationery Ideas

Every now and then I stumble on a website that makes me feel like it's Christmas Eve. You know that feeling of butterflies in the tummy? That's what I get about the online stationery boutique Wonderland Room. Before my wedding I went slightly crazy and bout tonnes of treats, including the boxes you can see below, plus the roller stamp and tonnes of washi tape. I used the rolling stamp to spell out my guests names on their place cards - a super easy DIY wedding project.

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DIY Wedding Fortune Tellers

One of the best things about meeting all the brides-to-be at The In-Wedding Show, was finding out what themes you are considering for your own wedding. Shabby-chic and vintage weddings are here to stay, as are butterfly motifs and vintage key themes. Wedding DIY projects were hugely popular - not least pom-pom making, and I'm predicting DIY weddings are a definitely a trend that's here to stay. One of the items on my stand that caught the eye of most brides, were my DIY fortune tellers. We included these at our own wedding, and my lovely husband designed and made each by hand - all 100 of them! The fortune tellers included fun facts about us as a couple, and inside, the menu for our evening meal. It was fantastic to see people working out how to use them as they sat down to dinner - they acted as a brilliant icebreaker. Make your own, by following the simple instructions below, or buy them via an Etsy seller like A Bespoke Touch or Kat's Crafts.

How To DIY Your Wedding Fortune Teller
★ First things first! Early on in your wedding planning, choose a signature font, and use it for all your DIY projects. It'll make everything look pulled together, and professional. At my wedding, we used a font called English which I downloaded for free from the internet. There's tonnes of free fonts available online, but be warned, once you start looking, it's impossible to choose which one!
★ Click for a fortune teller tutorial. When you click on the link, it'll automatically download the template onto your computer {the file is called 'cootiecatcher'}.
★ If this doesn't work, go to this link, click on 'Resources' and scroll down until you see Cootie Catcher {quite far down}. If you click on the link, it will automatically download the template.
★ Once you've downloaded the template and tutorial, all you need to do is open it in PowerPoint, and start adding your own details. Huge thanks to Gail Lovely for making this available.
★ You might have to practice a few times with the positioning of the words. Remember you can add pictures or symbols too! We added the name of our venue, the date of our wedding, and I Do!

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Whimsical Hand-Drawn Wedding Invitations

As soon as I posted a picture of this gorgeous hand-drawn wedding stationery on my Facebook page, I had a huge response from brides, so I wanted to share it with all of you who haven't quite found us on Facebook yet. They have to be some of my favourite wedding invitations of all time! They even have a kite invitation...I reckon kites are going to be a huge wedding trend this time next year. Completely bespoke, and handmade by Etsy seller Ello There, I'm in love. For more kite-themed loveliness, check out my Pinterest boards.

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Gorgeous Rustic Wedding Details You'll Love

If you don't want your wedding to be pretty and feminine...after all it's his wedding too, add a few of these rustic wedding details. I'm loving these gorgeous products from Etsy seller Blue Pearls - their use of natural fibres, like linen and string, fits right in with the eco-wedding look that is so hot this season. This fabulous rope wedding ring pillow is stunning, and I love the craft paper cutlery bags - perfect for a picnic-themed big day, or a nautical themed wedding.

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