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Monday, April 28, 2014

Red & Blue Wedding Invitations: A Simple & Sweet Wedding Suite

I was so honored to design these red & blue wedding invitations & programs for my dearest high school friend's wedding. It was a laborious but beautiful process, and as of April 11, 2014 our first wedding project has finally come and gone. 

The bride and groom were open to any ideas and styles I could dream up -- with the color scheme for the wedding (purple, red & blue) being my only restrictions. I soon found out that freedom of design can be a challenging process, but after a few drafts (and bouncing ideas off my creative director husband) came up with a solid set of elements to further develop. It was so much fun to play with the red & blue theme and to decide where to add pops of color, and where to leave text black.

Warning: There is a story behind this wedding (aka "The Fairy Godmother Project"). This post may get lengthy. But really, it's mostly pictures. You have been warned. ;)


Photo by Coppersmith Photography

Photo by Coppersmith Photography

Photo by Coppersmith Photography

Photo by Coppersmith Photography

The wedding was unlike any I've been to. My friend Paige and her fiance Cody (an Army Sergeant) were going to have a minimalist wedding, as that is all they could afford, but then something amazing happened: two women decided they would be Paige's "Fairy Godmothers" and throw her a dream wedding. 

The project became known as the first annual Fairy Godmother Project Minnesota. Led by fearless co-founders Terry Uy-Lennon of Uy-Lennon Floral and Events, and Amy Coppersmith of Coppersmith Photography. The two ladies rounded up other vendors to partake in this generous project, who provided their services for free or at-cost. 

Here are some of the amazing shots from the day. All photo credit given to Coppersmith Photography with a special thanks for letting me use them in my blog post. They did such a wonderful job & made sure everyone was having fun!


I love this shot of all the dresses! Yes, we all wore cowboy boots.

Close-up of the boots.

Bride with her Bridesmaids :)
The bridesmaid's dresses were varying shades of blue with red accents in the jewelry, flowers, and pashmina shawls. 

The whole wedding party.
Those tie-clips are actually really cool money holders that the bride engraved by hand. They have the initials of the groomsmen (& ushers) engraved on them. Such skill. The varying shades of the red & blue wedding party attire really came together nicely, don't you think?

And here are some of my favorite shots of the lovely bride & groom from the day. I can't help but smile when I look through these. 








Gorgeous wedding with great friends! I am blessed.  Oh yeah, plus some really cool invitations & programs ;) 

I can't believe I almost forgot to mention the super cool slow motion booth & photo booth that was set-up in the old hay loft of the barn. The video has not been posted yet, but basically the photographer (Travis Johansen) takes slow motion videos in addition to normal photo booth photos, and then splices them together & edits them into a crazy cool, fun, memorable video of the event. Enjoy!

Dancing with my momma

The bride & groom with some of the vendors
Slow Motion Booth & Photo Booth by 7Booth. For a full list of vendors visit the Fairy Godmother Project Minnesota Facebook Page




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