Our very own Jillian married her hubby Scott in the pretty, laid back beach town of Sayulita a year or so ago. Her wedding was beautiful and fun and full of cold Pacificos and warm sand… but most importantly (to us) it also included the pretty paper details that she designed herself.
She wanted her invites to reflect the lightness of the actual wedding, (they asked their guests to wear white), while incorporating pops of bright colors that are so essential to Mexican culture. For inspiration, she and Amanda too a trip to Olvera Street in downtown LA, where they bought a bunch of bright paper flags. And she found a beautiful embossed card at Soolip, but buying enough for every invite would have been a little pricey… so she improvised.
She contacted John Sullivan from Logos Graphics in SF create a plate (for $25!) using a pattern she found. She was also able to purchase the paper, cut/scored to the right size, from him. A close friend knew a little about letterpress, so they went to the San Francisco Center for the Book where they blind embossed the pattern onto her own gate folded card, in the style of the inspiration Jillian found at Soolip. To save on printing, the main invite was printed at home on her Epson printer.
Aside from the invite and pretty cover piece, her invitation suite included tons of little details to get her guests excited about their trip to Mexico. For her reply postcard, she used a perfect bird graphic she found from Beaumonde and had custom stamps made based on those super cute, semi-iconic vintage Mexican playing cards. Her red and yellow envelopes came from Paper Source and she had Jenna (obviously) do the calligraphy. As an added bonus she created little velum packets that she stitched together herself, full of sand, photos Scott had taken of Sayulita, and a teensy Bienvenidos greeting.
Then Amanda, being the good friend that she is, designed a website based on Jillian’s invites! Absolutely essential for a destination wedding, in our opinion. And how cute is this website?
As a final note, Jillian says creating her own invites “was a lot of fun but took serious time and planning. Ultimately you have to utilize your resources and trust your creative vision!”
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I can’t get over how amazing these are. To be able to do this yourself just floors me. Such great work!
These are amazing! I love the collaboration that made them a reality and the blind embossing is amazingly pretty!
If I could speak Spanish, I’d say the translation of “wow, super!” One of my favorite invites I’ve seen in a while. The bird rsvp is so fun — has a Thomas Paul whimsical quality I love. And sewing the sand + bits in vellum — super sweet!
These are incredible - all of the elements pull together so perfectly!
I LOVE the fact that you found a way to do these on your own. Beautiful!
I absolutely love these invites! They remind me of our trip to Honduras, where we had a parrot screaming “Hola!” at us every morning at breakfast.
Go gorgeous! The color is oh, so perfect.
So inspiring, and I love, love, LOVE the corresponding site!
So excited to see this post. I’m getting married in Sayulita this October, and at Villa del Oso as Jillian did! Thanks for the inspiration.
Lindsay,
That’s so cool that you’re getting married at Villa del Oso too! Crazy. I recommend getting married on the second level that overlooks the pool level; at sunset. You can see the water and the lighting is breathtaking. You can have your reception on the pool level. Oh it’s going to be so much fun. Feel free to email me if you have questions or need more suggestions.
jillian@100layercake.com
Jillian, what is the script font you used in your invites? It is so sweet. The whole invite package is so sweet, really.
beautiful! it cracks me up that this post refers to something so gorgeous as improvising. just great! keep up the inspiring work!
Wow! That takes DIY projects to a whole different level. I’m in awe. Looks like a great party too
Where on earth did you find the little paper flags? Your work is truly amazing!!! I love it!
-c
Thanks everyone for your warm compliments about my wedding invites. It was such a fun process!
To answer some of your questions, the script font is called “Dear Sarah”; you can find it at http://www.Fonts.com. As for the small paper flags, I got them on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, but you can also find them online: ww.globalexchangestore.org.
I love the juxtaposition of the script and block fonts on the invite. Did you get the block font from fonts.com, too? What is it called? Thanks!
AMAZING. kinda makes me want to do my own……
i am over the moon about Jiliian’s invites. I love all the little pieces, each so unique for the typical package deal. Really stunning.
I love Olvera Street… I love these invites… I love this post! Absolutely inspiring! Kudos!
Your invites are beautiful! I love how the folio opens in the middle… It’s been asked before, and this post is a little late, but any chance you can divulge where you got the block font? Thanks!
The sans serif font is called ATSackers Gothic. The whole family can be purchased here: http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/monotype/sackers_gothic_std_virtual/
i love the colors and all the elements of these invites. the matching site is pretty cool too!