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Last week, in a sea navy blue tissue and bright pink silk ribbon, we mailed out a special package to some of our favorite wedding planners and event designers. Being able to recognize these talented wedding professionals and show our gratitude for the amazing work they do while giving them a small glimpse into Elizabeth Grace was very exciting for us. It was a labor of love from all of us which timed out perfectly for Valentine’s Day!
The inspiration for this came from a beautiful little bottle of Pommery Pink Champagne. For about a year, we have been enjoying a “Pink Champagne Friday” tradition here in the shop, so sharing that was a definite choice. The color combination of the bottle was perfect, especially with pink and navy being Hailey’s favorite color palette. The foil wrap being neither silver, or gold, gave me the perfect excuse to finally use platinum engraving, a color I have been dying to use for so long!
Pairing it with my other favorite, white engraving was pure heaven. I found the perfect shade of raspberry stock to make our tags, only to discover it had been discontinued. It matched the bottle perfectly, I was kind of heartbroken. Lucky for us we did some digging and we found some we could use for our project. In my mind, we gave Raspberry a stellar send off!
We were joking in the studio about what we would say on our Valentine, and tossed out “we go together like peanut butter and jelly”. That wasn’t really the message I wanted, but all of a sudden I knew I had to talk to my good friend Nicole at Truffle Truffle. She makes the yummiest Peanut Butter and Jelly truffles, adorned with a little heart. She quickly rounded out my idea to include “Milk and Cookies” and “Beer and Pretzels”…all things that go really well together.
Feeling excited about our sweet treats we focused our attention on the creation of our Valentine. I wanted to do something creative and special that we could coordinate with all of the tags and packaging. Hailey thought a laser cut doily would be the perfec mix of fun and elegant. Lace patterns danced across the desks and with a little help from The Beatles our Valentine was complete!
In addition to pretty fonts and chocolate, we had something else brewing. I wanted to put together a look book of sorts of our work. With this year being our tenth anniversary, I knew ”Celebrating Ten Years of Elizabeth Grace” would be the perfect way to approach that. We began gathering photos from some of our “real weddings” and many of our favorite invitations. Lindsey had just started working with us and she jumped right in helping us with the photography and editing. After a case of diet coke and a hefty investment in mid-day Starbucks runs we had about 70 pages of our favorite stationery pieces. Sadly, I had to cut a few favorites reminding me of my theatre days when we had to cut a favorite song from a new musical. It was quite the walk down memory lane.
Thanking everyone who has meant something to Elizabeth Grace over the years would be near impossible. Hopefully through the writing of this blog we will be able to highlight the talents of our co-conspirators and celebrate all the people who have been so important to us over the years. I remain humbled by how lucky we are to work with so many great individuals and the brides who have allowed us to share in such a special time in their lives.
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that’s really cool. Congratulations.
I was one of the lucky planners to receive your lovely box and it was truly fabulous. What a beautiful display of your work. Absolutely stunning and a wow! Thank you for brightening my day!
Beautiful!
I was a very lucky recipient of this most amazing collection of Elizabeth Grace creativity & artistry! The book is gorgeous & the box was created & filled with love! Congratulations on an amazing 10 years Laura!!
xo
Hope
Beautiful post, and a great looking page. Congrats on your TEN years! Thanks for sharing.
Beyond Beyond Beautiful ! Congratulations on 10 years!!