thank you with love!!

Okay here it is folks! Love at First Invite is giving away FREE custom thank you card sets with any custom design invitation order! This will be custom, based on your invitation suite! This is a $100 value, just our way of saying THANKS!

Just place a custom invitation order now through June 1st and give us the promo code SUMMERTHANKS and we will add 50 thank you cards and envelopes to your order for FREE! There's no better way to thank your guests than with matching cards to bring your wedding theme full circle. :)

But hurry! This offer is only valid until June 1st!

giving away our love!

Susan was the winner of our FREE letterpress Ready-to-Love giveaway that was hosted on Style Me Pretty. She chose the Dotted design from the Ready-to-Love collection for her invitations. It turned out beautifully and her guests are going to swoon!

Stay tuned for an exciting announcement today for the May giveaway/sale for all new LAFI clients!!

summer lovin'

Introducing the Summer 2009 Ready-to-Love collection!

We've added four new designs and brought in the four top favorites of our spring collection.

We are now shipping sample packs of the entire collection for only $20. This includes all 8 Ready-to-Love designs, in different paper types - Smooth, Linen, and Metallic and Natural White and Bright White finishes.

Download the new catalog or order sample packs here.

left my <3

Hubby and I had a wonderful trip up North this past weekend for Mother's Day. My husband and I both grew up in Northern California, and so both of our Moms are there! It was wonderful to see everyone, and we also got to see some G'ma and Aunties and Cousins!

We snuck in a little trip to San Francisco as well. We hung out in the Little Italy district of North Beach, and basically pretended we were in Italy. I brought my camera with me and got some cool shots of everyone. Although the trip was much too short, it was some much needed family time!

Next up, fam's coming to San Diego to visit. Beach here we come!

nouveau love

old-fashioned love

love cinco de mayo style

Happy Cinco de Mayo all! For day 2 of my post a day, comes a destination wedding in Mexico. Lindsay wanted it to remain light and casual, but not too overdone with the theme. Her colors were rich and bright primary colors. We first did the Save-the-date with the Mexican papel theme, and it became a cornerstone, so we brought it through to the invitation suite. For the invitations, we kept the same feeling but brought in some handwriting to make it more personal and classy.

Have a fun and safe 5th!

love in patterns

We are starting up a post a day. Woot woot! We will be finally showing a bunch of recent works that we are really excited about. We had a lot of June & July brides and have tons to show! Here's the first installment, Candace & Philip. Aqua and chocolate brown give their modern seaside affair an amazing touch. Here's an email we received from the bride, who is actually an event planner at a popular wedding venue here in San Diego.

"I wanted to thank you for the beautiful work on the invites! They are stunning! I love the contrast of the belly band against the invite and I showed them off at my bridal shower yesterday. Every single person said they had never seen a design like that before! I told them to see you when they get married :) "

Thank YOU Candace, and we can't wait to design the rest of your coordinating pieces for your special day!

our mission of love

We finally wrote a mission statement, which is part of moving in to our {new} studio. Hope you likes!

Love at First Invite believes in quality, tailor-made, intelligent custom design that encompasses the passion and vision of our clients. We believe in being fully accessible by remaining cost-effective and utilizing eco-friendly processes and materials. We offer the opportunity to create art together; with a dream, paper and ink.