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.

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!

raise up the love

Here's a sneak peek of our upcoming blog post...

august is filled with love!

Hey everybody out there in wedding land! I just heard from our production manager that August 2009 weddings are completely booked for custom wedding invitations. There may be some openings for Ready to Love in the future for August brides, but for now we are not taking anymore orders. Thanks to all the August brides and we can't wait to work with you! <3 <3

We are still taking orders from September and beyond. The earlier the better, because we've been booking fast. Also a little reminder that the Spring Appreciation sale is through March 31st, so if you have a proposal out or are thinking of working with us, contact us right away.

bring on the love

As a graphic designer first, and stationery design second, I realize that while the two design worlds are very different, they are of course intrinsically related to each other. There are definite styles to the wedding design world, and I find interesting when the design "real world" seemingly takes cues from the wedding/romantic/feminine style of the wedding world. But then I think, is that the chicken vs. the egg syndrome? Does wedding style/design come from real world? Or does the wedding world have it's own trends that radiate outward? It is a big enough chunk of the industry to make an impact. Either way, they do influence each other, and I'm more than happy when I identify styles from wedding design in real world packaging and vice versa. Here are some of my favorite packaging designs that include beautiful details that could be amazing wedding invitations:

Photo Love!

Yippee yay! We finally got a rockin' camera to take some Bee yoo teee full invitation shots with. So be on the lookout for more invite sets on Love Invites! Here's a sneeky peeky!

Spring Love Appreciation Sale

Spring your clocks forward and take advantage of our Spring Love Appreciation Sale!

If you book before March 31st, you will receive $50 off custom invitations and $25 off the Ready to Love collection. This offer is subject to scheduling availability, so contact us soon to reserve your spot.

The promo code is LAFILOVE, and you can let your friends in on the savings as well!

Let's create something beautiful together!

Ready to Love - The Favorites

It's been a very busy season for Love at First Invite, with no signs of slowing down anytime soon! :) I haven't had a chance to post much because of it, but soon we'll be showing some really exciting new works! In the meantime, here's a few images of our most sought-after Ready to Love designs in living color.
Ready to Love invitations are ready to be customized with your wording and your colors, to match your day!

Love in Texas!

You know what they say about Texas. Can you imagine how stunning this wedding will be? Amanda and Kenneth are getting married in the beautiful Rockefeller Hall in Houston, Texas. Amanda is using bright apple green for her centerpieces with rich chocolate brown accents throughout. Amanda is a vintage kind of gal, while her fiancé tends to be drawn to the modern. We married those two styles and came up with this little gem :)

Modern Spanish Love Pt II

Goodness, It's been a busy holiday season, and subsequently it's been awhile since I blogged... I have tons of new projects to show you, but for now I would like to show you how Jennifer & Jayson's amazing invitation suite came out. These are one of my favorites so far!

We got a new printer and it's a special printing process that uses solid inks. They start off as waxy blocks, melted down, mixed and applied to paper. The end result gives a tiny bit of a raised ink feeling as you can feel the wax on the paper. Too cool! She also upgraded to 110 lb. paper which gave these invites a substantial feel.

Congratulations again to J&J :)

True Love

You may remember my post from awhile back about Lindsay & Brandon's beautiful Gocco'd programs. Their wedding was amazing and the colors all came together beautifully. LAFI had the pleasure of designing all the ceremony and reception items for the day. :)



Congratulations Mr & Mrs G and thank you from the bottom of my heart for letting me be a part of your unforgettable day.

Modern Spanish Love

Can I just say, designing these invitations made my day! Hey that rhymes! :)

When Jennifer & Jayson met with me they had this very cool idea of incorporating their photo in their invites. Jennifer & Jayson's main theme is Old Spanish infused with Modern styles. Their colors are cranberry, chocolate and ivory. These invites have such a cool personal vibe to them. Love it!

Jennie & Jason Love

I am so happy to have had the opportunity to see all my design pieces in action, at the wedding of my friend. It was just a beautiful day, thank you again for allowing me to be a part of it!

The lovely photography is credited to the amazingly talented photographer Chrystal Cienfuegos.

Enjoy!

I <3 NY

"I'm in a New York state of mind..."

I just finished up designing invitations for a Bride and Groom getting hitched in NY, NY. I think I had too much fun designing these. I've been looking forward to designing these ever since she contacted me.

Their wedding is going to be a mashup of elegant, urban, funky, sophisticated... basically New York! Their colors are chocolate brown and lavender. Here are my top favorites.



I am so in love!! :)