Pinhole Press Weddings

I am a big fan of mixing printing styles, suites and even printers for my clients. I think it's infinitely more chic to mix and match your wedding papers than to be too matchy-matchy. It also is a great cost-saving tip to "go digital" on some of your less vital stationery pieces, while still staying "on message".

However, as we are retailers of some of the most luxurious stationery lines around, I am not so thrilled with the flimsy and poor offset printing that is prevailing out there in the digital world. Pinhole Press is different. I even print my Christmas cards through them (retail)! And now they've come out with a digital wedding line that is positively clever. Great for mini photo albums, stickers, and even accommodation cards, I can attest to the high stock quality and great reproduction of images.

Another great find for stickers, especially, is My Own Labels.  I use them often for gift bags and hang tags.

 Just remember, your wedding invitation is the first impression your guests will have of your wedding, and a keepsake you'll want to treasure forever.  So mix and match, but splurge on the big pieces!

Brides Side or Grooms Side

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With so many couples having mutual friends they are doing away with the my friends or your friends, and everyone is just sitting together.



I love this!



What do you think, tradition or take a seat?

An Easy Wedding DIY - Festive Drink Flags

My Wedding is a brilliant source of wedding DIY inspiration, take for example these beautiful and festive drinks flags from Chelsea at Frolic - they are the perfect way to bring a little fun and decoration to your celebration drinks and better yet they super easy to make.  Could you see yourself using these at your wedding or next shindig?  PS If you are after lots of other wedding decoration ideas check here!

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A Creative (Edge) Tasting

When long-time friend Angie Nevarez, Director of Weddings at Creative Edge, invited me to a private tasting to check out their current menu, I couldn't accept the invitation fast enough.  Wonderful company, great food, a pristine atmosphere, attentive service, customized menu -- all in the name of diligent party-planner "homework", how could I refuse?!

The food was a delight to the eye (note all the fab serving ware), perfectly bite-sized and delicious.  When a caterer does it right, it's so, so good.  Enjoy!

We arrived to their West Village kitchen and office to this beautiful table

Creative Edge's menus are the best around -- great photos and a clear lay-out let you know what you're options are

Even the flowers coordinate in their pristine space

The Creative Edge motif is the egg, a solid display egg was replaced with this crab filled, hollowed out egg

We could add notes to each item we tasted, all I wrote was "yum", "double yum" and "yowza"

Curried vermicelli and Vietnamese basil in rice paper

Filet mignon on bruschetta with red wine mayonnaise and carmelized shallots

Tiny fish taco with grilled mahi, chunky chipotle mayo on a bed of black beans (the beans help them stand!)

Hazelnut grapes, cucumbers, extra virgin olive oil and chives

Artichoke fondue with oregano-pine nut puff

My favorite, Hamptons Succotash tart with Long Island corn, lima beans, yellow tomato marmalade

A prosciutto BLT -- what would you brand on your toast? (customization available)

Just to give you a sense of how bite-size it is!

Tipsy Vegetable Terrine with pickled carrot, pencil asparagus, roasted red pepper

Our first course was a quail egg with jumbo asparagus, spring leek terrine and meyer lemon vinaigrette

And then the delicious steak -- at this point it was hard to eat more....

...but we somehow found room for the Bourbon Butter Pecan Milkshake

And cake truffles...

And Pie Pops

The Chocolate Caramel Tartlets were delicious, but by this time we were delirious and on a food high

As we were getting ready to leave we caught a glimpse of a Creative Edge truck getting ready to deliver these delicious treats to some lucky clients....

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Wedding Chics

Just so sweet we couldn't not share! Love the suculents, the soft sweet romance all over!