the week that was...

Crazy, hectic and insanely busy!! Herbies been churning away, Charlie has been clunking away and we have madly been doing linings and envelope inserts, packaging prints, printing business cards and fulfilling wholesale orders from our store!! What a busy week!

Our Christmas cards are also flying out the door - make sure you grab yours before they are all sold out.

Have a wonderful weekend my friends,

xox

Letterpress christmas cards now in store!

Spread some letterpress cheer this Christmas!!

Our 2009 limited edition christmas cards combine our three favourite things - beautiful typography, gorgeous papers and beautiful letterpress impressions.

Printed in turquoise and raspberry our two typographic cards read “The loveliest of moments are shared at Christmas” and “The sweetest of joys are those found at Christmas”.

Designed with our all time favourite classic typeface these typepackages have been beautifully impressed into the paper the old fashioned way.

Each card is a limited edition numbered run of 200. Printed on a natural coloured environmentally responsible wind powered paper sourced from well managed, sustainable forests. These folded notecards are left blank on the inside.

Coupled with a kraft envelope, our christmas cards are available as a 6 pack featuring 3 copies of each of our two cards. Bound with a kraft belly band, old fashioned string and a letterpress swing tag each six pack is available for $30 each .

Be quick though, as they are a limited edition run we only have a small number of packs available!

featured wedding: kristie & ken

Today we have a really lovely treat for you! We have been promising to feature Kristie & Kens Sunshine coast wedding on our blog for some time now, so without much further ado, here are gorgeous photographs and the story behind Kristie & Kens amazing wedding.

Date: September 12, 2009

Location: Ebb Waterfront Maroochydore. We fell in love with this venue as soon as we saw it. The fact that we could have our accommodation, ceremony and reception in the same place made the whole day feel connected and intimate and also gave our guests a better chance to mingle and to get to know each other. The view from the restaurant and terrace was breathtaking as well which is always a plus and the food and wine was to die for!!

Photographer: Brad Peate from Focus Films, absolutely incredible!!

Stationery: Bespoke Letterpress Boutique, featured here, here and here.

Florist: Monique from Tigerlillies

Wedding Gown: Hilde Heim

Bridesmaids Gowns: Ultra Suite

Grooms suits: Bought from The General Store (it actually ended up cheaper than hiring!!)

My favourite moment of the day: Seeing Ken waiting for me before our ceremony with the ocean and Maroochydore river in the background.

Little things you did to make your wedding day truly unique? I bought most of our decorations online, it’s amazing how much you cam save by doing some research and also, I can now resell the decorations to other DIY brides! We also invited guests to come to the venue half an hour early for champagne just to give them a chance to mingle and be comfortable before the ceremony.

Styling tips & ideas: The view from our venue was the shining star so we didn’t need to over complicate our styling. I guess I tried to incorporate simple elegant touches (such as candlelight reflected off plate mirrors) which complemented the venues unique characteristics rather than competed with them. I also took a lot of inspiration from blogs such as www.stylemepretty.com and incredible bridal magazines such as Style Guide and Bride to Be.

Other little things you would like to share? I think the most important lesson I learnt through the whole planning process and the outcome of the day is that no matter how much time and effort you spend organising every last detail, you can’t control everything. On the day things will happen that aren’t to plan and when they do, it’s so important to remind yourself why you are there in the first place.

Thankyou Kristie & Ken! It has been such a joy to work with you both throughout the planning for your gorgeous day. We wish you all the very best for a beautiful lifetime of love, joy and happiness.

All photos courtesy and copyright of Focus Films.

going home

I have spoken before here, here and here about how I love "going home" to my parents gardens. Home is down in Sydney, out about an hour from the city itself in a gorgeously secluded pocket of bush and acreage. Going home at spring is simply the best. Mum & Dads beautiful gardens and lawns are alive and driving towards their acreage you can spot their gardens in the distance. Its simply too beautiful, and nothing else makes me feel quite so at home.

Mum not only grows my most favourite David Austen roses, but also has a lovely collection of crystal vases to suit. I see it as my pleasure to bring the two together and fill my parents home with little pockets of flowers when I am in town. Mum never seems to find the time to bring her garden indoors, so I really hope she doesn't mind that the first thing I do when I get home is steal her best scissors and head outdoors.

This little collection of David Austen's found a new home upon the mantelpiece. With the afternoon sun reflecting through the crystal, and the most amazing fragrance to suit, they were simply too beautiful for words.

happy weekend!!

Have a most gorgeous weekend my friends. Later today we are headed down to Sydney to attend the lovely Bec & Tims wedding. We have had an enormously busy week here printing in the studio, with very sore muscles and a sore foot from foot treadling Charlie so much, we bid you farewell and hope to arrive back in the studio refreshed and a little less sore!

Oh and the images above? Found via the sweet girls at Lella and Zee we adore this gorgeous calendar by the talented Catherine Campbell and declare it our favourite calendar of the new year! Available for just US$18 via her etsy store.

See you next week!

xox

letterpress swing tags

We are crazy hectic here in the studio today. So many wedding packages in production - they are keeping us super busy indeed!!

So for a quick little sweet blog post today I wanted to show you some very cute personalised swing tags we recently produced for Annie & Julian. You may remember their letterpress save the dates and letterpress wedding invitations we produced earlier this year. These gorgeous little tags featured a letterpress outer casing, with personalised insert, bound together with a silver eyelet and ivory ribbon. So very sweet!

andrew & kathy wedding stationery

We recently completed letterpress wedding invitations for the delightful Andrew & Kathy who are a local Brisbane couple who are getting married in February next year. Their wedding theme is based upon pale duck egg blue and coupled with small touched of sunflowers for their happy and joyful feel. Through out their wedding styling they will be evoking an air of elegance and classic timelessness.

We designed their letterpress wedding invitations with a gorgeous elegant script typeface coupled with a vintage serif for contrast. They chose to have their invitations personalised, so that each and every invitation is letterpress printed with the guests names.

A delicate vintage sunflower illustration was printed in a very light lemon so that it is only subtly visible and doesn't distract away from the gorgeous typography. Coupled with reply cards, thankyou cards and pinstripe lined envelopes these are a beautifully delicate and such a lovely fresh colour combination to work with!

the sweetest of friends

It was such a lovely joy to see many new and old friends at the Finders Keepers on the weekend. It is such a blessing to have the support of so many beautifully creative and sweet people. To online friends, ex students, clients and beautiful creative friends thankyou for stopping by. Your love and support makes what we do here at Bespoke just that little bit more special!

The gorgeous Louise from Floralovely stopped by with these divine David Austen roses for us. They took my breathe away! She is the sweetest, loveliest thing who creates the most amazing wedding floral designs - you can see her gorgeous work on her wedding we featured earlier this year. We were blown away by her gorgeous gift - David Austens are my most favourite flower, and her arrangement was simply divine - thankyou Louise, you are too beautiful. xox

You might also notice in our photo above some new brooches we bought from Edward & Lily while at the markets, too cute!