Love Invites

happy hall-love-ween!

Take 1 - Super quick scribbles

 

Take 2 - First dress rehearsal, Thursday night

Take 3 - Second dress rehearsal, Friday night

Did this makeup a total of 4 times! Took longer each time it was done. Here's the final result! It took quite a long time but all the comments really made it worth it! 

Take 4 - Halloween night! Added jewels and switched up the color!

Hope you all had a fantastic Halloween, and I hope I inspired you all to get creative with everything you do!

XOXO, Cathy

And for fun.. here's the clean up shot!!

falling in love with oregon

This past weekend I was up in the Portland, Oregon area with my family for my cousin's wedding. It was then I got my first dose of fall for the season.

I love San Diego forever and ever but my only complaint (and it's a teeeeny one) is that we really don't get much of the seasons. Which is why I was overjoyed to get the chance to head out into the country and explore.

I took over 3000 shots the whole weekend, but here are some of my favorites that I took that really capture that fall feeling. These go perfectly with the scent of apples, and pumpkins!

 




 
 
Hope those put a smile on your face. Happy Fall!

love for pink!

Love at First Invite has joined Pink Initiative, a collection of wedding industry professionals and private donors dedicated to funding awareness, outreach, education and research for breast cancer.

Breast cancer affects one in eight women in her lifetime. We’re helping because we can. 

Donations: Pink Initiative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Tax-exempt donations may be made via PayPal by visiting their website at http://www.pinkinitiative.org and clicking on the Donate button.

Thank you so much for your support. Together, we can make a difference.

introducing new love: opulence

There's a new special edition Ready-to-Love for Fall 2009 and it's called Opulence. To launch the fabulous design, we are doing a special intro price of $7.00 a set for 2-color letterpress invitations! The set includes Invitations, an RSVP postcard and outer envelope.

We are showcasing the Letterpress version, but it can be also printed digitally or with thermography. :) Happy Tuesday!

summer love contest winner has been chosen!

Congratulations to our winner, Didi & Mike!

We're also giving away a huge discount on our invitations to all our contestants and a FREE sample of their favorite design!

Contact us if you entered and would like information.

love to last the years

Wow, time flies when you're having fun. :) My husband and I have been married one year on Sunday, July 12. We were married in San Diego at the Bahia Resort aboard the William D. Sternwheeler. It's been an amazing year! We are off to Disneyland for some anniversary fun at some of our favorite spots!

Here's some of our wedding journey, shots by Susan at En Pointe Photography:

Our engagement shoot at Seaworld:

My boudoir shoot (my hubby's surprise wedding present!):

Our wedding day:

Our trash-the-dress session:

Things have changed so much in a year. Being married is wonderful! I love my husband more every day. :)

I've been thinking about how different our wedding would be if I was planning it now, this year. It'd make for an interesting blog post, that's for sure. The "do-over" wedding. :)

If you're already married, what aspects would you do differently if you were planning it this year? Would you change locations? Dress? Colors? Style? Flowers? Theme altogether? Let me know what you would change. :)

minted save the date challenge... rock the vote!

Love at First Invite entered the new Minted.com design challenge for Seasonal Save-the-Dates! It was such a fun project! Go check 'em out and rate our designs :)

http://minted.com/designer/loveatfirstinvite/

Our entries:

..autumn..

Go vote here.

..spring..

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..summer..

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..winter..

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brand new blog!

We finally revamped the blog, adding features and cleaning it up. We hope you like it!

Please comment and let us know what you think, and even ideas on how to make it better! What more would you like to see on our blog?

We have more features to come this week, so stay tuned!

Thanks and happy Tuesday! :)

summer love contest!

We are excited to announce our summer love invitation giveaway! Up for grabs is 100 sets of Wedding Invitations, including Reply cards and envelopes! The winner can choose from any of the Ready-to-Love Summer 09 collection in their colors and paper choice! This is the biggest giveaway we've ever done, and we are so excited for the lucky winner!

To enter, please comment on your favorite design from the Ready-to-Love Summer 09 collection, and why it would be perfect for your wedding. The contest winner will be announced on July 13th. :)

sneak peek...

Here's a sneak peak of a blog post coming soon!