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Robyn and Dustin

date: June 12, 2013
category: Press
blogger: Jackie

Robyn and Dustin featured on Style Me Pretty

How incredible is this wedding? It's definitely one for the books. One of our sweet brides, Robyn and her now husband Dustin were featured on Style Me Pretty last week and we wanted to share their post. 

Robyn was so much fun to work with, so sweet and passionate about their invites (which we always adore) and they instantly fell in love with our Sun Valley suite. After seeing all the photos from their wedding, I can totally see why, can't you guys? Along with their invitation suite, we also designed their "sweetest thing" favor tag in honor of their late fathers. Congrats to Robyn and Dustin! They are also expecting their first sweet baby to arrive in a couple of months! So baby announcements are next! All photos were taken by Katie Stoops.

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Easton Events

date: June 04, 2013
category: Work
blogger: Jackie

Sip and Swizzle Invites for Easton Events

We had the pleasure of designing and printing these invites for a little wedding industry party thrown by Easton Events. Easton Events is a top notch wedding and event planning company originally based in Charlottesville, Virginia, but has now opened up an incredible office in Charleston. We were thrilled to collaborate and work with these fun and talented women. Here's to fun party and many more years in Charleston, Easton!

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Charleston Inspired Invitations

date: April 15, 2013
category: Work
blogger: Jackie

New Work

So, we are slowly settling into being back home in Charleston. It's a little bit crazy because we are living with my dad on Wadmalaw Island (a beautiful oak dripping island about 25 minutes south west of Charleston) until we move into our house May 1rst on Johns Island. So everything is still all packed under the my dad's house, which makes finding things not so easy. Fortunetly, my studio is all packed up and pretty much in the same place. The press made it just fine, thanks to Tyler and some of our sweet friends getting it on the trailor. So everything is going great, I am anxious to get us in our new house and settled down though, but all in good time. 

I wanted to share some new invites with you all that we just designed. One is a fun take on modern caligraphy, perfect for that Charleston Wedding at The William Aiken House and the other one stems from an old down town Charleston Street, which I have always loved, called Legare Street (pronounced Lah-Gree). I hope you love these. 

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Big news!

date: March 28, 2013
category: Life
blogger: Jackie

Home is where your heart is...

It's not very often that I post personal things on this blog... But this is too exciting not to share with you guys!

Over for the past five years, Tyler and I have been living in Florida away from home, family and friends while building our life here in Saint Augustine. I always knew that we would eventually move back home to Charleston, but wasn't really sure when that would be. Tyler and I both knew where "home" actually was, but we dug deep to make the best of this life that we were currently living in Florida until the time was right to eventually move back. Well that time is now, and I am so excited to let you guys know we are making the big move next Friday (panic anxiety, so much to do) back to Charleston! Our house is almost sold (fingers crossed, our inspection is this Saturday), boxes are packed, the press has a moving plan, Riley's last day at school is next Friday (very sad and mixed feelings about that) and our life is changing... We are so ready for what the future holds next. 

Family means everything to me... After Riley came into this world, everything sort of changed in the most amazing way possible. Our life became not all about us, there was another sweet little person that we were responsible for, there were more important things in life than just Tyler and I and our careers. I am so elated that Riley will now be surrounded by her grandparents and cousins and grow up in a city that is literally BURSTING with talent and promise. Life really is about love, family and the amazing experiences you live through are just the icing on the cake. We're ready for the next chapter in our lives, life is about adventure and we're about to seriously partake in what it means to really live our lives to the fullest.

So here's to amazing experiences: getting back to our roots, getting to see our family everyday, our sweet friends everyday, building a vegetable garden out on the tea farm, raising some chickens, swimming in farm ponds, living in our new house that we're renting, dreaming about building our new house out on Wadmalaw Island, and living the life that we so desperately wanted to live. Everything happens for a reason, right? So here we go you guys, Charleston bound!

Riley totally content playing on the farm. 17 Months.

 

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Custom Birth Announcements

date: March 19, 2013
category: Work
blogger: Jackie

For Ayat and Azaan

I always love when I get the opportunity to design a custom birth announcement for a new baby, in this case twins. Being a mom myself, I look back on that time (a year and a half ago!!) and it was such an incredible feeling to announce our sweet Riley Magnolia to our family and friends through her announcement, I am honored everyday that someone picks me to be a part of that... Have I ever told you that I love my job?!

Shafeena really wanted these to be sophisiticated and classic but also informative. She gave me a few inspirational guidelines and then I ran with it from there. The color palette is totally incredible and those tiffany blue edges totally make me melt.

Congrats Shafeena and Adeeb!

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