Amy’s invitations were no doubt absolutely beautiful.  Thick black envelopes embossed with ‘Deliver To” featured a collage of real vintage stamps specially ordered and hand done calligraphy by The Blooming Quill.

Check out this sweet film Amy put together for the blooming quill about their process: THE BLOOMING QUILL from Amy Johnson, One Fine Day Prod. on Vimeo. love it!

Amy’s inspiration for the invitations (and, in the end, the entire wedding reception as a whole) began from a trip to New York. While at the Balthazar in Soho she saw a menu featuring French engraving cuts. Having a design background, she absolutely fell in love, and knew immediately she wanted her printed material to have the same look and feel.

Unfortunately, they were harder to come by than she had thought. she scoured the internet for months, bought books on Amazon, searched high and low and nothing came close.  there were flourishes, but no true engraving cuts.  Finally, on another trip back to New York for a wedding show she found an artist using the same engraving cuts that she had found in a book.  Amy bought the book and spent hours scanning in and vectorizing the flourishes with results that were fantastic- especially paired with the Calligraphy and bold type.  the search and effort was definitely worth it.

Another obsticle Amy ran into was the use of her color palette.  She absolutely loved the look of ivory on black, but envisioned her wedding more colorful than monochrome.  she chose a mix of colors- Nile blue, Champagne, and plum and i love the combination with the black and ivory.   (ps- pantone’s fashion color forcast for 2010?  yep- it included turquoise, violet, and pink champagne.  spot on Amy!)