I Live In My Own Mind

Our Wedding Featured on Style Me Pretty today!

I am bouncing off the walls with excitement today, it feels like Christmas in April! Our wedding was featured!

http://www.stylemepretty.com/2012/04/25/mr-vernon-wedding-at-felicias-guest-house-by-ink-ivory/

Check out the full gallery here.

Here’s a little about our day:

Our story started in high school where we fell madly in lust and dated for a couple of years. We decided to go our separate ways duringcollege, I moved to New York and he moved to Florida and we lost contact for few years. Long story short, somehow via electronic media, we rekindled our old romance, this time with a little more maturity and experience under our belts, and a long distance between us. We flew back and forth frequently visiting each other and decided after a long year of being so far apart, that we’d move back to Ohio where we had both grown up. We bought a house and renovated it while living in it, and we both realized, if two people can make that work, they can make it through anything. So one sunny day Nate proposed over a game of scrabble, on a picnic, near a fountain, in our favorite park. He had picked the letters “marry me” out ahead of time and put them in his pocket and when I was looking away, arranged them on the board, with ring in hand. I cried for 20 minutes. Happy tears I will never forget.

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From Concept to Finished Invite

I’ve been swamped lately with a capital “S” and haven’t had a chance to post often but I thought it might be interesting to show what I proposed to clients Rachel and Dan for their literary-themed wedding invite a couple of months ago, and how it turned out!

Here was the proposed concept:

-faux bois cover

-deckle-edge cotton paper

-monogram seal

-hand-sewn together with off-white string

-library pocket and library card for the reply postcard attached to the back inside cover

And here’s what the finished invites looked like:

The Farm on Kenyon Road Logo Design

I recently did some work for The Farm on Kenyon Road owned by the Laymon family in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. I worked with Chrissie (the mom, wife, operator of the whole shebang, who wears many hats) to come up with a rustic logo that was representative of the organic nature of the work they are doing, with a little touch of modern, which is right up my alley. They about “dirty hands, warm hearts and open minds. Encouraging a strong work ethic, respect for the environment and the power of community in the next generation. The Farm brings all natural, grass fed, and sustainably grown products straight from our land to your table.”

Here are some of the logo options we started out with:

I’m excited to see what’s in store at The Farm in the coming months! Check them out for yourself here!

Congrats and keep up the good work!

Winter Wedding Shoot

When the talented husband and wife duo from Love Is a Big Deal reached out to me last month to ask about using some of my b. Poetic headpieces for their winter themed wedding shoot, I eagerly offered to do the paper suite for the shoot too!

The amazing photos were featured on Green Wedding Shoes here yesterday!