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The invitations are ready to go!

My mother, Acia, should be a professional invitation designer. If that even is the correct terminology for that sort of profession. She is so talented that she handmade and designed our wedding invitation with a 2000 version of Microsoft Publisher. She is truly the bomb.com. Designing our wedding invitations starts out with a journey to Hollo’s PaperCraft. I found out about Hollo’s through my cousin Sarah’s wedding. She had bought all our her paper there for her programs and menus there. So when I knew that my mom was going to make our invitations I knew that Hollo’s was the place to go. Phil and I first checked out Hollo’s by ourselves and it was scary. Hollo’s has a lot of paper in the store. It is literally like a warehouse of paper, envelopes, and odds and ends of art supplies. Phil and I tackled the challenge of Hollo’s with our color swatches in our hands and a mission to find the perfect match. We failed miserably at this mission. Not one piece of hundreds of shades of paper matched our “sea foam green” color. Well I just lied, we found a 5 cent business size envelope that was a perfect match…but this envelope was completely useless.

: Me being shady…color shady…wow, I just made that joke

: Oh hey it’s a perfect match…with 3 different envelopes …you can’t make an invitation with 3 envelopes…

So we had to go to plan B, choose a gold invitation and bring in the “seafoam” color in with an art deco pattern. Phil and I then I picked out a pocket invitation we liked. On Etsy you can buy digital paper packs. A digital paper pack is when graphic designers make cool patterns in different colors and sell them on Etsy. You can use them for anything from scrapbooks to of course you guessed it, invitations. Luckily I found a few art deco packs in my wedding colors. Based on what pattern looked the best printed out we chose the design that you saw on the invitation. Then it was the journey of choosing the font. I am a trademark attorney so I look at a bunch of different kinds of fonts weekly. So I knew from the beginning that this journey of finding the correct font could be a long one. But luckily due to my mother’s talents in Google searching and following instructions on how to use free fonts, she found a variety of fonts to choose from. Then it was easy to pick my favorite two that looked the best together. I explained to her on how I wanted the invitation to be designed and she executed my vision with perfection. I truly love our invitations so much I probably will frame them. If you are thinking if you want to hire Acia to design your invitations for your next special event you are going to have to ask her yourself.

: Aren’t they pretty?- Inside Main

: It’s so daper- Front

We killed that cake

I love desserts. Phil also love desserts. So when it came to picking out a wedding cake it was easy as pie….or should I say cake. (Wow that was lame, but I’m keeping that joke anyway). In the summer of 2011 Phil and I traveled to New York to volunteer at the Greek American Foundation’s Gabby Awards. At the Gabby’s I had my first ever Georgetown Cupcake, it was a salty caramel cupcake and I was in love.

My first Georgetown Cupcake…June 2011

After the Gabby’s, and my first Georgetown Cupcake experience I become obsessed with everything that had to do with salty caramel. Salty caramel cupcakes, salty caramel ice cream from Jeni’s, salty caramel cheesecake, salty caramel popcorn, and everything else that was salted and caramel. So when it came to deciding on what kind of wedding cake Phil and I wanted to have it had to have some kind of caramel in it. When my mom, Phil’s mom, and I went to the Today’s Bride Bridal Fair I went to the fair with the intention of finding a cake vendor who offered a caramel flavor. To my surprise none of the cake vendors at the fair actually made a caramel cake but most vendors make a banana flavored cake, a flavor that I never ever tried, but none had a caramel flavored cake. So I had to choose vendors that had caramel filling, which is just as good. Phil and I setup an appointment with Any Way You Ice It because 1) it had a sweet punny name 2) they had caramel filling 3) they handed out cupcakes at the bridal fair and it was tasty and 4) the price was right. So Phil, I, and Phil’s parents went to go taste cakes and these were the flavors we tasted:

1. Chocolate with Peanut Chips cake with Creme Caramel filling
2. Chocolate cake with Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Filling
3. Yellow cake with Creme Caramel Filling
4. Strawberry Cake with Chocolate Gnache filling.
5. Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese filling.

All the flavors were AMAZING! We especially like the chocolate cake with the peanut butter cream cheese filling and the yellow cake with you guessed it the caramel filling. So we decided to have 2 flavors of cake at our wedding chocolate cake with peanut butter chips with peanut butter cream cheese filing and the second flavor being yellow cake with creme caramel filling.

Phil’s Mom and Dad enjoying the cake flavors

When it came to the design of the cake that was pretty easy. I wanted to incorporate an art deco design with my wedding colors. Luckily art deco style is based on a lot different designs and patterns and it wasn’t had to find inspiration for the cake. I received inspiration for the art deco design from a Martha Stewart art deco wedding cake, a 1920s screen door, and the Great Gatsby book cover. It was actually much easier than I thought to create my own design. Since we loved the flavors and Kelly, the owner of Any Way You Ice It, we booked her as our cake vendor. One thing we do regret is interviewing more cake vendors just for the sole purpose of tasting more cakes.

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