If you are looking for clean, modern but romantic invitation design, look no further than The Bee Paperie. The name comes from the phrase “bee in your bonnet” because these ladies are simply obsessed with stationary design.  They do custom work, but here are some of their pre-existing designs that I fancied.  They offer patterned backs, which I’ve noticed is a growing trend with invitations. I sort of love the peach one, mainly because I think peach is going to be THE new color….. it’s awesome with brown, grey, navy.  I think i’m going to do a peach post… hmmm…

Ladies, when you see them again, Kiss your florist!  Theirs is a thankless job.  No, seriously, for two years our little business also provided floral services to our clients and there are no words for how much pressure it is to prepare live (semi dying), imperfect items like flowers for a perfect events.  In addition to planning, it was all too much and we decided to leave the floral to more fearless hearts!  A peach rose isn’t always the same shade of peach,  things don’t always arrive as “alive” as you’d hoped, and, worst of the worst, sometimes the EXACT THING that you ordered, the thing that you desperately need to make it perfect, simply doesn’t come.

That’s what happened to us yesterday when, in an effort to showcase a beautiful table on a budget with the colorscheme of Peach, Gray and Navy, only 100 out of the 400 carnations that I ordered arrived to the market.  Luckily, the client was just us, but still, as they say on Project Runway, we had to “make it work”.  The idea was for there to be a runner of peach on the table, accented by these rentable silver lamps.  created by peach carnations and then these glass charges would be enhanced by laying peach tulips under them…..  That’s not exactly how it turned out.

If you ever wonder how these table tops come about, usually we start with a color scheme (Mayra and I think Peach is going to be the new “hotness”) or a theme (here,simple, budget chic) and then a trip to the rental facility.  We love Classic Party Rentals, and Julia, our rep there is full of great ideas.  I sent Anika over to photograph some different linens and chargers when Julia made the awesome suggestion of using the flowers under the glass plate.  Here are our play photos AND what we finally ended up with- we had to wrap the runners in navy ribbon and dot the arrangement with white carnations, BUT, everyone seemed to love it! (also, big thanks to Eclipse Entertainment for sending over that awesome Plasma to showcase our work).