We love surprises and being featured on this beautiful blog was one we were not expecting! A huge thank you to Niloufar Gibson of the Bridal Hot List and to the ladies of Rayce PR for kind words about Gourmet Invitations and the beautiful showcase of our work! Bridal Hot List is a resource for today’s bride and provides the hottest trends in the wedding industry.
We are so excited our “Oz The Great And Powerful” shoot was featured on The Modèle Weddings Blog! This shoot was so much fun and it turned out fantastic if I do say so myself! We couldn’t think of a more appropriate way to usher in emerald as the color of the year than with a wedding inspired by the emerald city itself. We drew a lot of our inspiration from bold colors, especially emerald and the element of the hot air balloon that plays a prominent part in the film.
A special thank you to all of the fantastic participating professionals!
Photography: Kait Winston Photography
Wedding Planner/Stylist: Le Lapin de Marriage
Makeup: Ashlyn Landrum
Invitations: Gourmet Invitations
Florals: Nicola Flora
Cake: Cakes by Graham
Prop Rental: Paisley and Jade
Venues: Hardywood Brewery and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (in Richmond, VA)
Models: Rachel Faulkner (bride), Dylan Nolan (groom), Josh Plasse, Sonnie Slagle
**Oz the Great and Powerful is a 2013 American fantasy adventure film directed by Sam Raimi, produced by Joe Roth, and written by David Lindsay-Abaire and Mitchell Kapner. In theaters now!
Somewhat last minute, another 4 day conference was added to the Inspire Smart Success last year, in exotic Dominican Republic. Like the other conferences, I did all of the custom designed conference materials. I designed laser cut tags that I applied to the placecards and to the front of the package that each attendee received at check in. I designed three days of itineraries, signs and menus. The itineraries for the breakout sessions were hand fans and menus included letterpress wood grain pieces and a silk menu with die cut printed pieces.
The next stop on the ISS tour last year was North Carolina. This event was one day and the custom conference design materials included letterpress itineraries, custom lanyards, menu wraps, placecards and lots of logo designs that appeared on most of the giveaways at the conference.
Images by Vesic Photography
The Inspire Smart Success Experience in Mexico was my first sponsored event over a year ago now. I did all of the paper and printed goodies for the 4 day conference. I really strived to make everything unique and different from other conferences. One of my favorite items were the hot pink plexiglass menus. This menu is what made Preston Bailey notice my company and we conversed through email about working together again.
Photos by Kismis Ink
I have had the opportunity to sponsor a few of the Inspire Smart Success Conferences with Stacie Francombe. My work has been seen by many of the top wedding professionals in the country with this opportunity, and for that I am very grateful! Please enjoy the photos from Kismis Ink Photography of the custom signage, place cards, lanyards, attendee books, coasters, schedule of events, and bevel edge painted menus we created for this fantastic conference for wedding and special event entrepreneurs in Mexico. This first post features the conference room in Mexico at the Now Sapphire Hotel in Cancun.
Inspire Smart Success Speakers: Sasha Souza, Stacie Francombe, with attendee William Miller, Diann Valentine, and Preston Bailey
Tifany Wunschl made her first television appearance on” Preston Bailey’s Dream Wedding” airing on WeTV! The first showing was on Friday, March 15th at 12:30 pm. It aired again Saturday, March 16 at 10 am. See the amazing behind the scenes footage of Preston Bailey and Theo Bleckmann’s wedding that took place at midnight on Valentine’s Day at the Empire State building. Tifany had the privilege of designing the wedding invitations and menus as well as the honor of attending the wedding of celebrity event designer Preston Bailey and Grammy award winner Theo Bleckmann that took place on Valentines Day of 2013 at the Empire State Building.
Be sure to follow the blog in the upcoming weeks for design features and stories about her crazy journey’s; from meeting Preston Bailey to flying to New York City twice to work with Marcy Blum and Preston Bailey.
Photo by Robert Evans
Last August I had the opportunity to meet Celebrity Photographer Robert Evans at the Inspire Smart Success Experience in Carmel, California. I was so inspired by his speech about goals that it made me put into action some new goals for my own business. A few months later I was able to work with him on the inspiration shoot at the Inspire Smart Success Experience in Mexico. What a great, down to earth guy he is! Robert is so willing to share his experience and advice with anyone who asked. I was really impressed by his character! Then shortly after I got the call that I was chosen to design the wedding invitations for celebrity event designer Preston Bailey and Grammy award winner Theo Bleckmann on Valentines Day at the Empire State Building. Needless to say I was beyond thrilled, I mean what an honor!! The icing on the cake was hearing that Robert Evans was chosen to shoot the wedding! I have already seen some of the images of my invitations which are fantastic! I will be able to share them with you all shortly after the show aires with a special on Preston and Theo’s wedding on WeTV. Stay tuned…..
I was honored to have been chosen to design and produce the invitations and the menu’s for Preston Bailey and Theo Bleckmann’s King Kong themed wedding and excited to see the wedding on People.com! The wedding took place the first moments of Valentines Day 2013 at the top of the Empire State Building.
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