Featured Vendor: Tiger Lily Floral

My good friend Tanya Cole owns Tiger Lily Floral in Albuquerque, and she recently made some HUGE changes to her shop. She used to be located on Central near the Frontier Restaurant, but made a move home in order to focus on some different projects that she has in the works including more events and weddings. If you've seen her work, I am sure you'll agree that she is absolutely amazing! If you have a chance check out her revamped website. In addition to adding a ton of new pics to her gallery, she also has a page that can help you with your planning by showing photographs of popular flowers that you may not know the names of... check it out here!

Do you know what these are? The first one to answer correctly gets a box of Thank You cards!

Postage Rate Increase

In case you haven't heard, the US Postal Service raised their first class stamp rates to $ 0.44. If you bought a stash of the Forever stamps with the bells on them, your in luck - they are still good to use.

This leads me into a series of Frequently Asked Questions about invitations that I have been dying to answer!

How much is it going to cost to send out our invitations?
This can really only be answered by an aficionado at the post office. More than likely they will cost more than an average letter or greeting card because of size and weight.
I would suggest that once you have your invitation suite in hand, to have it weighed and measured so that you are not in shock when you are ready for mailing. Since your invitations are more delicate than most other mailings, I would suggest that you splurge and have them hand canceled instead of having then sent through the post office machinery. Some post office won't even charge you extra.

Do I have to put a stamp on my rsvp envelope?

You don't have to do anything BUT if you are expecting your guests to actually send them back a stamp is a good idea. Since this card is generally smaller than the actual invitation, using a standard first class stamp should do the trick.

Where can I buy cool stamps?

Here a couple of places that I usually recommend:

http://www.zazzle.com/

http://www.everafterpostage.com/

http://www.championstamp.com/

For more on invitation FAQ's, as well as other general wedding category check out the New Mexico Wedding Professional official blog here!

New Fonts

Check out these new fonts that I just got in!

Custom Wedding Monogram

Recently I worked with local wedding planner extrodiare, Bentley Clark of Savoir-Faire Events, to create a custom wedding monogram for her upcoming July wedding. She was so easy to work with! In fact, I think that we just exchanged a few emails and she gave a me quick vision a I came up these ideas:

My favorite was the first one, but Bentley chose the second one. Check out these super cool Save the Dates that Seth and Desiree at Jones Photo Art made with it using some of their engagement photos. Love them! (The pics scanned in crooked, they cards were perfect)

Do you need a custom monogram? Contact me for pricing! info@elvamariesfinepaper.com

Cool Blogs

I just posted a link to some of coolest blogs!

First, I found Felt and Wire by Strathmore Writing and Script. This will surely impress you if you are as addicted to paper as I am! Right now they are featuring a sampling of cool circus themed letterpressed pieces...Sigh, letterpress! Where are you in NM?

Second, Karen from Celebrations! Wedding and Events has just started her blog to talk about some of the weddings that she's recently worked on. Right now there is a princess wedding featured - that I was fortunate to work on with her.

And finally, there is Midori Ribbon's blog that I just love for love's sake. Midori Ribbon is the best ribbon out there, and I sure have been buying a lot of it lately!