I've been Pinned!

Is anyone else ga-ga over Pinterest? I know I am! I recently came across a way to see if any items from your blog have been pinned and I came across my Watercolor Roses invitation! How exciting to think that someone randomly came across my work and liked it enough to Pin!

Thank you Mariah R for pinning me!

Watercolor Roses

With the new trend of multi-layered, pocket and elaborate invitations, I find that many brides find themselves in the typical delimma of champagne tastes on a beer budget. I am definately one that likes pocket invitations and anything different, but these come with a cost. I think it's important to stress to my brides that beautiful, unique invitations can be done on a smaller budget and still blow their guests out of the water!


This is a 6 x 9 printed invitation with watercolor roses. It can stand alone on beautiful cream colored paper, or include one layer of a beautiful shimery paper behind. This is a very elegant and still very unique invitation without having the added expense of having a folder type invitation.

The invitation that started it all

Here is the invitation that started it all for Little Bee Custom Designs. I was a bride back in 2002 and was disappointed in the lack of personalization and originality of invitations available to me, so I decided to create my own! The pocket-fold was a custom design that I cut by hand. I did not use an envelope and mailed the invitation as you see it. They came through the mail beautifully!

Originality is the center of Little Bee Custom Design's vision. We strive to make invitations uniquely "Yours" and give your guests something to talk about.

I look forward to meeting with you to discuss your invitation needs and see what we can create uniquely for you!

Lohn-Caragine Wedding

I met this wonderful bride, Dana, online on a wedding forum. Through emails and various phone conversations, we planned an overall scheme for her wedding stationery. She wanted elegant, tailored and glitzy with a theme of "An Enchanted Evening" for her wedding.

I started by designing her Save the Date. It was a 5" x 7" booklet bound with a black eyelet. The front featured the words Tying the Knot with a black grosgrain ribbon. The pages inside the booklet contained information about the wedding weekend.



I was then contacted by the Bride's mother to design her bridal shower invitations! Taking inspiration from her Save the Dates, I created a black outter jacket that was tied with gold ribbon. Inside contained a childhood photo of the Bride and the shower information.



I went in a different direction for her wedding invitations. I started with a shimery pearl white PocketFold pared with a tone-on-tone white and antique gold flowered backing. A satin ribbon and personalized label topped off the outside of the invitation. A reception card, direction card and RSVP rounded out the ensemble.







*all photos by Marie Labbancz of www.artoflove.com