Holiday Cards | Akinyemi Law, PLLC

Happy Holidays!! Can you guys believe 2010 is literally right around the corner! I'm excited for our success this past year and i'm looking forward to what is to come for LEPENN | DESIGNS, llc in the new year. I can't wait to share everything with my faithful readers and visitors.

Here are a few snapshots of the final holiday card design of this year. This corporate card set was designed to coordinate with the brand of the company, which can be seen HERE. We used all white metallic cardstock complete with a complimenting silver envelope liner.

Holiday Reunion Invitation

One of my planner pals, Felicia of Events By Felicia, came to me needing custom invitations for a grandchildren's reunion that she was helping to plan for Christmas. She wanted them to be purple and silver with a winter design.

Here are images of the beautiful design which received rave reviews from her family!

The silver mailing envelope introduces the theme and is complete with a purple envelope liner.

The main components of the set was the invitation booklet and the RSVP postcard.

The booklet featured a silver vellum cover and white metallic pages inside containing a nice amount of organized information that the guests would need.

Our First International Order :: Scotland, UK

LEPENN | DESIGNS has gone international!! I am so excited to showcase the wedding invitations of my Scotland bride Shelley, who will be getting married on the island of Cyprus next year. This is still considered a destination wedding for her so she wanted to use a passport for her wedding invitation. I fell in love with her color scheme of light gold and teal so I couldn't wait to start on her design! She also wanted to involve butterflies in the design.

I love designing passports that have the concept of a "passport" but not in such a literal way. For my brides that dare to be different, that is exactly what I give them! For her cover I decided to feature two traveling butterflies that meet on the island of cyprus, which would translate to Shelley and Kevin meeting through destiny on this magical island where they will actually be get married and joining their lives together forever.

The design is carried over to the back of the booklet with fish and water indicating the Mediterranean Sea which is the body of water actually next to the island:

The inside pages of the booklet feature one of the seals of Scotland in the backdrop:

Working through this order was a great experience and I hope to work with other brides outside of the US for this upcoming season!

Destination Wedding Stationery | Puerto Rico Grapevine

As a follow up to the post about Melissa's vibrant destination wedding invitations, here is the complimenting stationery that was designed for the day of the wedding.

A bookfold style ceremony program with a tassel ribbon, two insert pages and their monogram accent on the cover. The program was written in both english and spanish:

Custom printed cocktail napkins (NEW!) and a custom printed wine bottle label. The Malbec wine was homemade by the groom, Anthony, and they were given to guests as a wedding favor/gift.

Escort cards that were placed at the guests' seat and held inside of wine bottle corks:

Individual menu cards for each guest:

Each table sign was a different one of the couples' favorite wines which also had a special blurb about what the wine meant to the couple. There were also signs created for the wine bottle guest book and for the wine bottle favor table, written in both english and spanish.

Corporate Branding | Akinyemi Law, PLLC

The appropriate branding of your business collateral is just as important as the branding of your personal event, if not more. It is the first impression that potential clients will receive so it is important to impress them on the first encounter.

I recently had the opportunity to design the corporate branding for a new law firm in my local area owned by Attorney Erika Akinyemi. Her design called for something professional yet modern and classy. She gave me a few pointers regarding colors and images so I set to work to create the perfect brand identity system for her.

Business Logo:

Front and Back of the Business Cards:

Front and Back of the Postcard Mailers:

Baby Shower Game Booklets, Signs and more!

It was such a special and exciting experience to help plan my bff's baby shower, which you may remember from these invitations. Along with the invitations I also created coordinating stationery for the day of the shower in order to brand the event all the way through. I will be coming back with a recap for our "L|D Real Events" feature where I'll be showcasing photographs from the actual event.

Folded game booklets with ribbon accent:

Stickers for the gif bags:

Individual menu cards for each guest:

And finally, a few reserved signs for some of the tables:

Childhood Themed Wedding Save-The-Dates

Kim is one of my 2010 brides and it has been a fun and FUNNY roller coaster of an experience working with her so far. I think this save-the-date postcard design changed about five times, lol. But in the end we were able to come up with the perfect design that she and her fiance loved.

They wanted to include childhood pics along with "bubble conversations" of him asking her to marry him. So with only those two clues this is what I came up with:

(The verbiage in the background also pays tribute to Kim and Ronald's Sorority and Fraternity)

Destination Wedding Invitations | Puerto Rico Grapevine

How in the world did I miss featuring Melissa's beautiful destination wedding invitations?! Her invitations were designed with a deep jewel toned palette of aubergine and garnet. They are 5x7 folded card invitations that feature a monogram tag, ribbon band and special cut out section showing off the main invitation graphic.

Once opened you will see that the ribbon band holds the stacked insert cards together.

The main invitation has a large grapevine motif that is the anchor of her invitation and stationery design.

Hotel accommodations insert card.

RSVP postcard.

And finally, an itinerary card.

Coming up next are a ton of complimenting stationery for the actual wedding day, which include two new custom printed items that i've never done before!