Tag : letterpress

These days, snail mail may seem old fashioned. With the price of postage increasing every other year–it seems–and technology advancing faster than you can say terabyte, it only makes sense to use all the electronic sources available to us to send information from point A to point B. But take just a second to remember the anticipation you once had when checking the mailbox. Thumbing through the glossy advertisements for more airline miles and restaurant coupons, you spot an envelope with a handwritten address and a stamp–a real stamp! You study it, admiring the foreign object like it’s arrived from the past via time machine. This moment of joy is also filled with anticipation to see what’s inside. Is it a letter from a dear friend? A hand-crafted invitation to a special celebration? Perhaps it’s a newspaper clipping from your mom…

 

 

The beauty of a great piece of mail is the experience. We notice its texture, its weight, the delicate handwriting, perhaps its smell, or the care that was taken to create it, and we take a moment [or two] to appreciate it. At Lilly & Louise, our main focus is creating that very experience. Think about it, for your guests, your invitation is the beginning of their experience of your wedding. It will leave an impression and give them a taste of what’s to come, not only logistically with the details, but stylistically as it’s a reflection of you and all the details of your upcoming day!

 

 

With all this talk about beautiful snail mail, we at Lilly & Louise also know that conserving natural resources like trees is very important, so we work with papers that have high post-consumer waste content and/or recycled content, and even tree-free 100% cotton papers. We also work with printers who use organic vegetable-based inks. And, if you ever order something from us, you’ll notice that the box in which you receive your product is most likely reused– even down to the packing material. We try our darnedest to reduce, reuse, and recycle while still delivering top notch, one-fo-a-kind designs.

 

Well, hello! So very nice to meet you. We are Lilly & Louise and we are thrilled to be part of Entwined2012!

At Lilly & Louise, we love reasons to celebrate, and your wedding is our reason to celebrate! With a specialization in wedding stationery — from invitations, to escort cards, to menus, and everything you can dream up in between — Lilly & Louise creates custom designs that uniquely reflect you, your story, and your special day–items that are sure to leave a lasting impression. Part of our process involves listening to our brides’ and grooms’ stories to learn exactly how they want their love to be visually represented.

Leslie Lewis Sigler–owner, designer, and studio sweet tooth–of Lilly & Louise was born and raised under the hot sun and beautiful hill country ofcentral Texas, but is now based out of Santa Barbara, California. The beauty of the kind of work we do is that we can work with you wherever you are…whether you’re in San Antonio, Texas or Madison, Wisconsin. We can work with you and your wedding vendors via phone, email, skype or Morse code to develop a design for your wedding stationery from our little studio in sunny Santa Barbara.

Oh, you want to get to know us better?? Just click yourself over to our website www.lillyandlouise.com, like us on Facebook,  or follow our blog at www.lillyandlouise.blogspot.com.

That’s all for now, stay tuned for more goodness from our other Entwined friends, and we’ll be back soon with more paper eye candy.