Minted Save the Date Challenge: Editor's Picks

I'm very happy to announce that two of my designs, Flourishing Love and Let it Snow, were awarded editor's picks in the Minted Getting Hitched Save the Date contest ! Both designs will be available exclusively through Minted.com this spring!

Flourishing Love

Let it Snow

You can see these designs, along with the rest of the gorgeous winners of the contest at the Minted website.

Thanks again to everyone who voted!

Bridget & Kevin's Wedding on Style Me Pretty!!

Remember the adorable sand dollar themed invitations and monogram I created for Bridget and Kevin last year?  

Well, this morning I woke up to a sweet email from Bridget, letting me know their wedding was featured on Style Me Pretty, and that she mentions me in the post!!

For some absolutely stunning beach wedding pictures, head over to the post on Style Me Pretty!  And for even more eye candy and inspiration, make sure to visit Bridget and Kevin's photo gallery on Style Me Pretty.

Belletristics on Inspire the Bride and Celebrity Weddings!

Yay-Belletristics has been blogged! I'm a little late on these announcements, but I just found out about them a few days ago.

1. Celebrity Wedding Blog (by the Wedding Channel)
September 9,2009

Cheap (and Chic) Custom Monograms for Your Wedding

The easy way to add a touch of celebrity style to your wedding is to get personal -- it’s what the stars do to make their events a one-of-a-kind experience. The easiest, and most affordable, way for we mere mortals to do so is to have a custom monogram or wedding logo designed. Take a cue from Fergie and Josh Duhamel’s wedding invites, which were sealed with monogrammed stickers. Sounds pricey right? It doesn’t have to be! Thanks to Belletristics, a Florida-based design company, personalized monograms and wedding logos are so in your price range. Get a custom design (something like what you see here) starting at $6! (Yes, you read that right!) You can thank a fellow bride for the bargain -- a talented bride named Sarah launched the company in 2008 after falling in love with weddings after planning her own DIY big day.

Visit the website to learn more, or scope out Sarah’s blog) to see her most recent designs.

-- Justine Lorelle Blanchard

2. Inspire the Bride
October 18, 2009

Invitations: Great DIY Printable Wedding Sets

I am a frequent Etsy.com online-window-shopper ;) and could literally spend hours upon hours in fascination at the unique creations the creative wedding and print shops have for sale... Stumbled upon the Belletristics - Aesthetic designs for the DIY Bride storefront and love that all of their items for sale seem to be pretty affordable and help cut down on costs if you visit your local Kelly Paper Company or other discount/wholesale paperies to get beautiful cardstock for lest and choose to print on your own at home (usually it ends up costing less by sending the file to staples since ink is so expensive these days and you may get a good price depending on the size of the bulk order - the only bummer is the price usually includes printing on simple matte cardstock or you just pay for their bulk printing and you supply your own upgraded paper). This shop seems to be flexible with personalizing colors, texts, and some other additions depending on the item and details of the order. Check em out~

'Belletristics is a design shop specializing in high quality, affordable designs for the DIY bride. Using Belletristics' design services will save you time and money while helping you bring together the vision that you have for your wedding. Designs can be created in a variety of file formats, so you can print at home or use a professional printer.'

--Lauren Egkan

Belletristics in Brides Magazine!!!

I recently found out that Belletristics was mentioned in the September/October issue of Brides magazine!!! (thanks to everyone who emailed me about it and for the congratulations!)

I haven't been able to get a hold of the actual magazine yet, but this is what it says:

What can $6 buy? A custom wedding logo created by online design firm Belletristics (find them on etsy.com). Use yours on invitations, favor tags, programs, signage, anything you like!

I'm so flattered and honored to have my business mentioned in a wedding magazine as popular as Brides! The September/October issue of the magazine should be hitting stores this week, and I can't wait to see it!

I'll be sure to post a picture of the actual write-up when I get it!