Wedding Invitation Trend: Lace

Hi everyone! I hope you are all staying warm, but enjoying all the snow (if you’re in the DC area or further north!).  And if you got married in this area yesterday, I hope everything went ok – do people postpone their wedding if a blizzard hits?

Anyway, on a very un-Christmas and un-snow like theme, this week I want to share about a trend I’ve been seeing lately that I think is fabulous – lace! I’m seeing it a lot on invitations at the moment, and was recently asked by a potential client to design her wedding invitations with lace in them.  They will still have some changes to them (the colors and motif), but here’s a sneaky peak for you!

This is one of the prototypes - since i'm still playing around with colors and ribbon sizes, I haven't actually sewn the ribbon and lace together yet (hence why you see it all raggedy at the side). The camera isn't doing total justice to the invitation, but it's deep purple with orange. I'm also going to play with deep red and a paisley print. The ring is from the jewelery making section at Michael's.

And for good measure, here’s some other lace inspired invitations for your inspiration:

I love this! I don't know where they got the lace from (I looked at my local fabric store but couldn't find it that wide), but I love the mixture of laces, ribbon, fonts, and paper in this one by Dionne Lashell.

This one looks simple and sweet - I love the way she's tied the ribbon!

This one doesn't have any real lace on it, but a lace print is letterpressed onto the invitation.

This one also has letterpressed lace rather than real lace.

This handmade lace invitation is also beautiful - I love the criss-cross effect with the thin ribbon.

This lace invitation also incorporates suede paper. I could only imagine how much that costs!

I’m off to NYC this week and am hoping to stop by M&J Trimmings to see what they have in the way of lace and ribbons – they quite possibly have one of the largest selections in the world, so if you’re needing trimmings and are in NYC, go check it out!

Are you using lace in your wedding? How will you be incorporating it? Link to pictures if you can!!