Watercolor of Lion in the Sun of Park Slope at original location 462 4th St. by BJ Bodnar

Memorial day weekend marks a major milestone for us. It is the 8th anniversary of our grand opening. Hard to believe! But we have come a long way since then and certainly have learned and grown.

Most importantly, we have been blessed to be part of significant events in so many people’s lives and we have made many, many dear friends along the way.

Thank you for being part of the journey thus far and we look forward to where the next 8 years will take us!

A fun, random questionnaire interview with Melinda from May 17th, 2010 on the sleek Destined to Design blog.

One of the best parts of our biz is that we have the great opportunity to develop continuing relationships with our clients through the happy occcasions in their lives.

Lately we have been getting lots of requests for suggestions for one year anniversary gifts. And since year one is the paper anniversary, we thought we’d share them with you.

- Monogrammed stationery with your new married intials on it

- A scrapbook filled with your first year of marriage memories

- Your vows or a reading from your wedding calligraphed and framed

- A journal for each of you to share and write notes, memories and reflections for each other

- A beautiful box filled with love letters old and new

In this article featured on Wedding Nouveau from May 12, 2010, Melinda gives her top five ways on how to infuse cultural diversity and heritage into invitation design.

We’re excited to be participating in the upcoming Illegal Wedding Fair being held Sunday, June 6th at 632 on Hudson. Looking forward to seeing you at what’s sure to be a terrific event supporting same-sex marriage.

Illegal Wedding Fair

So this past week was our favorite week of the year, the National Stationery Show!

Right here in NYC, it is the equivalent of Fashion Week for the stationery and printing industry. So fun to see all the exciting new designs, catch up with so many friends that we only get to see once a year and to meet lots of new wonderful designers that we are sure will soon be dear friends too.

Some fave trends this year include:

Lush but affordable (lux papers and materials for less achieved by printing with fewer colors or using digital printing), simple and clean is the new direction. Blind debossing, artistry and illustration and lots of architectural elements.

And we are excited about some great new card lines and designer collections coming soon including:

Old Tom Foolery
a. favorite design
Smock
Spark Stationery
Gilah

We so loved the movie themed invites featured in “Why we love paper #15″ from April, we had to share their programs as well to give the complete picture (no pun intended).

Courtney and Rob wedding program cover

Courtney and Rob wedding program - Cast and Crew

Courtney and Rob wedding program - A Word from the Producers

Two different Brooklyn Bridge designs from weddings this past weekend.

Cynthia and James: custom elephant and bridge image, pearl and navy paper, thermography in navy, tangerine and lime

Valerie and Peter: Brooklyn Bridge illustration, letterpressed wedding invitation and notecard

Deals to take advantage of from Dauphine, Checkerboard, William Arthur and Arabella in May:

Dauphine Press Complimentary envelope liners or rounded corners.

Checkerboard Order invitations from any Checkerboard party album – Social Butterfly, Soiree, Paper Palette or Checkerboarders – and receive 25 of the same invitation for free.

William Arthur Social stationery of 100 pieces or more will receive free return address printing and all wedding orders of 75 or more will receive 25 free.

Arabella Papers Free thank you notes with all Arabella invitation orders. Reception accessories orders will receive 15% off.