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Preston Bailey Wedding Invitations | Let Color Inspire Your Wedding Story

We are on cloud nine at Invitation Consultants and it's all due to the fabulous new wedding invitations created and inspired by Preston Bailey!

An internationally renown event designer who has crafted beautiful events for so many A-list clients, Preston takes ordinary to extraordinary with his sumptuous and theatrical "art installations."

The purpose of these invitations is to allow the flowers to inspire your wedding and let the colors and bountiful centerpieces act as the basis for your wedding story. For those who dream in color (as I have always done), let these exquisite designs expand your imagination and help guide you through choosing the details of your wedding. We've taken four invitations and built a colorful wedding story around them. Let's take a peek!

The elegant 'Held Dearly' wedding invitation features a green floral background with multiple shades of sages and pops of periwinkle. Green can be translated so many ways from energetic and crisp, to soothing and natural. It is a symbol for growth and renewal, the perfect inspiration as you begin your new life together. Colorful candies, beautiful jewels, and a tropically modern cake are all ideas that we pulled from this wedding invitation.

The whimsical nature of Preston's 'Signature Sweetness' invitation shimmers and blossoms as every bride should do on her special day. She must feel royally special. Purple can be soft and feminine, or bold and noble. It is a color for all seasons - use lavenders for Spring and Summer and deep eggplants and fuchsias for Fall and Winter. We've paired this lovely invite with an extravagant tablescape and chic purple heels.

The sunny 'Sunflower Fantasy' invitation is vibrant and optimistic. You feel instant happiness from these sunflowers and you can't help but fall in love with the modern design. It's clean and refreshing, warm and pure. Parasols, coordinated tie+bout, and zingy lemon-tinis exude cheerfulness on your wedding day.

'Rose Bloom' is a romantic choice of invitation for the elegant bride and groom. It's sheer and simple aesthetic allows the over-sized flower to truly tell a love story. Creamy corals, espressos, pinks, and creams are all seamlessly represented in this unique design. Neapolitan ice cream and a stylishly-sweet creamy gown with coordinating brown sash make your heart skip a beat.

It is easy to see how the lavish and sophisticated designs of Preston Bailey inspired fabulous invitations. Planning a wedding is simple if you have a core idea. Choose your invitations first and let them create a statement for your wedding. It's the first glimpse your guests have at the style of your wedding. With these invitations, the first page of your wedding story will take you all the way to happily ever after. The End.

All wedding invitations are courtesy of Preston Bailey for Invitation Consultants. Inspiration imagery are courtesy of real weddings from Project Wedding and The Knot. 

Planning a Destination Wedding – The Right Spot?

Quentin, from Destination Weddings joins us today for his second guest post. Catch up on Quentin's story with his first post.

So we made the decision to have a destination wedding, and the next step is where.  Given that I’ve traveled all over the Caribbean I figured that this would be an easy one…but I was wrong.  There are a ton of great islands, and each one has someplace that looked like it would make the ideal spot for us.  So we started thinking about places we had been before, and started there.

Several years back (before we got engaged), my wife and I vacationed in St. Lucia and stayed at the Windjammer Landing resort.  During our stay we both looked up from our beach chairs when we heard what seemed to be the faint music of violins.  When we looked out towards the end of the beach we saw a wedding taking place on the secluded point extending into the ocean.  It looked incredible, and although neither of us wanted to say it at the time, we both thought it would be a great spot for our wedding. 

I Just Keep Getting Married...

Some of you might remember me gushing about my Las Vegas vow renewal. My husband and I have only been married two years, but I love weddings so I've made him promise to marry as many times as I want. For this 'wedding' we flew with 4 friends to Vegas, and renewed our vows with an Elvis who looked more like Hugh Jackman. He was so nice, and so much fun! I really thought it was going to be a cheesy experience and that we would be embarrassed to tell everyone about it, but it was the total opposite.

Elvis did a little singing, we did a little dancing, and then performed 'Elvis' vows. I giggled through this entire part, but the vows were really sweet. After wards, we walked up and down the Vegas strip, went for an awesome dinner, and road the New York New York roller coaster. I can't have been the first person to ride a roller coaster in a 'wedding dress' (from J Crew, by the way : ), but it was an awesomely unique experience.

If you are thinking of renewing your vows, or are considering getting married in Las Vegas, I definitely recommend it! Check out our Las Vegas themed wedding invitations, and tell me- would you ever profess your love in front of the King of Rock?

Waking up in Vegas*

If you were a bride, you may experience what I call EWW. Extreme Wedding Withdrawal. EWW happens to the best of us. Our weddings come, they go, and we're left with residual planning energy. I've heard of ways for coping with EWW: taking up a hobby, having a baby, starting a new career, redecorating, throwing parties, etc. My favorite way to cope with EWW is to just enjoy being married and spending time with my new spouse. I snuck in a Trash the Dress photo shoot 6 months after our wedding as a way of band aiding my EWW.

Well, my spouse isn't so new anymore. We've been married two years and are crazy happy, but I still get EWW. This line of work is difficult because I'm surrounded by wedding invites all day long, just reminding me how much fun it was to be a bride. My husband is aware of my EWW issue and that's where this little special story comes in:

Guest Post: Quentin from Destination Weddings

Today, I'm happy to bring you Quentin from Destination Weddings, a fabulous resource for planning a destination wedding. Quentin had his own experience planning his wedding in the Bahamas, and now assists brides in planning their fantasy getaway. Without further ado:  

I have seen over 3,500 Destination Weddings start and finish and even my own. Since I work for a Destination Wedding company you would think that it’s a requirement that I have a DW right?  Not necessarily, it just happened to work out, and we wanted something unique.  Our families are not from the same area, so if we got married somewhere in the US then one side of the family had to travel.  Both sides had the perfect spot in mind near them that means something to that side of the family, so how do you decide?  We didn’t…everybody was coming to the Bahamas! Give me a beach and a margarita.  We both love the Caribbean and couldn’t think of anything more appropriate then to get married in paradise and spend the weekend relaxing with our closest family and friends. I have been to so many weddings over the past couple of years that they all blend together.  I get dressed up, eat some rubber chicken, dance a little (not a pretty sight), and that’s it.  We wanted something that our friends and family (and us of course) would remember.