Lauren & Michael O'Brien's Wedding Day

Photos by: Jasmine Morgan Photography

I LOVE giving a wedding its own brand! Listed above are Lauren and Michael's wedding day materials: tri-fold wedding program, seating chart and description sign. They wanted everything to match their paisley invitation design. Lauren and Michael even got their cake designer to match the invites! The amazing wedding photos on top were taken by Jasmine Morgan Photography.

Talk about a uniquely beautiful wedding! Congrats to Mr. & Mrs. O'Brien!

Lauren & Michael - "Paisley" Wedding Set

I designed this wedding invitation set for my cousin Michael and his soon-to-be wife Lauren. I had mocked up a handful of looks for them to chose from for the invite, using their colors of black, white and green, and they decided on this fabulous paisley design. Then, I carried the look throughout the reception and reply cards, as well as the envelope. I used my new favorite font, which resembled the paisley shapes so well.

Of course I had to incorporate their wedding date in the design — 1.1.11. How awesome is that date?!

"I just wanted to say THANK YOU for the amazing invites!!! They are so wonderful and we both truly appreciate it!"
- Lauren

"Black & White Garden" Bridal Shower Invite

My aunt had me make this bridal shower invitation for her son Michael's (my cousin) soon-to-be wife Lauren. I used her wedding colors black, white and light green to create this lovely "garden." I loved playing with the font on this invite — especially having the "bridal shower" bleed off the top.

Monogram

My sister Lauren had Events in Bloom arrange her gorgeous flowers. They used the extra monograms I made for the wedding invitations to wrap around the vases and candles. The monograms definitely gave it that special extra touch.

Photos by: Jason Angelini Photography
Flowers by: Events in Bloom

Aidan's Star Wars Birthday Invite

It was fun switching gears from wedding designs to children designs with this invitation for my cousin Jackie's son Aidan's 6th birthday party. Aidan wanted a Star Wars/Darth Vader themed party where his friends could dress up for Halloween. I had fun researching Star Wars fonts, images and terminology!

"Great job on the invites Krista - got sooooo many compliments!"
- Jackie

Lauren & Micah - "Vine" Wedding Package

My sister Lauren's wedding invitation package is finally complete! Using her colors, we decided to have a vine and floral look in a pocket fold style card. The first piece I worked on was the actual invite in the center of the card. I incorporated the date of the wedding in the design and added a touch of purple flowers in the vines. Using my favorite calligraphic font, I made the soon-to-be-married couple's monogram using vine elements.

From there, it was easy to carry the design throughout the rest of the pieces. I had fun making the little map on the directions insert. Then, I met with my printer Poorvi to pick out metallic color swatches for the pocket fold, inserts and layers.

Now I'll be working on her final pieces: rehearsal dinner invites, ceremony booklet, table numbers & listing, and eventually the "thank you" cards.

"Bow Dress" Bridal Shower Invite

I designed this invitation for my sister's NJ bridal shower. I drew up this outline of a bride in Illustrator with the idea of adding an actual ribbon to the waistline of the dress. I carried the flower in her hair to the look of the inside of the card.

"Bow" Bridal Shower Invite

I made these bridal shower invites for my sister's soon-to-be mother-in-law. The shower was a tea party theme, so I made them girly and dainty on an off-white card stock. We stuck with my sister's wedding colors, plum and green. For a final touch, I decided to add the ribbon bow.

"Jersey Girl" Wedding Save the Date

I've been working on a whole wedding package for my sister Lauren's wedding in October. The bridesmaids' dresses are plum/eggplant, so we stuck to that color scheme along with green. I've been having so much fun making everything from these save the dates, to bridal shower invites, to the actual wedding invites. Her fiance Micah is from FL and she's a Jersey girl, so I thought this Bruce Springsteen lyric would be perfect. They are also a laid back couple and Micah is a musician, so I made the card more fun rather than formal. The formal part could wait until the wedding invites, which will be posted in about a month- stay tuned :)

Holiday Card

This was a holiday card I designed for my boyfriend and me. We wanted to share our California adventures with our New Jersey family and friends. I'm so glad we decided to spend time here on our San Francisco trip. Muir Woods and the redwoods were just beautiful.