Lasso'd Moon

Carey Bunker from Lasso'd Moon deserves a HUGE shout-out and thank you! She was such a huge help, did incredible work, and was such a pleasure to work with.

Carey designed our 'Monogram',

Invitations,























Ceremony Programs,











Door-hangers,













Maple-Syrup Tags,











Cocktail Napkins,













Escort Cards,










Table Numbers,













Thank You Notes,











Provided paper for the Menus,













And helped with the lighting!


We highlyyy recommend Carey Bunker for any of your upcoming events that you need invitations for. Check out us on her blog!

Thank you so much Carey! Everything turned out PERFECTLY!

It's Official!

Invitations went out yesterday!!! YAYY!!!!

Invitation Designing

Invitations are such an important/big decision you need to make. Your invitations reflect your personality as a couple, the personality of your wedding, and one of the first impressions you will make to your guests.

..........That is some peoples views.

Mine...is its a piece of paper. HOWEVER I do completely agree with those thoughts, it should be special and it should reflect the personality of your wedding and you as a couple.

When starting to talk about invitations with Carrie, I knew I wanted them to be special. I visited a few stationary stores and looked through those big-god-awful books but I didn't really find anything that really 'jumped out' to me or 'wowed' me.

Carrie from the beginning recommended doing 'custom' invitations. And I should have just listened to her and not wasted hours of my life looking through the books (ha!).

Carrie set me up with a custom-invitation designer in VT, a few towns over from me. Her name was Carey as well, from Lasso'd Moons Designs.

We met with Carey January 16th in Brandon, VT at a cute little coffee shop. We talked on the phone a few weeks before to discuss what I was looking for, my ideas, etc. So she came prepared with paper samples, designs, layouts, her portfolio etc. She made it SO easy and so fun to pick the exact look I wanted.

The difference between custom invitations and picking out of a book, is you have complete control over everything. Down to the fonts, the paper sizes/texture/colors etc, to the tiny little fun details. I thought it would be so overwhelming with all the decisions, but surprisingly I was able to make quick decisions (which seems to be a common trend in my wedding planning which I love and I'm surprised by myself at!!).

Carey was so great to work with and she gave some great ideas and thoughts. I highly recommend her to anyone in the VT/NH area!

We left the meeting with an absolutely perfect invitation designed, along with all our other paper materials designed, i.e. table numbers, tags for our favors, escort cards, programs, and some other fun ideas...which you'll just have to wait and see! :)

Carey helped me achieve the look I was going for, the look that reflects the theme of my wedding, Jeff & I as a couple, and the invitation I've always dreamed of!

Save the Dates!

As most of you know the Save the Dates went out a couple weeks ago!! We are so excited and hope that all of you put them on your fridge!!

T-Minus 176 Days!!!

<3 Jeff & Jess

Save the Dates!

I had read somewhere, perhaps in my Emily Post Wedding Etiquette book and my Emily Post Wedding Handbook that 'Save the Dates' should go out usually 'generally six months' in advance. So I thought I had till like December....Carrie, my wedding planner, sent me an email about two weeks ago and was like we need to start thinking about Save the Dates because they should go out by end of October...I was like ummm okkkkk. Since a majority of my guests will be traveling to my wedding it is therefore classified as a "Destination Wedding." And with Destination Weddings you need to send out Save the Dates a lot earlier, which makes sense.

So looking at my calendar I was booked until end of October, which obviously wasn't going to work, but I was able to go home this past weekend again.

My Mom, Emily, and I headed up to Burlington, VT early Saturday morning. We knew of a place named "Scribbles" on Church Street, downtown Burlington, that was known for having lots of quality invitations and stationary. I had called them multiple times throughout the week and sent a "request for an appointment" on their website, but I hadn't heard back from them, which I found very rude and bad service, so I had mixed feelings going there.

Come to find out.............they closed last week............hahahaha. FIGURES. We walked to where it was and their sign was still there, but it was empty :( I was like ohh no wonder they didn't pick up my phone calls or return my email! Just another tragedy due to the current economy. But what makes it funny is I guess my Mom was telling Matthew, my brother, our plans for Saturday, and he was like I think Scribbles is closing, they are having a big sale. My Mom thought he was kidding, plus how would he know if a stationary store was closing...he's a guy! haha. Sooo all along he was right.....hahah.

Anyways, before going there I had already kind of made of my mind that I wanted Save the Date magnets. I've always seen them in magazines and they've always caught my eye and I've always thought they would be so fun and so practical! So after we saw they were closed I was like yes, its meant to be, I should definitely just order magnets! haha.

That night with the help of my parents, I designed our Save the Date, and I couldn't be more happier with them! SOO excited! I can not wait for them to come in...and then send them out!!