Life. Love. Lipstick.

A couple of my favorite things for weddings are certainly not new ideas, but I found a couple new photos that are perfect examples!

I have posted before about loving all-white weddings, right down to bridesmaids in white.   This is another beautiful example!

Photo credit: A Bryan Photo

I also am a huge fan of candy bars… still!  This was a trend I saw start to surface a loooong time ago, in another lifetime, when I was on The Knot.  I still love it, especially when so beautifully displayed as this!

Photo credit:  Chrissy Lambert, via Style Me Pretty

I tend to lean toward the very simple wedding dresses with little fuss.  However, these two amazing dresses wowed me and I had to share!

Photos from Style Me Pretty, as photographed by Chrissy Lambert.  Amazing dress is by Melissa Sweet.

Photos by Brooke Schwab.

I am so excited to bring today’s post to you!  I have been reading I am Style-ish for awhile now. I just now discovered that husband and wife Tiffany and Jared have an invitation line, just one of many products and services offered as part of their photography and design business, style.ish.  I am so excited to see such exciting and fresh designs on the scene.  I asked Tiffany a few questions about her passions, design, photography, and fashion.

What inspires you in graphic design?
From Jared:  Coming from an Architectural background I love clean modern designs but mixed with street style too.  I really like grafitti artists like banksys and I’m also influenced by colorways on sneakers.  I believe good design should be influenced by good design regardless of it’s media.
From Tiffany: The way we work together is that he comes up with the design and then I give him input.  He tends to take a more modern, graphic approach and I like things to be a bit girly and chic so our invitations are a bit of a mix of that.

In a world with an increasing number of modern invitation designers, how do you set your designs apart? We give a more personal feel to the invitation.  We really put a lot of thought into the couple and how they want to reflect themselves and the mood for their wedding.  The images of our clients are integrated into the design, not just placed into a template.  We also give design feedback on which image we believe will truly compliment the total design.  Although we have “templates” that couples can choose from, none will be exactly alike because of our approach. Our clients trust in us to keep them style.ish. 

We really feel that we are in a new generation of couples who are getting married.  A lot more of us are now paying for our own weddings, willing to break the wedding traditions and really just go with what we love.  We are definitely one of those couples as we had a very small destination wedding in Jamaica.  When Jared and I decided that we were cutting the guest list, not having a bridal party, not having favors, not having a DJ, etc.. I did not regret our decision for one second.  I have had many women write me emails after seeing my wedding on my blog and telling me that I had “a dream wedding” and you know what?  I agree.  I for sure had my dream wedding and I didn’t follow most of the wedding “traditions” that we all feel like we should follow.  Our invitations are reflective of that, we are breaking from the norm and really showcasing the couple’s personalities rather than just being an invite to a formal party.

Why wedding invitations? It really goes hand in hand with our photography.  We love photographing couples in love, we love capturing the emotions and the way they interact with each other.  What better way to take those pictures than to put them into a wedding invitation or Save the Date, where you can share your love with all your friends and family.  There is no other event out there like getting married when you can show off your love to the people closest to you!

Photography, graphic design, fashion blogging… how do you balance it all?  What drives you to keep creating more? It’s a tough balance I admit.  I definitely have my moments that I want to pull my hair out and scream. I have a full time job that keeps me quite busy as well so I do all these things on my free moments.  The truth is, photography, design and fashion are my passions and I just enjoy doing them.  You can’t go through life without having passions.  What keeps me going is the desire to always do more with my life.  I’m a highly motivated/driven person and pretty much nothing stops me.  I have been told from numerous people in my life about how I inspire them and motivate them to do more.  I find that a huge compliment because I truly believe that to enjoy life, you need to follow your dreams, no matter how big they are.  Even just the smallest accomplishment is the greatest feeling in the world when you know you are doing something you love.

Do you have a favorite creative outlet? When I’m not doing those three things, photography, design and blogging, I love to crochet.  It’s the sense of accomplishment in such a small amount of time is what I love.  I can spend a few hours crocheting and then have a cute little animal to admire.  I’m not highly creative in that I can’t paint or draw if my life depended on it but I can crochet a very cute elephant.  Sometimes, it’s just the littlest things that make me happy. 

I love these z-fold invitations, featuring an RSVP card that detaches.  All the designs can be customized with images, colors, and more.

Also digging the simplicity of the postcard designs.

Special thanks to Tiffany and Jared, and be sure to check out style-ish.com and iamstyle-ish.

I see so many wedding photos on a daily basis.  My Google Reader is inundated with photo after photo, all beautiful.  I see so many beautiful images that I end up just skipping through most of them in a daze.  However, once I reached a post by Vue Photography, this first image of the bride jumped out at me and I had to read and look through the entire post.  So glad I did!

I love this beach wedding, full of beautiful and vibrant colors.  It features bridesmaid dresses in my favorite color, and what appears to be a seriously fun reception!

You really should add Vue Photography to your feeds if it’s not there already!  Never a disappointment!

This isn’t the first time I’ve posted about fun wedding foods.  I just really love the idea of something unconventional, yet still familiar, offered at a reception.  Wedding food doesn’t have to be stuffy.  I personally like to recognize the foods offered, but I don’t want to see finger sandwiches and after-dinner mints.

Just a few things I would really enjoy as a wedding guest…

French fries, served in shot glasses with dipping sauce, found at Bride’s Cafe.

Cookies, espresso, and milk, artfully arranged.  Photo courtesy of Evrim Icoz Photography.

One of my favorite foods, corn dogs!  Would be cute in a mini form as passed hors d’ouvres or even from a hired vendor!  Photo courtesy of a flickr search.

How cute is cotton candy in individual bowls?!  Much less messy than a full serving, but still fun.  View the full blog post from this wedding by Sergio Photographer.

Becoming increasingly popular for weddings, I love the idea of hiring an ice cream truck!  Photo by the Wiebners.