Baci Designs | Ilario's 30th Birthday {Akron, Ohio}

One year ago today we celebrated my amazing hubby's 30th birthday - wow, time sure flies and it's better late than never to share these with you all!!  We started off by designing graphic grey and white invitations printed in-house on white linen, completed with a dark grey envelope hand-addressed in white.

We held the party for family and close friends at The Tangier Wine Cellar - a gorgeous venue with an awesome staff - and decorated the king's table in black linens with clear and mercury glass candle accents.  My mom brought along the fun Transformers cake to surprise the birthday boy!!

Here's wishing a very happy 31 to my loving husband and soon-to-be Daddy, Ilario!!!  Cheers :o)

baci's babies week :: baci designs | Carson's 1st Birthday Invitations {Prairieville, Louisiana}

Last year, I had the great pleasure of working with the lovely Jenny again on little Miss Carson Clare's first birthday invitations!

Carson has one of the best Grandpas around because shortly before her birthday he bought her a pony named Biscuit - what a lucky lady!  Biscuit (that's him at the bottom of the invitation!) was the inspiration for the cowgirl-themed invitations and I couldn't have been more excited with how well they turned out :o)

Images by Caroline Hardoby

baci designs | Dan's Birthday + Sophie's Graduation Invitations

How we've still managed to miss sharing some of the awesome designs we've worked on over the past few years, I'll never know. . . sometimes stuff slips through the cracks, even pretty and fun things like Dan's 40th Birthday and Sophie's High School Graduation Invitations :o)

Over the next few days we'll catch up on the goodness we've never officially shared with you all (a lot of it has been featured in guest posts on other blogs and on Facebook, but somehow it never made it onto baci's blog).  And then we'll move onto more recent goodness - I can't wait to share everything we've been working on!!

Images by Brandy J Photography

baci designs | Abby + Brianna's 30th Birthday Party {Kent, Ohio}

 Last month I had the pleasure of working on an incredibly fun 30th Birthday Party!  It was for our friend, Abby, and her twin sister, Brianna, at Bistro on Main (such a yummy place!) in Kent.

Abby and her hubby, Paul, reached out to me originally to create invitations for the event - Abby said, "Do whatever you like, I trust you," and those are maybe the most exciting words a custom stationery designer can hear :o)  So I ran with the feminine and trendy energy Abby herself exudes and designed beautiful Vintage-esque Lavender and Grey Chevron Invitations - they are one of my new favorites (I think I say that each time I design something new - lol!)!  Finished off with a Grey Envelope and Gregory Peck stamps (you'll be seeing those on Jami + Eric's Wedding Stationery, too - I adore them!) - the invitations were the perfect sneak peek into the event.

A few weeks before the party, Paul also asked me to create a cupcake topper and some floral centerpieces for the table - I was thrilled to be able to create more gorgeousness to compliment my original design!  I was a bit nervous though.  I've done a lot of floral work for myself here at home, as well as for baci events like Bridal Shows and such, but this would be my first official floral job for a client.  Everyone loved the centerpieces I created - it was just the confidence boost I needed to add Floral Design to the list of baci's services!!

Forgive the photo quality - the restaurant was very, very dark and unfortunately this was the best I could do.  Everything looks pink in the photos, but I promise it was all purple to match the stationery, lol!  I used a combination of wax, football mums, dark purple South American carnations and limonium in some recently purchased milk glass (which I ADORE!) and a few DIY'd silver glitter vase cubes.  It was elegant and sparkly with that same vintage quality from the invitations.

 

Once again, I apologize for the photos, but I had to at least share the adorable coordinating cupcake topper and "Happy Birthday" banner I created - they were the perfect addition to the yummy cupcake tower :o)

baci designs | Megan's 30th Birthday Invitation {Canton, Ohio}

In honor of my birthday today (29, not 30 - let's not rush this, lol!), I wanted to share a beautiful custom birthday design we created for our friend Meg's birthday :o)  Meg LOVES Burberry so I used the company's iconic design as inspiration for the invitation to the gorgeous party her husband was hosting.  A khaki-color invitation printed in-house then layered with red and black stock and placed inside of a matching black envelope with white handwritten addressing and Katherine Hepburn postage - it couldn't be more classy or elegant!!  This is one of my top ten favorite designs ever!!

{Images by Brandy J Photography}

baci's babies week!

While we tend to focus on weddings here at baci, we do love switching things up and working on stationery and events for other fun occasions life brings along.  Our favorite - anything to do with babies!!!  So we're dedicating this week to all things baby - up today are some super fun and creative stationery we've had the joy of creating for some of our favorite clients.  Enjoy all the chubby cheeks and giggles this week!!

P.S. We will interrupt once this week with an awesome announcement - stay tuned!!

Baby Shower Invitations

Birth Announcements

Birthday Invitations

All Images by Brandy J Photography