Pink Piggy Design Blog

Utah Bride & Groom Magazine 2012 {Feature!}

Megan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:25:10 +0000

We were so excited and thrilled to be asked to participate in this “Western Fever” inspiration shoot for the issue of Utah Bride and Groom Magazine! For this feature we designed rustic inspired wedding invitations with a fun unique and informal verbiage that we are sure to see become a big trend this year. We also designed matching table number cards and dinner menu cards. Obsessed with this colorful and bold color palette and love how everything turned out!
VENDORS:
Photography: Rebekah Westover
Invitations & Paper Goods: Pink Piggy Design
Dress: Alta Moda Bridal
Flowers: Stella Posy Flowers
Hair & Makeup: Cambri Christiansen with Salon K, Pamela Yukish

Lauren & Ben {Real Wedding}

Megan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:22:40 +0000

Lauren and Ben have to be one of our favorite clients that we worked with in 2011 and we are excited to share some images from their wedding along with some of the items we designed for them! We enjoyed working with Lauren and her darling parents as we came up with a classic fall tree branch motif that was used on her custom invitations, menus, escort cards, favors and signage. Lauren’s dad is an event planner and her mom is a florist so we had a lot of fun being creative and working together! You can tell by the photos that they did a fantastic job making sure every detail was accounted for.

Lauren and Ben had their celebration at the beautiful Sundance Resort and wanted to bring in fall elements to coordinate with the environment at Sundance. We chose to incorporate cream, brown and copper into their design and paper products. Just love how everything turned out and how the paper details complimented the rest of the event design so nicely to create a lovely rustic wedding!

VENDORS:
Photography: Mikki Platt
Venue: Sundance Resort
Dress: Alta Moda, Modal Novias
Hair & Makeup: Jessica Craig (makeup) & Emilee Donaldson (hair)
Groom’s Suit: Perfectly Suited by Garth, Dillards
Cake: Carrie’s Cakes
Flowers & Wedding Coordination: Brides Parents

LatterDay Bride Magazine 2012 {Feature!}

Megan — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:21:59 +0000

We were beyond thrilled to be asked to participate in this glamorous photo shoot that is featured in the 2012 issue of LatterDay Bride Magazine! Mara with Events by LMG was the mastermind behind the shoot and as always put together an amazing team of vendors to create this amazing display of inspiration! This featured article is not just about the pretty photos… it’s a whopping 6 page spread with loads and loads of advice and for the stylish bride. Mara even includes fantastic advice on how to cut costs without cutting your designs! You will have to pick up one of these beauties to get the inside scoop! The LatterDay Bride Magazine is sold nation wide at the Dessert Book Stores and you can also purchase a copy online here.

We are completely in love with the chevron print patterns right now! The bright colors and modern + bold fonts makes for the perfect mod glamor look that we are sure to see lots of this season! Remember… you wedding invitations set the mood over your event but it’s the extra details like escort cards, place cards and custom menus that really ties everything together and creates that WOW factor!

VENDORS:
FEATURED IN: LatterDay Bride Magazine
CONCEPT & STYLING: Events by LMG
PHOTOS: Jacque Lynn Photography
FLORAL: Studio Stems
SPECIALTY LINENS & CHAIR COVERS: Wildflower Linen
RENTALS: RSVP Party Rentals Utah
ICE SCULPTURE CENTERPIECES: Swanivations
STATIONERY: Pink Piggy Design
CALLIGRAPHY: Distinctive Inscriptions

Rayna & Dominic {Featured Wedding}

Megan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:48:45 +0000

Hello all! We are finally getting around to sharing this GORGEOUS wedding by one of our favorite clients from 2011, Rayna and Dominic. We had so much fun design the unique napkin belly band place cards, escort cards and the super darling table numbers that incorporated images of the couples dogs! We are so honored that this wedding was featured in the 2011 issue of Salt Lake/ Park City Bride and Groom Magazine!

One thing that I LOVE about this wedding is the choice of venue location is so spot on! The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is such a unique and different location and the color palette and style of wedding fit perfectly! It’s so important to take in account the colors and structure of the venue you are considering and make sure your design element compliment and add to the space rather then trying to do a completely opposite look. The cohesiveness of this wedding really created that WOW factor!

VENDORS:
Photography: Jessica Kettle Photograhy
Planning & Design: Events by LMG
Ceremony: Salt Lake Temple
Ring Ceremony & Reception: Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Videography: Nathan Pickett Films
Table Cards & Printed Matter: Pink Piggy Design
Flowers: Orchid Dynasty
Catering: Culinary Crafts
Cake: One Sweet Slice
Dress: Vera Wang
Hair & Makeup: Enizio
Lighting: Webb Audio Visual
Photo Booth: ShutterBooth
Rentals: RSVP Party Rentals

Plaid Bridal Shower Printables {Giveaway!}

Megan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:37:38 +0000

If you are a bride then sure enough you will be having a bridal shower {or maybe a few}! We are excited to share some fun and unique ideas with this green + yellow plaid bridal shower styled by the fabulous Mara Marian-Harwood with Events by LMG. How darling are all those custom printable tags?! Well lucky for you we are going to GIVEAWAY a plaid shower customized printable tag set and printable invitation to one lucky reader! Head on over to the Utah Bride Blog and all you have to do is leave us a comment on the post and tell us what you love about this cute shower! The winner will be announced on Monday! It gets even better… we will also give everyone that enters the giveaway 1/2 off the Plaid Shower Printables!

A big thank you to the amazing Aubrey Taiese with Aub Photography for the lovely photography!

VENDORS:
Photography: Aub Photography
Event Planning & Styling: Events by LMG
Stationery & Printables: Pink Piggy Design
Floral Arrangements: Brown Floral
Cupcakes: So Cupcake
Macaroons: La Bonne Vie

Salt Lake/Park City Bride & Groom Magazine {Editorial Feature}

Megan — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:24:05 +0000

If you haven’t heard by now that Utah has a new fabulous magazine in town then it’s about time you get to know them! We were honored to be featured in Salt Lake/ Park City Bride & Groom Magazine’s first issue that hit newsstands the first of this month! The lovely Mara with Events by LMG who we absolutely adore working with, asked us to be apart of the Spring Table Top Feature and of course we said {screamed} yes! We worked with Mara to come up with a modern and fresh geometrical invite that helped inspire the rest of the design details. Our invitations were accompanied with beautiful hand calligraphy by Ashantai with Distinctive Inscriptions. Julie with Layers-Cake did an amazing job incorporating the pattern into the cake design! And how about those incredible hanging tulips constructed by the super talented Audrey with Studio Stems. Seriously what a beautiful feature and major props to Mara for doing an exceptional job conceptualizing this table top design! And last but not least… a big thank you to David Newkirk for capturing it all so beautifully!

Get your copy of Salt Lake/Park City Bride & Groom today!

VENDORS:
Photography: David Newkirk Photography
Concept & Design: Events by LMG
Floral Design: Studio Stems
Stationery: Pink Piggy Design
Calligraphy: Distinctive Inscriptions
Linens + Chair Covers: Wildflower Linens
Rentals: RSVP Party Rentals
Cake: Layers-Cake

Independence Day Inspired Shoot

Megan — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:30:27 +0000

Design and printed materials can really add a lot of detail and polish to your wedding event. These lovely modern wedding invitations, menus and dessert table labels were designed for an “Independence Day” inspired shoot for the Utah Bride Blog! The first thing that your guests will see of your event is your wedding invitations… so make sure they pack a lot of punch and get your guests buzzing and excited for your event! For this shoot the design of the invites really helped set the inspiration for the rest of the shoot. We went with a navy square pocket booklet with stripped detailing and bold typefaces to create a modern/ slightly vintage suite. We are seeing a lot of this modern and vintage fusion trend in all aspects of wedding design and details. Top everything off with red and white stripped bakers twine from Whisker Graphics and you have a truly unique and eye catching invitation!

Once we had the design foundation of the invitation it was easy to come up with coordinating menu’s for each place setting and the darling dessert table tags and signage. This is actually a surprise to most brides, but adding menus, escort cards, place cards, dessert table tags etc. is actually super affordable and worth every penny! If you are working with a custom designer it’s easy for them to create these additional printed items for you. Since the colors, fonts, designs and patterns have already been established for your invitations they can easily take those elements and come up with coordination stationery that is sure to impress!

Tip of the day: Take a copy of your invites with you to your dinner or reception and have your photographer snag a few shots of you holding them and laid out on a table. You spent so much time and money on them…. so why not have images to remember them forever!

VENDORS:
Photography: Kate Osborne
Design & Paper Details: Pink Piggy Design
Catering Artistry: Culinary Crafts
Table/Chair Rental: Alpine Event Rentals
Napkins & Chair Covers: Wildflower Linens
Tableware: Macy’s
Florals: Studio Stems
Dresses: Lily & Iris
Videography: Chris McClain Productions
Cake Artistry: Pink Peach Cakes
Groom Fashion: Beckett & Robb
Jewelry: Christina Forrest w/Stella Dot
Makeup & Hair: Enizio
Hair Accessory: Cozette Couture

Featured Client {Kayla & Sam}

Megan — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:04:58 +0000

I just adored working with Kayla & Sam. One of those clients that are truly so sweet and happy together! Jacque Lynn Photography took these stunning images from Kayla & Sam’s wedding and captured the table cards, favor tags and invitations we designed! Kayla and Sam wanted a very classic and elegant look for their invitations so we decided to incorporate shades of tans, golds and creams into the paper and ink. We carried the same design and fonts from the invitations through the table cards and stationery to create a very cohesive and custom look for Kayla and Sam’s gorgeous wedding! Congratulations to you guys!

Ps… you can check out more images from this couples wedding that was featured on the Utah Bride Blog here!

VENDORS:
Photography: Jacque Lynn Photography
Venue: Bountiful Temple/Joseph Smith Memorial Building
Dress: Gateway Bridal
Bridesmaid Dresses: Lily & Iris
Invites, Table Numbers, Stationary: Pink Piggy
Band: The Band NICO
Vintage Car: Something Vintage Something Blue
Videography: David Perry

Beckham’s 1st Birthday! {A Pirate Party}

Megan — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:33:13 +0000

I don’t often write about my own personal life here on the Pink Piggy blog but of course I had to share my son, Beckham’s, first birthday party! To pull off this Nautical Pirate Party I had in my head I called on one of my good friends and event designer extraordinaire, Mara with LMG Events. She is hands down the best planner to work with in Utah! So creative, fun and professional! Working in the wedding and social industry I do a lot of designing and am pretty good at putting together a visual display, but even with my own talents I couldn’t have done this without Mara! If you are planning any type of party from a birthday party to a wedding… leave it up to the professional and don’t stress about it!!

I seriously started planning Beck’s party when he was six months old! I know… my husband still thinks I’m crazy! I’m so completely obsessed with anything nautical, striped and navy right now that I knew I wanted to incorporate those details into the party and also do a different take on the traditional black and red pirate scheme. Mara helped me come up with the idea of doing a “sweets bar” that had color coordinating candies, cupcakes and a pirate birthday cake {designed by Pink Peach Cakes}! I designed all of the custom candy labels and the darling mini candy bar wrappers! We also did a drink bar with darling sparkling juices by Izze and custom water small water bottles with Beck’s Birthday logo on them. And of course I designed his nautical pirate invitations with matching custom skull stamps… A MUST! I also did the cute origami boats with each kids name on the flag as place settings and favors for all of Beck’s friends to take home!

And a very big thank you to the amazing Aubrey with AubPhotography for shooting Beckham’s 1st Birthday pics at Utah Lake and for capturing all the details of the party! I totally recommend hiring a professional photographer to shoot your kids birthday parties! It’s so worth it to not have to worry about taking pictures of everything and being able to just enjoy the day! Thank you so much to all of the fantastic vendors involved!

Check out Beckham’s Pirate Party featured on the increadible Pizzazzerie Blog today!

VENDORS:
Photography: AubPhotography
Event Planning & Design: Events by LMG
Invitations & Paper Goods: Pink Piggy
Cupcakes & Cake: Pink Peach Cakes
Striped Straws: Garnish
Sparkling Juice: Izze

Utah Bride Blog {Spring Wedding Inspiration}

Megan — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:26:47 +0000

You have heard it time and time again that your wedding invitations set the mood and excitement for your event, and as much planning that you put into all the details for your wedding should also go into creating custom wedding invitations that reflect your personal style.

The invitations that were designed for this Spring Wedding Inspiration Shoot featured on the Utah Bride Blog incorporated a blossom theme that was also used for the place cards, table number and lemonade sign. This same concept was also used in the conception and design of the wedding cake. Blossoms and floral motifs are a big trend for spring and summer weddings because of the youthful yet sophisticated and timeless feel that can easily be used for a formal dinner setting or a fun backyard picnic. You can add a little extra uniqueness to your stationery by choosing to do rounded corners instead of the traditional squared. This is a subtle design aspect that can create huge affects while being very cost affective. Have fun with the design of your invitations and don’t be afraid to bring a unique theme and color pallet to the table!

Utah Bride Blog did a full week feature of this stunning spring shoot and you can check out more images and expert advice from all the talented vendors involved by visiting these posts: Spring Wedding Inspiration, Fashion & Beauty, Pottery Barn Details & Registry, Cake and Invitation Design, Flower Details. Enjoy!

VENDORS:
Concept and Design: Utah Bride Blog
Photography: Mikki Platt Photography
Floral Design: Blossom Sweet
Venue: Memorial House
Bridal Gown: Alta Moda Bridal
Tux: Tuxedo Junction
Hair & Make-up: Enizio
Jewelry: Morgan Jewelers
Cake: Sugar Kisses Cakes
Stationery and Table Cards: Pink Piggy
Place Settings and Decor: Pottery Barn
Furniture Rentals: Alpine Event Rentals
Bride Model: Aly Kesler
Groom Model: Marc Hadfield