Indie Wed Lovin.

Boy oh boy, we were feeling the Indie Wed love this weekend.

We laughed, we cried, we ate some sample organic food... it was a fantastic event that we are so excited to have been apart of with our gracious friends at Green Paper Company! It was a beautiful demonstration for us... This is Green Paper Company, they make gorgeous post-consumer waste recycled papers, and hi, we're Spilled Ink Press, we USE their papers to make your lovely invitations! I love balance, symmetry, it's the architect in me.


Tony was pretty excited too because he was able to come out from behind the curtain and not... well, scare anyone. These brides were hip, their fiance's were cool... a big hairy dude chattin them up about their invitations didn't ruffle any retro hair piece feathers in this crowd!

So a quick recap on some of our faves...
First of course the Magnolia Photo booth folks (see our fun pics above!). Who can't resist a funny hat and an anonymous camera... I'm ready for my close up Mr. De Mille.

Lynn from Pollen was great to meet! An organic florist, perfect!

Jennifer from Foodie Registry was super cool, and what a great idea! Register with restaurants and save the oxo spatula and matching tupperware for your mom on Mother's Day!

I love seeing Something Beautiful at shows, Marcie makes fantastic soy candles in vintage tea cups (plus she and her husband come from the land of Architecture as well, we have a lot in common!).

There were just too many vendors to list here... in fact, let's be efficient about this and circle back to all the fabulous people we met in blog posts to come.
Next time, on Spilled Ink Press blog..... Logan Square Kitchen, City Provisions Catering, and much much more!
>Mwah<>

Indie Wed

Ok all you groovy brides and bridegrooms... come on up to Ravenswood on the 30th and check out IndieWed! I have a pretty good feeling this aint gonna be yo mamma's wedding show!


Of course you will see our smiling faces with our friends from Green Paper Company. They are our friends for obvious reasons- a) they are awesome for inviting us to share their booth 2) we love their paper, and well, iii) they are kind of championing the way for environmentally friendly papers that are not just the speckled grayish brownish "look at me, I'm recycled" paper stock (although, not that there's anything wrong with that!). We heart post-consumer waste.


AND quite possibly what I'm looking forward to the most is being in the coolest building on Ravenswood Avenue. I have to admit, I am a sucker for those warehouse buildings on Ravenswood. In my past life of taking the train into downtown for my 9 to 5 job everyday, one of my favorite turns on the brownline trek south was passing by that really awesome building with the large glass full height atrium rising above the other warehouses (that is, if I was still awake at this point). This, ladies and gentlemen, is where we will be, at the Ravenswood Event Center. At the time, I didn't know what it was, just that it was an architectural gem. In a way, it's kind of a poetic gesture, a pat on the back.... yes Amanda, quiting your job as an architect to design wedding invitations has many MANY perks- and here's one of them, ata' girl.

See you there Saturday!