One couple requested to have their Kensington stationery suite printed on a recycled card to give it an earthy look. It was printed in chocolate brown on our flecked Bier Weizen recycled card.

Another couple wanted to incorporate a border into their design and we also ended up adding two little flying birds, which was a really sweet little touch. They also had the colour changed to a navy blue to suit their wedding colours.

So there you have the same invitation suite, but two different looks acheived with simple changes of colour, fonts and card.

Here are a couple of colour changes we have made for some recent customers that made the invitations uniquely theirs.

This is our Mary-Jane wedding invitation printed in our blue C37.

This is our Pink Peony wedding stationery in sage green C47 and caramel brown C50 text.

This is our Newbury engagement invitation printed as a wedding invitation in black and pink C23. I also created additional stationery items to match like wishing well cards and table numbers.

If you would like any further information on colour changes to our stationery please contact us.

Australia Entertains has some great tips on creating the perfect lolly buffet, like to help create a full look to your buffet when you’re on a tight budget, use other decorative “filler” items on the table around the candy jars. Paper lanterns, flowers, flower petals, and picture frames are great “filler” elements. They also have suggestions on working out how much candy you need.

Here are some gorgeous lolly and dessert buffets that left me feeling hungry! Hope you feel inspired…

What a gorgeous fun and sunny lolly buffet captured beautifully by Kelly Chau Photography.

A totally charming vintage hot air balloon inspired dessert station by Sweets Indeed.

Lollipops and candy sticks arranged in intricate pottery, like these by Rebecca Thuss, would look divine as part of a candy buffet.

A magical winter white dessert buffet complete with birch bark towers and white tissue paper pom poms. Found on Pepper Design Blog.

A cute candy buffet for a circus themed wedding celebration found on Once Wed.

Wedding monograms are a great way to personalise your special day. They can be used on all your wedding stationery as well as various wedding items like, bonbonnieres, napkins, cakes, water bottles, guest book, labels and anything else your imagination can think of.

Poppiseed Designs wedding monograms are available to purchase on their own as an affordable way to make DIY invites/wedding projects look a little more stylish and chic or can be added to our refined stationery ranges for us to print and complete.

Here are some of our favourites:

So what is the best way to word the wishing well card to ask your guests for money instead of gifts? This is a question we are frequently asked so I have put together some examples that might help those who are struggling for the right words.

Wishing well wording 1:
In our house we have the things
That living together normally brings
Most household items we’ve already bought
And because of this reason we thought
A wishing well would be great
(Only if guests wish to participate)
A gift of money is placed in an envelope
So in the future we hope
To furnish our home to its very best
And always remember it was due to our guests

Wishing well wording 2:
If you were thinking of giving a gift, to help us on our way.
A gift of cash towards our house, would really make our day.
However, if you prefer to purchase a gift,
feel free to surprise us in your own way.

Wishing well wording 3:
Because at first we lived in sin
We’ve got the sheets and a rubbish bin
A gift from you would be swell
But we’d prefer a donation to our Wishing Well.

Wishing well wording 4:
Many of our guests have enquired
For a gift idea to be inspired
Like many young couples today
We have most things anyway
If you would like to give, it is our request
For something for our treasure chest
A gift of money you can afford
Is just what we need you can be assured
Without the help of this little pun
Our honeymoon would not be much fun

Wishing well wording 5:
We’ve been together a few years now;
we have pots and pans and linen and towels;
we have glasses and toasters, really quite a few;
so instead of more gifts, we suggest this to you;
if it doesn’t offend and it won’t send you running;
what we would really appreciate is quite simply money;
we know choosing gifts can be such a pain;
and this way there is no chance of bringing the same.

Wishing well wording 6:
Soon you will hear our wedding bell,
As friends and family wish us well.
Our household thoughts are not brand new,
We have twice the things we need for two.
Since we have our share of dishes and bedding,
We’re having instead a wishing well wedding.
But more important we ask of you,
your prayers of love and blessings too.

Or if you do not like the idea of a poem you can put together some words like:
To support us on our special day you may wish to follow with tradition and bring a gift. Or alternatively you may like to help us make our honeymoon a little more special. For this reason we have chosen a wedding wishing well. The wishing well will be at the reception where we can receive your best wishes and contribution.

I am often asked by couples if it is necessary for them to send out Save the Date cards, so I thought I would do a quick run down of their purpose and the key factors in deciding if a Save the Date card is right for you.

The main purpose of a Save the Date card is to notify your friends and family of your upcoming wedding date. A Save the Date card can supply your guests with the date and location of your wedding before you have finalised all the other finer details, such as the church or reception time etc. It will give your guests the time they need to book accommodation, make travel arrangements, organise time off work and hopefully ensures they will not have a prior engagement. Wedding invitations are generally sent out 6-8 weeks prior to your wedding date, which may not be enough time for guests to organise these things. Save the Date cards are generally sent out 3 months to a year prior to your wedding date or even more in advance if you think it is necessary.

Therefore we recommend sending out Save the Date cards for weddings that have a lot of out of town guests, destination weddings where all guests will need to make accommodation and travel arrangements, weddings that fall in or near busy periods of the year like Easter, Christmas, school holidays, long weekends or weddings that will run over a period of a few days.

Poppiseed Designs has a large range of Save the Date designs which are available in postcard format or as a card inside an addressed envelope. You can also continue the same design throughout all your wedding stationery if you choose to.

Save the Date card from the Poppiseed Designs Serenity range.

Save the Date postcard from the Poppiseed Designs Cherry Blossom range.