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Dana & JD | Romantic Chalet Chic Wedding in Telluride

Dana & JD | Romantic Chalet Chic Wedding in Telluride

Posted on
October 26, 2017
by Meagan

I hit it off with Dana & JD as soon as they described their Telluride wedding as “Chalet Chic” – how elegant and adorable is that? Their sweet, mountain wedding vibe was such a joy to design for – from their hand lettered and illustrated invitation suite to their soft, watercolor day of decor!

We started designing for Dana & JD’s big day with their emerald green and blush invitation suite. Dana wanted to keep the overall style of their stationery elegant, but with fun touches to give it a little more personality. To capture this tone we kept to a minimalistic color palette but incorporated lots of lively illustration and hand lettering components. In addition to their adorable wreath monogram, my favorite part of their invitation suite was the hand-illustrated map of Telluride that included all the venues for their mountain wedding weekend!

For their wedding décor, we carried many of the elements from their stationery suite into the day of designs. Dana & JD’s acrylic wedding welcome sign, for example, incorporated their wreath monogram and green garlands. For their traditional wedding ceremony programs, we repurposed the illustration of the beautiful St Patrick’s Catholic Church from their map.

Guests were greeted at their Gorrono Ranch reception by a printed seating chart with tables named for the lovely San Juan peaks in view from the venue. We kept the table setting paper goods soft and romantic with watercolor washes; the emerald menus again incorporating hand-lettering and delicate gold calligraphy adorning blush place cards.

I think Dana & JD did a beautiful job pulling off their “Chalet Chic” theme in a way that was elegant, while still remaining so very warm and personal to them both. Congratulations again to the oh so sweet Mr. and Mrs. Higginbotham!

 

Meagan is truly a joy to work with. She is creative, professional and patient with her clients. I am SO GLAD we hired her for all of our stationery and paper decor needs. When we started our stationery design process, our vision for the wedding wasn’t fully defined. It was actually our conversations with Meagan that helped us narrow in on a style and aesthetic for the big day. She named what we were thinking, and used her talent to dial in all of the details. Our invitation suite was a perfect “taste” of the weekend for our guests. From the color palette to the hand-drawn map, Meagan’s expertise created something that was classic enough to stand the test of time, but different enough to meet our contemporary tastes. We also added calligraphy for the envelopes and assembly for the invitations. The finished product received so many compliments from our guests. Not only did we get to admire Meagan’s creativity on our invitations, but Meagan made several signs for our wedding in addition to designing the menus, seating chart, etc. All of it was even more beautiful than we could have ever imagined. I would absolutely hire Meagan for your stationery needs.

Kind Words from the Bride, Dana

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Vendor Love // Photography: Cat Mayer Studio // Coordination: Telluride Unveiled // Ceremony Venue: St Patrick’s Catholic Church // Reception Venue: Gorrono Ranch // Flowers: Dahlia Floral Design // Stationery & Signage: Whimsy Design Studio // Cake: Wild Rose Cakes // Dress: Ines Di Santo

Real Weddings tags: blush / calligraphy / classic / emerald / green / mountains / telluride / watercolor

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One Response

  1. Sally Higginboham November 1, 2017 at 10:17 pm

    My grandson, J.D., and brand new granddaughter-in-law, Dana, are treasures and these photos and touching, loving items are all indications of their depth of family love, family respect, and dedication in carrying on with a lifelong union. God bless them both and I love them so much.

    Grandma Sally Higginbotham

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