A whole lot-a info

When inviting guests to your wedding, sometimes it's not as straight forward as just stating the date and time. Especially with more and more 'weekend weddings' occurring, lasting more then one day, and lots of details needed! 

A good way of giving your guests all the info they need and not overbearing your actual invite with lots of writing - is to have an extra insert or information card. This way the information stays separate from the invite and is particularly useful for the purpose of directions. (better for guests to take the info card with them then the whole invite) 

Information commonly given in an extra insert is: Directions, Accommodation options, registry details, transport options and next day activities e.g. BBQ or brunch.

Here are a few examples of some info cards we have done. See here for design options.

Subtle Silver

Here is a lovely example of how to make designs from our 'Off the Rack' section a little more luxurious. 

Claire and Hamish choose our 'Winter Breeze' design from our 'Off the Rack' section. They wanted to incorporate silver into the design and we did so by printing on this silver metallic paper. The final result was a pretty and elegant finish, giving the whole invite an extra special feel. 

We also designed their table plan, table numbers and favour tags in the same theme - pics to come!

You can see the whole set of 'Winter Breeze' here.

Stamford Plaza Wedding Show

On the 21st of MArch 2010 we did a boutique wedding show at the Stamford Plaza in Auckland. It was just a collection of vendors exhibiting their goodies allowing time for lots of one-on-one chats!

Here are a few (belated) pics from the day. Excuse the blurry iPhone images! 

Wedding Show season is here with the next show coming up VERY soon! We'll be at 'The Grand Wedding Show' on Sunday the 11th of April, Level 5 Sky City Convention Centre. So get your tickets here and come on down. We'd love to meet you all.

Spotlight couple - Amanda and Richard

Amanda contacted us in March 2009 and wanted us to design her Save the Dates. She had a definitive colour scheme of vibrant green and charcoal grey, but apart from that -the brief was pretty open.

We came up with the following design and followed it through for their Invites, info cards, Table numbers, Table Plan and Name cards.

You can see more of our tailor made designs here

Website revamp

We've being doing  bit of work on our website. Updating and revamping and now it is ready to go live! Check it our here and you'll see lots of changes. New photo galleries, tailor made designs and lots of lovely feedback from our amazing clients.

Take a look around and let us know what you think!

Guest Book - Niki & Dave

Looks like my blogging is taking the familiar path of slackness! I will try and step this up a notch!

I want to show you all a few pics of this lovely little guest book we made for Nikki and Dave for their big day. We've done a lot of work with Nikki to help her set her tone and theme for her wedding right from the Save the Dates we did almost a year ago. We did their invites, along with menus, programmes, name cards, and thank you cards. So this guest book was a little extra development we created to help tie in with the theme.

Enjoy! Give us an email here at Cocoa Berry to have your very own guest book made for your special day.

Grape Vine - Name Cards

Here's a quick pic of some cute wee name cards we've just done for Sarah and Richard.

We designed their wedding invites last year in the same theme, and to keep in theme for the big day we designed these name cards.

To see the whole set for GrapeVine click here