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Allie’s Best Card for September

allie munroe — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:19:56 +0000

To many of us, Fall means one thing–football! This perfectly timed football Bar Mitzvah invitation was produced with Precious Papers in New York. The invitation was letterpress printed in two colors, beveled, and backed with football textured paper. The staggered insert cards were wrapped in a football paper belly band to match. This look is classic, befitting a traditional Bar Mitzvah ceremony, but with a fun youthful touch that every 13-year-old football fan would love. If you would like to know more about the invitation or want something similar, please contact us!

Needle in a Haystack

allie munroe — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:41:31 +0000

In the heart of Dallas, Texas you will find Needle In A Haystack, a proud mom and pop stationery business with not just two generations working together, but three! Owners Yash and Bavna Parmar, their daughter Krishna and Yash’s 83-year-old father, Bapuji work together in the store. They are assisted by Blair, Meera, Tammy, Harva, Paige, Alicia, Sarah, Julia, Kathe, Paula and Rachel who help make all the magic happen at Needle.

Bhavna is the creative mind behind the business. Yash, who is a CPA, has the business side covered, but he also loves working with his customers–the ladies love him! They have owned the store for 23 years; it was a needlepoint store before they bought it in 1989, hence the name. Krishna was brought up with the store; by the age of 7, she was calling customers to tell them their invitations were ready! After graduating from SMU in 2009, she joined the business full-time. In addition to bringing new, younger products into the store, Krishna has been busy revamping the website, setting up Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and email campaigns.

Needle (as we have nick-named them at Allie Munroe) still has an old-fashioned cash register (the one that makes a “cha-ching” noise when it opens) that will be 100 years old in 2015. It is Bapuji’s job to make sure the cash register balances out at the end of the day.

The reason for the continued success of Needle In A Haystack is they all love working with customers and helping them make their important events even more special. They were one of Allie Munroe’s very first retailers and we are thrilled to still be working with them.

Allie’s Best Card for August

allie munroe — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:04:12 +0000

Christmas in August? At Allie Munroe we have been busy gearing up for the holiday season; if you have too, this month’s ABC should inspire you. OK, we are going to brag now, this design was also a 2012 Stationery Trends-Trendy Award finalist.

This 6″ round holiday party invitation is printed with white ink on frosted flexible plastic. Send it out in style with a silver square envelope.

This card is from our holiday collection updates shipping to stores in September. If you have our holiday book and have not ordered your updates yet, please do, quantities are limited!

He popped the question and she said yes!

allie munroe — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:09:00 +0000

The date and place are set, now what? Spread the word, it is time to send a save the date card…but why?Giving guests advanced notice makes it more likely your loved ones can be there on the big day. Guests traveling from out of town have time to look for airline and hotel specials, request vacation time, apply for a Visa if they are coming from another country or possibly plan a more extended vacation around your wedding. Most save the dates go out 6-9 months before the wedding.

Save the date cards should include:

• the couple’s names

• the date

• the city, state, and

• a message indicating that an invitation will follow

Other information you might want to include are:

• prompt such as ‘save the date’ or ‘mark your calendar’

• wedding website address

• hotel information

• date of the rehearsal dinner, brunch or other planned activities around the wedding (if everyone who will receive this is included)If you want to keep it simple but give detailed information, send people to your website. It can be updated as the information is finalized.

Who do I send it to?

You can choose to send to all your guests or to out of town guests only. For destination weddings, send them to everyone. If you guest list is not final, make sure you only send to people you know you will invite. You can always send an invitation later to someone who did not receive a save the date card, but not the other way around! Just keep in mind if you send to out of town guests only, they might tell a local guests that they received it.

What should it look like?

Save the dates are a chance to announce your big news in a way that fits the betrothed couple’s style. It can be whimsical, classic, tell your story, reflect the location of your wedding, include a photograph or be a simple card that is a preview to your invitation. Many couples use it as a chance to send a fun, creative announcement when they want to follow it up with a more traditional invitation.Check out http://alliemunroe.com/made-to-order/custom-wedding for some of our favorite save the date samples.

Best wishes,

Allie

Allie’s Best Card for July

allie munroe — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:47:08 +0000

Our July ABC (Allie’s Best Card) is a modern, black acrylic wedding invitation set with white and silver ink and coordinating insert pieces. The bride and groom ordered the set through Let’s Party in Santa Barbara, California. We designed and printed the save-the-date cards, invitation sets, programs, menus and escort cards.

Our New Store!

allie munroe — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:39:10 +0000

Check out our new store on Facebook! Place an order directly through Facebook. Click on our link, find the Shop icon and start shopping! https://www.facebook.com/alliemunroe

Allie’s Best Card for June

allie munroe — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:54:30 +0000

We hope everyone had a great day with dad this past weekend!

We present our ABC for the month of June. This British/Burberry-inspired invitation was designed for a client in Panama! When guests opened the invitation, it played the Beatles’ song From Me to You to give the recipient a preview of the UK-inspired Bar Mitzvah reception. At Allie Munroe, we love The Beatles, so we were very excited about this project.

The main invitation is letterpress printed in chocolate-brown, edged in red and mailed in a brown, lizard skin outer envelope. Two inserts were printed on white plastic and had their own white lizard skin envelopes. Both skin envelopes were lined in matching plaid to create a cohesive, masculine set, just perfect for a young man. Tell us, what do you think?

Check it out–our first sparkling invitation!

allie munroe — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:13:09 +0000

We did this invite for Precious Papers in New York–allie munroe’s first invitation with real glitter! It’s all girl:)

Signed and Sealed by Steph

allie munroe — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:45:02 +0000

Allie Munroe is pleased to present Signed and Sealed by Steph in Denver, Colorado as the first featured store on our new website! We have been lucky enough to work with Stephanie Zaitz for many years. She consistently challenges us with new ideas to produce invitations for her clients that set a statement the minute they arrive in the mailbox.

Steph learned early on the importance of setting the tone for the event, you might even say she was born into the business; her Mom is a well-known Denver event planner Lisa Cook of Affair with Flair. This combined with her work experience at Neiman Marcus and her MBA lead her to open her business in 2007 and it has been thriving ever since.

We were honored when Steph asked us to design a very important piece for her last year–her son Zachary’s birth announcement!

Above is a business card mailer for Signed and Sealed by Steph. The business card was letterpress and edged. The mailer was engraved and duplexed with our gray stardream and white lizard faux skin paper. Definitely a beautiful surprise in the mail for New Year’s!

San Francisco Party inspiration

allie munroe — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:58:38 +0000

Planning a party in San Francisco? Check out this inspiration board, which starts with an Allie Munroe plastic invitation we created with Paper Caper in Burlingame, California and includes ideas to create an evening that will be the talk of the town. Prefer the East Coast? Other skylines are available.