Featured Couple... Shannon & Matt Albright

Shannon & Matt Albright

April 10th 2010
South Gate Manor

Freehold, New Jersey

Theme: Black Tie and Elegant 

Colors: Black and Ivory

Location: South Gate Manor


Weddings don't always have to be the classic beach, vineyard or Old Hollywood theme. Sometimes your theme can just be the colors and ambiance.That's exactly what we did for Shannon & Matt Albright. We captured their elegant black tie affair using an ivory and black color scheme along with a simple monogram. This simple concept was carried throughout many unique wedding accessories which all transformed into an exquisite night their guests would never forget.


First things first, the save the date. Before any major planning began a save the date was created. The bride and groom had a lot of out of town guests and wanted to give them plenty of notice to make travel arrangements. Keeping things simple from the start, Shannon and Matt went with a black and white picture, black background and a hint of color, using a pinkish, papaya like color for some of the wording. This wasn't your average save the date magnet though, we increased this magnet to twice the size of a standard save the date magnet. This would be the beginning of many "WOW" factor details their guests continue to talk about.

So the save the date magnets were sealed and sent on their merry way across the country, now it's time to start planning for the big day. Knowing she would have a lot of enclosure cards containing a plethera of wedding and reception information; for their invitations Shannon naturally gravitated towards the pocket fold style invitations. They decided to move forward with an elegant theme and chose ivory and black to do the talking for them, two colors that would hold such a big part in the wedding - simple yet BOLD! But we didn't stop there with the bold details. The ivory pocket fold we used was also over sized like the save the date magnets. Their guests would receive this ivory large shimmer pocket fold invitation feeling like they were invited to the event of the year. The invite was printed on ivory shimmer card stock and bordered with a rich black card. The enclosure cards were all printed on the ivory shimmer cards.

Of course including their monogram into the finer details, we printed the outer tag with their SAM monogram. This monogram was a huge factor in their wedding theme along with the ivory and black color scheme. This simple monogram was used throughout the wedding. We used the same design for the tall place cards printed on ivory shimmer card stock. As the guest entered into the grand foyer of the Lions Gate, all these little gems were aligned on a round table waiting to be picked up. Adding to the design we spelled out Shannon and Matt's names instead of using just the initials but left the "A" in between their names on the programs. The programs were a folded card of ivory shimmer card stock. The inside pages however, were not in a book format, they were adhered inside in a flip format. 

Each program was placed on each gold and ivory seat. On

top of the program layed a tissue card. What is a tissue card you ask? A tissue card is a little wrap that goes around a single tissue. On the front of this cute little tissue cover is a little sweet saying telling your guest to use the single tissue to wipe away their tears of joy. 

Carrying on the SAM theme we used the same monogram design that was on the invitation tag and placed it on the matching place card. We designed these place cards into a tall fold over card printed on the ivory shimmer card stock. These cards were displayed in the main lobby on a table in a circle fashion.

For more information on wedding sets please contact us:

invitationsbythisandthat@live.com

For a detail look at Shannon and Matt's invitation see our past anniversary blog :

http://invitationsbythisandthat.blogspot.com/2011/04/matt-shannon-albright-41010.html