Goddess Gowns

I'm in love! If I didn't already have my wedding dress (which I love too!), I'd totally be ordering one of these beautiful Rosa Clara wedding gowns. The Rosa Clara 2009 Bridal Collection was inspired by the sculptured silhouettes of classic Greek goddesses...how amazing!

Real Wedding: Megan & Bryan II

Flower centerpieces were placed on top of vintage books. Feathers were placed in the bouquets to add a hint of vintage charm. Each table was assigned a "Chapter" number. Escort Cards designed by Keg Design.

(All photos by Keg Design, unless otherwise noted.)

Real Wedding: Megan & Bryan I

More details from Megan & Bryan's "storybook" wedding...

Each guest received a custom printed Post-It notepad reading "Happily ever after..." and a personalized pencil with the couple's name and wedding date. Favors, Table Cards and Menus designed by Keg Design.

(All photos by Keg Design, unless otherwise noted.)

First Impressions

Our wedding colors are black, white and green. I'm loving all of the mosses & greenery that are available to use. I'm pretty sure that I want moss letters of our initials, K & L, hanging on the doors going into the church.

LEFT: Our church doors...I love how cute the entryway is!

RIGHT: Inspiration...don't have the original source, but I'm loving it.

If anyone knows the best way to go about making moss letters, please leave a comment. Thanks, Kelly

Wedding Program: Megan & Bryan

Wedding Invitation: Megan & Bryan

More from the beautiful "storybook" themed wedding...

Formal invitations inviting guests to be a part of the couple's special day...their "Next Chapter." Letterpress printing on Crane's card stock. Deckled left edges on the invitation, reception card and response card mimic torn pages from a book.

Just love this...

This is just one of those images I absolutely love. It embodies the perfect mix of elegance and fun that I hope to achieve on my own wedding day. The beautiful gown, white converse sneaks, natural (no fuss) hair and funky bracelet...love it!

This image came from a great site I discovered a few years back - Jewels by Jessica. Jessica is a jewelry designer working in Athens, Greece. She's got a unique style that mixes vintage pieces with new, funkier designs. Check out her Etsy store too.

Save The Date: Megan & Bryan

A romantic, fairytale love story between an english teacher and an executive chef...Megan and Bryan. The "Once upon a time" storybook theme was carried throughout this entire wedding, including paper designs, language and decor. The Save The Date bookmark (above) introduced guests to the fairytale theme. Each bookmark was composed of a vellum overlay which was placed on top of a beautiful iridescent stock with the couple's wedding information. Both pieces were hand tied with specialty ribbons & pearls and then placed into a gold, open-end envelope.

A bookmark is a great idea for a Save The Date, as its not only pretty but functional too! More photos and paper goods from this wedding coming next week...it's one of my favorites!

Save The Date: Bailey & Rhett

(Design by KEG; click image to enlarge)

Perfect for a Chicago based wedding! A photograph of the famous Wrigley Field Sign with your own personal Save The Date (or other) message. This piece was created as a 4x6 inch postcard. Other formats are possible. 

(Design by KEG; click image to enlarge)

More photos of the front, back and details of the Cubs design. I always urge my clients to take full advantage of the amazing postage options that are available. For this piece, a "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" stamp worked nicely. Other options include vintage stamps or making your own at Zazzle.

If you can't already tell, I'm a huge Chicago Cubs fan. Only 68 more days until opening day...this could be our year?!

Save The Date: Alyson & Ryan

An elegant format that communicates your Save The Date message using a simple, calendar design. This piece can be customized with your names, date and color scheme. Additional information, such as a website or hotel block, can also be included. This Save The Date can be produced as a card w/ envelope or as a postcard. This item will be available on Etsy very soon! 

Save The Date: Kelly & Luke

Using our engagement photos, I created a photo booth strip for our Save The Date. Wedding colors = black and white, with accents of green. A kraft paper, open-end envelope complements the design. I also used magnetic tape for the back of each Save The Date. And,  yes, we'll be having a photo booth at our reception! Can't wait!

Save The Date: Brittany & Gabe

This week is all about Save The Dates. I'll be featuring new designs daily.

Today's design is a 3.5"x3.5" magnet that I did a few years back. The bride's colors were chocolate brown and apple green. The traditional information for a Save The Date, including names, date, location and website, were included. Prices vary depending on size, quantity and ink coverage. Please email me for more information.

I won! I won! I won!

First of all, let me just start by saying that I never win anything. So, when Sarah at Classic Bride sent me an email yesterday telling me that I had won one of the 5 Blurb gift certificates, I was ecstatic! I can't wait to create our wedding guest book using Blurb's amazing resources. I better start brainstorming and figuring out what pictures/copy to include in the book. Does anyone have any ideas regarding guest books...I'd like to create a more informal layout so people can write more than just their name in the book? I'll have do some research...

Here's the link to the Classic Bride Blurb winners! Many thanks to Sarah for hosting the contest...and also to our wonderful photographer, Rob Barcroft, who took the picture!

Happy Sunday...and happy Superbowl! I'm not much into football, but I do like the commercials!

I want a Blurb!

As in a Blurb Book - they're so cool! And, as it happens, one of my favorite bloggers, Sarah at Classic Bride, is hosting a contest and giving away 5 Blurb gift certificates. I decided to enter a photo (below, taken by RHB Photography) that I'd like to use for the cover of our guest book. It makes use of one of my favorite engagement photos - and is consistent with the "look & feel" that we've established for our wedding (black/white/green color palette). It also works very well with our Save The Date (a photo strip design!) - which I'll show more of next week. The green strip represents the spine of the book.

So, here's to the weekend and crossing your fingers that I'm lucky enough to win one of the 5 Blurb giveaways. Until next week...

Gimme a sign

Like the old saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words"...and then some! Keeping with yesterday's theme, engagement photos, I wanted to offer up an idea that can help make your photos more unique (and practical)...message boards! I encourage all of my clients to take full advantage of their engagement session. Besides coming away with some beautiful pictures, why not create a couple of signs that you can capture in your photos. Save The Date, Thank You and Rehearsal signs can help tell your story and make for a great start to pretty cards and invitations.

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These are some of my favorite photos from our engagement session. We included our black lab, Murphy, into this grouping. He helped communicate our "Save The Date" message with a cute sign we hung around his neck. Gosh, he really loved us that day! Ha!

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I'm also very excited to use the above series of photos to create our Rehearsal Dinner invitation. Check back in a few months for it!

So, if you're looking for something different to do with your photos, consider getting the poster board and magic markers out to create a couple of signs. If you're not artistically talented, I'd be more than happy to help design, print or paint a special sign for you...just send me an email.

Photos by RHB Photography.

Engagement Session : Kelly & Luke

Go Cubbies! We used our engagement session as a time to get to know our photographer and become comfortable in front of the camera. We also wanted to make use of the beautiful city of Chicago that we live in. We had Rob take photos of us in front of Wrigley Field and throughout Lincoln Park. We were very happy with the results...

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Photos by RHB Photography.

Sneak Peek!

Luke and I got engaged on May 17, 2008. After the hugging & crying, grinning & phone calling, booking & confirming... the FIRST thing we did was find a fabulous photographer!

We went with Rob Barcroft of RHB Photography. More engagement photos to follow...

What's in a name?

It all started back in high school...someone realized that my initials spelled KEG. How cool!

KEG quickly became my nickname, and a common occurrence on the back of t-shirts, beer mugs and name tags. When it came time to create my senior portfolio in college, I needed a unique way to "brand" myself to the rest of the world. I thought, why not use KEG? While everyone else was using his or her full name (or something equally as boring), I decided to go the "cool" route and, alas, KEG DESIGN was born. It has been a small, growing freelance business ever since. 

Coincidentally, the rest of my family has pretty "cool" initials too. My mom is MEG, my dad TEG, and, well, somehow my little brother got the short end of the stick with CTG. (Haha- it explains a lot!)

I have a bit of a dilemma regarding the future status of the "G" in my initials. I'm marrying the love of my life this summer, and his last name starts with "D." KED isn't bad, but it's nowhere near as cool as KEG. I'll just have to see what happens...

Cheers,

KEG, aka "Kelly"

Finally, up and running...

I'm ready and roaring to go...bring on the blogging!

Thanks for visiting Keg Design. I hope you'll stick around to read and (more importantly) see all of the cool stuff I've been working on. Check back daily (or weekly) for inspiration!

Before they run out!

We all experienced history last week.

Be sure to get your FREE Obama sticker before supplies run out. All of the amazing Obama images (i.e. the famous HOPE poster and sticker above) were created by the very talented Shepard Fairey.