One Heart Weddings is LIVE!

A few months ago, I started designing wedding invitations for a website called WeddingDNA.com. They recently renamed and redesigned the website and it is LIVE! Visit www.oneheartweddings.com for beautiful personalized designs for the DIY bride. Everything on this site can be downloaded and printed on your home computer. How cool is that?!



For work designed specifically by me, see below and click here.

Summer Wedding Invitation

Formal Wedding Invitation

Retro Wedding Invitation

Summer Pink Wedding Invitation

Whimsical Wedding Invitation

I am absolutely still offering my own custom designs through Linzmarie Designs! Please contact me at linzmariedesigns@gmail.com if you'd like to place a custom order.

My new office!

My husband and I had a romantic dinner planned for Valentine's Day this year. First we thought about going out to dinner, then decided to stay in, cook lamb and open a bottle of really good wine. Well, the day came and we went to Ikea that morning just to look. If you know my husband or I, you know just "looking" means "buying". We had been talking about redecorating my office for awhile, but kept putting off the project. Until Valentine's Day. We left Ikea with a car full of office furniture, swung by Miller Paint for a gallon of Devine Foam, and got home to start our project. It took all day and our romantic plans wound up consisting of eating pizza on the couch while the first coat was drying while watching the NBA dunk contest in our underwear (we HAD to take off our painting clothes so we didn't get anything on the white couch!) It was such a fun day though and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Plus, look at my office! I'm still working on getting things organized but for the most part, it's perfect. I have been amazingly productive in my new space and I'm so happy to have such a gorgeous place to work now. Many thanks to my husband for all his hard work!

Right wall, before (I'm such a mess...)

Left wall, before


Color options (we chose the left– I LOVE it!)

There I am! Don't mind the ugly painter's socks :)


More attractive painting clothes :)

My cute husband painting away!


Hanging shelves

Right wall, after!

Left wall, after!

Happy Blogaversary to Linzmarie Designs!

It's been one year since I started blogging! It's crazy how time flies... Wasn't I JUST at coffee with Kathy talking about starting a blog?! Anyway, it's been a wonderful year and I want to say thank you to all of you who read this :) I'm going to be better about posting my work and other wedding-related things that I love, so keep reading!

xoxo
linzmarie

Vote for me (again)!

I submitted designs to this month's Menu design challenge on Minted.com. I uploaded 4 this time and was happy to see all of them made the cut! So log in and vote for yours truly :) Thanks for your support!!

Simple Garden Flowers

Fresh & Cool

Modern Metropolitan

Damask Garden

My first review!

My client from Paths to Our Past wrote an amazing review of me on the Elizabeth Anne Designs site today! She said such wonderful things and I am so grateful for such a stellar review. I've worked with her on a few projects and have had such a good time, so it's awesome to know she feels the same way :) Thanks, Stacey!!

Aqua & Poppy color combo!

Check out this post on Snippet & Ink today-- my favorite colors!! This is exactly what I was going for when I changed the colors of my logo a few months ago. I absolutely love this color combination.

Review me!

Another wonderful feature has been added to Elizabeth Anne Designs Library! They just added a link for Vendor Reviews. Check it out here and if you are one of my wonderful clients, feel free to write something wonderful about Yours Truly :)

Oops, I did it again...

I was totally just listening to Britney so I apologize to the headline :) But... I really did do it again. Remember a couple months (or weeks?!?!) ago, I said I have ADD when it comes to my logo? How I always want to update and change it? Well... I kinda sorta want to do it again. But not a drastic change, just something a little more interesting. The other day, my co-worker Holly and I were talking about cool colors, and I mentioned that I've always loved blue/greens, similar to the Pool used in Beth & Ken's invitations. I said, "I should've used that in my logo..." Well, it got me thinking. Why don't I try it? So I switched out the black damask for a softer pool-color, and I was pleased, but not totally satisfied. I decided to push the logo off to the side and let it "wrap" around to the other size of the business card. The open space on the front side (to the right of the logo) makes me uncomfortable, and for that reason I like it! So now I have to ask all you readers out there-- which do you prefer? The old or the new? I appreciate your feedback, so be honest!

New logo!

I've been playing with the idea of a new logo for awhile, and finally decided to stop THINKING about it and just DO it! I am definitely my own worst critic, and spend sooooo much time waffling over my own designs. It took forever to get this blog going to begin with because I just wasn't sure I was in love with the brown and pink "linzmarie" design, and was afraid to commit to it! But, I did it, and am glad I got this going. However, now I'm ready for a change! I've been in love with damask and brocade-like patterns for awhile, and have seen a ton of great wedding invitations using that style (The Heather Invitation was definitely influenced by that...) So to keep up with the latest and greatest, I decided to let that be my guide and incorporated it into my new look. I also changed one of the fonts that I've been using, and have gone back to using capital letters :) I love the way things look when all lowercase, but it's hard to be consistent with that! So, anyway, this whole thing is still under construction, so don't be surprised if it changes again in a few weeks :) But for now, I'm totally happy with the new look of linzmarie designs, and hope you are, too!

check me out!

heidi & justin's save the date was featured on junebug weddings blog today! how fun. it's always so exciting to see my work out there but especially this piece. i really loved working with heidi on this and can't wait to start her wedding invitations. she had so many great ideas, and her awesome black and white photo started it all. check out junebug weddings site, they have some great information, ideas and inspiration on there!

client comments

eileen and her fiancé tim were my very first clients when i started this business, and they also happened to be my first long-distance job! eileen called me from her home in california after her aunt showed her an invitation i designed for my best friend's cousin last november. i knew within the first few minutes of our conversation that we would get along fabulously! she was so excited to be getting married and i could just tell how special her relationship with tim was. i wanted their invitations to be perfect for them, and in the end they were just that (see the eileen invitation in my pdf). lucky for me, eileen also referred two of her engaged friends who hired me shortly after (check out the jennifer and kelli invitations!) eillen and tim, thank you for being such wonderful clients!!

read her sweet letter of recommendation below:

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Lindsay-

I have been meaning to write and officially Thank You. We are so happy we found you to work with for our wedding. It was an absolute pleasure to work with you and we could not have been happier with the final product of our invitations, programs, and thank you notes. The quality of printing, paper, and overall look was amazing!

There are some fabulous things I think your future clients should know about working with you. You are dependable, responsible, and creative. You got proofs, changes, samples, ideas, etc sent to us so quickly. Even though we live in different states, it was so easy to see how the invitations, programs, and thank you notes were developing through the PDF emails you sent us and the samples we got in the mail. We loved the choices that began the quest for our wedding invitation design. You were so helpful in getting the final design of the invitation done the way we wanted. Working with you was one of the easiest parts of the wedding planning.

It was so much fun to get to know you and I am so excited to see your business grow! I am happy to answer any questions or share my experience with anyone that is thinking about working with you. I will recommend you to anyone I know, who is getting married or knows somebody that is getting married

Thanks again!

Eileen

P.S. I am honored to have an invitation named after me!

welcome!

welcome to my blog! i've wanted to do this for awhile, and luckily today i was inspired to just do it! i wanted to wait until i had designed my new identity (which is done for the most part), or a website up and running (which is still slowing coming together), or this and that... too many excuses i guess. instead of thinking about it too much, how about i just start writing? so, here i am! thanks to kathy from heaven's eye photography for suggesting i do this :) i was introduced to her through my friend deidra, and had the pleasure of meeting her and her ADORABLE son today for coffee. kathy took a few amazing photos of deidra's newborn son last month that i used in his baby announcement (see below), and after seeing her work online i knew i needed to meet her in person! i love getting to know other artists and hearing why they do the things they do... kathy definitely has a passion and amazing talent for photography, and our coffee date left me totally inspired. it just got me thinking about what i do, and how excited i am for all that is ahead... both at my day job (packaging design) and with my freelance work (wedding invites and baby announcements!) i love what i do, and am really blessed to have the opportunity to do it. i'm also so lucky to have the support from my loved ones! john, my amazing husband of 1 year, 3 months and 1 day, was so wonderful this summer as i began my wedding invitation business. he was so patient on the evenings and weekends that i locked myself in my office to get work done, and always offered the oh-so-important back rub after i had been sitting hunched over my desk for too many hours! the best was coming home one day from work and seeing half of the mcdaniel/nahas wedding programs assembled! we're talking 350 fan programs, 5 steps to assemble each one... LOTS of time to even just do half. i wanted to cry, it was just the sweetest thing. and he did such a great job, too, so that made it even better! he's now my official assistant :) so, stay tuned for more entries, samples of my work, and just random blabbing about life and how great it is! xoxo linz marie