Emily&Jo Blog

Latest Typographic Invitation

2010-09-15T05:43:00.001-07:00

New Winter Invite

2010-09-08T11:12:00.000-07:00

By popular demand we launch our new Winter invitation. It looks particularly beautiful with the snowflake motif foil blocked.

Three of a kind

2010-08-24T23:40:00.001-07:00

Gosh, sorry for the lack of postings, I'm sure any fans of our blog had given up on us! We've added another addition to the Emily&Jo family. I gave birth to my third son, Jasper in April.

New addition

2009-07-15T01:39:00.000-07:00

Jo gave birth to Jem last month. He is a serious cute little man.
Congratulations to Jo, she is doing brilliantly well and is still
producing fantastic wedding invitations!

Emily&Jo new designer range

2009-07-15T01:17:00.000-07:00

At last we have just launched our new range. We have been collaborating with different Illustrators and graphic designers to produce a range with a different look and feel.
We are pleased to bring on board Swedish illustrator Karin Åkesson, who works with Topshop and Habitat.

Baby Cakes

2009-05-10T11:55:00.000-07:00

One of Jo's good friends, Hannah owns this fab cake company in Bath.
She makes gorgeous cakes, cupcakes, cookies and favours in all sizes and for every occasion.
Please visit her site www.bathbabycakes.com

Hampton Court Wedding Fair

2009-03-08T12:02:00.000-07:00

Please come and visit us at the Hampton Court Wedding Fair, Hampton Court House, The Green, East Molesey, KT8 9BS.
Sunday 15th March 2009 11 - 4pm

Valentine's weekend

2009-02-16T05:27:00.000-08:00

Hi, We hope you all had a lovely, romantic Valentine's weekend. Here is one of our latest designs from our new greetings card collection. Jo and I spent a romantic weekend together at the Designer Wedding Show! It was such a great show, we were honoured to be exhibiting with the likes of Vivienne Westwood and Babington House.
We met lots of wonderful people and just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone that was so positive and said such lovely comments about our collections. We hope you all enjoyed the show and left with lots of ideas and inspiration for your weddings.
Emily xx

New Botanical Invite

2009-01-28T05:51:00.000-08:00

Hi, this is is our lateset design. Based on our classic Botanical invitation which is one of our most popular designs. We have sourced another lovely etching and the illustration lends itself to a more streamlined format.

Also check out our homepage for the latest colour trends for this season.

Designer Wedding Show

2009-01-28T05:43:00.000-08:00

We're really excited to be exhibiting this year. Please pop by and come and visit us!
13-15 February 2009
Battersea Park, London

Happy 2009!

2009-01-28T05:31:00.000-08:00

Sorry its been so long. Emily gave birth to gorgeous little Oscar in August, she has been busy with her two young sons and Jo has been frantic running Emily&Jo. Anyway all is fantastic and we're all thriving.

New Arrival

2008-08-23T05:39:00.000-07:00

Hi, our new baby son, Oscar was born on the 18th August.
Luckily it was true what they say, the second pops out faster!
I have been on maternity leave for a few weeks and had managed
to design a set of baby announcement cards, Oscar is featured above, bless him!
Hope you like the new cards, they are not yet up on our website as
Jo has her hands full, please tell me what you think.
Emily xx

New Invitations

2008-08-23T04:02:00.000-07:00

Here are some of new invitations we have just had shot.
The first was commissioned by our great friends Matt and Lola, they wanted something simple and elegant. So we opted to design them an invite which was type only. Lola and her mother love it so much they are planning to get the invite framed which is fab, we couldn't ask for a nicer compliment.

Famous

2008-08-23T03:06:00.000-07:00

We're very excited to be in this months Easy Living Mag.

Top Ten Wedding Tips & Trends

2008-08-23T03:01:00.000-07:00

1. The key look this season is gothic and lace. Check out the latest fashion catwalks for inspiration.
And if you wanted to follow that look through to your stationery have a peek at our chandelier invite in black and gold/silver, or the lace invites in our vintage section at emilyandjo.co.uk

2. We saw a great twist to the table plan at a wedding recently. All the guests names were written in gold and silver metallic pens onto lovely vintage mirrors.

3. If your venue does not supply the menu, a fab money saving idea is to print the menu from your printer at work or home and display them in cheap photo frames.

4. Make sure you do a first dance. Emily was too nervous and still regrets it to this day!

5. Think about engraving the inside of your wedding bands, a line from a favourite poem, a song lyric or simply each others names. An extra romantic touch is to keep the message secret from each other until you exchange vows.

6. Loving the glass jars Pierce was helping to make for the wedding reception in Mamma Mia, even better if you can hire a donkey to take you to the church!

7. Thank you cards don't need to match the rest of your wedding stationery. Plan ahead and order personalised stationery, (at emilyandjo.co.uk if you like) then you can use them not only at your wedding, but for every occasion.

8. The botanical theme is still going strong. It can still be seen on everything from wallpaper to ceramics, and is still one of our most invite designs.

9. A great idea friends used recently was to hire an ice-cream bike and used that to chill the champagne outside at the drinks reception, very unique.

10. Order wedding invite from Emily&Jo.