Hello out there in blog land. Your old pals from the 123Print Blog are back with the exciting conclusion of The Retro-Chic Guide to Holiday Entertaining where we’ll finish up with our tips for throwing the mid-1960s style Christmas party that will have the whole town talking! Stay tuned and don’t touch that dial!
December – The Month of Engagements
Tomorrow is the first day of December, and you know what that means! Engagements galore!
Did you know December is the most popular month to get engaged? December accounts for about one in every five proposals. A lot of times grooms choose Christmas Eve to pop the question, and of course others wait until after Santa arrives and ask on Christmas Day.
The Retro-Chic Guide to Holiday Entertaining – Part 1
Maybe you’ve noticed or maybe you haven’t but there is currently an infatuation with the mid-1960s. The era’s influence is everywhere from fashion to home décor to design and of course television with AMC’s Mad Men pretty much pioneering the movement. With the holiday season naturally lending itself to decking out your home, sporting more dapper duds than normal and most importantly entertaining; it’s the perfect opportunity to throw yourself a holiday shindig that any Kennedy-era advertising exec would feel at home at!
Infographic: The True Cost of a Wedding Knot
I’ve never been engaged, but I’ve watched enough wedding television shows, had enough friends plan a wedding, and witnessed my own little sister start to plan hers to know that weddings are insanely expensive. When you take into consideration the dress, tuxedo rentals, flowers, transportation, music, food, location, wedding invitations, wedding party gifts (sheesh, the list never ends!) you suddenly realize you’re talking thousands and not hundreds. Thousands.
9 Fun Ways to Wrap Gift Cards
Some people may argue that gift cards or gift certificates to someone’s favorite restaurant, clothing store or electronics store is a copout when it comes to Christmas gifts. It’s often argued that giving a gift card or certificate is a no-thought, lackluster, spur of the moment way of solving the annoying “what to give” dilemma. Get these thoughts out of your head, everyone. This is so not true.
Shoot Your Own Christmas Card Portrait – The Wrap-Up!
We’re a few days from Thanksgiving which usually marks the point when trees, greens and other Christmas festiveness starts to get broken out and the whole family takes time to be together. It’s also when winter outfits have secured a space in the front of the closet and you start feeling like it wouldn’t be so early that people would think you were weird for sending Christmas Cards. That also makes it the perfect time to wrap up the Shoot Your Own Christmas Card Portrait series!
10 Wedding Color Trends to Watch in 2012
Choosing colors may seem like a simple decision, but with all of the choices it can frankly be an overwhelming one, especially if you want to really stand out with a cutting edge combination. After all, most people do not even consider wedding trends let alone stay atop of them until they start planning their wedding. Lucky for you the design team here at 123Print is not most people; our team of talented designers lives and breathes trends like these! They’ve done the hard work for you and compiled a list of ten wedding color trends to watch in 2012.
Infographic: Do You Need a Social Media Detox?
Most experts agree that social media has revolutionized the way people interact with one another. Yet, for all its benefits, it has a dark side: creeping addictiveness. It often starts at a young age, with nothing more than a harmless, occasional status update. Upon adulthood, however, it explodes into a full-blown debilitating condition
Invitation Etiquette – Holiday Edition
You don’t need me to tell you that the holidays are rapidly approaching. The malls are decorated and surely you’ve seen at least one Black Friday or Christmas commercial reminding you that time is running out to get your shopping done. Personally, the holidays don’t start for me until I see the famous Hershey’s Kisses Christmas commercial. Growing up, that was always the key that soon I’d be gorging myself on turkey and after that Santa would be visiting.
Think Before You Font
Sometime around the end of last week I walked into the office and before I could even sit down at my desk my colleague and fellow 123Print writer Shannon was all but levitating off the ground in a state of near-panic. “You have to look at the new calendars page on the site right away,” she exclaimed nearly breathless. I expected that maybe there was a typo we didn’t catch in proofing, perhaps an honest misspelling that spell-check “fixed” into a NSFW four-letter word, but no. It was worse. Right there in the headline was the most egregious of all things typography – the headline font was Comic Sans.