With engagement season upon us, we are elated to be able to share the expert advice of world-renowned event and wedding planner, Colin Cowie. Colin helps couples on any budget create a wedding fit for the stars, with huge amounts of glamour, confidence and ease. Colin is the party planner of choice for celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey and Kim Kardashian.

In the first of a three-part blog series, Colin answers the questions many couples face upon beginning wedding planning: how to host a wedding that truly represents you, and how to best use personal expression to create an experience that embodies your style and taste.

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What does creativity feel like?

The most notable feeling associated with creativity is the “Aha!” moment, but creativity is much more than that. It is a process of exploration, understanding, progression, inspiration, and allowing one’s mind to rest, daydream, search, synthesize, and evolve.  

It is this process that we were interested in hearing about from our designers. In such an artistic and creative profession, we wanted to know: How do you spark your creativity when you aren’t feeling creative?

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November was a busy and exciting month for the Greenvelope team, hitting our new record for most new features implemented in a single month (whoop, whoop!)

It was a hard task to pick just three, but here are the most noteworthy updates for November:

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We hope you are able to enjoy some turkey or spend time with loved ones this Thanksgiving. In honor of the season here at Greenvelope we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge all those we work with, day in and day out, and share a few big “Thank You!”s

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Jenna Bechtholt Photography

The holidays are approaching quickly. Whether it is Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Festivus, Kwanzaa… there are plenty of reasons to celebrate in the coming months. To make those celebrations actually feel like celebrations, you need to up the importance of enjoying them and take down the stress level. We know that can be easier said than done, which is why we talked with event and party experts to find you the best and most effective ways to cut down on that party planning stress.

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Iconic beauty brand, butter LONDON, has joined forces with Greenvelope.com to add some glam to more than just your beauty routine this holiday season. Inspired by butter LONDON’s catwalk-worthy colours, edgy glamour, and fashion-forward styles, these invites make it effortless to be pretty & polished.

This collection brings to life the most vibrant beauty trends and chic fashion through five exclusive design templates in a variety of runway-ready hues.

Shop the butter LONDON collection for invites that are equal parts seasonal, sultry, & sophisticated or view all holiday cards, greetings, & invites here.

About butter LONDON

butter LONDON was founded as an influential, high-design nail lacquer brand that pioneered the first “3 free” nail lacquer available in sensational, catwalk-worthy colours. Today, the butter LONDON product line is recognized around the world for living on the inside edge of fashion, bringing the most vibrant beauty trends to life with high-performance, dressing table-worthy cosmetics and a strong legacy in nail lacquer. Cheeky and chic, butter LONDON serves as a women’s colour stylist, encouraging her to experiment and discover, igniting her passion for colour and giving her confidence to use beauty as her favorite fashion accessory – all with a dash of Brit wit. 

With a handful of custom client developments in the works, a lot of October’s updates were happening behind-the-scenes. However, our stellar development team never disappoints and was able to get some great new functionality implemented, including:

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After 8 years of being together, Jessica and Stephen exchanged vows in a stunning waterfront ceremony in front of their closest friends and family. In the words of the bride, “While the vows and ceremony of the wedding were important to us, we both just wanted to celebrate our love and all we had accomplished together — graduating college, Stephen becoming a doctor, myself entering Northwestern for grad school — with a beautiful party. The thought of having everyone we loved in one place was electrifying… Our brothers were even the ones to marry us. We wanted this to be a special memory for ourselves and each of our guests.” Each memory now lives on in these gorgeous photos captured by Jason Brown of J. Brown Photography.

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Labor Day Weekend: the coveted long weekend before the summer warmth fades into the crisp autumn air. Historically, it also marks the last day of the year deemed appropriate to wear white (apparently, says somebody). So whether or not you follow the fashion police on that one, why not use the opportunity to throw a White Party where your guests can don their crisp creme, eggshell, and ivory apparel and give a proper farewell to summer. Here are our top 4 tips on how to throw a white hot Labor Day party that will be one for the books!

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Events come in all shapes and sizes, from intimate client banquets to extravagant ticketed galas, but the tools and timeline of how you promote those still follows the same path. By promoting your event in a designed, curated way you can build a brand for your event at each touchpoint, which in turn allows and empowers your network to spread the word with consistency and confidence. From the save the date to the final tweet, here are some tips on how to make the most of your event promotion.

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