If you’re tying the knot in May, June or July- it’s time to order your wedding invitations!

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If you’re getting married in March or April- it’s time to order programs and table stationery for your event!

Design Spotlight

Perfect for any season, our Olivia Pocket Invitation is shown in lime and chocolate ink on antique white paper with a chocolate shimmer pocket. Choose your paper, inks and fonts to customize.

The Olivia Pocket Invitation comes standard with the following:

• Vertical tri-fold pocket in choice of paper color
• Invitation in choice of paper color, fonts, motif and two ink colors
• Two accessory cards – middle and large
• Matching reply postcard printed on both sides
• Inner / outer envelope with return address printing on the back flap of the outer envelope in black ink
• Two complimentary proofs of each item ordered

February is all about love! To celebrate, we wanted to send an extra special promo your way. So, we asked ourselves, “What can we give our customers that they both need AND love?” Our oh-so-fabulous guest addressing service, of course!

Understandably, guest addressing is one of our most popular services! Normal rates for guest addressing start at just $1 per envelope set (that’s printing on both the inner AND outer envelopes) and $1.50 if you’d like us to use colored ink. During the entire month of February, receive our guest addressing service (black ink only) FREE with your wedding invitation order from our Signature Collection or Frugal Collection! Or, upgrade to color ink for only $0.50! Save yourself hours of time! Simply select the guest addressing service of your choice in the Design Extras section when placing your order! Now what bride wouldn’t want to take advantage of that? Click here for more information! Exclusions apply.

It’s officially bridal show season! TGK participates in quite a few wonderful shows in our area, and we are especially excited about this week’s Wedding Secrets event at the gorgeous Brier Creek Country Club here in Raleigh.

The organizers have tapped into a great concept of having the participating vendors do more than just promote their services. They are putting on a full-fledged seminar where brides will get the real inside skinny on the “secrets” for successfully working with wedding vendors – such as getting the most out of every penny in your wedding budget!

Click here to register and come to Brier Creek Country Club this Thursday, February 18, 2010!

Q: I love your Photo Save the Dates and plan on ordering my own soon! Can you give me any tips that will help me submit a good quality photo?

A: Photo save-the-dates have become one of the leading trends in wedding stationery. The key is ensuring that the photo file you use is capable of producing the best possible printed image quality.

The secret is in the photo’s dpi, or “dots-per-inch” measurement, also known as the “resolution.”Dots-per-inch refers to the number of pixels (or tiny little dots) that are used to make up your picture. The more dots used, the clearer the picture when printed. Determining your photo’s dpi is fairly straightforward:

• Right click on the photo to view the photo’s “properties” and identify the photo’s dimensions (such as 1200×1800).

• Divide the digital dimensions by what you need the photo’s physical dimensions to be when printed (such as 4×6 or 5×7). The resulting figure is the dpi.

• For example, if your photo’s digital dimensions are 1200×1800 and its physical size is 4×6, divide 1200 by 4 and 1800 by 6 to equal 300 dpi.

If you’re using an image provided to you by your photographer, or even taken with most standard quality digital cameras, chances are the dpi will be at least 300. However, be sure to ask your photographer for a file of the original image. If you attempt to copy a photo from a preview or slideshow, you will probably end up with a low dpi image that was generated specifically for computer viewing. (Working directly with your photographer will also ensure that you have full permission to reproduce and use the photo!)

And if you’re using a photo taken by a friend on a personal digital camera, remember that cropping and zooming in on the image can affect the photo’s dpi. So capture that original image as closely as possible to the size and positioning of the final look you want.

Of course, if you’re working with us here at The Green Kangaroo, our team is always available to walk you through questions on photo files to help you be confident in your finished product!