Please read below for a little snapshot about Elum the manufacturer of our UMI line of invitations:

“Umi is our solution for creating affordable letterpress wedding invitations that do not compromise on great design or quality materials. Umi uses 100% cotton print-making paper and bamboo paper in standard and double-thick weights, as well as other eco-friendly paper options. And just like Elum, Umi prints all letterpress items using soy-based inks. How can we offer cheaper pricing? Umi offers package-priced ensembles that allow you to purchase a predetermined combination of items that maximize the space and time on press. So, the more items you buy, the better deal you’re going to get!

But if you are simply not budging your budget for letterpress, Umi can still work for you because Umi offers a flat printing option on the exact same designs at a fraction of the price! And what’s even more fabulous is that it is flat printed on the very same 100% cotton print-making paper used for letterpress. These highly affordable flat printed packages are the perfect solution for those who love amazing invitation design, but simply cannot afford to pay for the letterpress process.

Umi has also teamed up with Envelopments, Inc. to offer a wonderful selection of envelopes, liners and enclosures that can all be incorporated to create a truly custom package. And what’s even more impressive is that Umi offers custom letterpress printing directly onto the Envelopments® enclosures!

But, we still think the most exciting thing about Umi is that you get the trendsetting (and eh-hem, award winning) design and high quality fabrication by Elum. How divine.”

To view the Umi album online please visit their Wedding Invitation website.

Perfect for those fall weddings coming up soon.

This color scheme is Gold, Chocolate, and Burgundy.

Working with a bride on the same design, but changing up the colors to Flame, Scarlet, and Cream.

So pretty!  I love it!

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Carrie and I are so unbelievably fortunate as to work with wonderfully talented event professionals throughout the Vermont and New England wedding industry.  We are very pleased to welcome one of our newest members to the Vermont Wedding Parlor Family. Vermont Sweet Tooth, located in Stowe Vermont creates wedding cakes, cupcakes, and or course delectable cookies and desserts.

Marion Peer after an extensive career in design, leveraged her dynamic experience and her passion for baking into Vermont Sweet Tooth Company. With an extremely wide variety of cakes and styles, Marion can easily deliver that absolutely perfect Vermont wedding cake for you and your special affair. The wonderfully skillful hand made flower work that is exemplified on most of her wedding cakes is one of a kind artistry that is rarely seen in a rural state like Vermont.  Marion’s wedding cakes as you will see from the artistry below also have a wonderful sense of humor! Please enjoy our Q & A with Marion.  To learn more about Vermont Sweet Tooth please visit Marion’s website HERE. Congratulations also goes out to Vermont Sweet Tooth as Marion was recently awarded brides choice award on Wedding Wire for 2012.

Where are you from? Tell us a little about yourself.

I grew up on a horse farm in Upstate New York and dreamed of becoming a fashion designer from the age of six.  After graduating from Parsons School of Design and New York University, I started my own women’s couture fashion business on 7^th Avenue.   But every press interview with fashion editors tended to touch on my love of baking… whether I was on the road at a Saks Fifth Avenue, at a Neiman Marcus trunk show or on the runway as Designer of the Year at the Dallas Mart.  Often my recipes were published in the articles about my high-fashion clothes!

How did you initially get involved with weddings?

Wedding cakes became a natural extension of my couture baking business.  Prospective brides tasted my desserts in local restaurants and tracked me down.  The wedding part of my business became word of mouth, Vermont Vows magazine published a photo of my hand-sculpted peonies and the rest is history.

What inspires you about working in Vermont?

Vermont’s natural beauty and wholesomeness inspire me daily to use only the freshest and highest quality ingredients in my confections.  (I have been known to personally introduce brides to my free-range pet chickens who often provide the uber-healthy eggs for their cakes!)

 What is your favorite part of the wedding day?

My absolute favorite part of the wedding day is hearing about (or in some cases, seeing) the reaction of the bride and groom as they view and taste their special cake created just for them!

 How long have you been in the wedding industry?

Family and friends often urged me to start a baking business. Five years ago Jason Pacioni, owner of Black Diamond Catering, literally grabbed me by the hand and, with some of my desserts in tow, made me bring my creations to local restaurants.  Vermont Sweet Tooth was born and my wedding cake business blossomed a year later.

 What are you passionate about? What motivates you?

I LOVE to design, create and bake specialty desserts of all kinds.  I waltz to work everyday…right into my Vermont kitchen overlooking Mt Mansfield and DaVinci, my swan, swimming on the ponds at our Birdsong Farm.   I love to meet with brides (and grooms) to hear the stories of how they met their partner, what their passions are, what their life together looks like.  The stories  and fun anecdotes I hear inspire me to create the wedding cakes of their dreams.  As an artist, I am passionate about creating the most beautiful and exciting cake possible.  AND most importantly, it has to taste just as great as it looks!  The wedding cake is the last presentation of the couple’s special day and I want it to be a spectacular and lasting memory for the bride, the groom and their guests.

What sets you apart from other professionals in your industry? What makes your work unique?

I think it is my background in fashion and art…clothes should be spectacular both on the hanger and on the owner just like wedding cakes should be dazzling to look at and exceptionally good to eat.  I also love a challenge. The more unique or unusual the cake request, the better.  I can spend days hand-sculpting sugar paste into delicate real-life looking flowers or personality-plus pets or even sports memorabilia to adorn my Vermont Sweet Tooth cakes.  Whatever the special interests of the bride and groom I am eager to create a unique, elegant and/or whimsical cake.

I am so grateful to all the brides who have given me the opportunity to create my one-of-a-kind artistic and super-moist cakes.

To learn more about Marion’s Wonderful Vermont Wedding Cakes please visit her website HERE.

From Alex and Adam:
We decided to elope in Stowe one night when we realized that having the day to ourselves to remember and cherish was the obvious and best thing for us to do. We chose Stowe because we wanted to stay in New England to get married in the fall (seemed like it would be romantic and cozy). Stowe and specifically the Stone Hill Inn popped up when I searched best places to elope in New England. We had only been to Vermont once before and never to Stowe, but we had a really good feeling about it.

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Where are you from? Tell us a little about yourself…..

I’m originally from Michigan.   My family lives in the Land of General Motors, a cement playground.  I graduated Johnson and Wales with a Baking and Pastry Associates and a Foodservice Management Bachelors in Charleston, Sc.  I must have caught the traveling bug because instead of stogging under Premier Pastry Chefs and grinding it out in San Francisco, I chose to head out to Montana to pursue my own career in Pastry and find myself.  I met my husband along the way from Utah-Seattle-Maui-Stowe Vermont.  We now reside in Hyde Park and have two beautiful children.

How did you initially get involved with weddings?

I’ve always been fascinated with wedding cake.  Always the first thing I personally checked out at weddings of friends and families.  Early on, cake decorating was by far my favorite class.  I Love the detail and precision that pastry art can accomplish.  And you end up with something tangible and decadent in the end.   Plus, there is something to be said for having such a huge part in one of the most memorable, rite of passage days in a person’s life.

What inspires you about working in Vermont?

The way Vermont hugs you, the feeling that it brings from its farm fresh ingredients grown and produced by hardworking people to the air and attitude of peace, respect, and trustworthiness in its town locals.  It’s very special here.  I’ve been told many times that my work and cakes compare that found in the city, Montreal or New York.  Maybe… but, I wouldn’t be able to keep the feeling.  I couldn’t have the connection with my new and old clients or all the repeat business like, doing the manager of the Green Mountain Inn’s children’s Birthday cakes for six years and running.  I think I would lose the ability to touch and create every cake personally.

What is your favorite part of the wedding day?

As far as my business is concerned, I’m only there for the set-up.  But, it’s a neat time.  It’s quiet and it’s elaborate.  When I bring the cake in everyone is hustling to complete the look and feel of the wedding and I am “the icing on the cake.”

How long have you been in the wedding industry?

Well, I started doing cakes in Maui at the Fairmont Kea Lani and that was 11 yrs. ago.  I developed the standard for their wedding cake portfolio and started to come into my own feel and passion for cakes.  I’ll never forget a Wedgwood China cake I made.  It really resonated with me.  It was so detailed and took forever to pipe.  I loved everything about it.  I must have taken 2 dozen pictures of it.  But, I started to learn the importance of icing a cake and starting with a clean palette before beginning the design from Misha, my adopted Yugoslavian grandmother where I spent a summer icing cakes in her bakery when I was 18.  They all spoke yugo all day so I listened to the grateful Dead on my headphones and iced cake for 10 hrs. A day.

What are you passionate about? What motivates you?

The art.  The connection.  I love creating the cake~ from simple to detailed designs.  My favorite is when couples bring lots of ideas to the tasting.  I always look over the pictures then turn to them and say,” tell me what you like about these.” and we develop together a unique style and design that showcases them as a couple.

What sets you apart from other professionals in your industry? What makes your work unique?

Oh, I don’t know.  I think all of us (bakers) really care about using the best ingredients and as much local as possible.  I think we are all artists.

I guess the only thing that might set me apart from others is just me being me.  You can ask 10 different bakers to create the same cake and we will all do it differently.  So, I do it how I do it.  I have my touch and my eye and I guess if you see my work and taste my cake and it warms something inside of you then we should work together.

Jack in the Box Creations has made our own version of Bella & Edward’s wedding invitation.   Take a peek see!

Also included in these pictures are the Twilight Invitations in a merlot and sapphire color scheme to match another bride’s day.

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We can take this basic idea and make it your own:  Your colors, folder style, etc.

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