Wedding Cake Giveaway!

Fluffy Thoughts Cakes, a McLean, Virginia based specialty bakery, is offering a free wedding cake to a member of our armed forces serving in the Washington, DC metro area.  They will be accepting entries for the free wedding cake beginning now through November 1st, so don't delay!  Quite appropriately, the recipient will be selected on Veteran's Day (November 11th, 2009).

To qualify, the bride or groom must be an active member of the military and must be getting married in the Washington, DC metro area sometime in 2010.  To enter, qualified applicants should send an email to Fluffy Thoughts Cakes at lara8@aol.com.  Don't forget to include your Name, Phone Number, Wedding Date and Location, a Photo of the happy couple and a Note about why you should win a free wedding cake!

Project of the Week - Lisa's Day-Of Paperie

If you remember loving Lisa and Jay's wedding invitations, featured on the blog just a few months back, then you'll be pleased to see how her coordinated day-of paperie added beautiful touches to her special day.

Proofread Please!

It's way too impressed upon our clients to proofread for anything like this to ever happen!

Creative Wedding Paperie

Here's a sneak peek of some of the pictures that Nickel City Studios took of some wedding paperie we did a couple of weeks ago.  Can you guess the theme?  We'll share more pictures of the reception stationery once the bride gets all of the images.

NBC's Font Battle

Boston-based type foundry Font Bureau is suing NBC, asking for "no less than $2 million" in damages following an alleged infringement of typeface license agreements. Font Bureau claims that NBC purchased a single-user license allowing FB fonts like Bureau Grotesque, Antenna, and Interstate to be used on one computer only, and then illegally transferred font files to other computers in order to produce marketing materials for shows like Saturday Night Live and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. That last one hurts a little bit, because we actually think Jimmy Fallon's branding was well-done - a welcome break from NBC's usually heavy-handed use of fonts. Seriously, can they quit it yet with the drop shadows?

Nonetheless, this stands to be the largest battle waged in the name of fonts... ever. Interestingly, NBC will probably be forced to settle: if they contest the suit, a court may order a suspension of use of the fonts until the case has been ruled upon, thereby forcing NBC to immediately redo all of their marketing materials.

More information can be found at Cityfile, which broke the story.