Sugar River Stationers

12/21/2024

It’s been a hot moment between posts.

This year has been an exceptionally busy one. For many years, we have worked under the radar on “word of mouth” projects in the corporate world.

To kick off 2023, this was one of our smaller projects which included wall graphics and installation for Truity Partners’ brand new, and much larger, office in Madison.

Wall mounts, stand off graphics and specialty coated vinyls were used to provide bare walls with a bit less all there gray.

10/19/2024

Way beyond thrilled to be a part of their journey as Event Essentials celebrates 70 Years in business inside the walls of their brand new digs!

Thank you for inviting our team to dovetail impactful work with a wish to carry you well into your future!

02/06/2019

Today's first phone call was from Lila (and Allen). We initially did their wedding invites, and last helped them in 2015 with creating "boat cards" which are essentially calling cards for marine enthusiasts and boaters.

I always think of them has having the best honeymoon vacation ever. Sounds like they are still travelling.

In 2015, they had a plan to navigate the "Great Loop" which is essentially travel by boat, nearly 6,000 miles, using lakes, rivers, canals, and the ocean, and they did it. To top it off, they have since boated the perimeter of the Great Lakes and most recently decided to take a trip from Maine to Florida to winter it out. Incredible story. Now, we've been asked to create a retirement party invite for Allen. How cool is that!

01/16/2019

A super fun project from 2018 for a wedding at The Fields Reserve, a Wisconsin barn venue just outside of Madison.

Playing on the couple's palette of shades of blue and gold, we designed a suite that followed a folk Americana thread, one of using quilt square signage found on barns throughout the Midwest and paring it with a woodblock floral design to soften it up. This design one is one of my favorites.

What a great couple to work with! We were given the opportunity to create some projects outside of their invitation suite, and while the images may be impromptu, the outcome was just as we hoped. Some of these projects served as a test run for larger, more complex ones we were working on, enabling our production team to work on a smaller scale piece to work the bugs out before going big time.

We appreciate this opportunity so much!

01/09/2019

Sharing an image of one of our stationery pieces featuring calligraphy from The Blooming Quill.

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01/07/2019

Need to jazz up a blank space? Work with Event Essentials! Special thanks to Event Designer, Korrine, for looping us in this December event at Madison's Alliant Center.

Our installation included 12 full color, projected LED, acrylic pieces (as big as we could get them and we went with an icy blue light selection), that would help identify several food station spaces in the expo hall. Each piece was just a little bit unique in it's cut.

Working with this size of acrylic is a bit nerve wracking due to it's weight and fragility, but all worked out on our first go at it. I can't wait for the next project like this. Already doing a few smaller comps.

Special thanks to Tim Fitch for the captures.

12/20/2018

Sharing some great captures from our featured editorial with the 2019 issue of Wedding Planner and Guide hitting the shelves this week.

- special thanks to Wedding Flashers for the close up captures!

12/06/2018

❤️ this color. Hoping it helps us move away from the overdone blush.

https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-of-the-year/color-of-the-year-2019

We are excited to announce the PANTONE Color of the Year 2019, Living Coral (PANTONE 16-1546)! Shop your favorite products, now in Living Coral, on Pantone!

11/14/2018

One of our special invitation projects this summer included this WOW project. We should have final images coming in soon, but here's a glitzy, impromptu sneak peek.Oodles of details in a sleek, modern design.

It starts with a metallic gray custom mailer - 6 x 9 x 3, lined with foam insert. The mailer is so thick you can stand on it without it crushing - essential to protect the delicate piece inside. What's also super about this product is that we could match it identically to the stocks we were using for the invitation!

Add in this insanely different, custom cut, clear acrylic box, printed with two designs, both requiring FIVE press passes to get the color just right. On top of a blush pink lid, is a one-of-a-kind, hand-selected, clear quartz crystal as a handle! Inside, we layered our 2" depth with custom rose petals over a marble pattern printed on the bottom of the acrylic box.

The invitation features letterpress, rose gold foil, edge painting, super thick stock, over a marble texture with foiled inlay and monogram. Load in more rose gold foil on metallic gray stock and package with a custom wax monogram seal and double-sided satin ribbon and we have a finished invitation.

I think that's something you'll never forget getting in the mail!

Special thanks to Jayme Galanos @ The Darling Wedding Co, for looping us in on this awesome, challenging, and exceptionally collaborative project for our team! More images to come.

10/09/2018

Sharing a blog post from Melissa Grace Photography and one of our summer weddings at The Fields Reserve. Congrats Brittany and Lucas! http://melissagracegallery.com/lucas-and-brittany-are-married-at-the-fields-reserve-madison-wisconsin-photographer/

Lucas and Brittany are Married at The Fields Reserve. 08.03.2018 Lucas and Brittany got married on Aug 3rd, 2018 at The Fields Reserve in Stoughton, WI. Their wedding was a picture perfect summer day filled with love and laughter. I love the way Brittany crinkles her nose when she smiles at Lucas. I...

09/18/2018

When things are quiet on the posting front, know that it is usually due to a full, front-burner, head-to-the-grindstone, commitment to doing the best we can on the projects we are undertaking.

This project is no exception. Sometime late last year, we took this project on with the understanding that it would push and pull my team on many creative fronts, from design to manufacturing an invitation that is unlike any you have ever or may ever see (photos coming), to complementary projects that fit our capability, but were a bit more out of the box when compared to the normal requests we get. (Think printed fabric, custom boxes, white quartz, and LOTS of acrylic.)

This project consumed our timeline from January to last weekend. It pushed our limits well beyond our comfort zone, making me stay up in the middle of some nights thinking if the planning was solid. We covered everything. Project meetings, planning, testing, rework, test, final, it was all there. We pushed a $350k printer to the edge of its capability to create the right spot of color on a sixth ink coverage pass. We brought in material from all parts of the US and worked with long-time team members to new vendors that we've just begun relationships with. We templated and prototyped almost every item produced. Yes, it was that detailed down to the minute measurement.

Sitting last Friday, with the sole person who brought us into the mix, and a few of our collaborators, we were able to see the Bride-to-Be and her family the night before all this came to fruition. It was one of those feel good moments, that I sincerely appreciate, and made all the late nights scouring files headed to that machine, even more worthwhile.

Collaboration projects are just a lot of fun. It’s almost like a melting pot of ideas that spew out from different view points, that concentrate and formulate something unique, new, and different. I felt like each of us played a part in the entire formulation, with one person making sure that vision translated - Jayme.

A BIG THANK YOU to Jayme Galanos and The Darling Wedding Company for including us in this mix. I’m sure she worked as hard as she ever has to translate a vision into reality and she really made it a breeze in working with her and this team.

Here is a quick capture, and I’m sure there will be more coming forward soon from the ever talented, Lexia Frank Photography, of our special “TT” project for 2018!. It’s not often projects come along like this, but when they do, they give you nothing but good vibes, a lot of memories, and a truckload of experience.

Congrats and thank you TT. XOXO

08/02/2018

Fun project going out today!

08/01/2018

When your downstairs entertainment area becomes assembly central for “TT”, there might not be enough space.

07/21/2018

Picked up some pretty today. Gold glitter acrylic place “names”.

07/10/2018

Sharing this absolutely stunning wedding with florals crafted by our friends at Garden Laurels by Sager. I knew about this one months in the making and did it ever come to the plate! Creativity, style and a whole lot of UNIQUENESS gives this one a WOWSA from us. No doubt the couple, their family and guests will remember as much as I will. Bold, colorful and do I ever LOVE!!! You knocked this one out of the park!

07/10/2018

Not exactly there yet, but getting close!l

07/09/2018

Very bad impromptu shot. Part of an editorial project that is currently featured in the most recent issue of Wisconsin Bride Magazine. This one included acrylic box and custom mailer - a prototype for a current project that is in production now.

07/09/2018