The Green Kangaroo - Unique Wedding Invitations and Stationery

We’ve added new ways that you can stalk… er… follow what we’re up to over here at The Green Kangaroo: we’re now on FriendFeed and Twitter.

We’ve added links to all of our social sites to the Follow Us block on the right hand side of our blog. Enjoy!

Someone recently mentioned to me that our website would be “really awesome” if a bride could type in the content of her wedding invitation and see her proof automatically. I of course agreed that this would indeed be “awesome”, and then took the opportunity to explain why we do not have this feature on our website. Simply put – sometimes software and technology just can’t do the job of a graphic design professional.

You see, we don’t restrict our customers to conform to a maximum number of lines or characters on their wedding invitation. With every order we receive, a graphic designer here at The Green Kangaroo takes a bride’s wording and molds it together with the graphics to create the most balanced wedding invitation possible. Conversely, the graphics are often molded/altered to fit the wording, or a specific request from the customer! We take great pride in creating each wedding invitation and are just as excited as the bride when her proof is ready for viewing (and even more excited when we see it fresh off the press)! Read a recent bride’s comments about our design process:

They took my ideas and suggestions and added their expertise and experience to create the absolute perfect wedding for my event! When I received my invitations, they were even better than I had imagined. Many of my guests commented on my invitations saying they were the prettiest they had ever seen before! If you want high quality invitations in a timely manner, from a creative and innovative design team – TGK is the only way to go! –B. Wardlow

On the flip side . . . though the technology that enables automatic previews isn’t sophisticated enough to take the place of a TGK designer, allowing brides to use this technology to visualize size, colors, etc. is a great idea, and something we are considering adding to the site in the near future – what do you think? Vote in our comments section!

Flickr, like a lot of the so-called “Web 2.0” technologies, offers new and unique opportunities for companies and businesses to interact with their customers in ways not available before. The Green Kangaroo is a small, personal company. We pride ourselves on our personalized processes that result in truly unique wedding invitations for each and every one of our customers. So, for us, it makes sense to try to reach out on a more personal level to interact with our clients (and potential clients) in the new social media and social networking outlets.

So, we’ve started posting photos to our Flickr photostream. Don’t expect too many product photos – we don’t want to spam the system. Plus, you can always find product photos on our website. But we will be adding photos of things we’re up to so you can get to know us better. For example, check out our photos from the 2008 National Stationery Show, which we attended March 19th and 20th.

Are any of you on Flickr? Add us as a friend and we’ll be sure to return the favor! We’d be really excited to see your photos from the weddings for which we did invitations. Or maybe some photos that include some of our products “in action”, like a pile of our wedding programs next to the guest book, or our place cards or menus on one of your reception tables… :)