Shindig Bespoke
Jill Ryder keeps her client list small — she takes on 12 to 15 clients a year — but her design work is big and bold, incorporating different textures, shapes, and objects to create eye-catching save-the-dates, invitations, menus, and all the other printed details of your day. Her favorite material to work with other than, well, paper? Wood veneer. “It’s so versatile,” says Ryder, who started the biz back in 2004. “Paint it, stain it, engrave it, or leave the beautiful grains alone.” That’s a lot of restraint for someone who can turn a tennis ball into an escort card and who loves a destination wedding — so she can research the location and pack the colors and customs of that place into an envelope. As for her Philly weddings? “They feel like a homecoming.” Read More »
