Mighty Nice Mentioned In The New York Times For Wedding Invitation QR Codes


mightyvites in new york timesA few weeks ago a reporter for the New York Times contacted us about QR codes on wedding invitations. She was doing a story on the phenomenon and wanted to discuss how we use the QR on Mightyvites and why. I spent a few minutes on the phone with her one day, and she spoke with one of our customers. Then we didn’t hear anything about it until early Monday morning when we got an inquiry saying “I read about you in the New York Times! Can you do a QR for my wedding invitations?” We were pretty excited. Turns out the story ran last Friday in the style section of both the web and print edition of the Times. Sure, we got nothing more than a half sentence, and they linked to the wrong website, but it helps! We’ll take all the press we can get :-)

Thanks NYT!

I Am A Married Man


tina han chris stump wedding dayAnyone who has actually been reading this blog series would know that Tina & I were married 4 months ago. We had an awesome wedding on a sunny, crisp Chicago fall day. The ceremony and reception went smoothly and there was zero drama. We had an absolute blast, and our guests seemed to as well. It was unforgettable, and I can honestly say all the planning and spending was worth it (OK, I still have a hard time justifying the cost!). Since our wedding day we’ve honeymooned, settled into our first home, and dealt with all the wedding aftermath. Good times–but never again. Right now I balk at the idea of us doing anything that big for ourselves in the future.

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Calla Again For Dayton, Ohio Wedding Reception


I’ve blogged about my friend Leslie before. Her Sicilian destination wedding was the original inspiration behind the Calla invitation design. For that intimate affair Leslie went with 1 color letterpress prints in steel on cream paper. Superbly elegant, those invites looked great. So great in fact that Leslie decided to use the same design in the same color on the same paper — this time digitally printed — for the state-side wedding reception she threw in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio.

calla wedding invitation

Digitally printed calla wedding invitation in color steel on cream paper

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A Nginx Maintenance Configuration That Works


nginx maintenanceWe use the lightening fast Nginx web server to handle our mightyvites.com requests. Like most sites we need to go offline once in awhile to deploy new code, address server issues, etc. When we take the main site down we start a single-page website that gives the obligatory “down for maintenance” message. Recently I updated the configuration file for this maintenance site so that it worked properly. By properly I mean all incoming requests get the maintenance page and are returned a HTTP 503 “Service Unavailable.”

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Ginkgo Wedding Invitations From Los Angeles, California


We had another California couple choose Mightyvites for their wedding invitations this summer. Anke and Larry of Los Angeles went with the ever popular ginkgo invitation design. I guess they liked what they saw in the gallery because they stuck with the same colors that we have on display there, champagne and citrine. The invitations were digitally printed on pearl paper and, as usual, came out looking fabulous.

ginkgo wedding invitation

Ginkgo wedding invitation design printed digitally on pearl paper.

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