Hello, Baby
Vendor guide · June & Elliot
If you are reading only one part
- Florist / plants
- The palette below, and one rule: nothing pastel. This is a baby
shower that deliberately does not look like one — persimmon and pool blue, not pink and mint. If
you are bringing green, bring desert planting to match the courtyard, not cut arrangements.
- Venue stylist
- The palette, and the arch note under Day-of notes. The courtyard's
own striped awnings are the reference for the whole suite — please work with them rather
than covering them. Do not add bunting, balloon arches or anything that competes with the canopy.
- Photographer
- The stationery list is the shot list. Worth a detail frame: the welcome sign
against the office wall before anyone arrives, the die-cut crown on the invitation held against the
real awning, and the painted edge of the board — it only reads in raking light.
- Planner / caterer
- Everything, plus: lunch at half past two, buffet along the
awning side, nothing plated. The menu card is written to read as a diner board — plain names, no
adjectives. “Mexican Coke, in the bottle” stays exactly as written.
The event
- Date
- Saturday, 19 September 2026
- Arrival
- Two o'clock · lunch at half past
- Venue
- The Sunfish Motor Lodge
1958 East Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, California
- Venue character
- A 1958 courtyard motor lodge, restored rather than modernised — twelve
rooms in an L around a kidney-shaped pool, breeze-block screens, a folded-plate canopy over the
office, and the original striped canvas awnings above every door in faded persimmon and cream.
- Guests
- 42
- Dress
- Come as you would to a pool party
- Replies by
- 29 August 2026
- Her name
- June. Not Juniper — that is the name on documents and nobody has used it
since school. It appears nowhere on anything.
The visual identity at a glance
Typefaces: Yellowtail (the greeting only) and Hanken Grotesk (everything else).
The proportions matter more than the colours do. Persimmon is the field and it floods the whole
piece; cream is only ever what is cut out of it, never a colour laid on top. The blue is every
word. The pale blue appears once per piece, as an edge or a plinth, never as a second field.
Match to the printed piece, not to these squares. These are screen values — how the colour is
specified, not how it will look in a courtyard at two in the afternoon. The stationery is
screen-printed, so its persimmon is laid down thick and flat and reads considerably denser
than a fabric or a paint mixed to the same number. Ask for a printed piece before ordering linen,
cushions or signage.
Stationery arriving
| Piece | Trim | Quantity |
|---|
| Invitation | 5 × 7″, die-cut crown | one per household |
| Envelope liner | to envelope size | as invitations |
| Reply card | 4.25 × 5.5″ | one per household |
| Welcome signage | 24 × 36″ | 1 |
| Menu card | 4 × 9″ | 47 |
| Place cards | 2 × 3.5″ folded | 47 |
| Table numbers | 5 × 7″ | one per table |
| Favour tags | 2 × 3.5″ | 47 |
| Thank you card | 4.25 × 5.5″ | one per household |
| Announcement card | 5 × 7″ | one per household |
Counts are 42 guests plus a proofing
margin. “One per household” is the envelope count, not the guest count. The table count is not fixed
yet — confirm it with the studio before that piece goes to print.
Day-of notes
- The arch
- There is no logo. The mark is an arch — the shape of the shade under an
awning — knocked out of a flooded persimmon ground, with everything readable held inside it. It is
structural, not applied: you do not put the arch onto a piece, you cut the piece out of the arch.
Nothing is ever printed on the open persimmon field. If you are producing anything additional,
that is the one rule to keep.
- The stripe
- Appears once per piece, as a plinth or an edge. Never as a repeating pattern
and never as wallpaper — the courtyard already has the real stripes and they win.
- Welcome signage
- Propped against the office wall by the front desk, and it has to read at
ten feet — that is the first thing anyone sees. Leave the sightline from the parking spaces
clear, and prop it rather than mounting it high; the lodge is single-storey and a tall easel fights
the folded-plate canopy.
- Lunch
- Half past two, buffet along the awning side, nothing plated. The menu reads like a
diner board on purpose — plain names, no adjectives that were not said. Keep “Mexican Coke, in
the bottle” exactly as written.
- Material
- Flat screen-printed spot colour on rigid duplexed board, painted edge, die-cut
crown. The density of screen print is the whole effect — nothing here is laminated or textured, and
a supplier offering to run it digitally is offering a different object.
Questions about anything on this sheet
Ask the studio directly rather than working around a detail —
hello@evorrah.com. Artwork, vector files and colour references
for anything listed here can be sent to a supplier on request.