Our Invitations Arrived!

...but you can't see them.
Dave doesn't want to show them off until they're mailed.
Fair enough.
I'm so excited!
They came out absolutely wonderful!

Busy, busy weekend!

We got a lot of wedding things done this past weekend. Yay! I have, of course, mentioned a lot of them already because I get so excited when I do something wedding that I have to share it!

Recap List:

♥Ordered Wedding Cake Toppers (post below)
♥DIY - Table Number Frames (post below)
♥Booked Caterer
♥Ordered Invitations


The catering was quite a journey to arrange but in the end we're using a local restaurant that my friend Heather manages, The Sunset Grill. I spent a few nights hanging around the restaurant last summer, catching up with Heather, after having spent many years away from home. I also met Tim, the owner, a few times; he's such a well traveled, funny guy that I'm glad to be working with them for our catering. (Thanks again to the Schwartzes for offering to cater for our wedding in the first place as none of this would be possible without their generosity.)

We also ordered our invitations! Very excited about this! We ordered an Invitation, a Reception card and an RSVP postcard. Dave custom designed all three and they're being printed at vistaprint.com (they printed our Save The Date cards, too). I also ordered brown kraft envelopes from a different site. I plan to zigzag stitch a piece of vellum paper over the invitation - to dress it up a bit - but if that doesn't work out we may shell out the extra cash to buy vellum envelopes to put them in.

I had no idea how many details went into weddings, and how everything sort of has a purpose. For instance, the invitation does get sent in an envelope with all of the other little cards (which could include maps, directions and what-not, but we've chosen to put all that on the wedsite) but I didn't know it is supposed to have it's own separate inner envelope, that is typically addressed to the guests by first name. If we do end up getting the vellum envelopes for the invitations "inner envelope" I don't think I am going to write any names on them. In my mind, the reason for using the vellum envelope is to showcase the invitation in a way that you get a peek through the vellum, but it's still separate and special. I've definitely spent way too long thinking about invitations. Here they are (in .jpg form anyway); I can't wait for them to arrive in "up to 21 days"!

Invitations!

David spent hours last night creating the invitations of our dreams! I gave him a bunch of ideas I had and he manipulated them all into gorgeous invitations, reception cards and rsvp cards. They are more amazing than I could have ever imagined! I've decided for the mailing to put the invitation into it's own vellum envelope then include everything into one larger brown kraft paper envelope for the post office to whisk off to our favorite people!

Here are the images of the invitations:

I am in love....

with FAUX BOIS!


Yeah, yeah... I'm in love with David, too. That's a given. But this morning I have discovered the wonderful world of faux bois! I'm starting to put some more thought into the invites and such... and because our theme seems to be so heavily natural and rustic (plus our STDs have trees on them) I'm trying to figure out how to design our invitations... make them a little classier than our STDs, but still keep the natural elements. Google image searching like a maniac this morning I found this invitation:



...and I absolutely adore the back of it! I hadn't really considered putting anything on the back of the invitations, but I love this idea and think I am going to roll with it. So for now, brainstorming the invites to be a large postcard size with a tree on the left side (off the page, too) growing up and over the top of the invitation - with the wording on the right side, then the faux bois image on the back. There is so much brown in all of this, and I like that, but I also want to add some of the lavender to it all... so I'm thinking if our names are larger and in lavender, that would add enough to it.

As always... if you have any ideas, feel free to give us a shout!

Saving the Date...

I found a couple of ideas online that I liked for STD postcards and Dave tweaked them to our liking. This is the one (front and back) that I ordered and below are the two that I borrowed ideas from. We changed some things like removing the border, changing the birds and the wording on the back.



OURS








Inspiration.