Wedding Blog

Thanks for the comments on the STDs, girls. As it turns out, we may not need save-the-dates at all. The Rockhouse will hold their rooms open for our guests until the end of January before opening them up to public reservation. This means we can send out the invitations in late November or early December to give our guests a chance to book their rooms.

Derek and I love these invites from passionpaper!

They also happen to combine my two favorite colors, orange and aqua/ turquoise!

We’re creating DIY invites similar to the passionpaper design, with some changes:
- Sheer orange ribbon instead of a thin solid one
- Starfish as well as shells
- Regular fold instead of petal fold
- Different shape (6′ X 6′)

Vendors for Supplies:
- Handmade textured mulberry paper from handmade-paper

- Ribbon, boxes, and large padded envelopes from papermart

- Seashells and starfish from orientaltrading.com

Inner invitation card:
- Personalized w/ a map of Jamaica or a picture of us
- To be designed my artistically inclined sister Annie (she drew the picture that’s my profile icon)
- Printed on cardstock at local printer
- No RSVP card, no extra info card. We’re going to set up a website with all the details and refer the link on the bottom of the invite

Inner invitation ideas:
- Colorful (from passionpaper)

- Black and white (from favorwarehouse)

- Emphasized words (from oblationpapers)

- Fading colors (forgot the vendor source, sorry!)

The funniest thing is that Derek actually got all excited when he found out that we’re making the invitations ourselves. He felt giddy about our wedding DIY project! Haha.