Wedding Blog

I mean my invitations! My gosh, this was certainly a labor of love for the past four months, but I am SO glad that they are now on their way to mailboxes around the country. In fact, some people should be receiving theirs today! YAY!

This past Sunday, Mr. E and I spent literally the entire afternoon stamping, sealing, organizing and checking off all our invitations. You may remember my previous dilemma about my calligraphy and the potential for smearing. Thanks to our trusty Weddingbee readers, we were offered the perfect solution! Enter clearbags.com! They were inexpensive (I spent about $25 for 200 of them) and they look AWESOME! I would totally love to receive an invitation that was enveloped in clear packaging!! It also prevented me from having to seal all the inner envelopes, which was CRUCIAL because halfway through sealing the invites in the plastic packing, I realized that we forgot to put stamps on the RSVP envelopes. Err, not good. Luckily, the clear bags were easy to unseal and re-use (especially cuz we already put stamps on them and would have had to waste $40 in postage if we were not able to re-use them!!)

Here are some pics for your viewing pleasure…

I designed these glossy business card-sized pieces with our wedding website address on one side and an engagement pic on the other side, and had it printed at Overnight Prints. OP also printed our invites, so everything matched and looked fabuloso!! (sorry for the blurry pics)

Here is Mr. E, hard at work!

RSVP envelope

All the pieces tucked into the vellum enclosure

Each invitation was personalized with the invitee’s name

Here is the tiny one inch sticker I printed out with our monogram (they don’t stick very well cuz of the shiny finish on the envelopes, but that was fine)

Final product, with the address in calligraphy (done by myself!), sealed in plastic, stamped, and ready to go!!

And lastly, on a totally random note… here is a pic of our adorable 1 year old flower girl at a July 4th BBQ yesterday!! Notice the crumbs on her cheek… this little one eats anything and everything!