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In planning my wedding, the top two things that made me suicidal were: the invitations (Exhibits 1 2 3 4 5) and our honeymoon (Exhibits 1 2 3 4). Our honeymoon was amazing which made all the research worthwhile but our invitations well, the thought that some ended up in the rubbish bin pains me! In the end, was it worth it? For me, in all honesty, well - no. The process of (semi) DIY invitations from conception to fruition required more creativity, patience, diligence and energy than I posess on a normal basis, much less while juggling the 1000000 other wedding planning balls in the air at the time. For the next invitation requiring soiree I plan, will I go the DIY route again? Haha, you betcha. Aren’t we all just gluttons for punishment like that; nothing beats a spanking by paper and glue man.
Our main envelopes were metallic brown and our RVSP envelopes were pink (remember our superhero stamps?)
Some guests received an additional Chinese insert which my dad typed.
The Chinese insert was the same size as the main invitation insert.
The gizzards. They’re not too fancy but each piece was like a child I birthed sans meds.
I have all my Adobe Illustrator files still, including the Chinese insert and Chinese font, so email me if you want the goods.
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I love your fonts! Please send me the files~ Thanks! leesuh1@gmail.com
We’re doing DIY invites also - everything including printing with the Gocco to making hundreds of flowers to glue on the invites. So the idea that some will inevitably be thrown away makes me a little sad. Great job and love the shoes!
I would love a copy of the files! I’m doing similar invites and have anxieties about getting them done in time since I haven’t even started! I’m waiting on my packages to arrive in the mail.
I’m not too bright and haven’t figured out how to email the bees. Therefore, if you don’t mind, can you please email it to me at maryoncraigslist@hotmail.com Thanks!
Mrs. Spider,
Were your pocketfold envelopes 5 X 7?? If so, I would appreciate the help as I get started on my own invitations. Did you send the invitations w/o outer envelopes? How did you address them? By hand? Labels? asg002@hotmail.com. Thanks so much!
I LOVE your pocketfold invitations! Please e-mail me everything you have on the invites, including pocketfold making tutorial/layout if you made them yourself.
Thanks so much, Mrs. Spider!
I love your invites, they’re very classy. Have you ever posted a cost breakdown? I would love a copy of the files too!!! Thanks much! wp52408 at gmail dot.com
i would love a copy as well, or at least the names of the fonts you used…so beautiful! cchang5 at gmail.
I wold love a copy. I too am planning on a seperate Chinese insert for our guests.
I love your invites! I’ve been trying to figure out how to make the Chinese part of our invitations. Can you please send me a copy of your files? Thanks!
I would love a copy of your invites! :)graciegrace2000@yahoo.com
Send me files too pretty please! My fiance’s input in the wedding planning is to create the invitations. Tee hee! He doesn’t know what he’s signed up for. He’s the graphic artist genious and I can hardly draw a straight line with a ruler. I can use your pictures and files to communicate what I might want our invitations to resemble. Like your invitations, I’ll need an insert, only in Thai. shimpie@hotmail.com
I would also like a copy of your files. Thank you!!!
You did a wonderful job and your post made me giggle a bit. I would love to have a copy of the files you used for the invites and especially the inserts since I am sorta wigging out over that right now 
If you could email me at aemken04@yahoo.com that would be fantastic Thanks
I would lLOVE to have a copy of the files you used, thanks so much!
breemira@hotmail.com
Hee hee, gizzards. I’d love to have your files. octavian08 at yahoo. Thanks!
I’d love a copy of your files as well.
harmoniyous at gmail.com
And can I ask, did you get all your inserts printed by mygatsby.com? How did you get them to print the map and the chinese text?
Could I please have a copy of your inserts also? We’re planning a Chinese banquet and ceremony and I wasn’t sure how to do it (my parents wanted separate Chinese invitations!) - the insert will be a good compromise! Thanks in advance!
hey, mrs spider! i vaguely remember reading one of your entries somewhere about being kdphi. am i right? if so, me too! beta chapter.
if not, um. just ignore everything i just wrote.
Please send me a copy of your files too. Thank you so much!
Do you need to have a special program to be able to open the Chinese characters?
Hi… where did you get your invitations? they are sooooo pretty. send me a copy of your files too. =) boavoxy@yahoo.com
Hi Sandy!
I love it that you are still contributing to Weddingbee!!! You were (and still are) one of my favorite bee to read about, from your witty remarks to all the details pre & post wedding. I LOVE IT! I created something simple for the chinese invite for a friend of mine, but I would love to have a copy of yours as reference as I am starting to do my own wedding.
Thanks again for all your help!!!
WOW!! I had no idea people who would like my invitations after all the GORGEOUS GORGEOUS DIY invites other bees have blogged about. I will wait until tomorrow night to send out the files to everyone interested.
To clarify:
Invitation, RVSP card and RSVP envelope was printed with thermography through mygatsby.com but I will send files with the text and layout.
Everything else I made myself.
I will include all fonts I used.
And lastly, my email address is spider@weddingbee.com BUT if you leave a comment, I get your email automatically.
Hey Mrs. Spider…I love your DIV invites and would be so happy to receive a copy of your files…please send them my way as well…Thanks a bunch!
I’d love to have a copy of your Illustrator files too! Thank you so much! Email is kel@ever-lasting.net.
I would love to have a copy of your gorgeous shoes Mrs. Spider! Can I? Pleeeeease? 
I’d love a copy of the files. That would make such a great template! Thanks
i’d love a copy as well! thank you
I would also love a copy! Really beautiful- thank you! lexduarte111 at aol dot com.
Wow! I would love a copy as well!!!!
Thank you so much!
By the way those shoes are fabulous!! Where are they from??
I’m a little late but I would really love a copy too!!! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks for sharing your hard work! Please send the files to trish.browning at gmail dot com. Thanks!
I would love a copy if you could send it to me (even the Chinese part)! Thank you very much!!
THE FILES HAVE BEEN SENT!!!
Please let me know if I inadvertently left you out and thanks for being fans of my work!!!
I too would love to know the size of you envelopment and if you used outer envelopes. Were they more than regular postage? Also, do you know you paper cut sizes?
I love the font too! Beautiful — I am working on mine now!!
Hi Mrs. Spider,
I’d love a copy of your files as well.
Your invites are beautiful!
Please send me the file. I never even thought of an insert for the Chinese invite! Genius!
I know you have probably already sent out a ton of emails, but I’d love to receive a copy of your files. Even though you didn’t print them at home, you still went through a lot of work and it really shows. Very Beautiful!
Hello, I’ve been reading ur posts since you started and remember when u did ur invites - which inspired me to do my own invites… i would love a copy of your files as a template for the wordings, it would help a lot so if you could send it, i’d really appreciate this. =)
Thank you so much for sharing this! I know I’m a few days late, but I’ve just started thinking about what I’d like to do for our DIY wedding invites and yours are exactly the style I am considering…so if you wouldn’t mind emailing your files one more time I would really appreciate it!
Our pocket folds were 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 and we got the matching metallic brown enevelopes from paper presentation.
I can’t remember what the postage was but I believe it was somewhere around 60 cents?
The paper cuts of each piece is tricky as we had to trim them a few times to get them perfect.
Oh and I will keep sending as long as the requests keep coming!
Please send me the file! The invites are gorgeous!
Hope I’m not too late…..your invites are delish!!! Exactly what I would like to accomplish…..I hope!!! Please send to mar.email@yahoo.com. Thanks much!!!
Am i too late??
I would love an template!
Thank you!!
I love the idea of a chinese insert (the other option I was thinking about was double-sided printing)! If I could have the font/template as well, I’d be so happy It’ll be great to have a starting point, thank you!
I would love copies of the template! Please send them to Christine.2001@juno.com.
Thanks so much!
Your invitations are beautiful!! Great Job!
I’m also making DIY pocketfold invitations that are 5×7. Could you send me everything from websites where you bought your pocketfold and materials to your layout and fonts. Also, tips and ideas would be nice! Thanks so much!!
Oh - I wish I stumbled upon this before I put my invites together. Your invites are beautiful and I love the fonts. Would you kindly email your fonts to me?
Hi Sandy,
I would like the Chinese template part with the Chinese wording. I’m trying to help my friend who’s getting married so we can have some sort of an idea how to word the invitation in chinese. Please send the template at
Thank you so much…
I’m in awe of anyone who takes on a project like this and has results as lovely as yours! I would be thrilled to receive (or give) an invitation as pretty, neat and put-together as yours. Is it possible to email me any templates, fonts, anything to help me get started on a project like this…?
This is exactly what I’m looking for. Please email me your materials as well. sheila_michele@yahoo.com
Hope this isn’t too late, but can you send me your templates as well! We’re just about to start DIY’ing our invites and are not quite sure where to start. We also need to include the Chinese insert so this would be great! Thanks!
HI. MY email is lizwang430@gmail.com Can you send me your templates as well? Thank you soooo much. I am planning to DIY my invitations as well! We also need the Chinese insert as well!
hi mrs spider…
i am a newbie to this website… have really enjoyed reading your blogs!!!!
can you send me the templates as well???
THANKS!!!!!
They are so wonderful! I have had your invitation saved on my favorites for quite some time… guess I’m just now getting around to sorting through everything.
Could you please send me a copy as well?
Thank you, Mrs. Spider!
Beautiful invitation! Can you please send a copy of your templates to me at misslisa80@gmail.com? Thank You!
Hi, I would also like a copy of your programs in Illustrator as well. You did a great job!!
Hi! I love your invites! Please send me a copy if you still have it on file. Thanks!
What lovely invitations. You did an amazing job. If you still have the templates, I’d love to receive them over email!
Wow! Look at the responses you have received! Your invitations are truly gorgeous and thank you for continuing to be part of this board and helping those just starting out.
If you have an extra moment, I too, would appreciate a copy of the templates. Thank you in advance!
Hi Mrs. Spider! Your invitations look great. I would love your invitation templates if it’s not too much trouble. Thanks and I really appreciate it. E-mail: dbeteta@yahoo.com.
hi mrs. spider! i recently discovered wedding bee and it is addicting! i think the invites you created are great. do you still have the templates? thanks!
Hello. I love your invitations! Can I get a copy of your Illustrator files? Thanks. meowej-photo@yahoo.com
What are the names of the fonts used? Thanks!
Just read your blog.. My invitations are driving me MAD too!! My invitations are in English but the parental units are requiring some in Chinese… would it be possible to get your files in Chinese? Thanks much…
Can you send me your Illustrator files? I love your invites! So professional looking!
[...] said before that making my wedding invitations nearly killed me. The pain was truly awful. So awful it felt [...]
Can you send me your Illustrator files? I’m printing and cutting the inserts myself so I want to make sure the size specifications are correct. leisurgirl3@yahoo.com Thanks!
I haven’t heard back, did anyone receive the files? Can you share it with me? Thanks!
I would also love your files, if you’re still offering them, These are PERFECT!
toshaq@toshaq.com Thank you!!
Your invites are so elegant! Please send me your Illustrator files, esp. the Chinese template. Thanks!!
They look great!! Could you send a copy of the files including the chinese inserts and all fonts (chinese and english ones)?? Thanks a bunch!!
goodies2buy2003@yahoo.com
I LOVE your invitations. Could you please send a copy of the files to me — both english and chinese? I am Vietnamese and thought maybe I can alter the chinese version and replace with vietnamese writing. Thanks SO MUCH!
Sorry, forgot to include my email addy. y3llowbee@gmail.com Thanks so much!
I love your creativity and your invitations are lovely. Can you please send me a copy of your template? I will greatly appreciate it. Thanks! catherinepham@gmail.com
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I love the invitations. Could you send me the template? Thanks for all your hard work so those of us without any creative talent can benefit too.
I love the layout of your invitations. Very nice colors. Can you send me both a copy of your english ad chinese invitation?
Thanks!
Hi,
Your invitations are beautiful. I hope I’m not too late. Could I get a copy of the files as well. I’m mostly interested in the Chinese template.
Thank you so much.
ruckusamuckus@gmail.com
may i please have a copy sent my way? I hope it is not late!!!
Can you please send me the info as well!!! I am in desperate need:-) Thanks!
cwergley@gmail.com
My apologies but the referenced templates are no longer available.
Mrs. Spider
Hello, I would really like your Illustrator Chinese Font for the wedding. If you have the file, could you send it to htrane203@hotmail.com? Thanks so much!!!!
I would love to have this file for my invites!! Thanks so much!!!
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Mrs. Spider, New York
Age and Occupation: 27, Paralegal
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Advisor Research
Engagement Date: December 30, 2005
Wedding Date: October 2006
Venue: Jericho Terrace - Long Island, NY
About Me: My favorite parts of wedding planning are DIY projects and figuring out ways to incorporate old traditions into a modern affair.
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