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Mrs. Lollipop, Pittsburgh Age and Occupation: 26, Computational Linguist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Project Manager Engagement Date: August 2, 2006 Wedding Date: September 2, 2007 Blogging Since: July 17, 2007 Venue: The PPG Aquarium at the Pittsburgh Zoo About Me: I'm a Pittsburgh transplant who grew up in the deep south. I have a weakness for exotic alphabets, DIY projects, mobster movies and international travel. My fiance and I are both non-native Japanese speakers and we have a bullfrog named Skinny.
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Our Invitation Inspiration - Part II

August 28th, 2007 @ 2:56 pm by Mrs. Lollipop

Part I

Mr. Lollipop once tried to add up all the time I spent on our invitations. I had to stop him because I couldn’t contemplate the amount of time I put into them without losing my mind a little. I started sketching in November, did the design in April, screen printed in May, letter pressed in June, and finally mailed them in July. Of course, I had lots of help on the last three, but the point is that I spent lots of time in the print studio that could have been used to learn a martial art or a new language.

Still, I don’t think I could bear to let anyone else design our invitations.

I put invitation page together to carry on the tree theme we used on the cover:

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My original digital mock-up:

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Luckily, our parents were really understanding when we couldn’t get the letter press calibrated to add everyone’s first names.

Also, I drew dozens of trees (one can be seen on the cover), but ended up buying the rights to use a much nicer one from istockphoto.com. That website is a great place to legally obtain the rights to all kinds of vector images for those who like to design, but have trouble drawing. Our map and directions page:

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I drew the map using an old copy of Macromedia FreeHand. We used the pattern at the bottom of the page to register the layers of ink.

The full package, including a rehearsal dinner invitation and a website card:

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An assembled invitation:

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7 Responses to “Our Invitation Inspiration - Part II”

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tiffany

beautiful!

 
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katie the lady

wowza! incredible

 
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MCRBride

Dammmmn that’s some good work.

 
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Kara

It looks like a ton of work, and the finished product is beautiful.

 
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Miss Peppermint (message)  81 posts, Worker bee

These are so neat! I really like them

 
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Mslee

Those are so cute and whimsical! Love the family tree/nature motif.

 
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Kat

Wow! They look amazing. They are so creative and definitely unique.

 


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