Wedding Blog

I printed my invites out a few months ago, but for some reason I had printed a 5PM start time for the ceremony…and unfortunately the winery (our venue) doesn’t even CLOSE until 5PM. I have no idea what I was thinking…only that maybe I thought “Five Thirty” sounded weird, so I just left it as “five o clock” and didn’t bother to proofread before I printed it.

DUMB DUMB DUMB.

Luckily, printing my own invites meant that a reprint wasn’t going to set me far back financially. It probably cost less than $30 in supplies and paper to redo everything.

So, of course, after confirming with our wedding coordinator that indeed, our start time is five thirty (and worded “half past five in the evening”), I broke out the Gocco and reprinted.

Step one: Using Luxe Cream 5×5 paper from The Paper Source, my Gocco and all the Gocco related supplies, I got started. I used 2 screens for the entire invite, placing the flower branches, and the “&” and “06 07 08″ on one screen, and the flowers and invitation wording on the other screen.

Here’s the first screen, pre flashing.

Here’s the very bottom layer. I used grey Riso ink and mixed it with a little white to make sure that the background text was lighter than the text that would later be printed on top, in dark grey.

Any empty part of a screen is reusable. If you only need to use parts of your screen, and another part has been inked, simply tape a thick piece of paper like I have over the used portion of the screen, and ink up your new screen. You can also re-flash unused portions of your screen as many times as you want, just don’t overlap new and old designs.

Print, print, and print some more.

You can even print using several colors, just be sure to use ink blocking to protect one color from bleeding into another part of your design.

Fin.

To attach the invitations to the Gravel diagonal Pocketfolds ($10.25 per 10 pack, also from The Paper Source) I used my Xyron Sticker Maker I bought a while back (best price I found was $39.99 at save-on-crafts.com). The sticker maker turns your entire invitation into a (SURPRISE!) sticker, making sure those puppies stick nice and firmly to the pocketfolds.

The finished product. To be added to the side pocket will be the RSVP, RSVP envelope, Directions and Accommodations cards, which are still in the works.

Several people have asked me what “Gocco ink” looks like. If you click on the picture below, hopefully you will be able to see the fine detail. It looks nothing like computer printing, and is well worth the investment if you plan on doing your own print media for your wedding!