Wedding Blog

YEAH! After two weeks of designs and countless mock ups, assembly, calligraphy and, finally, mailing, I am happy to report that my invitations are one by one finding their way to our guests from all the way here in Singapore. If you recall, this was the wedding invitation ensemble inspiration.

{Martha Stewart Crafts, Vera Wang Invitation, program from TheSteph03, paper from Paper Studio}

And this is how they turned out:

The Invitation

These are “Jane” invitations from My Gatsby. The paper is ecru linen (a kind of ivory with texture that isn’t showing up well here at all). I chose the Bickham Script font because it’s classic and easy to read. The paper band is indeed from Paper Studio. I thought that the colors would be a little softer, like in the inspiration photo above, but I love the gold metallic paper that outlines the flowers. They were kind enough to cut the bands for me AND ship them to the other side of the world, so that rocked my world. I tied a little pink sheer ribbon around the band a la an obi and voila!

The R.S.V.P

Pretty straightforward. I ordered Louis Comfort Tiffany “Magnolias and Irises” stamp off the USPS site and 6 days later it was in my mailbox to put on the return envelopes. I love that stamp for two reasons: 1) It’s magnolias and Mississippi is the Magnolia State. A little lame and a lot cheesy, but then I’m kinda known for one or the other and sometimes both all at once. 2) Mr. Donut’s dad and stepmom work with stained glass. And it’s very pretty. And it screams “Spring!” OK, that’s 4 reasons.

The Info Insert Booklet

OK, this was definitely the hardest part of the project. I am not good at math and because of that there was very little measuring involved here. For this I took the trial and error approach. I made about a million mock ups before finding one that I was reasonably happy with, and then guesstimated the measurements with what turned out to be pretty good success. Considering this is my very first project of this nature every, I like the way they turned out.Next up: Calligraphy.