Wedding Blog

Since I decided to take on the task of creating our wedding invitations, I figured what the heck, might as well do them all. To be honest, playing with Illustrator and coming up with invitations is actually something I look forward to…. a lot.

Because Mr. H’s family isn’t used to throwing a rehearsal dinner, I offered to come up with an invitation for it. And, since it’s one of those items I can knock out way in advance, I decided to get it off my plate.

Mr. H and I perused different stationers to get some inspiration and when I found this invitation at Wedding Paper Divas, Mr. H loved it. Mr. H showing excitement about paper is rare (ok, it never happens) so I tried to come up with something to mimic what he liked, but add the elements that I wanted.

(from Wedding Paper Divas)

I knew that I wanted to do tea length invitations, with the invite on the front and a map with directions from the church to the restaurant on the back. I also wanted a decorative envelope to match as well. To come up with the chandelier image, I asked our very own Miss Flamingo how she created the image on her awesome invitations. She was gracious enough to create the image for me (my Illustrator skills aren’t THAT great) with a sample photo I gave her.

Here is what we ended up with:

(Front)

(Back)

(Envelope)

They are now being printed, so I’ll update you on my printing source and the quality once we get them in the mail!