Weddingbee

Okay, I realize I wrote Invitations: Part I a looooooong time ago, but I’m finally ready to share Part II with you! I confess that I’ve actually had my invitations for MONTHS, but I’ve been holding them hostage until my guests have received them… Like I mentioned in Part I, we ordered our invitations from Joy Card in Hong Kong when we went during our Christmas holiday. We finalized our proof in late December, and by late January, a box from Hong Kong showed up at our door:

This box was deceivingly very heavy!

And now, show and tell - piece by piece (Unfortunately, the pictures really don’t do it justice, since it’s hard to capture the shimmery red and pearlescent paper on camera!).

The envelope:

While I can’t read Chinese, I’ve been told that the image on the envelope says something to the extent of “100 years of happiness in marriage.” Or something like that (anyone want to correct me?).

Here on the front, you will see the popular Chinese symbol, Double Happiness: The double happiness symbol is typically only used at weddings is supposed to bring a double dose of happiness to all around it.

When you open up the card, the first panel you see is the Chinese portion:
This is actually one of my favorite parts of the invitation! Like I said, I can’t read Chinese (and hopefully I blotted out the correct characters!), but I think it looks so stunning engraved in gold on the white paper.

While I’m still partial to the Chinese section, the English section came out quite nice too:

Terrible picture, but sadly the only one that
came out that didn’t look all white.

And here are all three panels opened up:
The inserts included a Schedule of Events (with a map card on the reverse), and the RSVP card and envelope (again, I apologize for the bad pictures!):

Map Card (sorry I don’t seem to have a picture of the
Schedule on the reverse side), and dual-language RSVP card.

You might have noticed, that despite our wedding colors being teal and deep magenta, our invitations are… well, RED. When we went to the store, the “nicer” paper didn’t come in either of our wedding colors (that, and my parents probably would have STRONGLY vetoed any “blue” paper anyways). So, instead of getting the exact color that I wanted, I chose quality - a really heavy shimmery paper in red (red is good luck, and the shimmery nature of the paper made it less red, red, red). Additionally, since the outside of the invitations was “Chinese-y,” we chose a pearlescent white paper for the inside to make the inside more “westernized.” While our invites don’t match our color scheme, they “match” our wedding theme and my culture, and I think all of us (me, Mr. T, and our families) are really pleased with the result.

So, there’s our “mis-matched” wedding invitation. Would you have chosen a mis-matched invitation?

P.S. Did anyone notice something else different about our invitation?

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