Mrs. Hummingbird, Toronto
Age and Occupation: 25, Publishing Coordinator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Videogame Designer/Cartoonist
Engagement Date: May 4, 2007
Wedding Date: June 28, 2008
Blogging Since: September 18, 2007
Venue: A garden wedding followed by a tented reception on Mr. Hummingbird's father's property.
About Me: I’m a pop culture loving, vintage obsessed foodie living in Canada’s biggest city with my fantastic fiancé and our lovable fluffy cat Bettie. I’m stoked to marry my best friend and to throw what I hope will be
the most fun and colourful party of our lives.
Ding Dong The Invite’s Done!
April 10th, 2008 @ 12:02 pm by Mrs. Hummingbird
After weeks and weeks and paper and paper, Mr. Hummingbird and I finished our DIY invites. Take a look!
All of the pieces as a whole. As you may see in the background, we have the Hummingbird Wii remotes and a big bottle of aspirin, both of which were important ingrediants in the invitation making process.
The final version of our invite. The tree on the invite is actually a picture of tree that Mr. Hummingbird and I took during a photographic expedition to High Park in Toronto.
Our reply card. We put a light blue tree watermark on the card and personalized the R.S.V.P. cards as much as possible in the hopes of discouraging write ins (did Miss Daffodil’s post scare anyone else?). Also, since we wanted to do something a little fun with our response cards, we added a couple of silly questions that our guests can answer for fun and that we can put into our photo albums after the wedding.
Anyway, now that I’m done I feel like it’s time to dance Carlton style*! Break it down with me ladies and dance the happy dance of DIY completion!
*I sadly dance like this
21 Responses to “Ding Dong The Invite’s Done!”
That tree is so very striking!! Love them!!
They look so wonderful! And I am totally cracking up over the Carlton video. And thinking about how handsome Will Smith is!
WOW! Those are so beautiful!!! The trees look real! Your invites are by far my favorite DIY invite I’ve seen so far. Great job!!!
*doing the Carleton on your behalf*
They look great!
::looks at Wii-motes:: Oh man, I wish I was playing Wii right now…
Er, um, back to topic :-)–the invites are very impressive! I’m really liking your simple, striking layout and color scheme.
Beautiful! I love the way the tree looks.
I love them. Beautiful.
OHHHHHHH!
AHHHHHHHHHHH!
that is AMAZING
I’d be too afraid to put the “least favorite thing about bride & groom” on mine because I have some family members that would be too honest for my liking 
I LOVE them guys! It was worth all the pain and suffering. Can’t wait to get mine!
I am so obsessed with your invites. How angry are you going to be if I steal them? Not just the ideas, steal the actual invites from your house and put my own name on them.
How did you print them? The tree is so gorgeous!
They look great.
The photograph of the tree is fabulous on the invite. Your invites turned out great.
good job! a burton-like tree is always fantastic in my books 
can’t wait to get it in the mail and answer those questions!
hi miss hummingbird,
i have a question - what colour are your envelopes?
i had black envelopes and were told by the post office, that you can’t mail black envelopes.
did you hear something different?
lette
whoa, i love the tree photo! it looks great!
@jnicholea: Sorry hun, they went into the mail on Wednesday, so unless you can catch one in transit, I have no more. :P@lette: It is misleading in the picture because it’s weirdly lit, but our envelopes are actually chocolate brown which, when we dropped them off at the post office, seemed to be okay with them. Also, we did all of our addresses on a cream coloured label so that they would show up properly for the postman.
I am over the moon about seeing a Toronto bride on here! HALELUIA, (angels coming down from the heavens). Your invites are absolutely elegant!
I’m making invitations too! And we are doing a tree theme. Mine will be in tones of brown, but I really love the blue…*re-thinking color scheme*
