Wedding Blog

With my handy new printer, another creation was born.

After we’d received so many ‘yes’ RSVPs from out of town guests, my parents decided that they wanted to host a brunch the day after the wedding. Many of these family members and friends, from both sides of my family, will not be in the same place all at once in a long time, if ever again. So Dad H took it upon himself to plan the whole shindig. I took this as a chance to create more paper goodness for our wedding.

While I’m not as talented as many of our other Bees, I still love to create invitations, so I set off to iStockphoto.com to find some cute graphics and an idea was born. It went from wedding-type pictures to pears… the ‘perfect pair’ to be exact!

I took bits and pieces of the image, changed the font, and voila - an invite was born!

I wanted something cute for the wording, so I Googled, found and edited the following:

On Sunday afternoon
don’t pack and run
stay around longer
for a bit more fun
have some food and drink
before you start your day,
and help us toast
Stephanie and Ulises
before they are on their way!

I decided to take the pear image and create envelope labels, mainly because I’ve been dying to try them ever since I saw Miss Pom’s envelope labels. I created everything in Illustrator and used Xyron permanent adhesive to stick the labels to the envelopes (which are Paper Source #10 Moss envelopes). The font is Freebooter script, and can be found on dafont.com.

I’m super happy with the end product (sorry the pics aren’t so hot, photography is not my strong suit).

Have any of you found new hobbies/creativeness born from wedding planning?