Weddingbee Blog

Part 1

Step 3: Creating our envelopes

We decided a few weeks before the project that we wanted to use recycled paper envelopes and bought them in brown kraft. Of course, being obsessed with design, I couldn’t just use a plain envelope so we decided to stamp a similar flourish design on the outside of the envelopes. The original plan was to emboss this flourish too, but after seeing the lighter color stamp on the brown recycled paper we decided it was more natural, more us, and more in line with our theme.

(envelopes with the embossing - the picture makes these look great but in person they were much better with just the stamp)

I decided not to add calligraphy to the envelopes (my roommate and bridesman kept reminding me “it is ONLY the save-the-date”) so I just printed them and used a traditional heart stamp.

I think the complete package came out nicely.

And then I mailed them!!!

I am realizing now there is A LOT of brown here. I have to color things up a bit. That’s a good thing to remember for the invitations!

How much did your save-the-dates mimic your invitations and color scheme? Did you think it was important to stick with one theme throughout the process?