Wedding Blog

I think by now most of our guests have received the invitations (I’m not sure why I’m worried about it, because none of our guests read the blog anyway).

Can I just say one more time how much I love these invitations?

Let’s start with the inner envelope, which was kind of an afterthought.

I so wish that my handwriting were that neat and tidy. This is my new favorite font, Joe Hand 2, which I downloaded from dafont.com. Twilight readers will recognize it; it’s Alice’s handwriting!

I decided after our invitations were completely designed and everything was purchased that I really wanted inner envelopes. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find an inner envelope that would fit in our tea-length invitations.

So, I improvised.

I had already purchased text weight paper for the labels, so I printed our guests’ names on one side of the text weight paper, and simply folded it around our invitations.

To hold the “envelopes” closed, I bought a 1″ circle punch and some fantastic paper (which we’ll use later). I really like the texture of the flocked paper. And the graphic little squares really worked for me too! I attached the circles to the envelopes with Zots (also know as the best invention ever).

I know they are a little unconventional, but they worked for me.

We secured our booklet style invites with three 1/8″ black eyelets. It was a huge undertaking. However, I am so glad we did. I really love the way it looks. There’s our compass and our poem again.

The next page is the actual invitation. I love our wording. It was very important to me to include all of our family, not just our parents. There are a lot of parents anyway, so this was easier.

The information page, complete with reception info, website address, and travel and lodging information.

Okay, the RSVP was seriously twice as much work as anything else. It was so hard to get the two sides to line up perfectly. They are perforated (even though you can’t see it in these pictures). Our RSVP date is three weeks before the wedding, but whatever. It’s also the day after the hotels need to be booked. We asked the guests to let us know what hotel they are staying in so we could provide some OOT bags.

There’s our little monogram again. I liked being able to tuck whatever it was I needed underneath our initials.

I have to say that this is my very, very favorite part of our entire suite. This is a map from 1882. It’s not just any map; it’s a map of our town. And that’s where we got to know each other. We had our first date there, our first kiss there, and our chapel is there.

See? Here’s a better picture.

That image is taken from the original file. I had to change the colors in the file for printing (because I’m cheap and I didn’t want to pay for color printing).

I love that map so much. I have a feeling it will end up in several places in the wedding, and even in places after the wedding.

So, those are our invitations!