Weddingbee Blog

Everyone has gotten their invites, so here they are!

On first impression:

Mr. Bunny typed the addresses on his typewriter. That way we avoided the cost of a calligrapher and made sure they were neat and legible while adding an old-school vibe.

Buying vintage stamps seemed like too much work if we wanted to get them out on deadline! Thankfully, the Forever stamps looked just fine on our kraft paper envelopes.

I designed the address labels to echo our invitation design and had them printed on a full sheet label at Kinko’s, then punched them using the Martha Stewart circle scallop punch.

I Photoshopped the envelope liner using an amalgamation of several pages from a 1952 edition of the newspaper I write for. My grandmother confirmed that my grandfather did indeed lay type for my paper that year! I also ’shopped our names and other details about us. Hope no one thinks we’re pregnant just because I left that cute little stork icon in!

My final design for our invites was much different from what I had originally planned. My vertical design became horizontal after I decided the punched edges worked better on either side rather than on top and bottom.

The fonts are Calamity Jane and Tagette, both downloaded from DaFont.

The monogram was dreamed up by me and executed by an artist. Originally I had planned to have it clear inside a solid blue circle, but a test run at Kinko’s showed that their laser printers had trouble printing that much ink on the textured Paper Source paper.

In a hurry to get the invites printed and mailed, I redesigned them in the middle of the night and had them printed the next day. Thus, the new flowery monogram was born of free Photoshop brushes and midnight creativity. I really love the way they turned out. The invite was all blue before, but the new floral motif inspired me to inject them with a little more color.

Here’s the whole shebang — invite, RSVP postcard and engagement photo with our website addy printed on the back.

Feedback so far has been very positive. Everybody LOVES the vintage postcards, and many people are flat out refusing to send them back to me! I’m trying to guilt them into it by letting them know we want to put them in an album, but even that’s not working very well.

I’ll do a budget breakdown on these soon!