Weddingbee Blog

Photo by our friend, Young Chang

Many of you may remember my obsession with paper goods and wedding invitations, so you can imagine my delight when Sister Daffodil asked me to design her an invitation! A few weeks prior, we had picked out a canary yellow and light pink theme together for her wedding. I wanted the invitation to reflect her and BIL Daff’s personalities and how their wedding would likely be - lighthearted, joyful, but most of all, FUN! I’m excited to finally share with you how they turned out and how we did it!

My first step had been to design everything using my favorite program of all time, MS PowerPoint (partly because I use it every day for work, but also because I can’t afford Photoshop!). I pretty much did it the same way I did for my own invitations, except with different dimensions, fonts, and graphics. I then printed everything on the appropriate types of paper prior to cutting and assembling.

I used Banana Split cardstock from bluedotpapershop for the backing, cutting the paper into 10.25″ by 5.5″ sheets. I scored them about 4.5″ from the top edge, so that when it was folded over, a 3/4″ edge was left hanging out from underneath that had the date of the wedding on it.

The other major printed pieces included the monogram label with their names, the interior of the actual invitation, the event details card, and the RSVP card. For these, I used Luxe Cream 160g weight paper from PaperSource, with the metallic quartz cardstock from bluedotpapershop. For each of these, I used a variation of the graphic, twisting and turning and flipping it to give variety while still creating a sense of unity across all the pieces.

In case you are curious, the dimensions for everything are as follows:

• Invitation Interior: 3 and 7/8 inches x 4 and 7/8″
• Interior metallic backing: 4.25″ x 5.25″
• Details and RSVP card interior: 4 and 5/8 inches x 2.75″
• Yellow backing for details and RSVP cards: 3″ x 4 and 7/8″
• Name plate interior: 1.75″ x 2.25″
• Name plate metallic backing: 2.0″ x 2.5″

Finally, the little added oomph were the layers of ribbon! The bottom layer was actually a 1.25″ thick piece of pastel pink vellum. On top of this, I wrapped a 7/8″ inch thick peach colored sheer organza ribbon that I had ordered from BB Crafts. I secured this with some strips of photo safe double sided tape (the permanent kind, not the removable) along the ribbon, which looks invisible underneath due to the grosgrain ribbon that would cover it. I also secured the ends of it with tape, which is hidden underneath the monogram placard. Finally, on top of this, I layered a 3/8″ thick yellow grosgrain ribbon with white polka dots, also purchased from BB Crafts. This was also secured with double sided tape along the underside and regular tape on the ends, which again is hidden under the name placard.

Here is the Daffodil family busy assembling! With everyone’s help, we finished everything in record time, a total of about 2.5 full days. Daddy Daffodil’s official role that helped speed everything up INCREDIBLY was “tape dispenser” - We estimated that he must have dispensed over 8,550 pieces of double-sided tape!

I hope you agree that the finished product was fun and sassy indeed!