… perhaps a perfect little silk hankie that says “Will you be my bridesmaid?”
My maids are all over the country—Denver, Seattle, Indiana, Illinois… there aren’t 2 maids in the same city out of the five of them and only one I actually see day to day. I wish I could have asked each of them in person, but I did the next best thing—Isent them a personalized invitation to stand up with me at our wedding.
I love Etsy and have been loving it for a lonnnng time. Call it inspiration central!
In my case, it was “Need ideas for bridesmaids invitations?” Done!

Source ArtfulBeginnings
I search on “Bridesmaid Invitation”. POOF! There appeared the puuuuurfect gift for my girls.
ArtfulBeginnings posted a set of 4 custom silk handkerchiefs for $27… what, what? $27? I quickly bookmarked this page. Once I had the BM line-up settled, I ordered 5 hankies in our wedding colors (the extra one cost like $6 and some change). Each girl got an invitation in the color she would be wearing in our wedding.
As a side note: I’m a Catholic grrrl- so it’s confession time. I ordered these bad boys before Mr Pretzel even proposed—I was that excited! I was so convinced that he was going to propose on our New England trip (which he did) that I wanted to bring the invitations with us so I could pop them in the mail as soon as we were engaged. Mr Pretzel put his foot down and said I could wait until we got home. Booo!
How perfect are these? The hankies fold up into a little square and slide nicely into a card personalized with the recipients’ names. My MOH’s hankie asks “Will you be my Matron of Honor?” and the other ones ask “Will you be my Bridesmaid?” The envelope wraps are freebies from A Very Chocolate Wedding. Love it!

All in a row….

Details on BM Hillbilly’s invite

Envelope wraps!
Sadly, the post office lost one of my invites. I quickly emailed ArtfulBeginnings and purchased a replacement. While I was doing so, I started to browse the other offerings in the shop. Check out these other cute wedding items:
Source: ArtfulBeginnings: Bridal Hankie for $19

Source Artful Beginnings: Fabric wedding invitations with rice paper RSVPs - wild flowers, set of 25 for $90

Source ArtfulBeginnings: Something blue ring pillow with your custom text $37
Did you include a little gift when you asked your bridesmaids to be in your wedding?
All photos: Miss Pretzel unless otherwise noted.
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