Weddingbee Blog

One last stop before the wedding day! I thought this would be a good time to show you all the “papery” details from our wedding. I say it in quotations because we didn’t get many real life photos of our menu, ceremony card, etc., so I have a few screen captures from Illustrator instead.

Our Wayne Theibaud inspired evite

For those of you creating your own invitation suite, etc, you might feel me when I say Illustrator became our frenemy during the wedding process. After creating our own invitation suite, we decided to keep the DIY train roll’n by designing and printing our own ceremony cards, menus, place cards, and food/drink labels. We also saved a few trees by sending e-vitations for the rehearsal dinner and dessert at my parents’ house (seen above). To keep everything matchy we used the same font & flourish sets and color scheme throughout.

The rehearsal evite, with a bit of inspiration from Penguin’s menus.

Our ceremony card, front and reverse.

We printed these using a regular printer and slightly off-white cover weight paper from PaperSource. You can’t see it here but it says “Just Married” on the short bus. I had made paper poms to decorate the bus, but rain prevented me from using them! I had considered making the bus’ poms out of yarn but just couldn’t find the time - you may way to consider this for any outdoor pom decorations, just in case.

Our lovely menu

We used the same paper and printing method for our menus. A few days prior I noticed it was missing the crab cake remoulade (surprise!). We were out of paper and in PA so we just rolled with the omission and figured people would know we were serving it when they saw it! I love the adorable depiction of the barn where our reception was held that Mr. Sunbeam designed.

Food and drink title cards

Sweet and simple. I backed these with a sparkly grey cover weight paper and made a little “T” shape to stick to the backs to keep our cards standing upright. By the way - the sweet tea lemonade was a HIT. I highly recommend trying it out.

Alright, it’s time to get on to the wedding day, isn’t it!? - It’s coming up next!

Will you be making all of your various stationery bits? Or will you be leaving it to the pros? For those of you who are in the process of making your ceremony cards and place cards, do wish you would have (or have been able to) hire a pro, or are you loving the DIY process? I really loved doing the design ourselves, but we should have at least let a pro print all of the elements, not just our invitation suite.