Weddingbee Blog

I know that I’m crazy, you don’t have to tell me this, but I’m having a BLASTY BLAST with my DIY projects.

The Save The Dates were a lot of work, but I also got an amazing amount of satisfaction after we finished them! But then…I had to work on the invitations. Well…the idea for the invites didn’t come so easily.

I had a really difficult time finding inspiration that “spoke” to me. I thought they were all pretty much the same, and I wasn’t thrilled with my designs for ours. Here are some of my earlier designs:

This was back when we thought we’d have the wedding at XIX (Nineteen). It would have definitely matched the setting since they had giant pearls hanging from the ceiling!

I wanted to include Craspedia in the invite since we’re having craspedia flowers, but I thought these looked a little too balloon-like. Plus…I just thought there was something missing!

(Ignore the redundant last line, please!) I stuck with the same colors and fonts, but liked the tall slim look.

As well as the long, slim invite.

BOOORING. I still felt like something was missing. I was in a rut with the colors and fonts and I really couldn’t pick any images or patterns that really defined our wedding.

So I thought…there’s really no better way to put it than in words. I’m a writer first and designing is fun for me and I hope to get better at it, but it’s just not where my strengths lie at the moment.

I went on an inspiration hunt, and I remembered an invite I saw waaay back when I first started stalking wedding blogs:

Matthew Dorfman via 30gms.com

I don’t know that couple, but I instantly like them just by reading their cute story. Wanting (needing) to have that same effect on my guests, I came up with something similar, but much more like a little storybook than anything else.

The reason I love this idea so much is because Mike and I live SO far from our families, that a lot of them don’t know much about us or our relationship. Laying it all out for them to see will be special, and I hope that it makes those people who may not know us well get a better idea of who we are.

I’m still hammering some of the design out, but I’ll definitely post it soon enough! I’m happy with it so far and I can’t wait to get started on it!

Did you find it difficult to find an invite that fit you?