Weddingbee Blog

We don’t have Etsy here. We don’t have fancy crafting stores like Michael’s, Paper Source, or even anything like a Target here.

For a country that is known for it’s efficiency, convenience, and having everything-under-the-sun (love cups anyone?), this makes it hard to do our invitations.

Invitations are the one thing that we need to do from over here, though, so we are wiggin’ about them. The way we see it, we have three options:

1) Use our printer to print out 50 full invitation suites. We’d need to find a download-able and customizable invitation we like, plug all our information in, and BAM! our invitations are done. Our printer doesn’t like this option. Plus ink is freakishly expensive over here.

2) Go on a search for some sort of craft or paper store. Buy pre-designed invitations and run them through our printer to get the who, what, when, and where printed onto them. This option could get pricey but would probably wind up being the easiest.

3) Order from overseas (from an invitation company like Wedding Paper Divas) and put the charges on my American debit card. We’d never actually get to see the invitations since they’d go straight from the maker to my parents’ house, and then I’d kindly ask Momma to finish them off and send them out for us. I don’t like this option because I’m a control freak and like to be able to see and touch what I’m buying—I never shop online.

I think, initially, we’ll go with option number two; going to the few crafting and paper stores we have here would allow us to see more design options, and if something strikes our fancy, we could get to work right away. Or we could pick something simple and customize and DIY them to our hearts content. If we can’t find anything we like, we’ll probably go with option three. Here are some looks we are going for…

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Although, you know, I’m starting to think these damn cherry blossoms are ruining my life. In the end I think they will wind up being only a subtle hint on our wedding day because I am facing the reality that they are just impossible for a fall wedding.

We are going to get right on invitation scoping. I’m sure (like everything else) this will have some hilariously Japanese FAIL outcome, just like our save the dates. I’ll make sure to take pictures.

What route are you going for your paper projects? One hundred percent DIY? Semi-homemade? Having a designer do them all for you?