Weddingbee Blog

Okay. Are you ready to see exactly what our guests found after they recovered from swooning* over the skin (envelopes/calligraphy/liners) of our invitations?

First, a little reminder:

After ripping into these bad boys (swoons & smelling salts aside, of course) our guests were greeted with a translucent vellum envelope:

Specifically, they were greeted with one of the following three colors peeking through the vellum:

The envelopes were tied up with baker’s twine and bore individual little muslin tags stamped with a heart, and our guests’ names:

The name tags are one of my favorite parts, and man, were they a serious labor of love! They took a bridesmaid, a couple dogs, my awesome-sauce alphabet rolling stamp, and loads of time:

And I LOVE ‘em! (The tags, the ‘maid, and the dogs!)

Here’s a closer look:

It was really important to us that our invitations make our guests feel like they were getting a special little package in the mail. A beautiful little present. Of course, I *do* realize that most folks just rip into invites and don’t go all gaga the way us abouttobemarried peeps do, but I’m still hoping our invites put a smile on our guests’ faces and made them feel just a little extra special. All paper, twine, and vellum aside, our wedding is quite simply a celebration with the most special people in our lives. And it felt really good to reach out and invite ‘em!

And that, my lovelies, concludes this portion of our awesome invitation anatomy: the bones.

Next up: The guts (aka. The Big Reveal!) of our Stripetastic Invitations

Whew! Just writing this post has made me tired all over again! It’s a little mind boggling how much work we put into these invitations, although we were totally, 110% satisfied with the results. As were our wallets. Big smile.

Did you spend countless hours making your own invitations? If so, I’m curious why you went the DIY route? Budget? Artistry? Blogland pressure to DIY every-effing-thing? Or something else? AND if you were a super sane bride who just shelled out the cash, were you able to get exactly what you were looking for?