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A package deal…

The time is quickly approaching for us to send out our save the dates and start developing our invitations. We don’t even know where to begin when it comes to our invitations, but we do know that we want to make them—yes, make them ourselves.

Below are handmade invitations created by Mrs. Duckling and Mrs. Gloss. They did a darn good job, if you ask me, and I want ours to be just as comprehensive. To accomplish this, we’re going to follow the very helpful twelve-step guide to creating your own invitations, by Mrs. Cupcake—another bee with a lot of ideas and ambition!

{Photo credit: Weddingbee}

{Photo credit: Weddingbee}

We know we want our invitations to be more than greeting cards. We want little packages that will surprise our guests and get them excited about the event. Since we’re going to use our engagement photos for the save the dates, which have an autumn background, we want our invitations to have a hint of autumn as well. We don’t want anything too obvious, though. We want something simple and elegant with subtle fall elements—expressed in either the color or design.

Pick your favorites…

After searching Google and Esty, these are the invitations that caught my attention. I think we could recreate any of the following, using Mrs. Cupcake’s guide, and have a cohesive paper trail to our wedding…representing our venue, our colors, and our style.

#1:

#2:

Appleberry Ink

#3:

Appleberry Ink

#4.

The Stylish Scribe

#5:

Visions in Vinyl

#6:

Plush Paper Creations

#7:

Serendipity Beyond Design

#8:

Dazzling Expressions

#9:

RBGColor

#10:

Envy Marketing

There’s a lot here to choose from, but I think you get the general idea of what we have in mind. My favorite is #6, the Plush Paper Creations design. Take a closer look at these invitations and you’ll see all the elements that we will need to pull off the package deal…

We’d love to be able to purchase our invites directly from one of these awesome designers, but like I said, we’re going to attempt to make them ourselves! Please leave some feedback, and let me know what you think!!