Here We Go Again: Making the Invites

Here We Go Again: Making the Invites

November 15th, 2010 @ 8:39 am by Mrs. Pretzel
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We turned to Moo Cards to give us a jump-start on the invites for our hometown reception. I ordered four different styles of postcards and 200 mini-moos and left the back blank.

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Armed with these cards I dusted off the Gocco. In just four evenings of work we completed our hometown invitation suite. For our hometown party we chose to use a fall tree and leaf theme.

Night one: I printed our invites with the tree.

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Night two: Mr P set me up a station in front of the TV, I Goccoed the info over the tree while he played a little Super Mario Galaxy.

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We set up our clothesline system to let the prints dry.

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HOORAY!

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Night three: While the envelope liners for our invites were cute, I just couldn’t bring myself to put all that effort into this second set of invitations. I got started on the envelope mail merge and suddenly had a moment of inspiration.

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Gocco the tree on the envelope!

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I love the “smile” that the clothesline creates!

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I dressed up the envelopes while Mr P made a dent in the Thank You notes.

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Night four: Time to pull it all together. Mr P used a teeny-tiny hole punch on the mini- moo cards while I cut lengths of orange and white bakers twine. And Cassanova Kitty? Well, he helped too.

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He supervised the tying of the RSVP cards around the invites. Under Pretzel Kitty Cassanova’s strict supervision we got all 102 invites assembled and mailed out on time! Whew, I swear this is so much easier the second time around. Cutting corners by ordering the Moo cards was a lifesaver.

How have you shaved time off your wedding projects?

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18 Responses to “Here We Go Again: Making the Invites”

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Mrs. Pin Cushion (message) 1,012 posts, Bumble bee

I love the 3rd and 4th moo cards (though they are all cute). Good job getting these done–I’m impressed you had any steam left after your first reception!

11/15/10 @ 8:48 am (reply)

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Miss Britt (message) 915 posts, Busy bee

I love these! Those moo cards are so great!

11/15/10 @ 8:51 am (reply)

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Mrs. Trail Mix (message) 6,328 posts, Bee Keeper

These are adorable, I’m so impressed cuz there’s no way I’d be able to do a second round of all this stuff!

11/15/10 @ 8:58 am (reply)

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Miss Elephant (message) 6,182 posts, Bee Keeper

These look great! We sometimes have that same scenario in our house - I work on DIY projects, Mr. E playing some Super Mario in the background

11/15/10 @ 9:00 am (reply)

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LemonPuppy (message) 50 posts, Worker bee

I love the orange and white bakers twine. Did it come from Divine Twine?

11/15/10 @ 9:23 am (reply)

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PitBulLover (message) 8,314 posts, Bee Keeper

So cute! You are so detail oriented - I love it! Do you have an Etsy shop?

11/15/10 @ 9:23 am (reply)

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Minutiae (message) 2,296 posts, Buzzing bee

Those are lovely! I really like the tree silhouette.

Also, what is up the fascination cats have with paper…

11/15/10 @ 11:11 am (reply)

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Mrs. Sand Dollar (message) 1,305 posts, Bumble bee

Those turned out so cute! That’s amazing

11/15/10 @ 11:16 am (reply)

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Mrs. Sewing (message) 2,701 posts, Sugar bee

hardcore! very impressive second invite set, love it!
I like the third moo card the best, i think. probably because of your pretty blue ribbon crinoline peeking out from your dress!

11/15/10 @ 11:20 am (reply)

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Mrs. Pretzel (message) 1,893 posts, Buzzing bee

@LemonPuppy: Yep that is Devine Twine!

@Minutiae: When I was teaching college classes I was embarrassed to have to tell some students that my cat “ate” their assignment. He would leave some teeth marks on corners.

@PitBulLover: no etsy shop no time! as soon as all the planning is over I’m going back to my knitting needles for some R&R

11/15/10 @ 3:44 pm (reply)

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MaggieMay7 (message) 35 posts, Newbee

Love the 4th card! but they are all adorable! great job!!

11/15/10 @ 5:50 pm (reply)

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sparks (message) 649 posts, Busy bee

I love your moo cards (the last one is so cute) but not nearly as much as I love your cat! He looks so pleased with himself in the last picture!

11/15/10 @ 8:18 pm (reply)

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jgoulart (message) 1,069 posts, Bumble bee

They turned out awesome, kitty looks like he’s working hard!

11/15/10 @ 10:47 pm (reply)

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mrspaetz (message) 3,805 posts, Honey bee

Aaah… Gocco. How lovely!

11/16/10 @ 12:15 am (reply)

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kirabee (message) 1,402 posts, Bumble bee

I love the doorway pic so much!

11/16/10 @ 2:21 am (reply)

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NoneOfYourBeeswax (message) 146 posts, Blushing bee

I <3 your flowers and can’t wait to see more of them!

11/16/10 @ 11:06 pm (reply)

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jordynrose (message) 6,351 posts, Bee Keeper

Computer twin!

11/17/10 @ 12:45 am (reply)

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Miss OceanBeach SF (message) 181 posts, Blushing bee

Amazing, Pretzel! Any tips on how you get such a good quality Gocco print? I’ve done some test projects in preparation for printing our invites and I can’t get an even, high-quality print to save my life! Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated.

11/17/10 @ 5:59 pm (reply)