I Need a Hankie

I Need a Hankie

January 27th, 2011 @ 9:06 am by Mrs. Biscuit
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So I’ve been thinking a lot about my invitation suites/save the dates, and I purchased a Cricut and a Yudu screen printer in order to construct them. Originally, I thought I had it all covered…my STD would have the date coming out of the side like so:

I Need a Hankie : wedding diy morgantown save the dates stationery Msw Spr msw_spr

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Cute, huh? And for my invitations, I bought chipboard and was going to bind it together as a book, with the cover covered in fabric. Lofty idea, I know…but I think it’s cute. Here’s a sneak peak at the idea for the first page:

I had to black out our identifying information, so it looks weird. I still need to work with color and stuff, but I think it’s getting close to a cute finished product. Since I’m too cheap to buy Photoshop, I have to use GIMP, which is great freeware but not as user friendly. I’ll show you more details once I’ve actually assembled one, but the idea is to actually have a book as the invite suite with a tear-off RSVP postcard.

However, I also really want to incorporate vintage handkerchiefs. Like this:

I Need a Hankie : wedding diy morgantown save the dates stationery Grace11 grace11

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*swoon* I’m in love! But now the question is, how do I incorporate these gorgeous hankies?! I have a few ideas:

1.) Screen print my invite on them, add a little pocket into my invite book, and place it in there. This is not a bad idea, but kind of ruins my idea for having an invitation suite that will all stay together.

2.) Add them into my save-the-date card. I think this would turn into overkill, and if I scrap the 3D-date idea, then I would have bought a Cricut in vain.

3.) Screen print the menus on them and place them at everyone’s seat. They could serve as napkins. (Although this may be a bad idea; maybe they wouldn’t be thick enough.) I could tie them with pretty twine, though.

Personally, #3 is my favorite option. I’m just afraid they would look silly if they only served the purpose of having the menu printed on them, and that they wouldn’t be sturdy enough to actually work as a napkin.

What do you guys think? Should I just scrap my STD idea completely and use the hankies? Add the pocket to my invites? Or can I get away with my napkin idea? Or do you have another idea entirely? I’m a bit lost.

What have you done to make your invitations unique?

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23 Responses to “I Need a Hankie”

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piglet_625 (message) 2,541 posts, Sugar bee

Could you screen print just your initials and wedding date into the hankies, and add that to the pocket in your invite? Then your actual invite would still be in the book, but you would also have the hankie incorporated separately.

It might be a ton more work for you, but it could turn out amazingly well!! Love all of your ideas!

1/27/11 @ 11:27 am (reply)

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kate169

Screen print a quote you love or your reading on them and then hand them out during the ceremony for “tears of joy”. Or even print programs on them

1/27/11 @ 11:33 am (reply)

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napabridekelsey (message) 3,372 posts, Sugar bee

I think #3 is your best option, too. Is your theme vintage?
I *swoon* over all of the vintage hankies that I see in wedding blogs.
@kate169:
that’s an amazing idea too…

Whatever makes you happy @missbiscuit!

1/27/11 @ 11:47 am (reply)

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MassageBee (message) 165 posts, Blushing bee

I bought a couple dozen on Ebay and am trying to figure out how I want to use them too. I think most likely they will be used for “tears of joy”. Not sure how or what I will print on them though.

1/27/11 @ 12:02 pm (reply)

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Miss Panther (message) 1,046 posts, Bumble bee

You have a Cricut AND a Yudu?!? I think I need to tell Mr. Panther this. He always tells me that I don’t need both. MISS BISCUIT HAS BOTH, MR. PANTHER! I hope you’ll post a lot about your Yudu — I’m so curious about it! We hear so much about Cricuts and Goccos, but the Yudu barely gets any love!
Aaaanyway, I think it would be super sad to spend all that time printing your menu onto those gorgeous hankies just to have people wipe their faces on them. I definitely think they should be keepsakes! Nobody’s going to want to bring a used napkin home, ya know? I would use your hankies for the Save the Date, and find another way to use your Cricut. TRUST ME, there are SO many things you can use it for. Menus, escort cards, place cards, invitation inserts, thank you cards … I can’t wait to see what you come up with!

1/27/11 @ 12:02 pm (reply)

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Kemi82JP (message) 749 posts, Busy bee

yes, option 3 is best, although would your guests want to keep a hankie with a menu on it? maybe just your names, date, and possibly your silhouettes which are a great trend right now! then it would serve as the favor and you can still tie them in twine at each place setting i did our invitations myself too, and a lot of other projects so one big tip I have is once you make a decision you like: DON’T CHANGE IT! cuz more and more fantastic ideas will come your way but you will drive yourself mad trying to incorporate them all. you’ve got your STD’s figured out, stick to them. You’ve got your invites figured out, stick to them. adding the hankie to the invites seems like overkill, but using them as favors is great!

1/27/11 @ 12:05 pm (reply)

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kate169

I definitely posted a comment earlier and it didnt post for some reason…

What if you printed programs on them? Or a quote you love or a reading from the ceremony and handed them out for “tears of joy”?

1/27/11 @ 12:11 pm (reply)

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kate169

NM…I see it now…FAIL lol

1/27/11 @ 12:12 pm (reply)

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Miss Bacon (message) 656 posts, Busy bee

What if you used hankies as your ceremony programs? So they would be double duty as info and a hanky for tears!

1/27/11 @ 12:13 pm (reply)

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cr6zy (message) 1,187 posts, Bumble bee

@Miss Bacon: get out of myhead lol. i read the post and was like tears of joy?? i dont think using them as a program would be too good though, i think maybe just put your names and wedding date? then it becomes a keepsake!

1/27/11 @ 12:15 pm (reply)

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pinkpaperbride (message) 671 posts, Busy bee

Hankie favors or programs!!!

1/27/11 @ 12:16 pm (reply)

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evorce (message) 74 posts, Worker bee

http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/vintage-hankerchief-invites Here is mine and some additional discussion about hankies..

After making my invitations, I have about 130 left over. I was thinking of doing iron on transfers of our name and wedding date and tying them to our programs which will be newspapers tied in a scroll, and I thought they could wave the hankies instead of a toss like some ribbon wands or “Yay!” flags you see.. I even thought of printing something on the hankie like “bid us adieu” or I don’t know something cooler than that that let’s them know to wave them at us as me leave… I decided against hankies for programs because they would not be very sturdy. The idea of them as the invitation worked for me because they are tied around the response card.

1/27/11 @ 12:30 pm (reply)

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Miss Oatmeal (message) 221 posts, Helper bee

I say go for the menu idea, but don’t offer it as a napkin. I’d be so sad to see all that hard work being wiped on someone’s face It will dress up the table, and maybe you can add a sweet message on it for your guests to take home.

1/27/11 @ 12:38 pm (reply)

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DeaconBride (message) 659 posts, Busy bee

I like the idea of the “tears of joy” but I think they will fit best at the ceremony.

My original idea was to create fabric covered “folders” too. I ditched it though. LOL

1/27/11 @ 12:57 pm (reply)

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sugarpea (message) 1,460 posts, Bumble bee

I like the tears of joy idea, as a guest I would definitely appreciate the effort (: you could kill two birds with one stone and put the program on them asMiss Bacon said

1/27/11 @ 1:45 pm (reply)

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mak418 (message) 693 posts, Busy bee

Just a heads up (though it’s probably only a mockup) - on your invites, you have the year as 2010, not 2011. Caught my eye, and wanted to say something just in case. I love the look of the hankie! And I like the tears of joy idea.

1/27/11 @ 4:06 pm (reply)

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Miss Biscuit (message) 625 posts, Busy bee

@mak418: Hahaha. Thanks for letting me know! I realized that, and then was too lazy to change it (a recurring theme for me). I think I’m going with a different mockup for the invitations anyway. Sharp eye though!

Thanks for everyone’s input! I think the program idea is what I will be doing. Then I won’t have to make 300 of them since I was only going to make about 200 programs since not everyone will want one. Woohoo for less work!

1/27/11 @ 5:36 pm (reply)

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Miss Biscuit (message) 625 posts, Busy bee

@Miss Panther: Haha, I definitely told my grandmother that both were essential to my wedding. My first attempt at Yudu was a big fail, but once I actually do some of it successfully, I’ll post about it!

1/27/11 @ 5:51 pm (reply)

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DianaLynn (message) 197 posts, Blushing bee

I love the save the date idea and soooo wanted to do it, but ran out of time, energy, etc….don’t scrap it! Hankies would be great as menus or programs!

1/27/11 @ 5:59 pm (reply)

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