Weddingbee Blog

Back in March, I met with our friend, Designer Mama, to start going over ideas for our invitation design. She’s an awesome graphic artist with great taste, and a sweetheart to boot, so I was naturally super excited to see what she came up with. I was nervous about asking her to help with the invites, but I couldn’t imagine doing them myself, and I didn’t really want to outsource the project to somebody I barely knew. I was willing to pay her whatever she wanted, so imagine my complete shock when she said she’d do it as a gift! I could have hugged her. I probably did.

I tried telling Mr. Ladyfingers how excited I was, and he reminded me about his idea: Buy a pack of 50 party invitations from Target and call it a day.

Heh.

To start the process, I brought over my Super Freakishly Organized Binder of All Things Wedding (which, incidentally, I had left under a friend’s car seat a few weeks ago and went batcrap crazy thinking I’d lost). One of my very favorite things to save are wedding-invitation images (actually, any kind of stationery), so I had plenty of ideas! We started going over them to see what unified those designs I loved.

Image via Grey Likes Weddings / Designs by Storkie

Image via Ms. Sloth

Image via Minted

Image via Michael Duerksen

Image via Oh So Beautiful Paper / Design by Bird Dog Press

Now that we had established what I liked—varying fonts, interesting organization, semi-traditional but slightly fun and definitely unique options—we could get started. We hammered out the invitation wording, I left her with a few of my pulled inspiration photos, and just a few weeks later we had the finished product!

What about your own invitation design? Did you accumulate a lot of inspiration from all over? What were the defining elements in what you loved? And did you go DIY (I am so jealous of your talent!) or outsource, either to a close friend or a professional designer?