PHEW! After three months of envelope lining, belly-band gluing, card stock-cutting, and fancy-address writing, these invites of ours are ready to GO. I originally planned to hold off on a reveal until after they’d been sent away to our out-of-town guests, but what the hey.
You’ll remember in my previous post that I was stressing big time about getting these things done, and about little pokie things here and there that just made me nervous. Well, one of the manyMANYmany things I love about writing for you, hive, is that it motivates me to get things done. The last thing I want to do is go on and on whining about my inability to just buy stamps already, and I really didn’t want to face you a month from now and say we were running behind. Plus, our 100 day mark came and went last week (!!!), so I made it a personal goal to power through and get these things done by that date.
So here we have it—Ye Olde Ladyfingers’ Invites.
Mr. LF is a huge Yankees fan, so in the interest of perhaps getting a signed something-or-other or something else snazzy—and, selfishly, the purposes of having a demo invite to show you—we’re inviting all 25 players from the Yankees’ active roster. Also, love my stamps? Yeah, I do too. They’re the new-ish Garden of Love stamps. I heard so many horror stories about polar bear stamps and the whatnot, so I steeled myself for having to order these online—but our main PO not only carried them, but gave me the EXACT number I needed! Seriously, they’re so pretty. I could stare at our stamps all day.
But moving on!
I just had to show off the custom address stamp from Etsy seller NoteTrunk. I sadly had to blur out a lot of the details, but I love how simple they are, and the slightly messy typewriter style.
So now, when the Yanks—and the rest of our guests—open our envelope, they’ll see…
A ream of hot-pink paper from Xpedx Graphics and a little paper cutter, and in one night I was able to knock out 50 envelope liners. Easy as pie. Our colors are gray, pink, and yellow, and I wanted that pop of color to take the vintage style of the invites to a more modern level. And there’s our little satin-y belly band poking out…
Ta-da! The belly band displays our wedding website, so guests can check out where they’ll be staying, how to get to us, etc. I LOVE how these turned out—the satin-y ribbon looks so elegant to me, and I lovelovelovelove the color. Love.
Speaking of love, let’s take a closer look at the invite itself.
Look at what our Designer Mama came up with!! She took my inspiration and ran with it, crafting something simple but different, with vintage and modern elements, and a clean, nice design. When I first showed Mr. LF the invite proof, he exclaimed “It looks like a rock poster!” Indeed.
And the RSVP card. Again, simple, simple. I love the stylized “M.” We’re doing a buffet, so no meal choices, and since we’re only inviting adults but didn’t have a “guest names” type of belly band, here’s where we’ll indicate how many of them get to come. I did end up adding tracking numbers to the RSVP cards—even though there are only 50, I wanted to make it easier on us should anybody return the card sans name. Also, it had the added benefit of being able to double check my work as I went—I alphabetized and numbered each guest in Excel, and numbered the RSVP cards accordingly. That way, if I had numbered cards left over, I’d know I’d missed somebody.
So there are the Ladyfingers Invites! I’m so grateful that our friend put her heart and soul into this—it meant so much to us that she was a part of the day in this particular way. And the DIY touches just added a little bit of that uniqueness to the mix, so I’m extremely glad we went this route—even if it did give me a headache walking in to a batch of half-done ribbon belly bands every time I came home.
Were you as relieved as I was to get these suckers out the door? And did you totally have to sit on your hands to keep yourself from sending them out early, as I am finding myself having to do?
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