Wedding Blog

AKA, the envelope details…

Here are what our pretty light blue envelopes look like all nekkid. So… this story is about my first epic fail, which could have been disastrous, but ended well.

With ~ 210 invitations going out, you can imagine the importance of keeping track of RSVP cards!

To do so, I invested in the coolest little pen ever - the blacklight/secret agent pen!!! I wanted to keep the RSVP cards looking nice. I also wanted to avoid guests feeling like they were “ranked lower” just because of their #. So, I went with the spy pen.…

So, since I’m starting to get RSVPs back… this means I can finally reveal our invitations to the hive!!! Hooray! Yes, our babies have all left home…

To start with, we HAD to have letterpress. We made sure we budgeted enough for this - and when our budget looked a little tight, Mr. Ramen told me to just go for it, since it’s the one paper…

I’ve been debating for a while now what types of invitations to fashion for our wedding. I say “fashion” because I am indeed going to be designing and crafting them myself. Our invitation budget is meager at best, and while there are amazing stationers out there, letterpress for us will only be a dream. (And, surprisingly, I’m okay with that!)

I have folders upon folders of…

From the time they were conceived as an idea in my mind, until I gave them wings to fly across the country, creating these bad boys has been the project most resembling the child rearing process to me.

At first, I thought invitations were “nice”. Other people’s invitations were just lovely, but they seemed like a really big commitment. They were something that I always wanted, but didn’t feel ready to take…

Many of you may remember my obsession with paper goods and wedding invitations, so you can imagine my delight when Sister Daffodil asked me to design her an invitation! A few weeks prior, we had picked out a canary yellow and light pink theme together for her wedding. I wanted the invitation to reflect her and BIL Daff’s personalities and how their wedding would likely be - lighthearted, joyful, but most of all, FUN!

We last left our series on the cusp of the most epic invite on the planet. The be all, end all. The invitation to trump all invitations. The one, the only, the Lindsey Ryan Design invitation (time stops, angels sing). I first caught a glimpse of a LRD invitation right here on Weddingbee, thanks to a post by Mrs. Mouse…

I’ve already shown you the “basic” invitation we sent to our guests. However, for a few special people, “deluxe” invitations were found in mailboxes.

The full “suite”: stamped and “fauxligraphy” addressed envelopes, front and back of the wedding invitation, wedding map, liner, rehearsal dinner and bridesmaids’ brunch invitations.

I held off sending invitations to anyone in our wedding party or family that would be attending the rehearsal…

I received the sample invitations in the mail! As you read in the previous installment of Invitation Imagination, I liked quite a few invitation sets from eInvite.com.

The invite set that won my heart did not have the option to order a sample for $1.50. I thought that was a nice, measly price for a sample, but was disappointed that I wouldn’t be able to see…

Because we weren’t having a particularly fancy invitation suite with letterpress, response cards, fold outs and all those other “fixins” and whatnot, I knew I wanted to at least give the envelopes a wow factor.

I searched high and low for A9-sized chocolate envelopes (for my wonky-shaped invitations) in my city but always came home empty-handed. So I planned a trip with one of my bridesmaids…

In the beginning, I was fairly calm about finding invitations. I figured, ‘Whatever, everyone will just throw them in the trash, anyway. Heck, I’ll just run up to the store and pick some up!’ Yeah, apparently not. Once I became a wedding blog addict, I started seeing all the different (jaw dropping) invitations out there. Wow, this ain’t no “Party City” shindig, eh? Whoops, I…

So last week, I got the best email ever (okay, second best email, next to the one from Pengy saying I was a bee). This one was from another bee, though. I’m too excited and getting ahead of myself; let me rewind and start from the beginning.

I have been scouring every website I can think of for invitations, and none of them were me. Don’t…

Invitations etiquette? 2 months out. Me? 1 month out. That’s how I roll. I make my own rules and I do what I want!

Either that or I’m just a lazy, procrastinating, bad bad bride. I’ll let you pick.

So yeah, because I somehow managed to break my camera, Mr. Lab’s camera, and don’t have the cable connector to Mama Lab’s camera I’ve been borrowing, this…

Has anyone else become obsessed with all the little intricacies they can include in their invitation suite? No? It’s just me? Seriously, before I started wedding planning I just considered the actual invitation and the response card. Now? There are phrases such as envelope liners, hang tags, and Gocco that I never thought I would mutter just flying out of my mouth with reckless abandon.…

Our invites are finished being pressed!!!

Yes, I am proficient with MS Paint. And this is just 1/2 of one of the stacks I received… sigh. LOVE THEM!

I just got our envelopes over the weekend so I could start addressing them (by hand… more on that little bit of insanity/epic fail another day…), and a tiny little part of our invitation suite - the rest will…