Accept the Imperfection
September 24th, 2008 @ 10:24 am by Mrs. Avocado
Scene: A slick haired salesman in crocodile shoes approaches the reader’s computer screen. Miss Avocado lags behind a bit out of shyness and apprehension surrounding the critical response.
*knock knock*
A seasoned Weddingbee reader, one who has seen gorgeous DIY invites come from the likes of Miss Shortcake, Mrs. Cupcake, and Miss Pomegranate comes to the computer screen.
Reader: “Hello?”
Salesman: “Special delivery, brought to you by Miss Avocado, Mamacado, and Elizabeth Anne Designs!”
Reader: “Oh, do come in. Miss Avocado teased me with a preview over a week ago, and I knew this day would be coming rather soon. I can’t wait to have you show and tell me everything!”
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The Finishing Touches
September 22nd, 2008 @ 10:33 am by Miss Sweet Tea
Other posts in this series:
[1. Paper Trails]
[2. A Lucky Find]
[3. Help Me Print These, s’il vous plait?]
Now that you’ve seen the main components for the invitations, here are the last bits of DIY and purchased goodies we used to round out the look.
(Mr. Sweet Tea puts in his fair share!)
After we finalized our invitation design, I contacted Sweet Papery about customizing one of her lovely address stamps for us.
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Help Me Print These, s’il vous plait?
September 19th, 2008 @ 1:25 pm by Miss Sweet Tea
After Mr. ST and I decided to work the Hello!Lucky invitations into our budget, we had to immediately think about the RSVP card and out-of-town inserts. While we loved Hello!Lucky’s letterpress options, our budget did not. 
So, with the help of my best girl R., I worked on creating some suitable inserts for our invitation suite. To make things simple, we just did the RSVP card and a one-page insert with the ’schedule of events’ for the weekend. No maps, no driving directions, nothing- first, because we don’t expect anyone to rent cars (I hope they don’t since the French Quarter is totally walkable, and the Garden District a simple and picturesque streetcar ride away), and second, because we’ll be giving folks maps and directions in their OOT bags anyway. Plus- the more inserts, the more we spend in supplies, printing, mailing… you get the drill.
I knew right away what paper we would get- the Fabriano Medioevalis stationery, sold most affordably at Dick Blick. In my earliest invitation dreams, I thought I might be able to make our own invitations using this paper. For the price, it’s such a nice quality and I love the deckled edges. For sizing, we chose the “Regular Single Card” for the insert, and the “Reply Single Card” and envelopes for… well, you know.
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A Lucky Find
September 17th, 2008 @ 3:31 pm by Miss Sweet Tea
Who says blogging doesn’t have its benefits? It was through an earlier version of yesterday’s post that I happened upon the fantastic-ness that came to be our wedding invitations. In my pre-WB blog, I started off my cheap-but-chic invite post with a fond farewell to my dreams of letterpress goodness, and named Hello!Lucky as one of my all-time favorites.
When I went to pop into the Hello!Lucky site that fateful day (I had banned myself from looking at any more letterpress stationers because it had gotten too depressing), what did I find but their (at the time) newly unveiled Marry Me! line of invites, touted as a faster and more affordable letterpress invite.
[My original Hello Lucky love... le sigh.]
Paper Trails
September 16th, 2008 @ 5:20 pm by Miss Sweet Tea
I never thought it would be so hard choosing our invitations. This is definitely something I blame on reading too many wedding blogs in my pre-bee days. I never had grand designs of making my own– yours truly can hardly wield a stapler, let alone a Xyron or Gocco thingamajigger (I am in awe of all of you that can!). I did, however, want some fun, slightly whimsical but still classic invitations, for a price that wouldn’t break the budget. This, as I’m sure some of you already well know, is harder than it sounds!
Before I get into the invitations we chose, and yes, the DIY projects we did to spruce them up, I wanted to share a few finalists in our cheap-but-chic invite search. Maybe they’ll be of help to some of you!
Wedding Paper Divas. There were some serious contenders from this site, especially this “Happy Vine” design below- it’s designed by the awesome folks over Night Owl Paper Goods! Ultimately, we wanted to stick with our black, white, and deep red palette, so while lovely, the pale pink and orange-y red of this invite didn’t quite fit.
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They’ve RSVP-ed For Real
September 15th, 2008 @ 8:30 am by Miss Sea Breeze
It’s finally starting to feel real.
Well, okay, it also started to feel real when we sent out the invites… and when I bought my dress… and when I found my wedding day shoes. But those things were all “ohmygosh-we’re-really-getting-married”-real.
This time it’s “ohmygosh-we’re-really-going-to-Punta-Cana-to-get-married” -real. Last Friday was the deadline for all our guests to pay the rest of their hotel and flight balances. I was a bit nervous all last week, since, if people were going to bail out of coming to our wedding, that’s when it would have happened. The $200 deposit per person was due back in May, but the balance wasn’t due until last week. That was a long time, and who was to know what could have happened in four months (People could have gotten pregnant, that’s what… at least, with our friends.)!
Recently, reader Laura commented on my post about the invitations we made, asking what the ‘travel info’ card that we included with our invitations looked like. I can’t believe I forgot to show you. Here it is:
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Bye Bye Babies
September 12th, 2008 @ 9:32 am by Mrs. Avocado
I just put all 75 of our Seattle wedding invitations in the mail today. Wheeeeeee! I can’t show you everything yet because we still have 200 announcements to finish assembling and to mail off, and I want them to be a surprise for everyone who will receive them in the mail. I can give you a little sneak peek of all of their pretty pretty parts, though!
Yummy linen texture!
A Teaser
September 11th, 2008 @ 5:41 pm by Mrs. Coconut
My apologies, this post will be short because I can’t share everything with you yet. However, I can reveal two things:
1.) I had a breakdown and hired someone else to make the majority of our remaining stationery. Yes, my gocco is extremely upset with me, but I’ll be using her for other projects that you will see soon.
2.) One word: Letterpress.
I’ll be seein’ you soon!
Winter Wedding Inspiration Part 2: The Classic Snowflake!
September 5th, 2008 @ 5:49 pm by Miss Champagne
One of the most popular and classic winter wedding themes is the icy blue, white and silver snowflake theme. Although this isn’t the route that we have decided to take, there are so many beautiful touches that can be added to a wedding using this color scheme, from the invitations to the favors. My favorite below are the mittens—adorable!
Our Invitations
August 29th, 2008 @ 3:35 pm by Mrs. Sundae
Finally, some pictures! Admittedly they aren’t the best quality, but a makeshift photo shoot on our kitchen counter will have to suffice. 
I designed the invitation suite myself and worked with a local letterpress company to have them printed. I love letterpress so much that we just had to find a cost effective way to make it work, so designing them myself and using a small printing company proved to be the best option. It took a lot of research, and I didn’t actually have the best experience with them, but I am really happy with the end result so I suppose that’s all that matters! I hate to blur out the some of the information but hopefully you can still get an overall feel for how things looked…
