Wedding Blog

I wanted to formally ask my bridesmaids to be my bridesmaids in a reasonably cute/hip way that avoided the curlz (really, curl z ??) typeface or pseudo Sex and the City-esque cartoon pictures of girls in matching dresses (not that I don’t love Sex and the City, but some of the “Will you be my bridesmaid?” cards are a bit much :/)

Etsy to the rescue. Etsy seller…

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…

As I’ve mentioned before, Mr. Snow’s a graphic designer. Due to his profession, the paper goods of the wedding are most important to him, and invitations top the "made of wood pulp" list. We’ve spent a lot of time thinking and chatting about how we want our wedding invitations and paper goods to look, but with our self-designated Save The Date deadline swiftly approaching, we’re having to make some decisions.

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…

This is my little blue book - full of wedding vendors, to do lists, and inspiration. It has been my constant companion, even through my seasonal purse change.

My dear Aunt sent it to me shortly after my engagement and inscribed the first page with a note and a verse from the Bible.

Our invitations are currently in the works! I’ve been talking with a graphic designer to come up with something formal, bright, personal, and cute! I love cute. And even though I have no idea what it will look like, I already know that my favorite part is going to be the map!

Mr. Parfait and I grew up (and currently live) in the town where we’re…

I have always been a big fan of paper: paper products, paper crafts, anything to do with paper! My neighbor growing up had a drawer in her basement that was filled with scraps of anything from construction paper to scrapbooking scraps and anytime I complained of being bored, Mama Cloud would send me over looking for a project.

It’s no surprise when we got engaged that…

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 wanted something simple and cute to hold up all the labels for the desserts at MOH-Ho’s ’Sugar Spice Nice’ themed shower and I came up with the perfect solution:

When I had my first stress moment about the wedding (and when I say stress moment, of course I really mean complete and utter major freak out with tears and screaming) my fabulous family stepped up as always. They are pretty awesome like that; Mama Cloud does whatever she can, Daddy Cloud knows how to calm me down, and even Brother Cloud has words of…

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…