December 2008 Archives
I realized that I never posted any photos of our completed invitations. Our friend Meg (who also happens to be Pat's cousin's wife-- my cousin-in-law?) designed our invitations and helped us assemble them. We are forever indebted to her for this sweet and rather huge gift. The design she came up with was perfect, and we could never have executed such a project without her!
Here they are:
Envelopes, with calligraphy by a family friend-
Front-
back-
Inside-
The colors are a little tough to see-- the swirl, our names, and the large fonts on the right are all a deep purple. The smaller font is light brown.
Inserts-
(One of my favorite parts-- the bottom of the response card said: "The back of this card may be used to draw a picture, compose a haiku, or write a note." You can see photos of some of the results at the end of this post.)We used the swirl design in a bunch of other wedding stuff-- programs, table numbers, and the wedding website.
Due to a family emergency, we ended up back in Albany the same day our invitations were ready to go in the mail. They went out a few days late, but the way it worked out, we were able to have our invitations hand-canceled-- not only that, but they were hand-canceled by Pat's aunt. See, every little bit of these invitations had love poured in to it. I wasn't in a very good frame of mind at the time, but I wish we'd taken pictures at the post office. Oh well, the memory is a nice one.
Materials:
To make the invitations we used:
-Kraft Pocketfolds from Cards & Pockets
-Kraft flourish paper from Paper Source. When we bought it it was printed on Kraft paper. Now they print it on their Eco White paper, which is much flimsier and far more lightweight.
-Cardstock for the invitation and inserts was Classic Crest -- really nice paper. The envelopes were also Classic Crest, ordered from EnvelopeMall.
And here's Pat in Meg's studio, hard at work (this was definitely a team effort on behalf of the two of us, Meg, and her husband Steve.)
Because we are obsessed with photos, we ordered photo sharing cards to have at our reception. We were crushed when they didn't arrive in time (despite the guarantee from overnightprints.com that they would).
Since our guests weren't able to see them, I thought I'd at least share them here. I loved the design Pat came up with. These were postcards, and our plan was to have a few at each table, on the bar, and by the photo booth. Oh well...
The front-
Back:
So, um, I feel a little funny telling you this but, uh... I'm blogging elsewhere these days. I'll be back here to finish the recap, but that probably won't happen until I have some time off around Christmas.
I'm going to blog about non-wedding related life on a brand spankin' new blog. You can find me here.
I'm not gone for good, but from now on my most frequent posting will be on that blog. See you there?
