Invitations, made with love. And a little swearing.

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!

To be honest, the invitations were a huge project and caused quite a bit of stress. I love how they came out, but the process was rather trying! Paper that was discontinued, printer issues, printing issues (and more printing issues), it just went on and on. Thank goodness for Meg's guiding hand.

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.)