Invitations are sneak peek to wonderfulness!
I have 3 friends, and about 5 acquaintances getting married this spring. Whoa! As I hear how others will do their wedding its interesting to kind of compare. But really there is no comparison, because how we do ours is completely different than what someone else would do and like. Vice Versa!
If you do not send out a save the date card, the first thing others see of a wedding is the invitation. To me, it’s a “sneak peek” of the festivities. It tells a little bit about how formal/informal or traditional/untraditional the wedding will be.
So of course for our unique little wedding, we had to have a unique invitation! I’m totally in love with our invitation, it’s the prettiest one I’ve ever seen/will see. I don’t think we could have done a better job. (I know others will not share my opinion but I don’t really care, I’m too blissfully happy with mine!) And Matt likes it too. I made sure to ask at every step if he approved and make sure it was fitting of us (and not just my crazy crafty imagination!)
We (Mom and I—Matt supervised) made the first round of invitations the other night. I say first round be cause we made just the ceremony invitations. Reception invitations will be exactly the same except there will be a WHOLE lot more. Plus, all the rest of the required stationary (STDs, RSVPs, Thank yous, Programs) BM’s get ready! It will be assembly line production on that for sure with lots of extra hands.
We got them all made and I snapped cell phone pictures of each step. Because of course I never do anything really easy (there were at least 10 different steps!) Lots of stamping, folding, gluing, and printing. They are not great but at least we have pics! In the end, every single step was worth it because they are beautiful! *P.S. Thank you April for helping come up with the concept! Thank you Mom for helping make them! Thank you Mom & Matt for putting up with my crazy ideas!!
So here’s the step by step and the final invitation!
Step 1: Roll the stamp across small white paper with light pink ink!
Step 2: Stamp “cherish” in black on rectangle piece.
Step 3: Add sparkle dots( called dazzling diamonds! hehe) on small rectangle piece!
Step 4: Add black edging to top of rectangle piece.
Step 5: Attach darker pink lace to bottom of rectangle piece.
Step 5-10: I missed a couple pictures in here because I got so caught up in making them but (5) we printed the wording on white paper, (6) rounded the white corners, (7) stamped light pink scrolly thing-twice, (8) attached to green card, (9) rounded green top corners (10) folded card
Step 11: Attach small rectangle to bottom of green invitation.
Step 12: Punch out 2 hearts and attach together.
Step 13: Attach hearts to invitation. Spray with “special touch”! There it is the finished product!
*Sigh* I’m in love with them. And ready to make more/everthing else! They are time consuming but so worth it, I love to make things! Until next time!
DIY means dumb in yo-yo’s?
Creating things in my family is given. And if you know me at all, you know that I got this gene many times over. Its completely in my blood (I’m even slowly trying to make it a profitable business–www.thepinklemondesigns.etsy.com). My dad’s mom and sister have painted dinner china, porcelain dolls, and done awesome wood crafts! My mom and her sister have made so many awesome decorations (holiday, party, etc) I can only hope to be as talented and them. My girl cousins on mom’s side, same thing! From drawing, collage-ing, crafting, and scrapbooking, we all compare notes on how the other one did that. So it’s really in my blood! Plus it is one of my favorite things to do in my free time.
Now all that lead up was to say, I’m going to be doing a lot of the wedding preparations myself (this means MOB, MIL, Aunts, bridesmaids, and all other creative people I know). It’s a very DIY wedding! I’m making invitations, all wedding related stationary, bouquets, boutonnières, decorations, and anything else I/we can think of. I’ve been talking about all these projects to Matt since we started planning, mentioning DIY all the time. He nodded his head in acknowledgement with everything I said (I am highly aware that I ramble on about a lot of crafting and he nods to say he’s partly listening, and that’s ok with me because I just like to talk about it.) Then finally about 2 weeks ago, I was babbling on about something and he said, “What is DIY?” I stood shocked. I forget sometimes that not everyone knows all of my different acronyms. DIY means Do It Yourself! I explained, and he replied, “Oh, that makes a lot of the other stuff you’ve been talking about make a lot more sense.”
I love him. He makes me smile.
All this to say, we’ve gotten started on making everything (invitations are this week). I started on bouquets last weekend, (NOT EASY)! Thank goodness, I only have to make 5 (four bridesmaids, and my throwaway). I also made the boutonnières. Those were way easier!
Of course while making the 2nd bouquet; I’ve realized I wanna change something on the 1st one so that one will be taken apart again. This is the only frustrating thing about “crafting” (I think we need to think of a new name for it, crafting as a verb sounds so flippant. Its much more of an art than people realize, whoops, that’s a whole ‘nother discussion!) I will update this with a picture or two of my bouquet making soon.
And two more things:
We got our cake topper in! A rhinestone T! Isn’t it pretty!
AND………………… we get married in 2 months from today. Insane!!
