Mailing makes me fluttery!
Today, I am putting the ceremony invitations in the mail. This is probably not a big deal as it feels to me. To tell you the truth it feels HUGE! My heart gets fluttery with excitement just thinking about dropping them in the mailbox! Last night as I stuffed them in envelopes I felt the same way. Excited, Nervous, like it was really official and not just a dream!
To jog your memory, our ceremony is in about 6 weeks. It will be small. The invitation went to almost exclusively to family and the wedding party. (Fear not! You’ll be included too! Our reception will be on July 3rd. Save the dates are coming soon and that’s a whole nother DIY adventure!)
So these invitations are deeply important to Matt and I because they are going to “the people who have gotten us where we are” (as Matt would say!) Moms, Dads, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Best Friends—all mean more to us than sometimes we even realize.
But these thoughts weren’t lost on me last night as I carefully licked, stamped, and closed each envelope. It took longer than it probably should have but I’m only going to mail out my wedding invitations once! So it was special to me! (laugh all you want at my sentimentality—blame my family!) =D I even saved a few for Matt to stuff and lick (since he just supervised in the making of the invitations, I felt bad) He realized the importance too! And took his sweet time stuffing those few. Haha! It would have taken probably 3 times as long as me to do ALL of them, and I was going slow. He knew it too! Anyway, we are super excited to mail them out today! And in case you forgot what they looked like:
The reception invitations are going to look like this too! =D
Also on the agenda this week:
- Meeting with the wedding photographers
- Going to a friends wedding
- Working on Save the Date’s
- Deciding what I’m gonna wear on the honeymoon! (Yes, it takes me this long!)
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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!
