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!
A few of the engagements…
MLK day, Matt and I went to take our engagement photos with local photographer Allen Arrick. He posted some of our pictures on his blog: 
To view more, visit http://allenarrick.com/allenarrickphotoblog/?p=713! All rights and pictures are his! Didn’t he do a great job!!
Un-wedding? Yes, please!
So this wedding blogging thing is off to a slow start. I can’t tell you how unbelievably busy it’s been lately. But I’m going to start updating on a pretty regular basis now.
Let’s back up and explain how this “un-wedding” is gonna work!
We got engaged on Christmas. Tres cute video floating on Facebook somewhere! We made a promise to each other that we wouldn’t talk about anything wedding related until after Jan. 1. (I went underground and started looking up stuff like mad!) I kept my end of the deal and just didn’t verbalize any of my findings! *wink wink*
But in all my searching on prices, planning, wedding lists and more, I just became over whelmed beyond belief. I would close all the sites I had open and just think, “Elopement, here we come!” Then I stumbled upon The (Un)Wedding: A 12-Step Plan.
This article gave me faith again! Sounds stupid, but I breathed a sigh of relief when I realized, there are no wedding police! If we choose something different, no one can say a word because its our wedding! I began to scheme together a few things, and had them all ready to present to Matt. He liked them and here’s what we have come up with.
(Somewhat untraditional, but so very us!)
We decided to divide our wedding in half. We are literally pressing pause and picking where we left off a few months later. We are having a small private (family & wedding party only) ceremony in my parents backyard on April 17, 2010. We will have a small “send-off” to greet our guests, then leave on our honeymoon! *hits PAUSE* Then on July 3rd, we will have a dinner reception at the Cedars of Lebanon building in Tyler. *hits PLAY* This will be everything that normally happens at a reception, cake, toasts, dances, etc. Most of all it will be a big fun party where we can celebrate our marriage with you! We chose this format because it works for us and family and school and dates and more.
The colors we decided on are shade of pink, celery green, white/ivory, and black.
Besides the “format” for the wedding, I’ve surprised myself and my mom with how “untraditional” I’ve wanted things, including my dress. Its definitely not one of these wedding cake topper, “I look like a cupcake”, princess, snow-white gowns. It’s got a vintage feel and made me cry when I put it on.(I’m a big baby!) I absolutely love it. (P.S.—I found it at Weddings A to Z, they have a wonderful supportive staff!)
I have some amazing ideas for the ceremony (all of which Matt agrees to, it is not my day, it is OUR day) which I can’t decide if I wanna share or not. I’m about 80/20 for sharing so I’ll elaborate later.
There is a little background to get you started, let me know what you think!
Be sure to visit our wedding website: http://mattandsarah.ourwedding.com
Hello world! Here we come!
Matt and I have been dating for over 4 1/2 years. On Christmas day, he proposed in front of friends and family! We knew we would get married all along but when he proposed I had no idea. (Theres video of it on facebook, as soon as I can get it loaded on here I will, that might might be beyond my computer knowledge capacity)
We decided we’ve been dating long enough and don’t need a long engagement. So we’ll be getting married in a ceremony April 17, 2010 with a big party reception later on. But we aren’t your average couple and it won’t be an average wedding.
Our ceremony and reception being separate is only the begining of our “un-wedding plans”
Join me on our journey!
