Our entire family came together for one special night to help make our wedding invitations. Moms, Dads, Brothers, Sisters, Nieces, and Aunts all united in an effort to produce a unique and personal invitation for the wedding of our dreams.
Here are a few pictures of the details, to share. The first two photos are what we call "Morea Vision" as they were taken from the perspective of a four year old, pretty good we think!
Notice the wine and girl scout cookies...these are what got us through.
That, and Round Table Pizza.
My sisters and Godmom working with intense concentration. There was a strict time constraint and I was NOT messing around that night. In fact, I vetoed my mom off of the embossing station for working too slowly at one point and made potential candidates audition their handwriting for the addressing of envelopes. It was serious business.
These lace pockets were sewn by my mom the week prior. The lace was a bargain at Hobby Lobby and cost us roughly $25 for all 80 invitations.
We did a LOT of embossing that night. We embossed this lace detailing on the cards as well as on the backside of the envelopes. In addition to the lace stamp embossing, we embossed our names' and RSVP stamps. All cards, inserts, and envelopes were done with just a single embossing gun.
My sister Kristina (also my Matron of Honor) designed this stamp special for the invitations. Using varying fonts for different parts of our names, we used Photoshop to create this custom stamp reading "Kaitlyn & Daniel." We then uploaded that to a site that created the actual stamp for us, based on our prototype.
Here you can see the sleek and simple fonts we used for the wedding details. MarthaStewart.com came handy for getting the wording just right and gave us inspiration for explaining the dynamics of our families.
Instead
of having our guests RSVP via the traditional method of returning a
postmarked card, we asked that they log-on to our wedding website. This
saved us money and also allowed us the chance to advertise other details
of our wedding day that we were unable to include in our invitation,
such as our love story and our engagement pictures.
Homemade invitations, sealed with love and invaluable family memories.
Vwaa-laa!
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