Our wedding invitations addressed, stamped and ready to go!
During the process I often wondered if I was mad wanting to make the invitations myself, there were some moments that were a little stressful (like noticing a spelling mistake after I had already printed 80 of them! oh geez!) but seeing them all completed and stacked like this made me so proud and I am pleased that they are exactly how I wanted and imagined them. We have had lots of lovely comments from our guest already and many of them can’t believe that they were all home made.
At this point I need to give a huge shout out to one seriously amazing friend of mine.
My best friend and the most amazing digi designer SJ designed these for me. She put up with a lot through the whole process, when I kept changing my mind, complaining that it was *exactly* the right shade of green or asking for the butterflies to be tilted an extra degree to the right! lol!
The invites were made up of three postcard sized pieces in our wedding colours. This front one in green is the official invitation piece. In addition there was a grey card listing wedding details and finally a pink rsvp postcard. Forgive me for not posting them all here. I hope you understand that they contain just a bit too much personal info.
Sj even designed the envelope liners and we personalised each and every invitation with the guests names on the rsvp card and the addressed were all printed onto the envelopes too. This also was more time consuming then I thought it would be!
Finally the three pieces are held together with a paper band {heart}
Of course…. as I am a scrapbooker I had to document the actual moment that the process could be deemed final and completed…. the moment I let go and they fluttered to the bottom of the postbox to wait to be collected and delievered through each indivdual letterbox.
The final (and my favourite detail) were the personalised stamps. SJ scaled down the main design and we uploaded the image turn it into a ‘Smiler’ thanks to Royal Mail. You can upload images or photos, select the accompanying stamp and they are delievered to you, ready to be added to any letter you send.
I love them and kinda wish you could create multi-image sets as they would be cute to send out for all your letters!
So that’s it…. stage one DIY wedding complete…..
I bet SJ now wishes she hadn’t agreed to help with this… as we still have menus, place settings, order of service and thank you cards to go!!!