A Sunday or two ago, I enlisted the help of four lovely ladies from my actual workplace to help me make my wedding invitations. The process: fun. The results: made me want to cry. They came out better than I had imagined, as I had only chosen the paper that morning and just crossed my fingers that they'd come out okay.
Take a look!
After a slow start (all that cutting!!!) we set up an assembly line of measuring/ cutting, folding and tying ribbons.
Kelly, me, Katherine, Maria hiding.
Close-up cutting/folding action.
This photo is proof that I tell AMAZING and FASCINATING stories :)
Well, hello Adam. (photos by Adam, my husband-to-be, before he went to bed.)
Aaaand we're done (I just had to add a few touches the next day):
Katherine wonders if she approves of her work...
...and decides she does.
At half an hour past midnight, Kelly wonders, "Whose ideas was this??!"
All the repetition got Maria a little crazy.
And crazier still!
Modeling the invitations.
I'm too sexy for your party, the way I'm disco dancing.
Some of the invitations:
^Isn't this a pretty pile?
The next day I used a pair of Amber's craft scissors to decorate the edges of the top flaps of the outer envelopes so they looked like this:
This finished product: when you take the outer envelope out of the mailing envelope, you slide the ribbon off and inside is the one-sided 5"x8" invitation, which Adam and I designed in Photo Shop. Just under the invitation is the 4"x6" RSVP post card which I designed in Photo Shop. Under that is a little blurb with additional info about decorating the RSVP cards and contact info to Adam and I. Some guests, depending on their location, also got another little blurb with driving directions.
I seriously love these invitations. In the (near-ish) future I will be making cards for Quiet City that have these same outer envelopes with ribbons that hold cards you can write on, so if you like what you see here keep checking back!
xoxo Courtney Quiet City