Invitations & Announcements. The Invitation « mequeni creative design. It’s been a while since my last post.
Haven’t been keeping up-to-date with posts and I apologize to the frequent visitors who have probably dropped off the page stats! Anyway, we’re 2 months away from the big day and each day that passes I get more and more excited to bring our vision to life. Here’s our long-awaited invitation. As simple as it looks, the total assembly was not. There are many pieces to the invitation (some of which I didn’t show here – like on the back of the main insert there is a Chinese version and a little box that our guests can write a message for us). The reply card is a tear-off card. This took months of revisions and pressure from everyone to design something spectacular. Do-it-Yourself Paper Doily Wedding Invitation Envelopes. Next up is Hellen’s paper doily envelopes.
She created outer envelopes, I might add, to match the whimsy of her wedding invitations. The vellum reinforcing the underside of the doilies makes these darlings looks luxe. Love. Eco-Vintage Weddings » woodblock invitations. 2000 Dollar Budget Wedding: Invitations. Oh whoa.
I feel like a delinquent blogger. Seriously. How have I been blogging about budget-minded, hand-crafted, eco-friendly weddings for more than two years and I'm just getting around to finding out about the website Download & Print (thanks to another amazing website, iDiY)? Wow. Double wow. Unique Film Canister Wedding Invitations. What happens when two talented wedding photographers make their own wedding invitations?
Awesomeness, that’s what! Larissa and Trevor of Ambient Studios in Toronto made their wedding invitation project a do-it-yourself operation, and the result is a unique and oh so clever film canister invitation that actually has its own little pull out tab that recipients pulled to reveal the invitation details. I’m so delighted by these fun, unique invites that I can feel my urge to squee rising. Squee – ah, I feel much better now. – spotted at Wedding Obsession. {Wedding Inspiration} Real Reader Save-the-Dates! ♥ The Broke. Annie at Thriftfulness tipped me off to her adorable, DIY and dirt cheap wedding save-the-date cards which she made using rubber stamps!
She detailed the how on her blog, so check it out! What a great and easy craft that can be used for all sorts of wedding-y goodness, right? Have y’all heard of “light painting“? It seems like all the new rage, and its being used to make some pretty effing rad save-the-dates by you crafty readers! {Inspired DIY Goodness} Simply affordable invitations ♥ The Broke. This is the final post in a week-long series of amazing DIY projects from Kimberly at Inspired Goodness from a wedding she designed.
We already shared her ceremony canopy, ribbon wall, chair back signs and tissue paper garland and fabulous photo-display wall and seed packet escort card favors… but check out these cute invites, too! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Part of the winning package for the Lucky in Love Contestants included a set of custom wedding invitations. Since Dan and Marquina were only responsible for the printing fees, we worked on a suite that fit into their budget. The invites were designed to be economical and efficient and we choose to treat the RSVP cards as a postcard, eliminating the need for a second envelope. The top card featured the main invitation. Cost Breakdown for (150) Invitations: • Printing Costs: $350 • Envelopes: $45 • Eyelets: $5 Total Costs: $400 February 12th, 2011 by The Broke-Ass Bride.
{DIY or DIE} Origami Flowers ♥ The Broke. Be ye warned: This project is a little more complicated in the sense that it’s tedious, but the end product is 100% worth-it.
Once again, pulled from Playing with Books, I tackled the construction of a flower that has a little more structure and a little more heft to it. And, like before, I didn’t end up using storybook paper {or, sheet music, as the book calls for}. Rather, I opted for lightweight scrap-booking paper and newspaper. {I also lightly skimmed the directions, which was probably not my best move, as this is the most complicated craft project I’ve tackled.
But after one glass of wine and two angry crumplings of failed attempts, I figured it all out.} To be honest, I bought the scrap-booking paper for a different flower project without checking to make sure that it was two-sided. In Playing with Books, they’re called Kusudama. Now. Labor of Love. May I give you a piece of advice?
I think you'll find it fairly useful. If you are considering becoming engaged, I would suggest that you become engaged to a designer. Sure, a stockbroker might make you rich and a doctor might make you healthy---or at least treat you to a little free liposuction now and then---but a designer? Well, a designer will, when the time comes, make you some really kickass wedding invitations. For example, here is what I said to Sean about our own wedding invitations: "I like turquoise.
As far as the construction of these bad boys goes, they were pretty much as DIY as DIY gets. On the right hand side, we had an information sheet and the RSVP card, both of which we printed on cream cardstock from Cards and Pockets, which is pretty much where we bought all the paper other than the pocketfolds. The RSVP envelope was dark gray (or "smoke") and matched the main envelope. As you can tell, it was a whole bundle of laughs, sticking them onto 75 invitations.