Invitations: Final

Invitations are complete! Well, most of them. We have a few that were not printed and found some that were missing while we were putting the invitations together. We're very happy with the outcome of our invitations. We're just hoping they don't come apart in the mail because the envelope is the invitation. They were only $0.61 each. I actually thought it might be slightly more.

Offbeat Bride

I'm addicted to this website, offbeatbride.com. They have tons of interesting ideas. I'm so addicted that I now am following them on twitter. Here's what I found...

http://coreyrachelinvite.com/

It's the most interesting way I've seen an invitation made. I have no patience to do this though, but it's great!

Invitations Part 2

I must say though, mail merges drive me nuts. I like to make things perfect, so it's hard when things don't match up. The new Word version doesn't help either. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why my "Next Record" formula wasn't working.

Now I'm working on the address labels and I'm hoping this works. One good thing to think about is have a family member or friend that's real good at Word help you out. It also does help to have a great Excel spreadsheet. It's so much easier to have just one Excel sheet with everything on it so that you're not all over the place. Have a spreadsheet with columns for each guest, their address etc. But always use headers that can be used for the mail merge.

We had columns for the kids names as well because our invitations are going to be more personal. We have each guests name on the response cards so everyone can write down their meal choice. This also helps to deter anyone who would like to bring extra guests. Having specific names on the response cards sends a small message that, "oh, only me and my husband are invited" I'm not saying it's fool proof, but it does help a bit. Those that are more courteous may just call and ask if someone else can take the place of someone written on the response cards. Of course, in my family, not everyone is that courteous. hehe. But we're trying to find a good solution to this "extra guests" issue.

Invitations

We finally printed one invitation. Only one because it's for Ira's aunt in the Philippines. I must say, we were both very happy with it. The invitation looks beautiful. We didn't print the map though for her invitation because we forgot. We also forgot to add the registration paper on it. I guess that's okay because she'll be driven to the location by family if she is able to come over from the Philippines.

All in all, we are quite happy. It's beautiful!

Wedding Mapper

I found this great website! It can help create your own map for your invitations. You can also add little icons to show where your favorite restaurant and events are near the wedding location. It's great. =)

I'm already done with our invitation map. hehe. Wedding Mapper

Clever Invitations

I'm addicted to this website, offbeatbride.com. They have tons of interesting ideas. I'm so addicted that I now am following them on twitter. Here's what I found...

http://coreyrachelinvite.com/

It's the most interesting way I've seen an invitation made. I have no patience to do this though, but it's great!

Invitation Wording

Man, I haven't blogged in awhile. Been pretty busy. Anyways, it actually didn't take us a long time to find our verbiage. We didn't want the traditional wording because we're already married. Now, on to finding the pretty fonts.

We,
Kathleen
and
Ira
invite you to be with us
as we celebrate our new
life together
.....

Simple and straightforward. Doesn't say anything about vows since we already did it. Perfect. =)

Invitations: Final

We bought our invitations today. Whoohoo! Now on to the fun part. Finding pretty fonts. We decided to just get some pre-made invitations that we'll just print and design on our own. We found one that fits the type of invitation style that we both like. It's simple, but pretty. I'm excited for the font hunt. Ira wants to use wingding. =)This isn't the exact invitation, but the style is the same and it is brown. Hehe. I'm excited.

Invitations Part 2

Okay, Ira and I created our top 3. Here is the 2 that we are deciding on. Then we have to figure out how to create them.

This is my #1, but Ira's #3.

This is both our #2's.

I guess either one will be fairly easy to make, it'll just be pretty tedious. Lots of gluing and cutting. =) Maybe we'll just have a gluing party.

Invitations

Right now, I'm pretty big on making the invitations, place cards, menus, programs, etc. myself. I already know how to use dreamweaver, so I just need to make them and print it out myself. The only issue is I don't know what style to make them. Here's some cute styles I found online so far.

Ira really likes this one. Nice and simple. Not too sure about the dots, but we can always change that.
This is really similar to the first one, but the writing layout is different. Ira liked the vertical style of it but preferred the first one better out of the two.

This one is really cute. I found this at etsy.com. I want to see if I can make it myself. I think the pocket is easy enough to make. It may take me awhile, but that should be okay if I start now.This looks like a bookmark, and it caught my eye cause it's different.

This one was also found on etsy.com. I like the front design a lot. The inside is kinda cute too because it's like a book. Ira wasn't too found of how the RSVP card was placed. Once they take it out, there's technically empty space in the back. We'd have to design something to go behind it.

Either way, I don't know what style to choose. Any thoughts?