The Art of the Invite

The invitations are done! I am so relieved. They came out very well, and I spent an afternoon gluing them together. We're only inviting about 60 people, so it's been very manageable. I can't imagine having a wedding of 100 or 150 people, how much time and effort that would require.

The invitation design process was fun, sometimes frustrating, and very rewarding. With RJ's help I managed to successfully use Adobe Illustrator to design the invites and RSVP cards, and set them up for the printer. After looking at many, many paper samples I settled on a textured ivory for both cards, with a navy blue cardstock as the backing. Eric suffered through one paper-shopping visit in which I went back and forth for about 20 minutes on 3 different subtle shades of navy. Luckily, despite this, the wedding is still on.

I had the invites printed at a local copy center. They were very friendly and efficient, and had the printing done in a few hours, just enough time to do some more shopping downtown! The print was perfect - and cheap to boot!

Once I got them home I cut the cardstock to size and sprayed the invitations with spray adhesive, then mounted them on the cardstock. I had to adjust the first few because the cardstock was a hair too small, but the final product was great.

I found some gorgeous hand dyed silk ribbon from Of the Earth, a vendor on Etsy. They were wonderful and I got the ribbon within 3 days.

Once the invitations were dry, I put Mom to work on the assembly line. We tied the invite and RSVP with a ribbon and put them in envelopes. I printed out the mailing labels, and they were ready to go!

For your viewing pleasure, Mom did a simulation of getting an invite.