Over the weekend, Ryan and I started building the invitations! I didn’t expect this honestly, but it was SO MUCH FUN! Here’s a breakdown of what went into this.
First my beautiful and obviously talented bridesmaid Haley volunteered to basically be my personal wedding invitation graphic artist. How lucky am I!! She designed the entire invitation and sent me a copy. I couldn’t have ordered a more perfect layout and design myself. I loved it! The colors were great! The wording was us! It was modern yet simple and I loved it! It’s not overly mushy but still has an element of sweetness. I guess in a way I didn’t know what I wanted the invitation to say or look like until I saw what she came up with!! As we printed them out, (this may sound funny) I felt very proud of our wedding. They added a formal and sophisticated element that I hadn’t felt yet.
The Next step was from my talented fiancé’. He created a website dedicated to the wedding. Our blog has been used for a record of the planning process so I didn’t want people to have to scavenge through to find direction information etc. He asked me what to include and then wah-la came up with ryan-danny.com! OUR OWN URL! We worked on the different aspects of the site each night last week. I found myself excited to leave work and get to work on the details! We would play around with pictures, fonts, links etc. Ryan shines when it comes to a technology challenge so it was really fun to watch him learn new ways to link or embed information! I love my little techy nerd! THEN on Friday he brought home all sort of equipment from work. He literally set up a studio in our basement. Lights, cameras, mics… the whole thing! We created a basic vlog style video and explained the purpose of our website. Ryan edited it and it’s now our homepage to the website!!!!! HOW COOL!
Originally we were going to try to send out wooden invitations! (Belinda's idea!!! She know's me so well!) Loved it! But time and money said to try to create our own with a kit. One day while bargain shopping at Good Will, I found a blank invitation kit. $10 bucks and I only had to buy one more box from the store!! So low and behold it all came together better than expected! I loved putting them together and having the weekend experience!
Here’s the creation process
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| Blank Envelope |
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| Gluing the Info Card |
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| Info card about our website! |
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| RSVP card with return envelope! |
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| We stuffed the cards into the pocket! |
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| This was the hardest part! |
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| The actual invitation portion! |
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| Completed Product! |
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| Sealed and Addressed! |
So this is what 100 invitations look like!
Then it's off to the post office we go!
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| We carried the box in on TAX DAY... haha. |
People stared at us as we posed with a box of invitations!! Ryan is such a good sport! I love that he played along with this whole day! To tell you the truth, as we sealed and finished our parents invites. I cried. He stood me up and hugged me and said "We're getting Married!".... GOSH I COULD CRY AGAIN!
SO HERE THEY COME FOLKS!!!
Amazing experience!
THANK YOU HALEY! They are perfect!
www. ryan-danny.com
