Yup, just quoted a Beyonce song and added the word doily to it. Pretty sure I just became the coolest I have ever been in my life. Now that that’s cleared up, I can explain that this post is all about my wedding invites! Yes! I am finally able to share all the details with you, because they went out last week. Woot woot!! That means only 2 months to go.
First off, my invites were homemade. I decided to go the homemade route because I figured it would do two things for me. 1. Save me money and 2. Be absolutely unique. I have to say that I did accomplish both of these tasks, that is if you consider my time worth $0. If my time is worth money than these are the most expensive wedding invites ever!
Here’s how it all went down…
I googled around looking for some wedding invitation wording that I like. Pretty much I was looking for something with a fun and casual feel. I came up with this…
What are you doing May 10, 2014?
Nothing?
Perfect, because…
Vanessa and Justin
are getting married!
You have to be there!
Meet us under the oak tree.
Dinner, drinks and awkward, but enthusiastic dancing to follow.
Of course there are locations and times included, but I left those out. Overall, I thought this was more us than the tradition wording that most have.
From there I had to figure out how I was going to print these. I typed it up and purchased some cream colored card stock. I went with cream because it was a good neutral base color and it tied in with my save the dates that previously went out…
I also used the same font(yellow peas) that I used on the save the dates. And see those little yellow flowers? These guys…
Welp, I wanted to include some of those as well, just to tie everything together with the save the dates. Last time I attached them with my good ol’ friend the hot glue gun, but this time I wanted to try something else. Then I came across a couple of ideas like this…
Sewn invitations!!! And guess what? I have a sewing machine! And boom! Just like that I had a plan.
I sewed some of those cute little flowers on each invite and here is the end result…
I went with a zig zag pattern when sewing the flowers on.
I also had to come up with an RSVP for the invites, so I did the same googling and pinteresting thing and found a few I liked…
I was really digging the mad lib idea, I just needed to figure out what I wanted mine to say. I wanted to keep it simple, since I thought this may confuse people to begin with. Here is what I came up with…
They also each got a sewn flower. Next up I wanted to include information about our hotel accommodations…
And lastly I created a map. I once again googled around for how to create this map, and found a few that I loved on pinterest…
I wanted mine to be a bit simpler than these. I found a great blog post about creating a wedding map, that went step by step on how to create your own. This is what I ended up with…
and on the back…
Some quick directions written out since it can get a bit tricky. And here is the whole shebang together…
and one more for fun…
I love how they turned out. As you can probably see my colors for the wedding are super neutral, with some greens and yellows. Just how I roll I guess, I like my neutrals. Anyhow, once I put everything together, I still felt like it needed something. Then I remember seeing some wedding invites wrapped in doilies…
I then headed out to Michaels so I could jump on the doily bandwagon. The title of this post might be starting to make some sense now. I bought some 12 inch circle paper doilies and folded them around each invite, just like in the photos above. I then wrapped a piece of yellow or green string(I used both) around the doily and tied it into a bow. Then a trimmed the excess doily that hung above or below the invite. Not picturing it? Well here it is…
And when you untie the string…
You’ll first see the invite and then below…
The RSVP, map and accommodations. Wanna see a heap of invites?
Well, there you go.
The last thing I needed to do was address and stamp these suckers and they are on there way. Here are the stamps I chose…
Vintage flowers, could it get any better?
As for addressing the envelopes I typed up all of the addresses and printed them on each RSVP envelope and each invitation envelope…
And then I did this for fun…
Overall, I can not say I saved a butt load of money on making these myself, but they are definitely one of a kind and I enjoyed making them my own. Thanks for reading:)
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