Shower Invitations

We hit our  3 month mark on Friday and it appears that this is the time for pre-wedding event  invitations to start arriving! On Friday I got my invitation to my bridal shower and I was floored by the amazing-ness of these hand made invites. 

My aunts, Mary & Peggy, know that I am working on making my wedding (and my life) as green as possible, so they stayed with that theme and it begins with these invitations. They made them out of folded paper lunch bags and they are more than just invitations...

If you can't read the text in the left corner it says: "Sara and Hillary live too far away; please send your gifts to their home in LA. Please bring back this brown paper sack filled with a little something you feel the bride shouldn't lack." (How cute is the rhyming?)

So they request that all of the shower gifts be sent directly to Hill and I, but then to bring a small little trinket to the shower in the paper bag. I think the idea is some useful thing the giver loves themselves and feels like they couldn't get along with in their every day lives. So the paper bag invite gets up-cycled into wrapping paper. 

I think these are so fantastic and can't thank them enough for taking the time to DIY these invites. (Thanks to my mom and Riley too, since I know they had a hand in the creation of these). More on the green shower next month. I can't wait!!

The Invitations!

We are days away from being at the 3 month mark. So I have a little under a month to get all 175 invitation envelops addressed and get these beautiful babies in the mail. They arrived on Thursday and I have not stopped looking at them since. I took one to work and set it next to my computer to brighten up my cubicle. They are just so lovely!

And for that Hillary and I have to thank our wonderful friends Matt and Lindsey. Matt designed and printed 200 of these for us and while I don't know the extent of her role, I'm sure his amazing wife (and my bestie) Linz, had a helping hand in getting these to us. They are both talented artists and wonderful friends.

When I first discussed what I wanted with Matt my goals were for them to create as little waste as possible (no second envelope and the reply card is a post card to eliminate an envelope needed there) and for them to be casual and represent us and the day. The only 2 pieces not pictured are the envelope and directions card, so I think we achieved our goal there. Matt's design fits perfectly in with our "prairie chic" theme. I am just thrilled with them!

P.S. - Sorry for my lack of blogging lately  - here is my excuse.

B-Ette Party Invites

If you follow my blog you know that one of my best friends is getting married just weeks before us. I just received the most adorable invite, made with love by her sisters, Kadie and Tracy (Tracy says Kadie should get most of the credit) to her bachelorette party.

They were sent in a vertical, pocketed, tri-fold, inner envelope with a pink ribbon wrapped around them (which my cats promptly claimed as theirs). 

Inside were three adorable stacked coordinating pieces of paper with important info on them. Julie is in Austin, but her sisters live in Milwaukee (which is close to where we grew up) so they are taking the entire weekend to celebrate Jules and have tons of girlie fun!

I love the rhyming and the lingerie shopping idea. Especially helpful for people traveling long distances who may not want to haul a gift. 

The last page gives all the most important info. (It's scalloped but because of the white background you can't see that.) Kudos to Kad and Trace! Great job. 

The sadness? Because of my maxed out wedding travel budget and lack of vacation days due to my own wedding and honeymoon, I can't go. WAAHHHHAHAH! I will be missing a great time, as you can see. 

Save The Dates - Fini!

I showed you the front of our save the dates a while back and told you how our amazing friend, Matt, designed and printed them for us.  I'm happy to say that they have now all been addressed and mailed. It's very exciting!

They are post card style, so I wrote personalized messages on each one saying how much we would love for each person to join us in June. There were more than these, but I already mailed a bunch out earlier in the week. We made the decision, because of our extensive 260 person guest list, only to send to close friends and family, not that we don't want everyone to attend, just to cut down on costs a bit. Everyone will, of course, get an invitation.

And no, I did not spill water on them and smudge the calligraphy pen. The program I used to blur the addresses did that, which I kind of like.