Wedding Invitations

Man, am I sure glad to have our invitations done and out the door. These were a humongous project! I've said a couple times that my cousin would be helping us with artwork. Let me just say, she went above and beyond. Really, her sketches make our invites. One of these days I'll figure out how to repay her awesomeness. Till then, let me show you what we've got.



We went with this vertical booklet layout. It was our original plan to tuck the invitations inside an inner vellum envelope, but we couldn't find any that could then fit into the outer kraft paper envelopes so we scratched that idea. Instead we made a sleeve with a sheet of vellum and these brilliant glue dots and used those as inner envelopes. You can see the back page peeking through the vellum there. Those leaves are on the back of the RSVP postcard, but they make for a cute background for everybody's names too.



Since we're celebrating everything Fall, Susan and I collaborated on this carved tree trunk for the cover page. I love that it's personalized in a non-traditional kind of way. This tree was kind of a kicker, though. It was my original goal to gocco the whole set, but there's no way the tree would have come out well on my little 4" by 6" gocco. So we sent the whole thing to a printer. Having goccoed three sets of invitations before these, I was so excited to finally do my own, but alas. It was disappointing, but it saved me a ton of time in the end and it was worth it for the tree.



Our actual invitation, the ceremony page:



Reception:





My favorite is probably the shindig page. I can't tell you how long I deliberated before I came up with the word "shindig." We're not barbecuing and I don't just want to call it a party or a soiree or a fete or anything silly like that. Nope, we're having a shindig.



Free fonts, how I love thee.



Map:



The compass is my favorite part of the map page.



And like I said, the last page is a tear-off RSVP.



So there you have it! I'm pleased as punch at how these came out, and so glad they're done. And now on to the rest of the list....