The Invitations Have Arrived!

Friday morning I met up with Sara of Constellation & Co. to pick up our wedding invitations... they turned out AMAZING!  I absolutely love them : )  They are so happy (kind of like me)!  And, the invitation design resembles the garden that Brian and I are getting married in : )

The envelopes are a very pretty turquoise blue.  The paper for the invitations and RSVP postcards is a pale green (although it looks off white in most of the pictures).  They are letterpress invitations, so you can feel the subtle indentations : )  Excuse the less than perfect pictures... I did the best I could with the poor lighting in my apartment and a little computer editing...

Oh... and in case anyone is wondering... the wedding will be in full celebration mode in 10 weeks at this time!

Tea and Invitations

This morning I met with Sara of Constellation & Co. at the TeaCup to talk about invitations over a hot pot of tea. Constellation & Co. is a Seattle based company that does all things printing - invitations, announcements, cards, etc. Brian actually found them on Mars Hill's Marketplace :) Sara is absolutely delightful and I am so excited to get to work with her on our wedding invitations. She and her husband, Brad, are going to create a custom letterpress wedding invitation for our wedding - how cool is that?! And they are very reasonably priced. Check out their Esty shop and their Felt & Wire shop. Here a few examples of their prints:



P.S. I know I said I decided to just make them myself... but after a little more research and finding Sara... I quickly changed my mind!

Week of Decisiveness...

I'm feeling quite on top of things this week when it comes to the wedding! It feels great!

• I made an appointment at Paper Source in Bellevue to come in on Friday and check out the Letterpress Combo Kit ($149.99) that they have in their store. They said they would be more than happy to show me how it works, etc before I decide on purchasing it. Wonderful!
  
• I have "Bridesmaid Day" all figured out and set-up for November 6th. Brian's Mom and sister will even be able to come up from Vancouver for it : ) One of our fun activities will be to go to the Robinswood House, as most of them have yet to see it in person.
• I decided on bridesmaid dresses: Alfred Sung, d437 from Moms, Maids, and More. The girls are going to get fitted for the dresses on "Bridesmaid Day". They are giving us a 10% discount because I'm getting 6 of them, which essentially pays for the tax. Before tax, they're going to be $156, which is pretty average. I think I'm going to go with majestic (purple), as that seems to be the girls top pick.
• Brian and I have decided that we want to go with Twelve Baskets Catering, who actually catered the dinner reception for my sister's wedding. We are working on setting up an appointment to try food options sometime in the next few weeks. Yay!
• I worked on the invitation list some more last night... and began figuring out the save-the-date list (as we are most just sending save-the-dates to family and out-of-town guests).

And now I shall leave you with an awesome picture that I saw on Style Me Pretty today :)

All things Invitation!

So I have decided that I am going to make our wedding invitations with the help of my bridesmaids, friends, and family! I looked at oodles and oodles of invitations online and in stores...my conclusion: they're expensive! I'm not all together sure what it will cost me to do them myself (especially with all my fun ideas), but you can't put a price on love, right?!

I am undecided about what specific method/style I am going to use... but whichever I end up choosing... I have about 200 invitations to make! My two current ideas are the following:

1.) Create homemade letterpress invitations using the Letterpress Combo Kit by Lifestyle Crafts. They offer this wonderful option of Custom Printing Plates. Long story short, I am currently in love with this idea!

2.) Create homemade invitations on nice card stock with a fancy paper backing! I got this idea yesterday when I was covering a shoe box in fancy paper so that I could use the box to put sewing stuff and buttons in it... and I had these scraps and BING! it came to me that it could be a fun idea!