The Invitations

I know, I know....finally! I apologize for the lack of posts last week and thank you for all the sweet emails wondering if I was alright. I am not sure how one gets sick in the middle of summer but I managed to do it! But enough about that though - onto the good stuff. I designed the invitation suite myself and worked with a local letterpress company to have them printed. I didn't actually have the best experience with them but I am really happy with how they all came together in the end, so I suppose that's all that matters! I hate to blur out the some of the information but hopefully you can still get an overall feel for how things looked. The first picture above is the outer envelope, the inner, and how things were all stacked together when they were pulled out of the envelope. I used satin ribbon to hold the stacked invitation and insert cards together and used a circle punch to make our monogram into a seal of sorts:
Here is the whole suite - you can see how I used the one element in different places on all of the pieces, to try and tie it together:
A close-up of the invitation itself:
And the insert cards. Instead of RSVP, Reception, Accommodations etc. we used rejoice, respond, and relax:
Rejoice and relax were the only cards that were letterpressed, I ordered the relax card from Vistaprint so that I could put a map on the back of it.And last but not least, Lola had to make her way onto the invitations somehow! We ordered custom stamps for the RSVP envelopes with her picture on them.
Here is a closeup of the stamp - it's a little hard to tell but she's holding an envelope in her mouth that has the same seal on it as the one on the ribbon. And...well...alright, we were actually holding the envelope up to her mouth and I photoshopped a hand out of the picture. You do what you've got to do, right?
It was kind of a debate whether or not to leave the response card so open ended, but it wound up working out better than I could have hoped. We've received really traditional responses, some that are a little strange, and some that made me laugh so hard I cried. Finding out what people do with blank spaces is pretty entertaining!