They are in the Mail!!!

So, it's official our wedding invitations have been hand delivered to the Post Office! Now, I stood in a long line to hand the invitations over to the postal worker like all the website and blogs tell you to do and after the lady checked the postage she told me to go drop them in the box myself. I couldn't believe it! I already new my postage was right so because of her laziness I waisted 30 minutes of my life standing in a line I didn't need too. At least they our out now and I can breath a little better now and move on to the next DIY project.

The invitations are in the mail!

Today is the day we finally mail out the wedding invitations! I'm still waiting for about 8 addresses from Drew's list but, I can't let the rest wait any longer! Using the wax has actually been the hardest part of the process. There is a trick to melting the wax as not to burn it, otherwise you get a silver and black mix instead of just silver. It takes about 5 minutes to do each invitations so, it's much more time consuming than I thought. I am very proud of these invitations and I'm glad I took on the task. At times I didn't think I could transfer or convey what was in my head to paper, but it all worked out in the end. I would recommend making your invitations whether it's for a wedding, baby shower, birthday, or an anniversary party. I know this will not be the last time I make them. It might take a lot of time but the end product is more special with the blood, sweat and tears included. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.

This video is for other Brides that might come across my blog. I found a lot of inspiration from blogs I would find and, from this site http://www.weddingbee.com so, I hope this helps. :)

Bought the stamps... time to mail out!

Today I was finally able to buy the stamps for our invitations! The post office line was insane as usual but, since I was only buying stamps I didn't have to wait long at all. I was hoping I would only need to use two stamps per invite but, it looks like I'm gonna need to use three. I was considering making our own stamp on www.zazzle.com but, when it was going to cost at least a $1.00 per stamp I passed, 44 cents is bad enough. Instead the post office offers the "King & Queen of Hearts" stamps. They fit our theme perfectly since we are getting married in a castle. My the laptop cord split over the weekend due to my little brothers new puppy and I can't get my mailing address labels off to print... another hold up... just great! To replace the cord "Best Buy" wants $169.99! Not paying it for a 6 year old laptop that's been on it's last days. If I order one for "Sony" it's $89.99 and I found one online cheaper but, I really don't have the time to wait for it and don't have the extra money to spend on a cord. These invitations should have been out in the mail no later than February 1st but, finances held us up! Hopefully I'll get them out soon.

So, I called my Dad and asked if he would at all be able to fix my laptop cord and he said probably. I brought it to the house and while I watched my Dad do some "Macgyver" moves my Mom made me some of her homemade ham soup. One of my favorites and it was perfect since it was freezing outside! Well, my Dad fixed it... he's my hero! Oh, how I missed my laptop but, this is a for sure sign that I need to invest in a new one soon. My Mom and little brother helped me tie the ribbons on all the invitations and my brother was thrilled to help to say the least. As I was leaving his puppy decided to leave me one more surprise... he pulled one of my gloves (nice black leather gloves) out of my purse and chewed a few holes in it as well as the thumb off! This puppy and I are getting off on the wrong foot! It's a good thing I love dogs and he's so cute. But, hey my laptop works again and I can get the invitations out now!

A rough draft our invitations.

My custom made one of a kind wedding invitations!

So, I worked on our wedding invitations today. The following is a picture of the invitation design process. I think I may have bit off more than I can chew with this task but, I'm going to have fun completing it. I really hope they turn out the same way I envision them! Soon, I'm going to have the girls over so I can complete this project a bit quicker!! The flowers are going to be used on the place cards I think. I glued three different colors and sized rhinestones on about 300 little flowers! Drew made the "K" and "D' (awwww).

What do you think?

1/16/10

Today Andrea, Leah, and my Mom came over to decorate the invitations. I made them a french toast and sausage breakfast and Leah brought the coffee. I printed off about 80 invitations last night figuring that is more than enough for us. I'm really happy with the wording Drew and I chose and I managed to get the ink color pretty closet to the floral purple color that was on the invitations already. I used the font "Garamond" for the main wording and "Edwardian Script ITC" for our names. We glued tiny clear micro beads using silver glitter glue to different parts of the purple floral designs. My cats were dying to help and very curious about what we were doing. I have to say they turned out really nice and I really enjoyed the girl talk! Andrea stayed after Mom and Leah left and we made the templates for the envelope liners.

Thanks girls!

1/24/10

My sister Angie came over and I made her breakfast as well! Today we made all the envelope liners for both the invitations and response cards. We used a giant 18 x 18 "Martha Stewart" scrapbook page paper. When I bought them I realized it was a discontinued line so I bought all they had and it should be more than enough. We were able to get four sets on each template per sheet so I have plenty of leftovers to use for the programs maybe. We took turns tracing, cutting, and gluing them. Angie wasn't too happy about this task but, she did a great job. Too bad we ran out of glue so I will have to finish gluing the leftovers another day. She stayed over for about half the day and, it was really nice just hanging out with her. I don't remember the last time it was just her an I and for that long of a time period. I really appreciate her coming over and staying that long especially when she has seven kids to take care of at home.

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