#89 Invite assembly

Tonight, we will assemble the invites. Some fun ladies are coming over and we are going to drool over Chad on One Tree Hill as we stamp and stuff envelopes. Haha :D Sounds like a blast if you ask me!

My hope is I will send them off the the post office tomorrow to be hand canceled.

Woo hoo! 2 months to go! I'm almost married!!! :D :D :D

[photo taken on Valentine's Day]

#85 Invites and such

Hehe...sneak preview???

I couldn't help myself, I ordered the invites yesterday and I'm very excited.

Even better, I went to the post office today to make sure they were within the 42-cent-stamp weight. (They are!)

Today I also purchased the most awesome stamps in the world. Well, that may be an exaggeration, but they are perfect. This is something I've been thinking about, because once you have a really awesome invitation (:D) you can't mess it up with a silly American flag stamp.

Perhaps I have shown you too much, but I'm so excited I can barely contain myself. I can't wait to get them, then stamp and stuff them, and then SEND THEM! It's just really nice to have this huge step almost completed.

Jonathan also ordered some wallets of our engagement photos from mpix.com to put in our invites. Thanks babe!

The only implement I have left is the map...which I am still planning on printing...when that gets done.

In the mean time by super-cool brother-in-law Jeff made me a sweet widget for our wedding website. This way our guests can RSVP online (save some trees?) and leave us a fun note if they wish. I also updated the Travel & Stay section of the website so people have suggestions for hotels and have directions to the wedding venue. There are tons of hotels, but I picked the top rated ones - with various price ranges. :D Oh, and I changed the font of the body copy because the serif was driving me crazy. I needed some Verdana (a really practical and clean good-for-internet font) in there. See below, or click to see for yourself.

#83 Invites

It's been a long process, but I think I am finally pleased with them! I went and talked with a printer a while back and just last week I went again to get proofs. I corrected some things (I've learned that yellow is difficult to print the way you want it to...but I've made it work) and now I'm just waiting on the final element - the map. I went ahead and asked one of my co-workers to help me out in the matter because I've been so swamped.

All the other pieces are ready (invite, rsvp postcard, rsvp online element, etc). I was planning on handwriting all of the envelopes but after a few trial runs I realized that this pretty paper that I'm using doesn't work well with a traditional pen. The paper has these pretty cracks of texture and it doesn't quite work well.

Since coming back from the beach, I have come down with an odd cold (I haven't been since since before we got engaged) so I've been in bed in day typing out addresses to go in this envelope template I made. Jonathan happens to be sick too, so we watched movies today with piles of tissues amongst us. One of my bridesmaids, Kate, also watched the movies with us - thank goodness for spring break!

#62 Invites

The invitation progress is great. I have felt quite uninspired to work on them so I've been procrastinating. I got started today and I ran with it—the design just worked. I really only have finishing touches to make otherwise most of it is done. Next thing on the list is to find a printer when I get back to Chattanooga. I would post a teaser but I'm too excited to spoil the surprise. :) However...I like these.