It's been quite a while since my last wedding post, so I thought it was about time that I share our invitations with you! I knew that I'd be designing them myself from the moment we started planning, but we'd initially intended on having them printed elsewhere. As time went on and we started working on our endless DIY projects, we decided to print and assemble them ourselves as well. I won't lie - it was majorly time consuming. But we saved a ridiculous amount of money, even with the costs of high quality papers and archival inks. Most importantly, it made us both really happy to know we did them ourselves from scratch.
To make the invitations, I first designed them in Photoshop. My goal was to create a typographic design that incorporated our colors, yellow and gray. Robbie and I agreed that we wanted a somewhat minimalist design that was fun and expressed our personalities. I'd designed a "logo" for our wedding that featured a wood grain heart and arrow with our initials, and I added that to the bottom right corner. For the RSVP card design, we decided on postcards. This saved money and created less waste. We also wanted to forgo a formal, traditional reply and replace it with something more "us," so I came up with the idea to use thumbs up and down symbols instead. The design on the front of the RSVP cards featured a vinyl record with our names as the album title, and our plans for the evening as the songs.
To create the invitations, we first printed them with archival inks on acid free matte photo paper (two per page). We then cut them with a paper cutter, and used a corner rounder to give the corners a nice finished look. For the backing, we chose a beautiful yellow cardstock from Paper Source. We rounded the corners on the cardstock, then used permanent double-sided scrapbook tape to adhere the printed invitations to the backing. For the RSVP cards, we printed them on gray cardstock (also from Paper Source), double sided, four per page. We used the paper cutter to cut them out and slapped on some pretty postcard stamps. To spruce up the packaging, we cut strips from kraft paper cardstock, wrapped them around the invitations and reply cards, then used double-side scrapbook tape to close the ends of the strips.
It's Monday! Booooo. Only five more days 'til the weekend.
I LOVE them! The record is perfect!
These are such a fantastic design and the colors are great. i would be so nervous in printing my own invites but it would be so much cheaper!
i love these!! one day if i get married I want to make my own invites. yours are so personal and cute. i hate how formal most invites are!
Absolutely adorable! I'm a little too young to be married (about to turn 18!), but I can't wait to do all kinds of adorable DIYs for my wedding!! Your cute little invites are definitely some great inspiration!
i can tell they were time consuming to design, & put together. they turned out fabulously, a wonderful expression of both of you!
these are gorgeous. you can really do no wrong with brown craft paper!
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These look incredible!! It might have been a lot of time and effort but they are so worth it!
I love, love, love your invitations!!! Great job. & congrats!
Your wedding invitations are awesome! You are an inspirations to brides everywhere!
These are sooo awesome!!! Do you do custom invitation design for others? I sure would love for you to do ours!