Sunday, March 21, 2010

...the invitations...


Well here they are...our pride and joy...we are so pleased with the way these turned out. We spent about nothing... the cost of: 2 yards of my favorite amy butler fabric, some green thread for sewing three of the layers of invitation together, some fun swiss dot paper in green and turquoise, kraft brown paper and envelopes, vintage stamps, twine, white linen card stock, and ink for our printer at home. It was fun, we made 80 invitations which was a pretty reasonable number. Matt helped with cutting each piece of fabric to size, starching them, stamping each envelope and RSVP postcard, the layout/wording, assembly...and LOTS of love and encouragement. 


It was a blast to come up with something unique and it felt like us and the wedding weekend we would be having. We found a picture online of a pine tree we loved and tweaked it to be our own and made a "matt tree" and a "lindsey tree" and then chose some fonts that were whimsical and rustic to us. Then I wanted to have the front backed by amy butler fabric. I fell in love with these fabrics and her use of turquoise and green- it felt like the summer wedding feeling I want...and I love fabric and sewing- so voila! In our wedding invite it goes!!
Our wedding will be informal, but nice. So we had to work hard to convey that in our wording on the invitation. We are getting married in a corral, having a BBQ with ribs, handmade cotton wedding dress, and without any words of god in the ceremony- just the love of our friends and family to unify us... so... we wanted to make sure everyone came prepared for what they were going to experience. 


We chose to splurge with vintage stamps. This is getting popular- I saw it popping up in some wedding blogs that I love and we decided to go for it. In town there was an antique store that carried a bunch of vintage un-used stamps that we could choose from. It took us three hours to find green, turquoise, brown, and yellow stamps that would add up to 61 cents...but we did it, and we are so pleased with the way it looked. We also wanted to use 29 cent LOVE stamps for the RSVP postcards. We have a little vintage flair in our wedding, we love it...and we are doing our wedding ourselves-just like back in our parent's day...so it works. 
We have loved the feedback from our friends and family. And we didn't realize that getting the RSVP postcards back in the mail would be so much fun. Everyday we run out to our mailbox hoping for another one...we just can't wait to see all of our very special people in June to help us celebrate something soo incredibly special to us....our wedding.

11 comments:

  1. are you kidding me? those are to die for...amazing...incredible...ohmygod worthy.

    seriously. perhaps my fave diy invites ever.

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  2. these are incredible!!!! I'm jealous that you had the time and energy to make them yourself, they are so perfect! And, hmmm should I be sending mine out already? my wedding is just a week past yours and my invites are nicely stacked next to their envelopes right in front of me as we speak....

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  3. These are amazing - congratulations! Why do I feel like all of our DIY's come out looking like a 5th grader did them?

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  4. I agree! Those are unreal!!! What computer program did you use for the graphics and font?

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  5. ummm...i couldn't resist pimping your blog (and these invites) on my blog yesterday:

    http://amountainbride.blogspot.com/2010/03/homegrown-foresty-diy-invites.html

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  6. Thank you so much for all of your feedback! This is so exciting; I had no idea people actually looked at our blog outside of our friends and family. We just used Word... on a PC, sad to say. It took soo much time to get the layout just right, because we did everything kind of manually- print and adjust, print and adjust, until we liked the way it looked. And printed everything off my basic $50 inkjet printer. We kept it simple, and came to the idea from a Laurelwood Brewery’s coaster we had at home… it’s one of our favorite breweries in Portland, they have an adorable logo for their tree hugger porter. Then sewing and Amy Butler print was my passion that I had to tie in to tree-rustic look. Super fun to actually have our ideas come to life…I guess that’s what a wedding is about.

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  7. I'm new to your blog... I came over from A.Mountain.Bride. Your invites are fantastic! Nice work!

    p.s. I say YES to cowboy boots. After all, the invites specifically say, "leave the heels at home."

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  8. these are so beautiful and look professionally done!! really well done! and these so perfect for my sister's mountain wedding. i'm in charge of doing her invites and i've been looking for pine trees that look exactly like this. would you mind sharing that jpeg of those trees? you can email me at nmelde@gmail.com. i'd even pay you if you had to buy that image! thanks!

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  9. These are amazing! I'm impressed and inspired!
    Would you mind sharing the name/source of the font you used for your names/date on the invite? agriculturista at gmail dot com
    Thanks!

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  10. 2 years later and thanks to pinterest, your invites are popular as ever. I've been looking for 3 mo and yours are my favorite. Like inspirebydesign, I wonder if you would share the template or jpeg of the trees??? Blyansak@gmail.com. Thanks!

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