Finally, a project I can do from very far away! It’s a little late to post our invitation-making process, since we’ve already gotten all of the responses back, but we have been hard at work this week making all of the other paper things we’ll be using for the wedding.
Paper is the least important thing to either of us when it comes to this, so we kept it a little on the low-effort end of things. I think it still looks pretty decent, although I’ve got nothing on the beautiful invitations Derek’s got going. But! Think of this post as proof that you, too, can have wholly fine-looking paper products for very little effort if you also aren’t that big into paper (cake is my preferred medium).
We started off with some print-your-own invitations that I fortuitously found at a thrift shop for $5. A little experimentation with fonts and wording choices, and some fun with Paint to make the map and voila! Our invitation suite!
Here are the two vintage postcards that we made copies of to use as our Save the Date and RSVP cards—the choices on the RSVP were quite a hit!
Then, I found this nifty stamp on the internet and thought it tied into the kitschy Florida theme we’ve got going perfectly. As did the paper made from palm fronds that they’re selling at Office Depot these days.
So I wrote up a program, and a little tag for our favors* and bought a ‘Thank You’ stamp to use on the plain pink notecards we got on clearance from Paper Direct** and we had a little stamp party!
Then, I printed all of our guests’ names on more palm frond paper and cut out some bright colored backing paper. We used a corner-rounding punch (also on sale) to finish the edges and then glued them together. I’m planning on making a white ribbon board to attach these to with little clothespins for the guest table.
So now all we have to do is get them to Florida in relatively decent shape and we’re ready to go!
* if we have time to bake them, which I sincerely hope we do!
**the company was great, but they’ll send you catalogs for the rest of your life if you’re not careful.
All so very adorable! I can’t believe you scored those cute print-your-owns for $5! Great find.