Progress

I've made mockups of the invitations. They're sorta cute, I have to say. All the invites are printed, but not yet assembled.

The RSVP cards are also all printed out. Cutting and a teeny bit of embellishment needed. TG I got a paper cutter -- I can't imagine doing all these with scissors. Totally worth the $12!

Printing out the hotel info cards as I'm typing.

Inn info next, although it'll be hard to figure out which directions to include... Maybe I'll just use the map that Joan gave me and let people figure out their own specific directions. No worries, I'll include the address!

Monthly subscription of printer ink, anyone?

Me, me! Over here!

Today's printing project is the RSVP cards that will be included in the invitations. Inserts won't be the fun part of making them!

Next, I think, hotel info. Or maybe the map cards?

And when do we send out the agenda for the weekend? With the invites? Oh, we'll figure it out... in the meantime, this stuff swims around my head at 3:00 a.m.

Oh, and the $140 worth of pretty love/wedding stamps that I bought a few months ago? You guessed it, kinda worthless now that they upped the postage. I don't think I want to mess up the whole aesthetic of the envelope by adding additional postage. So I guess I have to go talk to the post office to see if they can exchange my $.39 stamps for pretty lovey $.41 stamps.

It's still fun, though...

Yes, Brett...

...I made all that. ;-) And the save-the-date cards, too.

Guest books

Instead of one guest book, we've decided to go with a book per table. They're all different, but here's one example:

Centerpieces

This is a shot of the bottom of the centerpiece. A flat glass bowl will sit on top of it (with floating flowers inside the bowl):



Then this will hide underneath:



One person at each table will have first dibs on taking these home (because what are we going to do with 8 of each?!). I'll figure out how to designate that person later.

Slow progress

Where have we been? Busy, that's where.

It's amazing how it takes 2 weeks to even get enough time together to discuss which envelopes we want for our invitations, but such is our life right now. We've settled on the seed paper. It's more us and worth the extra money. Now to figure out how to let people know they can plant it!

I've also been spending oodles of time not only on the road but in my craft room. Making good progress on those centerpieces. Have to post pix of the guest books.

I went to PA for Sara's shower last weekend, which was a good change. Planning a wedding can get you pretty self-absorbed and it was such a refreshing break to think about Brett and Sara's wedding instead of mine for a few days! Of course, my mom kept making the joke that we didn't consider the parents in our decision (well, Paul's and my decision) to get married a little over 2 months after my brother, but tough noogies, Mom. :-)

Pix of guest books and centerpieces coming soon...

The problem with making your own invitations

We've selected the paper, the pattern, the style. Everything's a go. Except I can't start making the invitations until we find the right envelopes.

So I'm looking through the cataloges I have and researching envelopes. It's tedious and boring, but it's a means to an end. The fun part will be the invitation making!

Some possibilities:

• C.C. LowellInvite.com
  
• Invitations By Dawn
  
• Mountain Cow (thanks, Liz, for finding this ones months ago!)
  
• Wedding Paper Divas
  
• Botanical Paper Works, which has a completely cool product -- handmade paper that has seeds embedded in it and that you can actually plant and grow

Let us know with a comment if you know of any other good online sources for envelopes!