One of my best friends’ sisters was getting married and naturally, I was on the top of the list for people to get invitations from.
It started with a casual mention over lunch, to me emailing a questionnaire to the bride-to-be asking about colors, themes, dates, etc.
What I got to work with: purple, white, gray and sunflowers.
Because the bride lives in Florida, all of this was done through email and text: choosing the paper, designing the concepts, the fleshing out, the final layout, the progress updates and photos of the finished product.
The layout design was done on the computer and I handed off printing to a friend of mine who has access to a large format flatbed printer. Ten sheets of 26” x 40” paper from Mohawk, dozens of sheets of purple shimmer paper and vellum from The Paper Store, several hours spent with a 15” guillotine and a basic X-Acto, going blind in low light, double-stick paper craft tape, some letratac, and it all came together.
The package consisted of save the dates (not pictured), main invites, vellum cover sheets, directions, RSVP cards, and gift notes—envelopes were the bride’s responsibility in this case.
This was probably one of my favorite hand-crafted projects and I look forward to taking on more just like this. The bride was super easy to work with and I hope her wedding planning is going just as smoothly. I’m also looking forward to attending the wedding to see how everything turns out!