Monday, July 20, 2009

invitations

i realized that i still hadn't posted any pictures of the invitations. i thought it was about time to do so.

we purchased all the paper, the stamp, the "belly bands" (ugh! gross), the envelopes, the adhesive + the printing for 250 invitations for under $140. the total cost to assemble one invitation was $0.54.

we were able to keep the weight of the invitation down by not including rsvp cards (i mean... who really uses those things, anyhow? just a bunch of wasted paper + postage), so it was only $0.44 to mail each envelope. tim's mom (who is a genius), bought about 750 "forever" stamps just before the postage went up. she was kind enough to sell them to us at the $0.42 rate.

so... each invitation only cost $0.96 to assemble + mail. pretty danged awesome, if you ask me.
a whole bunch of my girlfriends volunteered their cutting, folding, glue-ing, stuffing expertise + we were able to complete the entire process in four evenings.

i hand-stamped every single invitation three times + every envelope once. between the save-the-date cards + the invitations, i used that stamp over 1,250 times. i got our money's worth out of it, to say the least. but i tell ya what, if i never see that stamp again, it will be too soon for me.

alright... here are the pics.
the front of the invitation.


belly band. (such a terrible name!)
little swatch of paper, dictionary page background


with our initials + the date of our wedding.


inside.

close up of the inside

i used century gothic + edwardian script

information sheet.
this included info on hotels, how to rsvp, our wedding blog, etc.

there is a map to the church on the back.



the labels were a take on an idea i got from martha.
you can get the template here:

the labels wrap around the envelope so that the return address is on the back. pretty great, huh? especially if you're lazy like me + don't want to hand-address 250 envelopes.

i printed the labels on the same paper as we used for the center of the invitations. we used a rotary cutter to dice them up + that double-sided permanent adhesive tape that comes in the handy-dandy cartridge to attach them to the envelopes. we didn't have any trouble with the post office or with people receiving their invitations. i was a little worried, so... phew!

4 comments:

  1. Lovely!!! They turned out fantastic. Nice work, Lisa.

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  2. work it out girlfriend. like i said the other day...they are work of art!

    - Rach

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  3. 'bout time you got these invite pics up here! That way I don't have to reach for the hard copy on my desk every time I want to look at it. :)

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