RSVP messages

So far, we've received RSVPs from almost half of the households we sent them out to! Pretty exciting stuff! But if you haven't sent yours back yet, you have...GASP! A little more than a week? Did that RSVP window fly by that fast?

Anyway, Cyrus and I have been enjoying the message people write on the RSVP postcards!

Here are some of my favorites!


Let's take a closer look. We have a cow man...


A message written like a 14-year-old Korean girl writing in someone's yearbook... :) (love you, Stella!)


And more drawings!


Keep 'em coming!

Making of: invitations

Stickers, envelopes, labels, oh my!


You can't tell from his facial expression here, but putting these invitations together was a grueling process! Kudos to Cyrus for enduring the tedious job and not saying a single word of complaint! Here he is with two thirds of the finished product:


62 days to go!

RSVP winner

The first RSVP card to come in was from my uncle! How exciting!

Too bad he didn't fill in ANY of the blanks! Oh, relatives!

What's the "M" for?

It's pretty interesting how broad the spectrum is when it comes to knowing wedding invitation etiquette.

Take a look at this RSVP card, for example. (Not ours, just an example I found online.)

Source

Seems pretty straightforward, but when my brother and Olivia sent out their invitations, I heard so many people asking, "What's the M for?"

The "M" is there for you to write "Mr., Mrs. or Ms." and then your name.

I've seen RSVP cards that said "Name(s): ______." To me, that feels too much like I'm making a worksheet for my students. I'm guessing that the pretty, script "M" became the RSVP standard because it's prettier!

Invitations Sent!

Invitations went out today! :D

We were so tired from putting them together last night, that I started getting kinda lax about the quality of the final product. Cyrus's envelopes turned out way better than mine! Some of you might know what I'm talking about when you get yours in the mail. After a while, I took the "good enough" approach to quality. :)

But even after all that, I still get jittery thinking that we'll be getting RSVPs in the mail within a week (hopefully)!

TOOO EXCITINGGGG!!

Kinko's

Leaving work now to go to Kinko's to get the invitations printed.

!!EXCITEMENT!!

Thinking about it really does make my heart beat a little fast...!

STDs

I don't think I've ever posted about our finished save-the-dates. Take a look!


A simple postcard. Really, I don't have the creativity to make anything else. :) And in order to save some money, we decided to send these to our out-of-town guests only.

I jumped the gun a bit on these, because I showed them to our planner and she made some really good suggestions about how to make them better...too bad they were already printed.

I'll be sure to consult her every step of the way on our next stationary venture: invitations. Eek!!

Fruit stamps!

We're getting ready to send our save the dates soon, and I was so happy that the only option for $.27 stamps were these tropical fruit stamps!


Yay, USPS!

I really wanted to send them this past Saturday, and Cyrus and I had unofficially decided to do so, but I couldn't get in touch with him that day before I wanted to send them. I thought about all the other times I was hasty about our wedding decisions, even small ones, and what lessons I'd learned (THERE'S NO RUSH...SERIOUSLY!), and decided to hold off.

And thank goodness I did because there were a few changes that he wanted to make! Phew!

DIY - not so hard!

I had no idea how to get my hands on Adobe Illustrator, and everything I learned about PhotoShop is a vague and distant memory. I'm not too confident in my designing skills anyway, but I do know my way around Microsoft Word.

I pretty much copied a graphic I found from a save-the-date that I liked onto a Word document. Then I used almost the same wording on that save-the-date, then found similar fonts on my work computer!

I didn't know how to put four on one page like a postcard, so I just made it a full 8.5" x 11" size to be scaled at the copier's

I saved it as a PDF, put it on a flash drive and made my way to Kinko's. There, they got me my cardstock, scaled it down to fit four on a page, and made a buncha color copies! The colors turned out perfectly, and it looks like a bona fide save-the-date!

We saved a whole lot of money doing it ourselves, and now, making our own invitations and RSVP cards doesn't seem so hard!

Save the Date

Thanks to the wealth of unmonitored time at work and fonts on my work computer, we have "designed" our save-the-dates! We're not big on stationary, but we want our stuff to look clean and nice and elegant. Here's a little sneeeek peeeek! 

Thanks, Kinko's!