06.10.08
Do It Yourself!
I am having a blasty blast with all the DIY projects. I could really do this stuff for a living. So for all our readers who barely have time to read this blog never mind get out their glue gun. I’m your gal for anything crafty!
The invitations are basically done. Just waiting on a few address updates and spelling checks and we are good to go! The stamps I ordered have shipped and I am SO excited that the wedding stamp colors fit our pallet. The previous postage rates were in pink and purple and I’m really not a fan of either, not that it would have stopped me from buying the 58 cent ones, because there really is no alternative. We have to use 59 cent stamps for our invitations as they are square and over 1oz. Those come in a pale orange color! never thought I’d be so excited for stamps. I have pictures of the finished product, but I am hesitant to post them. I don’t want to give EVERYTHING away.
We also now have all the supplies for the centerpieces, minus the apples which will be bought a day or two before the wedding. I made a mock up of that as well and I must say it came out exactly as it looked in my head! WOOHOO! See pictures at the beginning of this post.
Our personalized napkins came in yesterday as well. They came out very well. I will post a picture of those as soon as I can take one.
Next on my DIY list is figuring out some sort of card box. This was something that came up at our meeting with Kate a few weeks back. She asked if we would be bringing one and I thought “CRAP”. So I guess something did fall through the cracks and I just never even thought about it until she mentioned it. Right now I’m gathering ideas and hoping that I can fashion something out of card board or foam board or something like that. We are certainly not willing to pay $20-$30 for a silly little box that we’ll never use again.
Danita said,
June 10, 2008 at 7:49 pm
How did you do your invitations and where they expensive?
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Molly said,
June 10, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I got all the supplies at Paper Source (there is a link to their site under our blog roll). They really were not very difficult or expensive. Less than half the cost of getting them done professionally anyway. I bought card stock and heavy weight paper and just printed the invitations two to a sheet on my printer, then cut them out and used double stick tape to adhere the paper to the card stock. I added some embellishments – since our wedding has a fall theme, I got a leaf punch and punched out leaf shapes on the paper as well as glued leaf shapes on to the invitation. This theme was carried through from our Save the Dates as well. I can share some pictures of the process with you if you’d like, or if there is a specific detail you’d like to know about let me know. I will post pictures here eventually – just wanted to wait until they were in the mail first. Check out the Paper Source for ideas, they really have a lot of products available.
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