Stickers!

So i got the stickers that will seal the wedding invitation envelopes. They're not as red as i was hoping they would be but  i think that they are quite nice!

The Wish Tree

Instead of doing a guest book we're doing a wish tree. I think that it is a tradition that was popular and may have started in Japan. 

André is trying to get the metal workers at his job to make us a tree. If  that doesn't work i'm just as happy spray painting some willow branches to be honest. 

I once again checked out Etsy to find what i needed for the individual tags. Guests will write down their well wishes for us on the tags provided and then hang them on the tree for us to enjoy. The shop that I got the cut outs and bakers twine is called Ready2QuiltShop.

Gifts for my attendants

I got my maid of honour an engraved gold clover charm because she wears the same golden necklace every day and i wanted something that she would end up wearing more than once.  I got myself a star. I found the rest of my attendants gifts on etsy! The shop is called Mykonos.

Everything came well packaged and it was a very friendly shop to deal with! I'm not sure which girl will get which necklace but I really like the leaves for a fall theme! They were super cheap too :D Cuz I'm classy like that.

From the same store I also bought the 4 of them each a brooch that has a vintage look to go on either their dresses or their shrugs if we get them. 

So that's the bridesmaids mostly taken care of. The bridesmaids dresses are black and i'm pretty much letting them pick them out themselves. We have two so far which are fantastic and we got for a steal as well!

We'll probably do red shoes as well although i don't think i'll hold anyone to that as reds are so hard to match. I'm definitely getting red for me though :D 

André doesn't have any ideas as to what he wants to get for his side of the wedding party but he'll come up with something.

The Invitation

So I finally got down to making the main part of the wedding invitation. The concept changed a bit over the few months but it came down to this main design. It took me two tries to get the silk screen for this right (it's the only way that i could do the white on red image) and even then it's far from perfect but i decided to count my losses and pull the prints for the invitations anyway. 

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This was the concept design

A close up of the finished product. I actually have purchased a corner rounding cut out since then but i'm not sure if i will end up using it on the main thing as i didn't successfully manage to get them all centred but I will probably end up using it on the RSVP postcard that i still need to finish designing or the wedding info sheet or both. 

I did around 100 cards. There are definitely about 10 that I did before i had hinges to use with the screen (that made it a million times nicer and easier to do) that are really poor but once we finalize the guest list if we still need those 10 invites i will just touch them out by hand. 

The cards used are by cardblanks. About $32 for 10 not including envelopes. As red is my favourite colour I was pretty picky about these lol. The white ink is actually a silkscreening fabric ink from speedball. I did these using the photo emulsion method. 

Found a deal on envelopes at michaels. 50 white envelopes and cards for $5! Amazing! I decided to cheap out on the envelopes because they're just going to get ripped open anyway. André decides to use the cards for the RSVP postcards or the Thankyou notes so we'll see! In the end I'm just glad I finally did it. I hope that people like them!