I’m a sucker for little details!  This weekend I started working away with the black pocketfolds I recently bought from Cards & Pockets.

I added a wide green satin ribbon that wraps the entire way around the invite, with a thinner, darker green ribbon on top of that to tie the invite up:

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So, as I previously mentioned, the invitation design process was one of many iterations. BUT, with patience, I came up with a final design, one that I was quite happy with. There is certainly no denying that our wedding invite was NOT part of a modern, custom designed, invitation suite that I allowed myself to swoon over a few too many times, but, in the end, I came in UNDER budget, have an invitation that keeps with the theme of our mountain wedding, and ultimately, looks pretty good!

The final graphic, created using Photoshop:

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The invites were a labour of…. learning! I knew the general feel I wanted to go with, but let’s face it, I am not a graphic designer! I wanted to keep the colors somewhat neutral, incorporate the mountains, and if possible, the graphic from our save-the-dates. I knew the invites would be simple from a fold-perspective, ie. no folds whatsoever! No gate-fold, bi-fold, tri-fold, pocket-fold, or do-it-yourself-envelope-fold. These are all gorgeous and stylish, but in order to maintain our theme of simple, casual, and eco-conscious, they would be post-card style, albeit stylish postcards!

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We made our own invitations. It was a process, but we are very pleased with them, and proud that it was all our own design work, print work, and assembly work.

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Per my last post, I was pretty freaked out about an invitation mishap. After printing and cutting all of our invitation paper, we realized that not only was there a weird printer streak across my name, we had also used a version where the time was wrong! We were debating between a 5:00 ceremony or a 5:30 ceremony. We decided on 5:30, and had updated our design to say “at half past five o’clock in the evening”. However, we apparently made that update to a different version because the one we printed said five o’clock.

But, I was not upset about this mistake. We found that out early, before the cutting. And we decided it was not worth it to try to redo all the invitations just because it was a half hour off. We were okay with a 5:00 start time. We updated our wedding website to 5:00 and thought we were set. Then we discovered the printer streak. That’s what was too much, and that’s when we decided to redo them.

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