Zet already picked what she wants her
invitation to look like.
She wanted it to be vintage, something out
of the ordinary but still a little familiar for the guests,
something unique
yet formal.
The peg is vintage chic. A touch of classic
elegance and a touch of sweetness all rolled up in an envelope.
But up until the last minute there were a few
changes ending up to a numerous choices of invitations sent to different
people.
But initially the couple wanted an
invitation with their personal touch.
The First set.
We were all ready and excited to work on
the "DIY"invitation. We saw an invitation using stamp and we said why
not. Lang made some of the elements and we had it made by a
local-on-the-side-street stamp maker. We wanted to give it a try first to check
if his workmanship would pass our criticizing eyes.
And it did! To add a little
touch of vintage we made use of a paper from a sketch pad. It has texture and the
right thickness and the color is not that white. Perfect! For days we did the
stamping and to our frustrations only Lang was successful in making a perfect imprint.
These are the stamps for the Wish Tree tags and for the Thank You tags for the give-a-ways
Zet bought decorative card stock and we made RSVP envelopes out of it.
RSVP's are stamped and other details were hand written by Zet herself
even the Dessert banner for the dessert table was made by her.
These are the paraphernalia we used to make personal touches
These are made out of parchment paper and card stock with embossed print to bind all the invitation together
Us making the layout and assembling the invitation
the pages the makes the invitation. Layout collaboration of Zet and Lang
All bound and ready to go.
All envelopes labeled and sealed
Each invitation were sealed with this old fashioned wax seal with an A monogram for Zet's new surname.
And each invitation that should be sent through mail was packed and still styled to look like a vintage mail.
Zet also had the inkling of placing a&z stamp randomly outside the envelope to add detail
but we were not sure if the post office would allow it.
We also made a matching itinerary and breakfast invites for the day itself for the entourage.
Printed the words "tomorrow is going to be the best day ever" on a brown bag that acted as an envelope.
For the invitation itself since Zet wants
it simple yet with a little distinction, we had the first 2 pages printed using
embossed print, the invitations came a little late than the scheduled time, but
when it came we were happy with it. so off we go sending the invites to a few
closest friends of Zet, BUT when their parents saw it, the dilemma began.
the second set
We didn't foresee that the font we used were
too small and the embossed effect made it a little harder to read especially to
those who are having a hard time reading such small prints. Back to the
computer.
We decided to just change the font
type and re-size it a little and instead of having just two pages we made it three for the entourage names.
Immediately sent some again.
Another comment
came.
It lack color.
Third Set
We tried printing it to a pink card stock but it
was too cheeky.
so we change some of the color of the words pink instead and added a gray border.
this
passed--- to the other half soon to be in laws but it still lack style to the
other.
Fourth and Final set
Zet came up with another wholly different look.
so again printed it and sent the remaining invites.
all in all Zet and Anthony's invites had
four designs distributed to different people.
(talk about variety! hehe)
so if you ask me which is my favorite? I'd
pick the first one ;)
what do you think?
which one's your fave?
Lesson learned: Before you go and print multiple invitations to give away, it's better to request for a sample to see if the letters you use are readable enough and if the colors are OK.
Secondly, have all the parties approve and decide on that one invitation you will be giving away.
Better to have a sit down meeting to discuss what needed to be change.
Though having variety won't hurt. ^__^
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