The Invitation

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. ^__^