Cutting the gold-foil paper wrappers was really the midway point in the whole invitation odyssey. It all started with getting them designed. That was a breeze. I went to Wayne's house for lunch and we talked about colors and images. He found out callas are my favorite flower and that green was likely to be employed in our color scheme and came up with a beautiful design. Once we had the design finalized, I started inquiring with printers. I love the look of letterpress, but it turns out that method isn't great if you have a lot of reversed-out areas to be printed. And we do. Offset was the next line of inquiry, but offset printers hate brides to be, particularly the wenches who aren't footing the bill for a huge wedding. Small print runs give printers fits. I got a print quote of nearly $800 to do a total 100 invitations. Um, no. Finally I turned to the idea of a digital printer and away we went. I got 100 each of 5 elements for $150 plus tax. Actually they gave me 200 invitations and 200 at-home cards, so that meant an even lower cost per piece. Woo! Here's the complete set:
Then I printed and cut the invitation name cards, mounted them onto moss-green card stock, cut 80 strips of brown ribbon and 80 business-card holders from brown card stock. These would hold the at-home cards, which I was afraid would get lost in the envelope. They're my second favorite part of the whole suite, so I didn't want them to not be seen. At-home cards are very old-fashioned. I'm using them so people will know I won't be changing my last name after we're married. But their original purpose was to alert the populace as to the newlyweds' new home address. Here's the template I made for cutting the card slits.
We also had to return-address all the external and RSVP envelopes using our handy new embosser. My dear one volunteered for that job. Here's a photo of him leaning into the project. No face. Yet. He's shy.
Here is a finished, wrapped invitation, ready to go into its envelope:
Bubbly in the flutes and Frank Sinatra on our speaker-connected iPod helped the time go by:
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