Tree and Leaf Wedding Invitations

Today I completed one of my favorite stationery suites I have ever made. I created this lovely paperie for my brother’s good friend and his fiancé. They are tying the knot under oak trees in a vineyard in Alabama.

All the pieces are placed in chocolate brown folders. They will be tied with twine and sealed with a sweet yellow heart. Love it!

a diy wedding – part 3

invitations:

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our invitations were completely diy. again we ordered the folders, cardstock, envelopes and labels from paper source (i absolutely love that store, i wish there was one in florida). i created them in adobe illustrator and then we hand screen printed them at kevin’s office. they were definitely a labor of love. the probably took around 15 hours to print… but we love the results! we both love the screen printing process and i was adamant about not printing these on a inkjet printer. we did use an inkjet printer to print the labels that sealed the envelopes and for the address labels as well.

 invitation detail

detail of the invitation.

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reception card.

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response card.

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pocket folder. 

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a diy wedding – part 1

centerpieces:

cocktail table center piececocktail table center piece 2  

 the wedding is just 16 days and i am running on full speed! we’ve tried to do as much diy as we possibly could for two resons: to save money and to have a unique wedding. i’ll feature some of the diy projects that we’ve done thus far: we are not having a sit down dinner. only hour’dourves, beverages, and dessert. so were only having a few large round tables (for elderly guests) and lots of tall cocktail tables without chairs. i purchased beautiful michael miller fabric (which ironically is from the farmer’s market series and the reception is at the farmer’s market) and made table runners for the round tables and scalloped circles for the cocktail tables.

vases for the centerpieces inspired by martha stewart.  my mom found glass vases at the dollar store that fit perfectly in a white paper lunch sack. I cut paper bags down to 8″ tall and then used a martha stewart whole punch to scallop the edges (purchased at michael’s). then i tied a 1/2″ satin ribbon around to cinch the bag a little bit and used a hot glue gun to keep to bow in place. we are going to put bunches of marguerite daisies in them (fyi: purchasing cut flowers directly from the florist saves lots of money, you don’t have to pay for them to arrange them).

 

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