Christmas is coming

The jolly man in the red suit is coming and its time to think of ways to celebrate the end of a huge year and the begining of a new one. I admit I LOVE giving presents, I often go over board and I spend months shopping for that perfect thing for people. This year C and I will be away for christmas, which is a little sad but next year, when we have our own place and tree I think I'll wrap everything in brown paper and string. I love the white tags and big red Christmas stamps.

Love this look. found on duet-weddings.com

yeah

So I've been a little absent of late, mostly because I've been working like crazy and I've been doing the invites, but they are done, yeah. Last night I did the finishing touches on all of them and printed the envelopes than wrapped up the family invites and my mum has kindly offered to wrap up and stuff the envelopes on the other while I'm away for the weekend.

Sorry no pictures yet of the invites, haven't taken photos yet.

Yeah It feels like a huge weight off my shoulders to know that by tomorrow all the invites will be in the post, now all I have to do is wait and see how many people RSVP in time. I know I will have to chase, and some people will just say they are coming but I really really hope people actually fill in the form and send it back. I am usually the sort of person that remembers everything but at the moment with so much going on I'm forgetting things, so if people just tell me "yeah we're coming and we are staying at x" I'm almost certain to forget. It would cut down stress so much.

Inspiration

I've been working on the invite set on and off for the last few weeks, very hard work. As a designer this is the hardest part of my wedding process, whenever I design a wedding invite I design heaps of variations and really try and make it fit the people an the wedding perfectly, I enjoying working with the couple, tweaking and changing to make sure they get exactly what they want. But when its your own invite you don't have that outsiders, you have so many ideas about your wedding its hard to fit them all in and work seamlessly. I'm not 100% happy with what I've done yet but I can't figure out whats annoying me about it.

So I'm look at inspirations, not necessarily invites like mine just looking at designs I love, hopefully looking at them I can figure out where mine is off.

Found on minnadesigns.com

Found on oncewed.com

Found on www.bellafigura.com

stealing it

I love these invites, and I'm going to steal them, well not quite steal them, just the idea - illustration on brown recycled paper coloured really brightly. We already have an idea for the wedding invite, going to follow along the same theme as the save the date, but I think we can work this in for the Saturday brunch invites.

Found on oncewed.com

I could do all of this myself but I really like the idea of having people help to create the our day, so maybe I'll ask a friend to do an illustration for me. I'm not sure, it would be fun to do the illustration myself and everyone is so busy, need to give that one more thought.

Party time

Let me introduce you to some friends of mine Aaron and Lenya, you might know Lenya from www.7yearwedding.blogspot.com. Saturday night we celebrated their engagement and BJB studios in Surry hills, Lenya did a great job decorating and really bring the place to life, with pom poms, installations, vintage furniture, candles and beautiful flowers created by cousin Mattew (sorry don't have any more details than that.) They really managed to infuse the place with lots of personality and it made the perfect stage for a great party.

So without further adue,

Meet Aaron and Lenya, the photoboth was a great talking point and got everyone into the swing

Pom pom Love, multicoloured pom poms hang the entire length of the studio and made the place pop.
These where all made by Lenya and family and friends.


Lenya borrowed white chairs and bought second hand chairs and painted them white to fit with her vision.
She also used pieces from the studio itself and made it personal with her own pieces from home.

This master hang from roof above the bar creating a eye catching focal piece for the room.



The pictures don't do these arrangements justise , Lenyas cousin Matt made these (and more) amazing pieces that spread all over the room, light by candles they made dramitic displays.

I apologise my photos don't do it the credit its worth, my point and shoot doesn't perform well in the dark.

I almost forgot, I helped out creating the invites for the night. Lenya had a pretty good idea of what she wanted so this was a quick simple job for me.


Lenya bought me a picture of an invites she love that used handwritten font, so I hand drew the couples name than cleaned it up on the computer to use as a header the the rest was simple, clean and easy.

Invites

While we were away the other weekend C and I sat down with the parents and got the wording for the invite sorted, so this week I'm starting the design process, this could take some time.

We'll be doing invite packs which will include:
Invite, Map, Mini accommodation info, Transport info, Saturday invite or itinerary, RSVP card, RSVP envelope.

Found this RSVP card on a Lovely morning, really like the casual wording. We have a bit more info we need to get on our but the wording is a start.

Found on alovelymorning.blogspot.com

To Write or not to write

Been thinking about how to address the invites. Should I hand write in a modern calligraphy or should I use the fancy font from my invites and print directly on the envelopes?

Found these great examples by Paper Finger for hand written. Love these - however it would be very time consuming.  

Images from Paper finger

Guest book??

Not sure if I want a guest book or not, would I ever really ready it after the wedding. Its a nice idea and could look good. My other idea is to make a cute mock wedding certificate up that has witnessed by: than line for everyone to sign there names, it would look good, and it could be hang on the wall so I would look at it all the time.

DIY guest books from www.marthastewartweddings.com

Spirograph

Cool Andy Gilmore has an animated coloured Spirograph (I'm using spirographs for my invites)

Check it out at www.todayandtomorrow.net

maybe I'll look into animating one of mine for an online RSVP.

Why have One Witness when you can have...

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Say this picture today from Derren and Lisa's wedding and thought it was a great way to remember everyone that was there to witness the day and its something that you would look at more than a guest book, especially if you have it on display somewhere. Its also a lot prettier than most marriage certificates I've seen.  

Image from stylemepretty.com