rsvps

So we got our first RSVP's back in the mail today!

Sadly, the are both declines, but it was still a thrill to get them back in the mail, along with cards! Cards are always fun! :) I'm sad that these few people wont be able to make it. I had expected it, since they are families and I didnt really expect them to make the drive, but I was still sad since I wish everyone we invited could come!

Hopefully we will slowly be getting more back in the mail, and hopefully we'll be getting some "accept!" ones soon!

FINISHED!

The finished product!

FINALLY!!!!

After many long hours (and no help from the boy, mister "make them nice, I'll help you, I want them to look good!" Uh huh. Sure you will.) and more rubber cement containers than I care to remember, they are finally DONE!

See just two of the empty rubber cement bottles in the back...

The fun sealing of the envelope time...eww they taste icky

A small portion of properly sealed invites!

Now we just have to stamp them and send them on their merry way! YAY!!

envelopes!

Yay!

Our envelopes arrived today! I'm so excited! Although they arent the same as our Save the Dates, and I'm not a huge fan of the texture, they are still totally workable, and saved about half the cost as getting them to be the same as the others in this size.

Annabelle was curious too!

Yay! Now I just have to print on them all...

I ordered them through Envelopemall.com and though I wasnt as big of a fan of them as I was with Paperworks.com, they had what I needed and were the cheapest. Unfortunately, Paperworks didnt have the right color in the size I needed.

maps!

I decided that I wanted something a little more unique than a printed out google map for our insert cards, so I turned to the wonderful Etsy hoping to find something that struck me. Turns out, it's insane how many different varieties there are of "map cards" out there...from hand drawn to map looking to google maps that were more embellished- there was SO many options!

After narrowing it down, I really liked the look of Calligraphics stuff, so I sent her an email explaining my overly difficult directions to the ceremony. She was so fast it was insane...I expected it to take a few days to get a proof, but I got a black and white basic drawing that night, with a finalized color proof the very next day! I was so impressed, and it turned out AWESOME. It was exactly what I was looking for, not to mention she is ridiculously cheap. Totally worth it to not have to try and create on myself. So I started printed those tonight, hopefully all of this will be finished tomorrow so we can get these babies mailed off!

more progress...i think

ARGH!

I have went through 4 bottles of rubber cement so far (Walgreens looked at me funny when I bought out their stock, and sighed angrily when they only had a couple bottles!), made 2 trips to Office Depot for ink, have cut, printed, and glued until my hands hurt, and am STILL not done!

Though I have made progress...









I am kind of on a rampage now to finished. Sadly, once I finish I still have to tie the bows to the front. And make the maps. And address the envelopes. AHHH!!!

invite...progress?

So the invites are becoming much more of a pain than I anticipated. Mostly because they take so LONG to do...each one of them involves alot of cutting and gluing... dont get me wrong, they look really cool and I'm totally happy with them, but having to make 100 of these?!

I can definitely see why people opt to pay for them...sooo many more to do! And I'm already running low on rubber cement...

I broke down and bought a nice cutter. I'm so glad too, we would be spending DAYS at Kinkos with how much cutting these suckers involve...

So many more to go!

they've been started!

The design has FINALLY been completed and the paper sorted out...now the cutting begins!

A sneak peak...





More to come!

they're HERE!

I just got home from work and I was SO EXCITED! There were 3 boxes waiting for me, which means that both the dresses AND the envelopes both came! Ahh! The envelopes are SO awesome. I got them through PaperWorks, which I was tipped off to through Catie's Blog. They were super reasonable and had the brown color that I wanted for them. They came in a nice little box too! I'll print the names and all on them later today so these suckers can get in the mail in the next couple days!

They really are brown, this picture makes them look lighter than they are.

So many envelopes!!!

As for the dresses, I got them unpacked and when I just glanced at them I wasnt a huge fan of the strapless. I mean I liked it, the top of it was neat, but the bottom just had a strange look to it. The shorter one was cute though, although I had expected it to be even shorter. I went ahead and tried them on, and my suspicions were confirmed. The strapless, although cute onthe top, was really unflattering on the bottom. I dont know why...I think the pleats or whatnot in the skirt kind of clash with the dress itself...I dont know. It could also look great on everyone else though, so I will take it to Omaha in a couple days and let people try it on to get their opinions.

The shorted dress was really cute! Although the medium was too big you could still get the idea. I think with a slip underneath to make it fuller it would be really cute. I'll have to see it on everyone but if it looks cute I think that will be the one. And it really isnt short at all, it actually only goes to your ankle. We will see though. I'm so excited that they actually came!

HERE!

Out of the box! The color is nice.

So I guess we will see Friday which one is the best. I'm off to edit and then print the rest of the invites and the envelopes!

save the dates update!

I am SO glad I have this printer!

Today I started printing our Save the Dates. This is going to be more daunting than I thought. I finally got my settings all correct on my printer, but the problem is that the light in this bedroom is out, and because it is so small and there is a folded up treadmill in the center of it and there is no room to unfold it, we cant change the lightbulb. So I have to work on these invites until the sun goes down andt he room becomes pitch black. The problem is that the past few days it has been rainy and cloudy here, which provides me with very little light. Ugh.

In any case, I printed the first batches tonight and they are turning out AWESOME!! We are so happy with them. I checked on the order status of the envelopes and they should be in on Wednesday, which should give me just enough time to print them all before the enveoples are here. And then it is printing the envelopes and sending them away! I'm so excited!

All ready to print!!

So far!

I wish we could have had a picture on them, but I like the how they turned out! As long as we can get the pics in time for my guestbook creation and for the reception, I'll be happy!

save the dates-first DIY!

Last night Adam and I had our first experience with DIY projects for the wedding. I spent most of the day playing around in Photoshop while Adam was watching a movie and I started playing around with an idea for our Save the Dates. After a few hours and many retrys, I finally had a scheme in mind and ended up really liking the end result. Adam liked it alot, and since we aren't going to be able to have our pictures back in time to use one of those and we really need to get them out in the next week, we just decided to roll with these. Granted I'm not a graphic designer, but I think they turned out pretty cool, I printed a sample and found the right paper, and am actually impressed with the end result.

So I drug Adam out to the store to buy the rest of the paper, and then he promised to go to Kinkos to help me cut the paper down to size if I would go with him to see Star Trek... I figured it was an even trade, so we bought our movie tickets, and in the 2 1/2 hour wait time, went to Kinkos and had fun cutting time! This is just the first cut time, to make the paper smaller. The detailed time will come after they are printed, probably next weekend. Anyways, here are a few pictures of our first DIY project! I'm so excited!!

He insisted that if I was in charge of cutting I would mess them up...so I was in charge of handing him the paper!

Paper goodness! I dont usually shop at Archivers, but I had an amazing coupon!! It's not a super fancy paper, but it is textured, so it gives it the look I was going for..

The finished stack!!

Thankfully I have a pro printer so I can print them myself. It may use a bunch of ink, but I like the fact that I get to make them! I can't wait to start printing!