Paper Stuff

Ideas

Okay, originally I was planning on doing the invites myself.  I have photoshop, and could find some graphics on iStockphoto to play around with.  I started playing around with things on photoshop, and tried to follow some of the examples of invites that I liked.  That was met with mediocre success.  I think I'm just too picky and anal about it, so I've decided to have someone else do it.

Anyway, in my searches through iStockphoto while looking for a graphic, I completely fell for the illustrations by Sam Posnick.  I love the look and style.  So I got in touch with her and she's going to design the paper stuff and I'll print it out and put together the rest of the way.  It will be a reasonable price, and it will save me aggravation and frustration, win win as far as I'm concerned.  I asked her to use a plumeria motiff.  I can't wait to see what she comes up with!  She has some gorgeous illustrations of flowers on iStockphoto, you should check it out.

I am planning on using Astrobright paper in Lunar Blue and Solar Yellow for the backings, and Aspire Petallics Beargrass for the main invite that will be printed on and the folded card.  I would like to do something like a greeting card, with a bellyband monogram/guest names on the front, the left inside panel will have the actual invitation, and the right inside panel will have information on travel, event times, and our website address.  I don't think I'll include an RSVP card; our website has an RSVP function and I believe a majority of our guests are able to use the internet that much, or at least know another guest who does.  We will include our cell phone numbers so those without internet access can call us and let us know.  I want to do it this way to a) save money on paper, printing and postage, b) save the environment yada yada.  Since it's a DW, there is going to be too much information to put on one RSVP card anyway, this seems more efficient.

As far as STD's, those will be just simple cards that coordinate with the rest of the invitation suite, including the names/date/location/address of the wedding website.



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from Pistachio Press using Sam Posnick's illustration
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from Pistachio Press using Sam Posnick's illustration

Mailing Labels

Yes, I am aware that Emily Post will roll over in her grave for not hand addressing invites.  But, my handwriting is terrible, and FI's is even worse, and I think legibility trumps ettiquette rules.  So I will be using address labels.  I doubt I can print on metallic envelopes on my home printer, and I kinda like the labels look anyway.  The labels will coordinate with the rest of the invites.

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from Knottie ring_pop
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from Knottie ring_pop

I have STD's

Well, no, but the abbreviation gets me everytime.  Yes, I am indeed 12...what?

So here's the finished cards.  The cards were designed by Sam, I put the labels together in InDesign.  It took for frickin' ever to figure out enough to do that much, so I'm really glad I had a pro do the important stuff.  The graphic was a vector image that I ended up buying from Sam's istockphoto portfolio and recolored in Illustrator; I couldn't get a jpeg version to behave and be nice and crisp.

Cards are matted as follows:
1/8" border of solar yellow astrobrights glisten paper (which is discontinued)
1/8" border of lunar blue astrobrights glisten paper (which is also discontinued)
1/4" border of beargrass aspire petallics paper (which is not discontinued, thanfully)

I wanted to cards to be 5"x7" finished so I could just buy a bunch of A7 envelopes and use the extra for the invites later, save a few bucks and all.

The labels were matted on a 1/8" border of the blue paper, so they wouldn't blend in with the envelope, being the same paper and all.  I wanted blue envelopes, but couldn't find anymore.

The scripty font is Montague script, from veer.com.  The seriff font is Garamond (or  adobe garamond pro, I forget exactly).
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