Wedding Invitation - Wedding - Nicole and Scott

Our wedding invitation I obsessively designed! And I love all of it! I looked at every website, catalog, and bridal show, but I just wasn't finding exactly what I was looking for. So I took all the bits and pieces of lots of invitations that I did like and designed this one. Our coat of arms logo that I designed was sure to be front and center for the invitation. The booklet was made with textured card stock purple paper layered with black and silver swirl paper, then shimmery card stock purple paper, topped with our logo. All tied together with black ribbon.

To be traditional, I put the protective paper before the invitation. It was attached, so it wouldn't fall out. I used a translucent paper that matched the black and silver swirl design from the cover of the invitation.

Next came the invitation. This was a cross between traditional designs and wording with a bit of a modern twist with font and design of our names.

I love the invitations with the pocket that holds all the important papers for guests. So I took that design and worked it into the booklet design. Behind the invitation piece of paper I layered the reception, hotel, and direction pages. All of the inside pages are with with purple paper.

The hotel piece is becoming a main stay with wedding invitations. So I wanted to be sure that it was part of the invitations. Not just the cards that the hotel printed for me. It was great that they did this for me, but they did not go with the design of the invitation nor the theme of our wedding.

The directions page. Another main stay now in wedding invitations. No longer is there a need to just print off mapquest directions. They can be tailored to the design and theme of the wedding, just like I did here.

Reply Card - Wedding - Nicole and Scott

This is the reply card that I designed for our wedding. I continued our coat of arms logo on it that I designed. We also did not want just the typical responses for our guests. So I found this unique way for our guests to reply. They are all based on "coming with bells on!" Then we continued the bell theme, too, thru our ceremony and reception.

On the reply card I also personalized them with our guests names. We didn't want all the confusion of who is invited and who's not, are kids invited, etc. So each reply card I personalized them with exactly who was invited and then down again at the bottom with each person's own spot to check off their food choice.

Program for Wedding Ceremony - Wedding - Nicole and Scott

The program for our wedding that I designed. Here again I continued with our logo as the main design for the cover. We loved this design. I secured the program together with black ribbon. The cover of the program was card stock white paper with purple paper on the inside.

Our heritage's both are from Irish decent so I added the Irish Marriage Blessing the beginning of our program.

Next is the wedding party page listing everyone from the parents to the singers. I used the griffin and part of the swirls from our coat of arms logo to continue the theme thru the program. (I have no idea why my camera made this page a different purple. But all the pages inside are the same shade of lilac.)

After that page is our our wedding ceremony.

The next page in the program was dedicated to those who have passed away and our thanks to our parents and our friends and family. I continued the griffin theme similar to our coat of arms logo.

The last page was directions to the hotel and reception. I know I have forgotten the invitation to weddings that had all the directions in it, so I thought it would be helpful to our guests that they have that information, just in case. Also, since there was a few hours between the ceremony and reception, I wanted to be sure our guests knew they could go to the hotel lounge.

Favor - Wedding - Nicole and Scott

Here is the favor card I designed for our guests. I kept the theme going with our coat of arms that I designed. This was our logo of our wedding. We looked at every option available to bride and grooms for favors to give their guests as a thank you for attending the wedding. None of them really were what we were looking for. When I was browsing for ideas I came across the idea of donating to charity of the bride and grooms choice and leaving cards for the guests telling them about a cause that is near and dear to their hearts. There were, unfortunately, several family members and friends bewteen each of us that had their lives affected by cancer. We decided the donate our favor money to the American Cancer Society. I thought it was a great gesture, and I never imaged the great reaction we got from our guests for this. It was so widely appreciated and touched so many people, it was just awesome. I'm so glad we decided to go this way.

Personalized Menus/Name Cards - Wedding - Nicole and Scott

Personalized menus for every guest! We decided to give our guests choices for their meal at our wedding. The problem then arose that we weren't sure how to make sure everyone gets the right food. I designed personal menus for every guest color-coded with their meal choice; purple=prime rib, white=chicken, and green=vegetarian.

The menus were then folded so that they would stand at each place setting. They were all labeled with the guests names. We had the hall place them around the tables for us to ensure that the guests wouldn't accidentally place them in a pocket, purse, or forget them during cocktail hour. This ensured that dinner was served smoothly, on-time and without issues.