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.
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