Our wedding invitations!

Friends, I have been so excited to share these with all of you.  They turned out SO GREAT and I am more than thrilled with them :)

So a little background on the subject first, ok? 

I really wanted to print them on wood.  Nobody got it.  They all thought I was crazy.  In my head I imagined a super thin piece of flexible wood, veneer I guess, with a cute design, etc. etc.  I almost ordered enough blank cards from Night Owl Paper Goods as it was exactly what I wanted.  I saw plenty of stuff like this at the Renegade Craft Fair last December and though it would be easy to find it.  My mom convinced me I could find it at Home Depot.  So we went looking.  And looking and looking and looking.  To no avail.  The blank sheets from NOPG were rather expensive.  And one day, my mom called and said her and my brother had found a seriously thin sheet of wood at Lowe's.  Ok.  But how thin? 

So my mom mails me 1/4" sheet of plywood that her and my brother had cut and sanded down.  It was weird and not what I wanted but I guess it would work.  I just kept thinking, are we really going to mail our guests a plaque that says please come to our wedding?! Yes, we were.

So my lovely and super talented friend Jess and I got the ball rolling on design ideas, etc.  Seriously, Jess is talented.  And here's what she came up with:

I fell in love with them.  At first sight.  They're so...perfect in every single way.  And the front side looks JUST LIKE US!  Color me impressed.  Very, very impressed.

So Jess labored for hours and hours on the computer and then switched from that to screenprinting.  She screenprinted all 75 of these babies in one night.  And I am eternally grateful for that!

I picked them up from her while we were in K.C. for Gracie & Emo's wedding, and as soon as we got back, Raegan, Anna & I worked on the envelopes.  We bought oversized envelopes and then cut out liners and glued them in.  It was a fun craft night!

Shimmery copper liners and sage green envelopes.  We even bought a wax seal (which is seriously fun to play with)

(please disregard that address :-/ )

Jess designed us up a map for our guests and it looks absolutely incredible. 

 And I just had to throw this in there - he was so intrigued!

 All photo's by Raegan Stremel.

Have a wonderful and joyous 4th of July weekend!  We're off in 15 minutes to Kentucky Lake for a marvelous weekend with family.  Til Tuesday...