Category — stationery

After successfully completing our wedding invitations, I knew that I could do the remainder of the wedding stationery myself. I designed, printed, and assembled the rest of our wedding stationery using the same process as I did with our invitations. I created ceremony programs, menus, escort cards, place cards, table signs, table numbers, stickers, out of town boxes, and our rehearsal dinner invitations.

Here are some detail shots of our DIY stationery:

Ceremony Programs. The program quote said, “My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you and lead my life with you.”

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The wedding invitation from my inspiration board became the starting point for designing our wedding…the color scheme, linens, flowers, lighting, stationary, and even the cake were inspired by this invitation.

After contacting several invitation designers for custom quotes to recreate the wedding invitation from my inspiration board, I was left feeling completely discouraged because all of the quotes were completely out of our budget. It was at this point that the thought of a DIY wedding popped into my head. I knew that I would be able to recreate my inspiration invitation if I only knew the process.

After some online research I discovered that my inspiration invitation was not actually created using fuchsia paper with white text printed on it. Instead it was created using offset lithography, meaning that the invitation itself is actually white heavy cardstock and the fuchsia pink is an ink that is printed on top of the cardstock. The text that is visible is actually the white cardstock that was not covered by the fuchsia ink. I also found that offset lithography is the most common form of printing because it is fast, efficient, cheap, and relatively easy to do.

Now that I knew the process of creating my inspiration invitations, it was time to start designing our own invitations.

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I love Elizabeth’s adorable submission, photo save the dates with a vintage quality.

Front:

Back:

Another amazing project from Amanda - telegram programs!

Image: Vintage Glam

Amanda says:

I found this telegram template a while ago when randomly browsing the internet. Since we were having an Art Deco wedding at a building from the 1930’s, having vintage telegram ceremony programs would set the tone for the rest of the evening.

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Wanwisa’s adorable brunch DIY continued with school-supply theme menus.

Instructions:

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Wanwisa planned a beautiful birthday brunch, and today we’ll be showcasing her invitations and menus!

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One of our favorite gals, and prior guest bloggers, Kimberly, sent us a very cool save the date idea!

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So cute! Becky sent over her awesome rehearsal dinner invitations, which have a Minnesota Twins theme! She says:

After creating, ordering, and addressing these invitations for our rehearsal dinner, I had a bit of a “light bulb moment” and decided to start the whole process over again from scratch. You see, my husband and I are huge Minnesota Twins fans, and at the time, the Twins were in a pretty tight pennant race with the Chicago White Sox. We were already planning a low-key dinner at my in-laws’ house, so I knew it would be fairly easy to turn the evening into an event that revolved around rooting for our favorite team.

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Samantha submitted an absolutely beautiful Gocco invitation set!

Instructions for making them, in Samantha’s words!

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We are so excited to announce a fun partnership between EAD and Teardrop Weddings!  Here’s how it works: We’ll design a board and pass it along to Holly.  She will then design a full invitation suite around the board!  We’re so excited about showing this to all of you because it will give you an idea of how an inspiration board can really be the guideline for your entire wedding planning process.

Our first inspiration board and invitation suite comes from one of my very favorite boards ever - our red and peach board!

Clockwise from top left: Jenna Hein, Ariella Chezar, Dennis Reggie via Weddingbee, perfectbound via Snippet & Ink, Our Labor of Love, Smoothie Recipes, Katie Sellers via Desire to Inspire, MS, Kenny Pang via Lucky Designs, Domino Magazine via Design for Mankind

From this board, Holly designed these adorable invites:

Holly says:

Straight away we were attracted to the photo of the peaches, and that is what triggered our creative juices for our first invitation suite. I wanted a very fun and whimsical design, also, something romantic. When I think of red, I instantly think of love and romance. To bring in the element of romance, we illustrated a girl sitting on a tree swing as her hubby lovingly pushes her. They are surrounded by trees, which makes them feel like they are all alone in the world. All around them are peaches, which I’m sure would be the most sweetest smell they have ever come across. We like to tell a story with our invitations, because really, that is what a wedding is…telling the story of a man and woman…the story of how they met, fell in love and are now going to live happily ever after!

So what do you think?  Hopefully this inspires you to create a board for your own wedding and also gives you some ideas on translating your board into reality!

E.