Wedding: Invitations

the invitations to our wedding were the most trying part of all the planning.

It also happened to be my favorite.

my brother in law, Sam, did the calligraphy on 100+ of the announcements.

he said that he wanted to learn how to do calligraphy,

so i hired him to do some of our envelopes.

he did an amazing job and they looked like they were done by a professional.

jon was home in December 2009 for christmas and to take our engagement photos.

after that, he didn't come home until the wedding.

he didn't get to see any of the wedding planning or anything firsthand.

which is why i sent him an invitation of his own.

i looked everywhere for antique stamps with no success, so i just used the king and queen 'love' stamps from the post office.

i think they looked great.

i found a website, One Kings Lane, signed up for it and received $10 to spend on their website.

so i bought a stamp. i think it was $15.

this is the photo that went out with the invitations.

thank you Kylie.

(ps compare his medal from december to his medals at the wedding)

the colors are bad on these.

the design on the top is the same green as the announcement and the same green on Jon's uniform.

Sam helped me pick out the fonts for the announcements.

He is a graphic designer and now a calligrapher.

Let me know if you are interested in either of those things from him.

i debated for a long time about putting 
where we are registered on the invite or not.

i finally decided not to.

i emailed Jaffa Printing and told them not to put it on there.

after a few days, i couldn't get it out of my head.

we were moving two days after the wedding and i didn't want to get gifts from all over the place and have to come to california and figure out where we got everything and have to return stuff we didn't want or didn't register for or got duplicates of.

so i finally decided for sure that we wanted it on there.

my dad talked me into it and said that people don't like getting invitations and not having where they are registered on there. i agree, because its easier to get the bride and groom something they want rather than try to guess.

anyway, target was a great place to register and it was really good that we put it on there.

we got a lot of stuff off our registry. thank you everyone.

and Mountain America was also an AWESOME place to register. i highly recommend.

Jaffa was really great to work with. I recommend them as well.

more wedding posts to come.