Natty's Wedding Invites!

God, where do I start!  We found this part of the organizing a little trying!  Scouring the Internet to find something appropriate, with a small amount of pressure from my father for a traditional styled invite.  There was only one thing to do, fuse the traditional with the modern!  I found a wonderful style in the Martha Stewart Wedding magazine.  It was named ‘destination wedding’ by www.papercupdesign.com and I loved it!  We wanted a travel theme for obvious reasons and what we liked about it was it was in a vintage style.  

Image care of marthastewart.com

I contacted the company and they were kind enough to send me some samples!  Step one accomplished.  The problem was they were based in the US and even though I loved the design and the concept, it was missing something.  My personal touch!  With the rough concept in hand I approached my wonderful printer, Patrick Dolling.  His wife is my Mothers oldest friend and so I was lucky to keep it all in house! So on to the fun part we went! We had been toying with the idea of giving everyone a guidebook of Crete but as you can imagine the prices were horrendous, so I ended up writing one myself!  It took time but it was so great when it was done and was a hit with the guest!  There is also a company that makes pop out pocket maps.  Sara contacted them for us and had them make up some maps.  What was great was they actually customized them to what I wanted and were extremely detailed as well as being easy to use due to their size, very evening bag friendly!

As the wedding was a three day affair, their had to be three invites. This was where the ‘destination design’ had caught my eye.  The vintage ticket stubs were perfect for the Friday and Sunday events and the wedding invitation was then kept as a more traditional invite with the traditional wording.

I know that these type of things interest me and other people are not that way inclined but I thoroughly enjoyed getting stuck into the designing of all of this.  It was great to work with someone who had such amazing vision and together we took the basic idea and made it into to something really awesome. The finished product was a travel pack (easy to travel with) which opened up to have a guide book, hand drawn map of the area with all the important sites (hotels, wedding venues, etc) on it, three invites, the pocket map, an RSVP and an addressed envelope to return the RSVP.  If I don’t say so myself…they were very cool!  See for yourselves.


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