Working on the wedding invitations

Here's a prototype for our wedding invites. I ordered a bunch of sample cardstock from cardsandpockets.com in all of our wedding colors. The pocketfold is blue, the matting under the invitation is purple, the reply by card is green, and envelope is red, and the various enclosures are a variety of colors. Cardsandpockets.com doesn't really have a good "teal" color. At least, not the teal I am going for, so I opted to have one of our enclosures be teal to incorporate that.

It's just a prototype picture, and I'll post the final product later, but here's what I found. . . .the green wasn't quite the green I wanted, it was hard to see the purple matting next to the blue pocketfold, and the red envelope was too "fire-truck" red. So I've ordered some new samples to see if some different colors will work. I'm trying to keep with the colors that are listed as "metallic" so they have a shine to them.

The lining of the envelopes with the Shakespeare pages is cute, and I think it will work well. We did decide though to line some of the interior of the pocketfold with Shakespeare text too. The inner left fold will have text on it, and when you take out all the encolsures to the right, text will be under that as well. It just makes it a bit cleaner and brings the theme throughout the invitation.

I had fun with the wording! The invitation doesn't have too much "Shakespearean wording" on it, but I had a good time with the reply card and the encolsure card.

On the reply card it says below where you should write in your name, "To be or not to be?" And then you check either "to be" or "not to be" to accept or decline. In enclosure card says at the top, "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears." Then it lists a bunch of information. Above the parking directions it says, "How camest thou hither?" a quote from Romeo and Juliet, and I bring R&J back again by using "Parting is such sweet sarrow" before the information on hotels in the area.

At first when I made the prototype, I just had the text plain and simple and found it really needed a border or a fram. So I used my new favorite website "The Graphics Fairy" to find the frames around the text. I like to think of myself as a bit of a technical wizard, so I got it all to work! The graphics fairy is a blog that has all kind of fantastic vintage images. It's well worth it to book mark! The backdrop for this blog actually came from The Graphics Fairy! You can visit the blog here:

http://www.graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/

I'm excited to see the new colors and will have fun putting these together. I'm thinking it would make a good bridesmaid night.

Here's the prototype. More detailed pictures to come. . .

About us and what we're looking for in our wedding

On July 7th 2012, I will no longer have my hideously ugly last name! In fact, I think I'll scoff my old name and just start calling myself "Jennifer Zimny" from here on out! I'm excited to really get down to the nitty gritty of planning my wedding, since we're now under the 100 day mark. I plan to blog here my inspirations and my final results.

At this point I'm not stressed, but I'm not that kind of "bride," I guess. Nothing really shakes me. . . .perhaps it's because I'm a high school drama teacher. It's hard to shake you when you're constantly in that environment!

So here goes with my wedding ideas. . . .

First of all, our colors are jewel tones. I'm not going to for the matchy-matchy bridesmaids dresses. I've chose blue, red, green, purple, and teal for my bridesmaids to wear and to be a theme throughout our wedding. Also thoughout our wedding you'll find hints of Paris because we got engaged at the top of the Eiffel Tower.

So here goes with some inspiration points. . . .



This is the kind of thing I'm going for with the tables. Lots of colors, nothing really matching.



Love these chairs, but I've priced it out and doing every chair would be pretty expensive. So perhpas I might do every other chair or just the ones going down the aisle.



Love these flowers! My idea is for all the bridesmaids to have bouquets of white roses and for me to have all the colors in my bouquet. I think it will be really pretty in the contrast!

Finally, there's the invitations. We're DIYing them, so that will be my next post. We've decided to order some pocketfolds and enclosures and we'll be lining the envelopes are parts of the pockets folds with pages from my complete works of Shakespeare. Actually, my prototype is turning out very cute! We've incorporated all of the colors and have a wording theme of Shakespeare throughout. The next time I post, it will be all about that!

Until them. . . .

JZ