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. . .