Paper Goods

I did not want to title this "The Invitations," even though that is what i will be discussing. This is more about the frustrations of semi-diy invitations and the importance of doing things in a timely manner. (I am talking about myself. Remember my previous post about being a procrastinator?) I'm going to hit the rewind button for a bit, okay?

Way back in the early planning stages, I had an idea of what I wanted my invitations to be like. They say that the invitations are the first glimpse your guests will get to see of the type of wedding you will be having. Well, I knew I wanted to convey the city-chic, multi-cultural vibe we were going for. The problem was, I didn't exactly know how to get there. Oh, I Googled like a maniac and stalked designers' sites and invitation sites. Everything looked really pretty, but led to a lot of confusion. I can't help it, but I have very ecclectic tastes and can easily fall in love with a myriad of selections from one second to the next. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed and did what I do best...



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YUP! I procrastinated. The thought of them just kind of sat in the back of my mind, popping up here and there reminding me that time was tick.tick.ticking away. Ever the consummate optimist, I just reasoned with myself that things would go well (mind you, I didn't have any ACTUAL reasons HOW and WHY) and reassured my fiance (as he was constantly berating me about them) that they would be done on schedule.

Well then. Here I am, one week after the scheduled due date and I am still doing revisions for my designer. Whaaaaaa??? I am not going to panic. I am not going to panic. I am not going to panic. I swear! I'm sooooo behind. I know.



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The plus side is, I love how my invitations are turning out. They have truly been a labor of love...I just haven't decided if they have been worth it:) It's one thing to see them in a file, but it will be something else when I get them back from the actual printer and packaged up into pretty things. I am excited to see them all come together and cannot wait for everyone's reactions.

I will be talking more about how I came upon them and how the ideas came together. I have a ton of email correspondences between me and my collaborator. I don't really want to call her my designer (although she is a graphic design artist) because I provided the concepts to her and she just put my ideas onto paper.

They turned out differently than what i had originally imagined, but I love them so much more. I was able to implement all of "our colors" and things that we love about life. I used to wonder why people would write post after post about their invitations (it's just paper, right??:), but now I totally get it. I will discuss later on my original inspiration for the invitations and how the process came together. It was a lot of work, but I learned a lot along the way and so that itself made it worthwhile.

I am curious to see how many of you spent countless hours pouring over invitations on the internet and in stores. Did anyone else DIY or semi-DIY? How did you come to your decision on the final product and was it an easy /hard choice?