The Wedding Series Part 3 : The Invitations

I'm very bad at taking bath at night.

 I know it's not a good practice for a girl to be taking bath at late night but here I am doing just that. I'll hop into the bath once I finish this.

anyways.

The thing about DIYs is that you're not going to be satisfy especially if you're constantly browsing the internet and stumbling upon many-many more of the current situation you're into. For me it was my Wedding Invites.

If you must know, I have  more than 3 Invitation designs. The main ones I finished on the 3rd week of September. It was a gruesome month. I had my fingers swollen, backache and eye bags. It wasn't that hard actually. The hard part was the cutting of 300-500 pcs of invitation, sticking them up together and of course the extra decoration. In the end, I was left with only 90% of the whole vision of my wedding invitation. Nonetheless, I still manage to finish all of them, wrote names on in with a list provided by my father. I am still left with 400 invites to doodle on. Most of this invites have every relative's name stamped on them so I was left with non.

To make up with the loss, I redesign another invitation. Floral ones that is and I am so happy about it.

Design 1 for the entire universe.

Design : Photoshop / Paper : 160gsm diamond paper, 230gsm red pattern paper / Decor : Doilies & ribbons

With white envelope. Colours chosen by the spouse.

Design 2 for them out of design 1. Ain't it purdy?

Design : Photoshop / Paper : 230gsm glossy paper / Decor : Doilies & Ribbons. Mine with rustic brown envelope (which I adore!)

I feel so etsy right now.

Few years back I have also helped my brother in the invites so I have my fair share of experience on doing mine. I did however, made a lot (I meant, A LOT) of experimenting. Here's some of them.

From the types of paper I should use, which texture is suitable, how is it worth making (because a card takes only a couple seconds in one hand before occupying the garbage bin), how much would one card cost me etc. every single details counts.

I have ready stuffs in the house such as paper cutters, printers, papers (from when I was actively into painting/drawing/doodling), ribbons & twine from making crafts etc. So it was quite a save for me. Can you believe I spent only RM0.30/card? Amazeballs!

I accept card making now. lol

It's been hard especially when the guest list came in late. Had a couple hundreds written and ready to be sent. Dad came in with a new guest list and asked me to recheck all the tied+arranged+glued+packed invitation. I was like..

wtf! you're doing this to me now dad? really? really?!

So yeah, that's the story of my many invites. I apologise for the not so great picture quality. I use only my phone to document everything now. My camera haven't left the bag since, 6 months ago, I think.
Until next post.
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