Invitations--Final product!!
Here are a few pictures of how the invitations turned out. I never did find the "perfect" ribbon for the belly bands, but after searching for weeks, I ordered some on Ebay and Bryan told me I had to use it whether I wanted to or not--he was sick of me complaining about the color :) I addressed the envelopes myself, with a calligraphy pen, but it's really just my normal handwriting. I left up the "mock up" stuff below on this page in case anyone wants to see the stages of me going crazy about these, but here's the final product! Lots of pics are doubles, but I wanted to make sure I was AWing properly.
Oh, and if you see a mistake anywhere, please don't tell me! They will be/were mailed on April 2, a little bit early, but honestly if there's an issue now I would just rather not know about it.
Invitations (mock up/frustrated rambling, important stuff above)
We just got our invites back from the printer! yay! We splurged and got thermography printing, but we only used black ink, so it wasn't all that expensive. We got them printed on 8.5x11 sheets, so I have to do all the cutting and assembling myself :) It's going to take forever. This is the mock up so far. When they're done, they'll all be stacked on top of the actual invite and held together with an aqua ribbon belly band. The belly bands are still a work in progress. In the picture to the right, there are 3 I've tried so far, but I'm not in love with any of them--still trying to find the right kind of ribbon. Also, the "H" on the belly band will be a bit different--the ones in this pic aren't the final copy.
They'll then be put in an aqua envelope, not pictured, but the same color of the small envelope that is behind the RSVP card. In this pic it looks like it's mounted on aqua stock, but that's just the envelope. Sorry the pictures suck! It's fuzzy without the flash, and you can't see much of it with the flash. Haven't figured out the best way to photograph them yet.
