Hi yall! I am so excited to be apart of Wedding Week! Thank you Liz for including me!
Im going to start by officially inviting yall to my our wedding. [Cause come on ladies.. its our time to shine.] Our colors were navy and cream, or sand. Love.
Our invitations were custom made by a friend that I worked with at the time. I wanted something personal that didnt come from a book or a website that thousands of other brides had picked. I wasnt finding anything that I liked that screamed us. So when my friend offered to make them I may have yelled YES! Plus, these were cheaper then anything out there. Custom invite and huge savings? Yes, please!
We defiantly went with the nautical theme for the wedding. Big surprise here, huh? Naw.. not really! 🙂 The top layer was velum with an anchor punched out. Behind the velum was blue textured card-stock. Cream and navy card-stock went behind the velum layer.
Love the anchor punch! I bought it at Michaels, its Martha Stewart. Oh Martha. The original invite was just the velum and textured blue and I thought they were too small. My amazing momma went to work and added the other two pieces of card-stock and I was a happy bridezilla.
Matching response and ‘Registered at’ cards completed our invites. We registered at Kohls and Target because they are nation-wide and have a huge variety of home essentials, in all price ranges. We still have a few things on our registry if youre in a giving mood. 😉 I kid!
Grab some envelopes from any craft store and you have custom invites on a budget. Champagne taste on a beer budget was my mantra for the wedding. I made sure to get the best possible deal for things I wanted. I did make some compromises but I still loved how everything turned out.
Hop over to my lovely co-hosts site to see more of her wedding! And come back tomorrow where I talk about outfits! [Warning.. itll be a long post with TONS of pictures!]
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Pamela says
Beautiful Kelley! We are going to renew our vows was supposed to be our 15th anniv, but that was this year, and next year our oldest will be turning 16 so he will be having a big party. So we are thinking now for our 20th anniv, so that will give me 5 years to get crafty and do things myself. Thanks so much for sharing.
Michaela says
The punched out anchor with the blue texture behind it is great! I love your invites!
Angela says
Is your blog header different? I like it!
MiMi says
CUTE!!! I can't see an anchor now without thinking of you. 🙂
Rachel says
I love the heavyweight paper invites! So substantial! Very pretty, too. What a fun idea of wedding week.
Michelle says
These look gorgeous
Amanda says
Very cute!!
onelmon says
love this anchor invitation!
Lynne says
Your invitations were beautiful (and hello from a fellow Lutheran!)
Lynne says
Missouri Synod for me – and, strangely enough, I just read this morning on This Little Momma's blog (arg, I can't remember her first name…..is it Lisa?) is currently attending a Lutheran church. I did see my husband's cousin Trisha about a week ago, as she hit our location on their cross country drive as they moved from San Diego to Connecticut, and reminded her to email you once she got settled in about the giveaway that I won from you and gave to her. She said she hadn't forgotten you! 4 kids and cross country trip would = weeping lots for me! So go Trisha, you are made of hardier stuff than I am! Have a great week Kelley!
Seaweed and Raine says
Oooh! Loving the anchor punch too. Martha you say? I'll have to have a look here in Aus and see if I can find somewhere that stocks them. Love nautical!. I think you did a great job on the invites. And I like your mantra! 🙂
Debra Kapellakis says
Those are pretty cool.
Jill says
Those are such fun invitations! Love them!!! Thanks so much for also sharing this at Thursday's Temptation.
Jill