Funny words for a funny wedding

They say a picture is worth a thousand words but I think they must mean a thousand ordinary, boring words. Funny words, on the other hand… well, that’s a different story.
I just read about a bride who, when it came to asking her friends and family for their addresses (we all know what a pain [...]

My colour is finally in fashion!

I stumbled upon capture the moment (the blog of Papertrey Ink designer Nicole Heady) a couple months ago when I was agonizing over my DIY wedding invitations.
It didn’t take long before I became enamored with the infinite pretty possibilities that present themselves when you combine a bit of paper, some ribbon, a dash of ink [...]

Tick tock, tick tock… C’mon, RSVP already, people!

I’ve always known I can be a bit of a procrastinator at times but I didn’t know how many other procrastinators there were out there ’till now… and all of them are our friends.
When we sent out our wedding invitations, we included a card with information on how to contact our travel agent before May [...]

Ding dong, the witch is dead! Er, I mean, the invites are done.

Oh my lord. HALLELUJA. My invitations are doooooooonnnnne! I finally put them in the mail today and I can breathe a huge sigh of relief.
I read about people making their own invitations on other blogs, notably Weddingbee (so addictive, that site) but I can now tell you with absolute certainty that even if you read [...]

See the photos, feel my pain

Here’s visual evidence of the carnage I was talking about in my last post about Phase 1 of my Do-It-Yourself wedding invitation project: cutting the cardstock.
Here’s my pretty paper and ribbon, oh so pearly and innocent and carefree (pre-disaster).

Here is Mr Purple executing his so-called “brilliant” cutting technique - putting the ruler down on a [...]

It’s official: I AM crazy. And there’s a reason wedding invitation companies exist.

Oh. My. God.
If I never see another X-Acto knife in my life, it’ll be too soon.
Last Saturday, Mr. Purple and I attacked Phase 1 of the D-I-Y wedding invitation project: cutting the paper.
As you may recall, deciding on a design and buying the cardstock for these things was quite the ordeal. Once I realized that [...]

I’m making my own invites. Crazy? We’ll see.

Now that we’ve got our wedding date, it’s FULL STEAM AHEAD for my little wedding invite factory.
That’s right - after much research online, a couple of panicky trips to local stationery makers and lot of grumbling from Mr Purple (the fiance) about the cost of things “that people are just going to chuck in the [...]

To Save the Date or to not save the date… that is the question

Now that we’ve finally got a wedding date, I’m in a rush to get wedding invitations done (more on that soon).
I never did figure out what to do about sending a Save the Date out to our guests until it was too late, so I didn’t end up doing it. I think we’ll be okay; [...]