Polka Dot Wedding Invitations

With 6 weeks until our wedding I am starting to enter panic mode. There is a never ending list of things to do and of course no time to get them done. Ian and I are spent the 4th of July weekend power washing and spray painting in order to try and cross a few things off our list, this weekend Ian is celebrating his bachelor party while I work on to a million DIY projects.

One thing that keeps me smiling through all the stress is our polka dot invitations! I designed them, hand cut envelope liners and even addressed them myself. I couldn't be more pleased with the final result and I especially enjoyed receiving the polka dot response card envelopes in the mail for the past month!

Receiving RSVPs

Another sneak peak into our invitations...RSVP envelopes. We mailed our invitations last week (seen here) and already we have received so many positive responses! I love checking the mail and finding these polka dot RSVP envelopes in the mailbox.

Invites are in the mail!!!

I don't want to give away too many details just yet but we finally mailed our wedding invitations and I couldn't be happier! They were a true labor of love as I personally designed, stuffed, and addressed all 100+ of them. I couldn't be more pleased with how they turned out and something about mailing them makes me feel like this whole wedding is actually happening...and SOON! I will post detailed pictures once I know our guests have received them, I just hope they like them as much as I do!

Envelope Liners

I recently purchased a DIY envelope liner template from Paper Source and I must say it was worth $11 and then some. I was amazed at how effortlessly I was able to transform solid envelopes into the perfect addition to any invitation or letter. I love the way envelope liners can express your creativity without distracting from the contents inside. I will definitely be putting my envelope template to good use in the future!

Images via PaperSource, 100 Layer Cake, Indigo Bunting, Say Yes to Hoboken, HipHipHooray, Its a Brides Life, and Martha Stewart

Wedding Invitations

Colorful Invite via Stylemepretty

One Love Invitations via OnceWed

Love Mix Wedding Invitations from Beast Pieces

Stamp Save the Date Invitations found on Love Our Way

Fabric Flower Invitations from Merriment Designs

Selecting our wedding invitations wasn't easy. I knew I wanted something graphic and after our DIY Save the Date (seen here) I knew it had to be different. After scouring the internet for what felt like months, I eventually realized that what I wanted did not exist and that I needed to design my own. I have absolutely NO experience designing invitations, but after playing around on the computer for a few hours our invitations were born.

I am happy to announce that the invitations I designed are on the way to the printer, and I spent all weekend making envelope liners to pull the whole look together. I can't show you them just yet because they aren't being sent out for a few more months so instead I have included a variety of sources I used for inspiration.

Love is Sweet

When deciding on Save the Date's we knew that we didn't want anything too traditional. In order to play up our theme of Love is Sweet we decided to send Kisses along with the Save the Date. I designed and printed the Save the Date and address labels myself and my mom helped to stuff all 100 packages with kisses. I was surprised at how easy these were to pull off and I absolutely love how they turned out!