Staying Ahead of the Game

We've made some serious progress on the invitations!

Last week, Shannon (the wife of Sean, Patrick's best man) read the blog entry saying I was planning on making our invitations and emailed me saying she had made the invitations for her wedding. She had some suggestions and sent me pictures of how hers turned out - I loved them, and that was enough to inspire me to get working on ours!

From the examples I had made, I knew my favorite. Without knowing which I liked best, Patrick actually chose the same one as his #1. That decision was an easy one. We had a long weekend with nothing planned on Sat/Sun/Mon, so we took a trip to Joann's Fabric & Craft store (I love that store). They were having a ridiculous sale b/c of the holiday weekend, and we got the cardstock for the invitations on sale at 73% off! Score.

Instead of just showing Patrick a handwritten example of what it would look like, I put together the full version (including printing it up and using the actual paper it would be on). His reaction made me laugh; he said he really liked them & that it looked very professional... but pointed out that I hadn't completely cut a line straight on one of the layered pieces. We have a lot in common b/c I saw the same thing ;).

During a couple movies and a number of tv shows, I worked on cutting/scoring the cardstock into the right sizes, and Patrick helped by folding them along the scored lines. I worked on them for a while after kickball tonight, and the pocket part of each of the invitations is now put together. I'm still touching up corners with a gluestick but learned that glue dots are a huge timesaver.

We won't be sending out the invitations for months, but the picture to the left is a teaser... You'll just have to use your imagination!

I've been loving hearing that people are getting our Save the Date's in the mail; it's fun to hear everyone's feedback, and it even helps to make this feel a little more real.

I know it's still early - and I'll knock on wood as I'm typing - but our wedding planning process has been really easy so far. There have been a couple things we haven't agreed on 100%, but we've been able to come to a good solution after talking it out. We're just trying to make sure that we remember our wedding should be a celebration of the two of us, and things are seeming to fall into place with that in mind. We make a pretty good team (if I do say so myself)! :)*

-Lisa