Now it's REAL

Wedding planning takes months, sometimes even years. And during those seemingly infinite days of planning, the actual wedding date seems a long way off. For brides who waited a long time for the proposal to begin with (*cough*), the date not only feels far away, but the wedding itself still feels a bit like a distant dream. At least, that is how I have felt...

But now I have invitations.

Invitations, by nature of putting the date and time of the wedding in permanent print, make the whole thing seem a lot more real. If this wasn't already exciting enough, try adding to it the fact that the invitations are a graphic and textile clue to how the whole wedding will look and feel. Needless to say, I am pretty excited to have them. And I am even more excited that they...are...AWESOME!

I worked with Dana Cochran at A Fine Line in Asheville, NC to coordinate the whole thing. I did a bad Photoshop drawing of what I wanted and she sent it to Oblation Papers, who managed to make my idea look a million times better. Oblation also did the letterpress printing of the invites, response cards and envelopes. Let me just say, their handmade paper should be edible because it is so yummy that I just want to eat it up!

I ordered the envelopes from PaperSource and sent them to be printed, mostly because I didn't like the envelope choices at Oblation. But it ended up working out perfectly. I also ordered the templates and the paper for the envelope liners, which I will be doing myself.