Now that our wedding invitations have been mailed out, I get to share one of my very favorite wedding DIY's so far...our invitations! Right from the very start, I knew I wanted to design our wedding invitations. Not only to make them "unique" and personal to us, but to save us some major money. Wedding invitations can cost the average couple hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars depending on the style of the invitation, the type of paper used, and how the invitation is made (here's lookin' at you, letter-pressed invites!). I had some basic graphic design knowledge after going through the process of creating our Save-The-Date, but I was wise enough to acknowledge that I was no Photoshop expert. I wanted to keep the design fairly simple, but still stylish and sweet. Because of that, I wanted a stupid-simple wedding invitation suite. No more inserts than necessary, and not enough heavy, crafty details to make the postage more than the actual invite itself.
On the actual design side, I've been loving the look of watercolor flowers (but seriously, what bride hasn't?) so I knew I for-sure wanted to go for that "look". I set out to find some watercolor floral wedding invitation inspiration and hit the good 'ole Etsy jackpot...
As you can see, I was seriously drawn to pink florals, script-y fonts, and pretty simple invitation layouts. After I got the a-okay to start designing a girly wedding invitation from Mr. C ("But it's so...pink...") I went ahead and started piecing together our wedding invitations. Oh, and so you don't start feeling too bad for poor, manly Mr. C...we compromised on all the pink, and the font was made gray, just for him. Compromise is the key to marital happiness, I've heard.
Next, I show you the design process and how even a graphic-design clueless bride can design her own wedding invitations!
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