Our Wedding: Everything Paper

Since we weren’t blogging back in 2008, I’ll share our wedding experience with you in a series of posts here at The LOH.

We are both pretty environmentally-conscious people who are incredibly cheap, so we knew that we didn’t want to do the standard 80-pieces-of-paper-6-envelopes-4-pieces-of-tissue-and-vellum route. Instead, I designed a 4×5.5 card directing everyone to RSVP at the wedding website that I built and tells folks with no internet access to call me. Since we had so many out of town guests, the website had lodging info, directions, parking info, airport/airline info, car rental info, fun stuff to do in the area, and a message board so that people can make plans for fun activities (while we all were gathered in the same state!) or make carpool/travel plans. I designed all of the paper goods in Photoshop and sent them to whcc.com (White House Custom Color) for printing (the paper we chose is a beautiful pearl). White House is the premiere print house for artists and photographers, their work is incredible, their staff is friendly, and their whole operation is so cost-effective and efficient. We got our invitation order in 3 days. They printed our thank yous, programs, rehearsal dinner invites, map cards (for locals) as well as the invitations. 101 invitations cost me $185.70 ($1.84 per invitation) including postage, the paper for the envelopes, and the printer cartridges. At home print jobs included favor tags, envelopes, telegrams, table numbers, escort cards, and various signage.

Here’s our font list:

The invitation:

The map cards:

I made these by starting with a screen shot of the google map, creating my version over it in Photoshop, and then deleting the google layer. You can see that it’s even to scale!

The Welcome/Rehearsal Dinner invitation:

Ceremony program (front):

Program (inside left):

Program (inside right):

Program (back):

Escort cards (front & back):

Guest book sign:

Guest book telegrams:

Guest book mailbox:

Place cards:

Table numbers:

Easels for table numbers and various signage:.

Favors:

Inside of favor card:

Photo booth sign:

Thank you notes:

Thank you note labels:

Thank you note envelopes:

Stay tuned for Monday – Wedding Fashion!