Well, the wedding plans are coming along, I am seeing this wedding on a budget thing as a challenge, but then I see most of life as a challenge!
Today we plan to check on the fixins for making the invitations. Now remember this is a big formal wedding and the invitation is the fist sign most folks will have of the mood for the day. And the mood will be “once in a lifetime- glorious- taste of heaven- celebration!” A wedding should represent the beginning of a lifetime covenant, representational of our walk with Jesus.
So things cannot look homemade. But I do believe we can make most of the elements of this celebration day without spending tons of money we do not have, (on to that it in a minute). So, today we go to the printers to see and feel real invites, the expensive kind. Then we go to hobby lobby and office max. Between the two we are going to be looking at papers, vellum, and ribbons, oh and envelopes. The outside needs to be pretty simple if we expect the automated postal system to get them where they are going. But the inside can be fancy, or rather elegant.
Ok so now the nitty gritty. How am I going to come up with the funds? ( I would say “we” but hubby reminds me, his job is to “pray, fast, and preach the Word”). So this administrator gets to handle all things financial. Anyway, we will be having an online fundraiser in February. Not sure of the exact date yet, but if you saw the last one you know it was good. A firesale of sorts, folks got well over $700 of resources for home and family for only $49 and this one will be better. If you would like to be notified, look for the purple box to the right that says “join our mailing lists” and add your name. It will give you a choice of lists, check the penny raine announcements, and any others you might be interested in. And keep checking back here .
What fun to do wedding invitations!! We got married in 2004 and I did all of our invitations. I found the ones I wanted online and used them as a loose guide. They were $4 each and I estimated that with the envelopes my handmade ones were about 50 cents each. I love square cards so I took a 12 x 12 piece of periwinkle cardstock and cut it into 4 squares, and stamped a royal blue large fern on it. I printed the invitation 2 to a 9 x 11 sheet of vellum in royal blue and cut them a little smaller than the card stock, then attached them on the side with white sheer knotted ribbon. I also did not want a homemade look, and these fit the bill. The only thing I wished was that they would have had raised lettering, but I could not afford it at the time.