Thank You Cards

We thought about getting our thank you cards printed at Vistaprint, but in the end we decided we wanted to make them ourselves. They say they should be hand-written in order to seem more personal, and we thought; if we're hand-writing them, we may as well make them from scratch. I found some blank cards and envelopes from WH smith, costing £5 for 50. We will be having our favourite wedding photo printed, and glueing it to the front of the cards.

Wax Seal

We ordered a wax seal online, with our initials. We used them with red wax on our invitations.



This was a piece of blu tack I was experimenting with, and I made it look more like ceramic in Photoshop. Unfortunately I don't have a better image of it:

RSVP

These are the RSVP cards we sent out to our guests. Unfortunately when I sent out the invitations, I forgot to specify a return by date, so now I have to spend time calling round everyone. Never mind!

Invitations

Figuring it was about time I got to grips with Adobe Photoshop, I designed our invitations myself at home. It took me a few hours to get it just right, and I uploaded my design to Vistaprint, and had 100 of them printed onto "Oversized Postcards". The design was very simple and straightforward; I just put a red border around one of our engagement photos, then had them printed.

Once printed, I purchased 90gsm vellum, which is similar to tracing paper you used at school. I bought the vellum from Craft Paper & Card on Ebay, and printed the invitation text onto it, ensuring I had time to press them under a heavy book for a day or so (as when printed on, vellum seems to react to the heat by curling).

Once the vellum was pressed, I used a regular hole punch and punched two holes at the top of both the postcards and the vellum sheet, fastening them together with a red ribbon, also purchased from Ebay. Voila!

Fonts

The font we used on our wedding stationery was Chopin Script (pictured below). Since Microsoft doesn't come with this font as standard, I downloaded it from Dafont, which is a free site, requiring no sign up process, and really easy to use.