Invitations procrastination

I'm terrible. 


We're now less than 9 weeks til W-Day and I'm agonising/procrastinating over getting these invitations finished. 


I've done the official wedding and second reception invitations, I just need to do an RSVP card and a registry card. Instead of diligently working at them, I'm scouring through my blog feed reader for printables for the back of the invitations, after spending an entire day the other weekend trying to make one out of the little icon that features on the invitations. 


I just remembered I scanned the fabric samples I'd bought to test my theory of table runners. What if I use them as the backing? That sounds brilliant. If I could be bothered, I might even try and co-ordinate them to the tables, but I don't think it's worth it... 


So, I thought I'd just share my mini-brain wave (and further procrastination method) with you. 


That is all. 


Wish me luck, hassle-free printing and speedy postage and you may get them by the end of next week. 


Maybe. 

*love love love love love* 
Kiwa.

Stationery and Inspiration 17 June

Today's post is about stationery. And pretty weddings and interesting things over the last week or so. 

It seems I have stationery on the brain - well, it's one of the few things I get to visualise and create from start to finish so this might be expected. There are a number of different pieces of a stationery suite to think about, and hopefully have co-ordinate. Thankfully, The Knot (Australia) have a good article about which pieces of stationery are needed. 

However, before I get anywhere I need to decide what kind of style I - we want and I'm stuck between wanting to be vaguely traditional, modern, funky, cartoony or somewhere in between... Here are some I've seen (comments welcome):

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And now for the Inspiration part of this post

Martha Stewart's post on "Special touches for wedding invitations"

New favourite weddings:

Martha Stewart Weddings' Joanne and Luke

Including their stationery suite and her flowers:

 

 Look at their yellow and white polka-dot tablecloths!

Once Wed's Mark & Allison (their invitation is above). Their whole wedding gallery is yellow and swoon-worthy. Highlights include:

  Table decorations

Flowers and bridesmaid dress and flowers

 

A new blog I discovered, Snippet & Ink, posted this gorgeous wedding. I'm loving their table decorations:

Interesting articles over the last week

In some respects, we are kind of having a Destination Wedding, with a reasonable number of people coming from overseas (hopefully!) and our planning from far away. This article about what to put in a destination wedding welcome bag on The Knot is interesting. 

http://www.marthastewartweddings.com/photogallery/special-touches-invitations

http://www.diybride.com/2010/06/02/ranunculus-bouquet/

A new colour palette to consider with Martha Stewart Weddings.

Thinking about Wedding Songs? Maybe a little bit. The Knot had a "Wedding Song" week or some-such nonsense and had these articles: 

• "New Classic First Dance Wedding Songs"
• "8 Wedding Songs to Skip"
• "Best Wedding Songs of 2010"

*love love love love love*
Kiwa.

Inspiration 2 June - Honeymoons and other things.

Greetings!

Grant has officially finished his 12 week challenge with Flight Centre and hasn't he done well?! He's lost:

• 15kgs
• 20cms from his abdomen
• beats in his resting heart-rate
• general sleepiness
• some negative attitude towards exercise/activity

The first prize in the competition is $15,000 of travel with Kumuka. Apparently, $15k of travel with them is a lot of travel - check out some of their tours to Africa and the Middle East. Even though Grant's done really well, there's no guarantee he's going to win, which got me thinking about Honeymoons.

Traditionally, the Groom is supposed to organise the honeymoon, and Grant has said that he will, but I can't help thinking about it - especially if we were to get it for free! Ok. I need to stop thinking about him winning because I'm going to jinx it and then we'll get nothing :(

So, here are some honeymoon inspirations I've had over the last week or so.

Inspiration 12 May

This week there's been some great stuff from the newsletters. And here we go... 

Project Wedding had a DIY competition going on and this is some of the cool stuff that made it up

• http://www.projectwedding.com/wedding-ideas/diy-wedding-challenge-2010-scrabble-magnet-favors
• http://www.projectwedding.com/wedding-ideas/budget-centerpieces
• http://www.projectwedding.com/wedding-ideas/budget-savvy-bride-smaid-planning-a-backyard-wedding
• http://www.projectwedding.com/wedding-ideas/diy-wedding
• http://www.projectwedding.com/wedding-ideas/an-adorable-savvy-wedding
• http://www.projectwedding.com/wedding-ideas/creating-your-wedding-concept
• http://www.projectwedding.com/wedding-ideas/flourishes
• http://www.projectwedding.com/wedding-ideas/diy-an-old-fashioned-soda-bar
• http://www.projectwedding.com/wedding-ideas/diy-decor-alice-in-wonderland

The Knot was all about photography and videography this week

• http://wedding.theknot.com/wedding-planning/wedding-photography-videography/articles/50-wedding-photos-you-cant-do-without.aspx
• http://wedding.theknot.com/wedding-planning/wedding-photography-videography/articles/top-20-wedding-photography-mistakes.aspx

Martha Stewart Weddings reminded me that I love ice cream and why shouldn't I have it at my wedding... I mean our wedding... ;)

100 Layer Cake had this wedding as their Real Wedding of the week and I love the vintage, intimate, casual feel of it. Stunning photography and colours too.

Style Me Pretty featured this gorgeous ballroom wedding, a nice contrast to all the outdoors/budget-chic/cocktail weddings that are being featured everywhere (and that make me jealous that we're not having a totally DIY/vintagey wedding... *sigh*). It looks über-traditional in a way I think we're going with... Have to check with His Lordship on that... 

But they also had this Australian wedding - I love the vineyard (jealous!) and the simple round tables. And this super cute outdoors casual-chic wedding where I love the colour palate (yellow and pastels I think?), every little detail in the photos is just heart-breakingly cute... 

And the Design*Sponge featured these Australian stationery designers. Cute!

Ok. This wasn't from any of my newsletters/blog subscriptions/stalkings, but rather a random search on Etsy (which is fully the best site ever for handmade crafty things!). Guess which one Grant doesn't like?

Original Etsy post here.

Original Etsy post here.

Original Etsy post here.

Original Etsy post here.

Ah.... That might be all? 

Oh dear. It's way past my bedtime now... :|

*love love love love love*
Kiwa.

Stationery - image motif ideas

Helloooo... 

I've been a bit bored at going roundabout with venues and whatnot this week, so I decided to start thinking a little about stationery - you know, those wonderful pieces of paper lovingly designed and assembled that people will look at once and perhaps 1/100 will save as a memento? Lol

Well, it also happens to be a relatively safe topic to talk to Grant about, because I can use pictures of others to show exactly what I'm talking about - it seems girl descriptions and boy descriptions differ in their interpretation in the brain... 

Anyways. During one ad break of Survivors - Heroes v Villains (that's been very interesting actually) where I had negotiated Grant's full attention for the 2-3 minutes, we were discussing the merits of Letterpress. You should remember the invitations from Wiggs & Dave's wedding in a previous post, if not click here and/or here. So I was showing Grant the first picture, and lo and behold I got a positive response :D His constructive criticism was that he didn't like the birds or the honey-bees&wheat combo previously mentioned. The conversation continued something like this: