kraft paper, twine, and red ink...

the twine ensuresall the pieces stay put!

boone and I have been truly honored by our friends sally ad kristi, who asked us to officiate their wedding this spring. they are so in love, truly kind people, and dear friends of ours, so we and other folks also wanted to honor THEM with a fun engagement party before the wedding. it'll be a laid back BBQ in the Delta springtime, and guests are being asked to bring mason jars with a wish for the couple inside (then S &K will be able to use the mason jars for their centerpieces at the wedding).

the back and the front

anyway, my mom and i worked on designing and printing these together over my vacation last week and so i wanted to share our handiwork. what do you think?

the card for the wish!

you're invited!

well, i'm sure you would have been if we hadn't kept it to a very small ceremony and reception... anyway, here is the composite of the invites that erin at lucky luxe designed for us.
i wanted something really simple and classic...we must have gone through five or six designs before we went with one of the more basic ones and used just a touch of kraft paper. i LOVED it. i don't have a photo of the actual invitation or the calligraphy, but i'll see if i can round one up..

i'm pretty lucky... ;)

I LOVE paper goods. LOVE them... but who doesn't?
I also love letterpress... you know, the deep kind that feels so great when you run your fingers over it?

I was pretty sure I wasn't going to have these kinds of invitations though, since we're being responsible with money and can't trim the reception guestlist to under 250 (eeeeek! i know!)
anyway, this makes letterpress invitations a HUGE luxury.. not to mention the fact that we are committed to using as many local vendors from my Mississippi town as possible.

This was why the discovery of Lucky Luxe Couture was the one of the most fabulous finds in the all of our wedding planning. Not only is erin local (for me!), but she's also fabulous, creative, willing to hear out all of my ideas, and really reasonable! i thankfully jumped on her bandwagon right before she got overwhelmed with other folks clamoring for her services. (i know.. i'm so lucky!)

anyway, i'm not going to share erin's ideas for our invitations with you until they get printed, mailed out and folks get them (and I hope she doesn't either) but here are some of her other FAB designs...

our save the dates!

I told y'all we'd put in some serious hours last week to make progress.... in fact, on Friday, my mom and I made and mailed all of these! we sort of went for the cluttered desk of a busy person (and also used the pen, yellow paper and post-it as homage to boone and my fav TV show, the office!)
please excuse the poor quality...this is a copy of a copy. anyway, this part was big fun...but some of the other decisions are less so. anyway, i'm back from the land of dial up internet and hope i'll get to post more regularly! hooray!