Very Inviting!

Our wedding invitations were designed by Preston's Stationery using Envelopments paper and pockets. I fell in love with pocketfold invitations when I first started browsing wedding blogs after we got engaged. I was so excited to create our own! Brian and I got to sit down and pick out all of the individual elements that would go into the invitations. I love how they turned out, and we have received so many compliments on them from our guests!

 

I didn't think I was the type of bride who would get all excited over paper...how much I have enjoyed planning our wedding has surprised even me! :)

A Theme?

A couple of months ago, I started struggling with making our wedding "us"...I didn't know what I could do to make it reflect our relationship and us as a couple. Well, with a little bit of help from Brian, we finally figured it out!

We knew that I wanted us to each pick a signature cocktail, but we were kind of stumped on that, too. Then, I got this text from Brian...

He suggested naming our signature drinks after drinks that we've had in special places together. Then, my mind started racing. We are definitley a couple that likes to travel...offhand, in the two years we've been together, we've taken a cross-country road trip from Maryland to Arizona, drove back from Arizona to Maryland (on a different route!), visited the Grand Canyon, gone to London, Paris, Key West, Sarasota, New York City, Lake Tahoe, and San Diego, plus lots of little day trips. We love to travel!

So we will be naming our signature cocktails after drinks we've had in special places: we can pick from a margarita from Southernmost Point, a Pacific cocktail I had at the Hotel Del in San Diego when we got engaged, a Rum Runner from Duval Street...I'm sure we will think of others!

Instead of doing table numbers, I think I want to name the tables after the cities that we've visited and put a picture of us in that place. I am really excited about this idea, and I hope I can execute it! We'll see how it turns out! :)

(P.S. Ignore B's "Viper" nickname...he thinks he's cool or something.)

"Peachy" Favors

One of the first decisions Brian and I made regarding the wedding was what we wanted our favors to be...kind of backward, right? What can I say? We know what we like!

Our guests will each be receiving a 7 oz. jar of Peach Preserves as a favor at our reception! Brian and I will be starting our new life together in Savannah, GA, so the favor is a little ode to the Peach State. We discussed making the preserves ourselves, but ended up finding a local farm that would do it for a reasonable price. So we went with it! Let's hear it for supporting local businesses! :)

The favor tags were designed by a fabulous woman I met on a wedding website. She does all sorts of custom graphic design work for a super reasonable price, and she was so patient while I tweaked the colors with these and our monograms until they were *just right.* Feel free to message me if you want her info! :)

I printed the tags on waterproof label sheets from www.labelsbythesheet.com and cut them out with a Fiskars rotary cutter. I am so happy with how they turned out!

 

The final finishing touch will hopefully be a blue or peach ribbon tied around the jar lids. We'll see if I feel like tackling the task of outfitting all 200 jars with bows! :)

*Wedding Week Edit*: I ended up hating the way ribbon looked around the lids of the jars, so they will be given to our guests as is. :)