signed, sealed, for delivery!

FINALLY!!!

after so many puyat, ngalay, pagod days and nights we finally got to finish our wedding invites (well almost). there are at most 15pcs left for sealing but they should be finished by tomorrow and along w/ the others will be ready for delivery by Monday.

i took us a long time to complete the invites. I've started with the designs way back April and after several revisions we started to print them early July. we've searched stores offering paper cutting services but found none so we had to go thru the leg work of cutting.

7/9 we purchased a small paper cutter from SM Hypermart and started cutting. we aimed to make 70pcs and  had to cut the front and back page, main page, purple lining (for layering) and 3 inserts (ento card, map, and guest info). to sum it up each invites consists of 7 pages for a total of 490 pages for all the 70 invites and we had to cut all of them one by one!

7/19 we finished cutting and started to assemble.

counter clockwise: back, ento, front, guest info, map, main, envelopes

i folded a part of the front page to create a pocket for the inserts. then taped the back and front page to put them together. once the front and back page are in place we started taping the purple lining and the main page.

7/21 we finally finished taping and assembling everything in place.

main page and purple lining glued to the back and front page

folded pocket flap and the inserts

 we also started putting the assembled invites in our black envelopes and glueing the address labels.

black envelopes and address labels (back)

address label (front) w/ our monogram tat (yes, we have this tattooed)

7/22 we started sealing the invites with wax seal. as of today there are still a few pieces left for sealing because we run out of purple gluestick. we'll be picking the gluesticks up by tomorrow and continue sealing.

sealed!

our custom V seal stamper

i'm not really good w/ numbers so i can't tell how much each piece cost. but if we'd take into consideration the effort von & i have given in to this project, i'd have to say this costs a lot! lol! we didn't really want to spend too much on invitations since guests don't keep them after the wedding anyways. there are a few kinks and several palpaks in our finished product but their passable and easier to accept (since we caused them!) as compared to paying someone to make the invites and see a lot of palpaks. we're having a rock & roll party anyways so they need not be perfect.

the experience was also a good bonding time for both von & me. moments are priceless!

we've already distributed a few pieces and have gotten compliments. well, a simple appreciation is always enough to make all the hard work worth it.