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.

DIY invites - wip

our DIY invites is well on its way to completion *hopefully*.  we're getting there! we've set 7/20, a month before the actual day as our target to complete the invites and to start distributing them. we didn't really want to spend much on invitations knowing that guests doesn't really keep them and after the wedding, they'll just be like any other paper that ends up in trash.

the invitations is by far the biggest project Von & i had done/is doing for the wedding. for someone who knows only to make arte and very little on being artistic, this project is a giant leap of success! the making of the design, took a lot of effort, time, stress and desire of a good outcome. seeing our work in progress brings a certain relief that only completion and success can bring.

the materials that we need:
-design/layout
-printed copy
-black envelopes
-address labels
-colored wax and seal stamper
-tapes & cutter
are all hand and we are now in the process of cutting and assembling. at first we thought of looking for cutting services in the malls but we unfortunately found none so we ended up buying ourselves a paper cutter.

the design has undergone several revisions as i was editing and here's a peek of our finished product.

front

we initially wanted black background for our front & back page. we have even bought several black vellum paper only to find out that printing on black paper requires a special kind of printer which we do not have. so we settled for white thinking that we have black envelope anyways.

the paisley design in the front cover will be folded and made into flaps to hold the smaller cutouts of the invitations.

back

i only used microsoft powerpoint for the layout and am glad it turned out just fine. even our map is made manually from powerpoint (yes, i literally drew the lines in the map!)

map

 so far, i have already noticed a few flaws but all of them are still bearable. i pray that throughout the course of assembling the invites, i won't see any flaws that i can't live with and would cause us to repeat over. i'm keeping my fingers crossed.

i'll be posting!

black envelopes, wer na u?!?

While most of my FB friends are celebrating and hating on todays' Mavs victory, I on the other hand is more busy finding a very elusive black envelope for our wedding invitation. There was a time when I was all up for sports, basketball, nba, the works, but I'm a rocker's girl now. I still understand basketball but I'm more interested with rock n' roll now, hah! And in line w/ rock n' roll is preps for our rockin' wedding that requires invitations w/  rockin' freakin' black envelope!

Paisley

As I've posted a while back, we're DIYing (do it yourself) our invites. The layout is pretty much done already and thanks to my artistic talent (hah!) I was able to come up w/ a black & white & purple DIY invites. To brag more of my artistic talents, lol, the invites has paisley designs, I first used a damask pattern but I've been seeing this pattern all over weddings already so I decided on paisley. We're very in on paisley this days, since Tito Boy (gown&suit maker) will make Von's under polo w/ paisley, so the invites will match his outfit hah! I'll post a pic of the invites soon, as soon as i find the black envelopes!

Going back, we've looked all over Divi and National for black slim size envelopes but to our luck, we've found none. Any ideas where I can find them? Here's a pic of what we're looking for:

Look's simple eh? How come wala kame makita.... Boo! Anyways we're planning to dress it up w/ an address label and purple wax seal to make it look a little like this.

of course more paisley design and a purpler wax seal :D

I've also inquired w/ several invitation supplies and only 2 have responded for now, 1 says they sell it for P15/pc and the other P54/pc. Napakamahal right?!?!? Haayz... Perfect black envelopes, where na ba you? Here na me, waiting for you!