DIY Wedding Invites ... (Part 1)

May 15, 2010 (Saturday) another wedding prep mode day for me and for my family.  I asked my family to accompany me at craft store to checked out  and canvass for some paper / stationery for our wedding invitation.  

I know, it's been so early for us to do this task, my objective is to canvass and check on how much I can save if Allen and I will have our wedding invitation "do it yourself".  

We went to "Michaels" one of the known craft store here in CA.  It was my first time to go there, and I really had fun and enjoyed checking on wedding stuff...."Michaels" has a section wherein all wedding stuff can be found.

Michaels Crafts Store in Torrance CA USA

Wedding Items section at Michaels

My Dad and my brother is helping me to scout

for pre-made wedding invitation and some

wedding stuff...

We've got a lot of ideas and at the end my brother suggested to purchase the pre-made wedding invites and have our wedding invitation to be done by ourselves... for it would be more fun and as I'd computed it, it is 25% cheaper compare to having it done by a supplier.  Here are some of the pre-made wedding invites we had considered.... 

option 1 - turquoise and chocolate brown wedding invite

with elegant band

option 2 - almost same as option 1 but different band

 option 3

With the help of our smart phones... I emailed all the pictures of pre-made invites to Allen and on that day ... we had decided to have the item below :)  Since chocolate brown is our dominant color in our wedding motif, the pre-made wedding invitation we had chosen was perfect and the graphic details of it matches our wedding theme "fairy tale".

Pre-made wedding invitation Allen and I had chosen

To make it more fairy tale, my mom and my brother suggested to change the wedding  band instead of a simple ribbon, we'll modify it with flower and we'll put some tiny beads on it to make it more elegant :)  I am so excited to do it .... for sure it will be fun.. but it will be more fun if Allen is here....

My mom scouting for wedding invites band

Perfect band for our wedding motif ... Thanks mom..

Items for our DIY wedding invites :)