Our guests are the best.

I didn’t realize it would be so fun to get our RSVPs back.  I thought it would be simple checkmarks “Yes/No”, but I underestimated our guests.

Some of them have simple heartfelt messages:

Others go a little further in their wit:

(Can’t wait to see you both too!)

(Craig’s) Gran Sally is so sweet, she put “Gran” after her name, just to make sure we knew who this came from!

Some are downright cheeky:

(Hint: Shar helped us assemble (most) of the invitations.) (Thanks, Shar!!)

And some want to share their life story with us:

Basically this is Scott’s schedule the weekend of our wedding.  It ends with “Priory Rehab  Clinic + Screening for potential liver donor.”

I can’t wait to hang out with these guys August 19!

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Less than 8 weeks to go and the invitations have finally been sent out!

We got our invitations from Wedding Paper Divas, and I’d recommend them. Great selection, great service, great quality.  Craig and I originally toyed with the idea of designing and making our own invitations, but as time drew near it just didn’t make much sense.   The invitations are really important and can give our guests a taste of the mood and style of the wedding and we really couldn’t do much better than this design I found on the website:

The colors are perfect and I’m impressed with the quality of the paper and the printing.

We adjusted their response card template so that the guests could write if they need a ride to the venue (we’re chartering a bus!) because they will be able to order their dinner at the reception so we didn’t have to ask them in the invite.   And we also ordered two sets of the main invitation, one for day guests and one for evening guests.  I also re-appropriated their reception card to provide information about the website and registry info.  I was pretty against including registry information (pretty much every.single. etiquette guide says a big fat NO) but I was outnumbered by the native Brits strongly advising me that guests would appreciate it.  I couldn’t argue with what they felt was easier for the guests.

And yes, you read that right, the Obamas are totally invited.  I read somewhere that if you send them an invitation there’s a chance that they will return a congratulations card.  Surely worth a stamp!

I really struggled getting started with addressing them.  I just couldn’t get confident about my penmanship!  I eventually realized that I was setting very unrealistic expectations of myself. I stopped looking at wedding websites that featured professional calligraphers and just relaxed and let it flow.  I even started enjoying myself eventually… but boy am I glad that’s over!

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I  have started to get word that the Save the Date have started to arrive so now I can finally share the design!

The front:

And the back:

Details:

We used Vista Print’s postcard service to make our own Save the Date cards. I’ve had a lot of fun looking at professionally designed ones, but we really couldn’t justify the cost for something that won’t even make it to the wedding day.  We could have skipped them entirely because they aren’t very common in Britain but  I wasn’t THAT successful in squashing that little voice in my head!

Since they were “homemade” and relatively cheap (seriously, the stamps cost more) the pressure was off and I wanted to have a bit of fun with them.  Sheep are quintessentially Scottish and I love to knit so I was really happy to find a cute free clipart image for the front of the card.  The background view is actually from the venue! Isn’t it gorgeous? We won’t be getting married outside (you can’t risk that in Scotland) but what a backdrop!

I am so in love with the back of the postcard if I do say so myself.  It came out exactly how I pictured it in my head and has just a hint of the vintage whimsy that I’d like to incorporate into the wedding.