Now that the location and the coordinator is decided, we have been looking at different invitation. These are two that we came across that we kinda liked.
We really liked the Brown Pocket Fold one and looking at the price for the preprinted one we decided to see what it would cost to make it ourselves. Well, that was a great idea until it came down to getting the actually pocketfold part of the invitation. Apparently only a couple of companies make it so there is no competition so the cheapest we found as $33.00 for 25 in USD. Well if we consider this does not include the cards that contain the details of the affair we calculate it would cost about $450 for about 75 invites.
Then we came across the Red Fold. This one is not in the color we are looking to have but the idea itself since we are thinking of creating the invites ourself. This one appears to be quite simple to make, basically one long sheet of paper is the base and 3 short cards for the little cards.
In making these from construction paper we found that if we combine the two, take the red fold design however fold the top part down over the little cards we create a nice like folded card. We just need to shorten the invitation section a bit so it doesn’t go the full length of the card instead stops where little cards start.
Now that the design has been decided it was off to colors. We are going with chocolate brown as our main colors. Since it is kinda a fall wedding was thinking the fall colors would go really nicely with the brown. So I have been picking up variety of different red, orange, yellow construction paper to see if could find the color scheme that I was looking for. In doing so I picked up a couple shades for browns should I not find the fall colors that I liked. So I made up some demos of a couple different colors and sent it to the girls(sisters) to see what they though. Of course they picked opposite color schemes. On one of my last attempts to find the colors I was looking for I found them by accident. I was heading to the paper place and missed my stop and when I realized it I was at the art supply place. It was here that I found the colors. It was really color because the paper was two tones. The base color on one side and the rich version on the opposite. I was happy with both colors. So the fall colors won the color scheme.
With the red and the brown was thinking it would look very clean if we printed right on the colors instead of printing on white then attaching the white. Then came the idea of printing with white ink on the colored papers. Great idea by not possible. The way you get white lettering is to start with the white paper and print around the letters. After scouting a couple of places it appears Staples is the cheapest. It is based on clicks not the amount of ink required.
Kev started creating the template for the invites and obtain the colors directly off the manufacturer of that paper I like so the colors should match. After some measurements the templates with the colors are all done. Kev managed to get the map created as well however he did the lines in black with the cities names in white. I am not sure if the black will show up since it is going to the red card. So we are going to finish the verbage the best we can give the information we have so far and get a test print done. From there we can see what needs to be modified before actually ordering all the prints. So we should be done of the demo printing early this week. Once we have everything on the cards and the way we want them done we can order then at any point in time. Since it is hand made I sence spending a bunch of time at staples with the paper cutter.
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