This week has been a fun wedding planning week! The most fun has been designing our wedding invitations. We went to a place called Beautiful Wedding Announcements. It's a family owned business with the best printing prices in town. I just wanted to go and see what they had to offer, but we ended up designing the whole thing! The process of designing a wedding invitation is a little messy though. The owner of the company just gave us stacks of invitations they have done, all with different features, shapes, colors, fonts, etc. She told us to just pick them apart and decide what we like. Immediately me and Brad hated everything that had a collage of pictures. We just wanted one nice picture of us. And I also hate things that are on an angle. I am a perpendicular kind of gal. Most of the pictures that were a collage on the invitations were all angled and made to look like they were just "thrown" onto the invitation. Not my style. We also hated anything with bright colors or anything that might suggest that we are twelve years old and getting married. For the record, although we may act like we are twelve most days, we are not. We like things that are classy and simple. We are not extravagant people and we don't need our invitation to be either. And finally, I did not want to spend a TON of money on these announcements. Most of them are going to end up in the recycling bin anyway, so why put a ton of money into it? (And for the majority of you that read this blog, you will be getting an invitation, so please recycle them. It would mean a lot to me if you did!)

So as me and Brad are sifting through the endless piles of announcements, we start to formulate the things that we want for our announcement. I want it to be in our color scheme, pale yellow and eggplant, one picture, centered with an eggplant border around it, our names in eggplant and a special font, and to have a "slight floral" design in the background. (I asked Brad how he would describe the design in the background of our announcement and he said "slight floral". Really. His words, not mine.) We also decided to put the invitations on matte paper and not the glossy stuff. We really liked the linen paper, but it would cost extra. No thank you. We also wanted to get some thank you post cards to send to people. They're going to be adorable. A picture of me and Brad in our wedding day outfits holding "Thank You" posters. When you see them, you'll love them too :) I left the invitation designing center (ok, it was really in the garage/basement of some one's house. But it was legit.) feeling like we had accomplished something for the wedding. I love it when that happens. A lot of wedding planning is just talk, you talk about what you're going to do, when you're going to do it, and blah blah blah. There is not a lot of actual "doing" until about a week before when everything has to come together in perfect synchrony. The point is, I like getting things done. So, would you like to see the announcement?...

I can't figure out how to upload it, so you'll just have to wait until you get one in the mail. Haha! Well, we're taking some engagements next week, so wish me luck trying to find an outfit that is flattering and fashionable, all at the same time!