Invitations!

Invitations are done! Woo hoo! I went down to my parent's house on Saturday and assembled them all! It was quite the job but here's the final product...

They're all different because they're so handmade! 

I had two major meltdowns during the invitation process. When Shawn's Mom and I went to get them printed, I told them please do not cut them because I bought a paper cutter and I wanted to get to use it up! Plus I don't expect anyone but myself to cut each page and that's what I planned to do in order to make sure they're centered. Well the place cut the paper and ended up wasting 6 sheets of handmade specialty paper, which totaled 24 invitations that couldn't be made. I mean, they looked bad. I called and they credited Donna so we got our printing for free essentially.

Second Meltdown was the main design I had worked out didn't work out! I ordered a paper punch in the shape of a butterfly to stamp out where our names are now and write them on the blue behind it. The punch doesn't let you slide any kind of length of paper past it so you can only make confetti with it or put butterflies on the bottom of your paper or upside down anywhere else. Bah!

So this is what we could do and this is how they turned out! I think I love them!