Showing posts with label invitations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label invitations. Show all posts

Thursday, 1 November 2012

one year on.. our wedding invitations



We just celebrated our first wedding anniversary last month, which has prompted me to post here about our wedding.



I designed our invitations myself, our names and the date were handwritten by my dad.



They were beautifully printed onto thin sheets of real birch wood by wood chick studios.



Our ceremony was held in our local registry office, with limited capacity for guests, so I designed an alternative invitation for those guests invited to the evening reception.





On the reverse was a simple design with just the maple leaves and our kanji, MrKanji helped me work out Japanese kanji to represent mine and Karl’s names.



The maple leaves design was inspired by the beautiful vintage Japanese kimono silk which I bought to make my wedding dress, mentioned before here, more on this and other details to follow.. It will be lovely to revisit all the details of our special day, I hope you enjoy hearing about it..

Sunday, 19 February 2012

golden ticket chocolate factory birthday party invitations



We threw a Wonka Chocolate Factory themed party for Oliver’s 8th and Cyan’s 6th birthdays. With our wedding in October to plan, I decided we would have one joint party and hold it a little early at the end of July (their birthdays are a couple of weeks apart in August/September).

They were both keen on the latest movie with Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, and we had just finished reading the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory books by Roald Dahl; so we thought this could be a fun theme for their party.

Naturally the invitations had to be golden tickets.. I designed the tickets and laser printed them onto some gold vellum paper..



.. and of course the tickets also had to be found in Wonka Bars!
I found a lovely lady selling chocolate bars on ebay, she sold them with custom wrappers designed for wedding favours. As I wanted to print my own wrappers so I could insert the tickets she gave me a really good reduced price, I think they worked out about 50 pence each. They also conveniently had a base wrapper of gold foiled paper, and one of the flavour choices was milk chocolate with crunchy caramel pieces.. perfect!



And so became the Whipple Scrumptious Chococaramel Delight Wonka Bar..



On the back of the wrapper was the ingredients and dietary info, and I added a barcode with each child’s name so the kids would know which friend to give each bar to..



I was really pleased with how they turned out, they went down VERY well with the kids invited, and I got lots of compliments from the parents too!









More on the party soon....
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