I recently got back from a little vacay in Florida where I visited my sister, Farrah...a.k.a. "Peach". I went there mainly to help her get some things off her to-do list before her big day in October and also to throw her a surprise wedding shower!
Since most of our family lives 1000 miles away or more, it wasn't really possible for everyone to fly down for a weekend shower when they'd be coming in a couple of months. So, Farrah's fiance's sister had the idea to throw a "mail-in" shower where we could send invitations out that asked people to send her a gift. Since I wanted to surprise Farrah, I had everyone send the gifts to my house and then I carted them on over to Florida. More on the shower itself another day. The invitations are on the menu today.
If you've read about our wedding, you know that we found and made invitations ourselves for a steal. Well, we had about 50 invitations and reply cards leftover so I saved them knowing that one day they could come in handy. Well, the one day came along and I went to work on about 25 reply cards, transforming them into shower invitations fit for a Peach.
Farrah and Patrick's colors are coral and navy blue so I tied in those colors and used some cute fonts I found online to spice them up. The company that makes the invitations has a website where you can download the format needed to create them in Word so I downloaded it (I had deleted it since I used it for our wedding invitations) and went to work. Then, just to appease my perfectionist self, I created a document to print out all of the envelopes with addresses in matching colors and fonts. All I had to do was adjust the "page size" in Word and my printer printed them perfectly.
Lastly, I added a little more flair by punching out one corner with my corner-punch and nipping off the other corners with a plain 'ole scissors.
So there you have it! Cute invitations costing a few cents in ink and an hour of time! Peachy keen if you ask me!
