Our DIY Wedding
By Natalie on October 11, 2008 in Planning | 0 CommentsBecause I have dubbed myself a creative and crafty person, I have decided to take a stab at designing (with help from the fiance, of course) and wedding planning our wedding.
I have decided that I will be making each and every invitation by hand. All 200 to 250 of them. It seems like a big task but hopefully I can enlist the help of Anthony and his best man. I found a machine that is only manufactured in Japan called a RISO Gocco. It is similar to screen printing, but a lot more efficient and not as messy or time consuming to set up.
The results look beautiful and I hope that once I try my hands at it, I’ll be as successful as everyone else. How hard can it be, right?
Image from uglykitty on flickr
Image from uglykitty on flickr
This machine will help us create our invitations, envelopes, RSVP cards, menu cards, thank you notes and whatever else we want to do. The savings just for doing the invitations ourselves is massive and I’m really excited about it so it should make the labor half as bad as it would be if I were to dread it.
On top of that, Anthony’s aunt owns a bakery in El Paso and she will be making our cake. We’re not sure how much she will be charging us, if anything at all, but that will also save us a lot of money.
For flowers, we are in conversations about doing trade work with Nathan, owner of Gro in Dallas, and we’ll be exchanging a website for flowers. Again, a lot of money saved.
That’s the general overview of where our wedding planning is going.
We’ve been engaged for five months now and will finally be finishing up our website. I am very much ready to get started on everything else that wedding planning entails. Hell, I haven’t even gone dress shopping yet!
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