Wedding Wednesday!

The wedding day itself is the most important day for the couple, but there are other days that make a wedding special.  Bridal showers are an extremely important day for the bride.  From experience my husband didn't give the bridal shower a second thought.  At least not until he had to help pack all the gifts up to bring back to North Carolina.  BUT, to the bride it is a very special event.  It's a day when female friends and family come to celebrate her.  Yes it's about the groom too, but let's be real here.  It's really about the bride.  I have not attended a bridal shower yet that the groom attended too.  I have thrown my share of bridal showers and it's a lot of fun.  Since Lisa and I have started our business I think my favorite part of the planning is creating the shower invitations.  People attending showers hosted by us know that the invites will be homemade.  It's become an expectation now.  Ha ha!  

Here are just a few we have created.

This invitation is from Lisa's shower.  You can read more on this invitation and her wedding here.  

Invitation inside the pocket.

Invitation outside the pocket.

This invitation was for our friend Jen.  We always use the colors the bride has chosen for her wedding as the basis for the invitations.  Jen used navy and green as her wedding colors, so we made an invitation to accent them.  Jen wanted a cooking themed shower, so we made an invitation that folded up like an envelope.  Inside there is a pocket to hold a recipe card for guests to complete.  We used the Cricut to cut out a little medallion with Jen's initial.  We glued it to the top flap and used a glue dot attach it to the bottom, so the guests can still open it.  

Invitation closed with a good look at the medallion

Inside picture of invitation and pocket holding recipe card

A few years ago we made bridal shower invitations for a friend of mine from home.  Her colors were coral/orange and gray.  We designed a really fun card.  It fit inside a 4x6 size envelope.  We used a piece of white card stock that we curved at the edges.  Then, we layered it with a glittery coral card stock.  We bought small coin envelopes a glued them in the center of the card stock with a scalloped accent on the front.  Inside we created a trifold with all the shower information.  A brad and orange ribbon were attached to the trifold for color and a way for guests to easily pull the invitation(trifold) from the coin envelope.  We received a lot of compliments on this invitation because it was so different from anything anyone had seen.  

Invitation outside of enveloped

Trifold invitation unfolded

We have tons of ideas for bridal shower invitations.  It's always fun to take the brides colors and personality and design the invitation that fits her perfectly!  

Happy Crafting! Lisa and Jess