Adding Handmade Touches to Wedding Invitations

If you have the time and the determination, it’s easy to take a standard wedding invitation suite and kick it up a notch with some handmade touches.

These two examples of wedding invitations stood out to me as examples of inspiration.  Ironically, the final style of invites we chose is nothing like either of these.  I want to wait just a bit longer before I share the final photos of our wedding invitations with you, because a few final invites only made their way into the mail last week.

Photo by OurDayinApril.blogspot.com

Above, a standard letterpress invitation is sewn onto a colorful piece of card stock, to take it from standard to special.  These I loved this hand-sewn look, but my zeal for handcrafting all the wedding invites waned rather quickly.  Considering that most will go in the recycling bin after the wedding, I didn’t want to spend the time sewing up a bunch of invites.

I did take a note of inspiration from the small punched tags and the lace liner, however, which you’ll see in our invites later this week.

Photo by Abby Jiu Photography

I also loved these teal cutout wedding invites that I found on Style Me Pretty, and I thought maybe I’d make an invitation wrap in a similar style. (By the way, this whole wedding is gorgeous and amazing, probably my dream wedding if we were having one in the countryside.)

This paper design is surely laser-cut, but a similar look could be achieved using one of the Martha Stewart “edge punchers” sold at the craft store.

In the end, however, I decided not to do a punched-paper wrap for the invites.  Maybe I should have, because the wraps I chose to make caused several difficulties which delayed the timely sending of the invites.