DI-Why Me?

Before the postponement I kinda sorta had DIY invitations.

I took this Crane invite and added from there.


I'm have to say glad we used Crane's.....

They are recycled from mens cotton underwear during the manufacturing process (the hole that they punch for the opening)

kinda dirty, huh? ;) Oh that and they print all our money. Crane's is an old school kind of company, so when I began planning, I came across this information in a strange way........

Actual conversation (as much as I can remember it) of a little old lady (LOL) at local invite shop and I discussing recycled wedding stationary:

ME: Do you have recycled wedding invitations?
LOL: What do you mean?
ME: Well at least 60% post consumer recycled stock... I was thinking
LOL: Oh well, all paper is recycled now.
ME: Um, I'm not sure about that.
LOL: (getting annoyed) well maybe not but well, what exactly do you need?
ME: I just want something that doesn't cause a big impact on the earth... I heard Lotka paper was good because there is no use of trees...
LOL: So you don't want to use trees then?
ME: Yes, exactly.
LOL: Oh well then Crane's is what you want, they're made from cotton. Men's underwear discussion ensues....

A couple months later I walked by the shop and there it was a huge eco-friendly national promotional from Crane's featuring our invites..... HAH!

Anyway the new invites will be essentially the same (God help me if I start tweaking it again) except with the new dates:

The map I made using instructions from weddingmapper.com in Adobe Illustrator, it was time consuming but a lot of fun:

added to it the direction cards I made

mixed in the postcard reply cards:

reply postcards seemed like a great way to cut down on paper for the wedding (no envelopes) and really cute IMHO...

And then............. After completing a pretty eco-friendly invite? oh yeah? We Postponed the wedding! So this probably makes me one of the least "green" brides you can imagine.

I will be taking all the invites themselves and fashioning tops and bottoms into escort cards, so all is not lost. But I have to say....

I wasted A LOT of paper in postponing the wedding within two months of the proposed event, I had printed everything and was ready to assemble. I felt terrible for a while. But now I can laugh about it...... sort of.