Intermission from Recaps for DIY Project

I stole this idea shamelessly from Miss. Lightening over on Weddingbee.

I saw the wonderful bridesmaid information cards she made and I knew I wanted to do one as well. I scoured the internet for a vintage picture of an African American bridal party and was able to find the perfect pic.

I then did all my work in Mac Pages after modifying the pic from black and white to sepia tone in Iphoto. It was easy to add a pink border and a pink title (using Burgues font - color does not show well in photo). I then designed the back of the card giving my bridesmaids a timeline of the day with all relevant events for them and then adding at the bottom any pertinent information for day of and contact information for the wedding planners. The roses were done with a font I downloaded from dafont.com.

I printed the cards on shimmery 80lb cardstock which really enhanced the effect of the card.

Card measured 4" x 6"

Rehearsal Dinner Invitations

Before I go into the detailing our rehearsal dinner and show you the wonderful pictures Chris Hayes Photography captured I want to share with you some of the DIY projects I did.

For the rehearsal dinner invite I used a vintage Philadelphia postcard I bought on Ebay. I found that you can buy vintage postcards as low as a dollar there. I bought quite a few of them because I decided to also use them for my table numbers. (Pssst, I totally stole the idea for using the post card from one of the Elizabeth Anne Design posts.) I scanned the photo in with our home printer (a Canon MP620), used iPhoto to airbrush some of the text off the back, and used IWork Pages to create the text. I thought it was most economical to order through Vistaprint since I had heard so many fab things about it through the blogs and my other bride friends. I winded up upgrading to the linen paper just to give an extra touch of richness. I will say the paper was not as thick as I would have liked, but they were still really great and the price could not be beat.

I decided to also DIY our menus after getting inspiration from a similar idea on the internet. I took childhood photos of Roosevelt and myself from when we were similar ages. Then I imported them into Mac Pages where I overlaid the text (you could also use MS Word or Photoshop). Since they were 5x7 I was able to fit two menus to a page. To save on printer ink I had them printed at Kinko's on 80lb card stock purchased from PaperSource and then cut them out and rounded the corners at home.