Email Destination Wedding Save the Dates

suzanne — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:40:37 +0000

Once we finally decided on a destination, a venue and had a date we realized that we were really in a huge time crunch for inviting our guests. We decided to go ahead and send out email destination wedding invites / save the dates to our friends and family while we were waiting to get our boarding pass invites done. Check them out and let me know what you think:

We've decided on forever
and forever begins when we,
Suzanne Franco
and
Kenneth Land
unite in marriage
Tuesday, the thirtieth of June
at three o'clock in the afternoon
Dreams Resort

Tulum, Mexico

Dreams Tulum Site

We are so excited to be making it "official" and we would love to share this moment with you. We will be traveling to Tulum , Mexico with all five kids to exchange vows on the beach ... celebrating our love and the blending of our families as one. Our ceremony will be held on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. at the Dreams resort.

We have set up a wedding website www.kenandsuzanne.com where we have posted more information about our "big day" and we will continue to add information as we collect it.

We hope to see you in Tulum! It's a great "excuse" to get away and enjoy an amazing vacation ... and we'll all have so much fun together!

Love,

Ken & Suzanne

.. and Austin, Nathan, Emily, Alyssa, and Cobey

Our travel agent has arranged for a group discount and you can contact her here:

Tammy Wright

888.471.1950 toll free

tammy@wrighttravelagency.com

http://www.wrighttravelagency.com

Did you send out an email invite? What do you think of the idea? Let us hear your thoughts below so we can all learn from each other. *SmiLes* Suzanne

My Boarding Pass Wedding Invites … I LOVE Them!

suzanne — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:08:33 +0000

I am so excited about my boarding pass wedding invitations.

I initially thought I would create and make them myself but I soon realized that I would need help with the design I had in mind. After getting some email quotes I hired Jessica of The Stylish Scribe to complete my design. She quoted me $30 to design the boarding passes which I believe is more than fair (she also included a wedding logo). After pricing out the materials needed to make the invites (card stock, envelopes, printer toner, paper cutter, perforator, etc.) I also decided to hire her to go ahead and make the invitations. For what I wanted she charges $3.50 per invite and trust me ... that's a bargain! She credits back the design fee if you hire her to actually make them. I give her my complete endorsement ... she was very patient and awesome to work with.

Jessica designed, printed, and perforated the passes ... made the gorgeous boarding pass sleeves (beautiful metallic cardstock) ... designed and printed the return RSVP postcards ... and included the envelopes for mailing. We went with a starfish and hibiscus theme since we are getting married in Mexico. The first "pass" is the invite and the second has information about the resort and contact information for our travel agent.

Once I received them (packaged beautifully and sent via U.S.P.S. Priority Mail) my daughter, Emily, and I went to work on them. I wanted to have a fun wedding project to work on with her and I'm so glad I did. We went to Michael's looking for real miniature starfish and raffia and we ended up with something totally different (and much better ... thanks to Emily LOL). First we found some small wooden starfish but they only had about 20 of them so we kept looking. Emily spotted some really fun stickers and we ended up using those as well and we love how they turned out. We'd love to hear what you think of them below in the comments section.

To make these:

Tie the raffia around the sleeve and double knot
Tie the raffia in a bow
Hot glue the raffia to the sleeve (this was necessary on ours due to the tight fit in the envelope - or the raffia would've been pulled off when the guest pulled the invite out of the envelope)
Paint the starfish tops and sides
Hot glue the starfish in place
Add stickers

I ended up spending more than I should have on this project. I've been a bit distracted due to this whole "swine flu" so I didn't get around to purchasing online. I've scoured the internet to find you the best prices on some of the things I used for this project and you can see them below.

Again, we'd love to hear from you in the comments section ... Feedback? More ideas? Let's help each other out! *SmiLes* Suzanne

P.S. I went to mail these today and I wanted to let everyone know that the postcards were $.28 each and the invitations were $1.34 each. This was due to the thickness of the package once put together. I wanted to pass that along in case you're considering these. I love them so I felt it was totally worth it ... but wanted to warn you! LOL

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SANDY STARFISH Unfinished Wood Shapes Cut Outs SSF5020
US $1.12

STARFISH LaserWoody Unfinished Flat Wood Shapes 4SF101A
US $1.00

STARFISH SEA STAR Unfinished Flat Wood Shapes 2SF101C
US $1.60

Starfish Shape Unfinished Craft Wood 1404 325
US $1.00

Sticko Happy Hour Cocktails Tropical Drinks Stickers
US $1.49

TROPICAL DRINKS Cocktails Liquor EK SUCCESS Jolees Boutique 5 Sticker Sets
US $1.04

Sticko Date Night Martinis Tropical Drinks Cocktails Girls Happy Hour Stickers
US $1.27

Tropical Drinks Cocktails Umbrella Party Margarita KCompany Sticker Border
US $1.08

Sticko Tropical Happy Hour Cocktails Drinks Stickers
US $1.10

PARADISE Cardstock Stickers Beach Tropical Vacation Drinks Tiki Waves
US $3.42

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