The planning of the wedding inserts was just as long and sample filled as the rest of the paper products have been so far. I regret the killing of many trees to make sure The Boy and I were on the same page during the design process. I am going to blur out some of the personal and venue info here so I can show you these even though I hate to do so after I worked so hard getting the right fonts! I also will apologize now for the picture quality since the Boy lost the cord for his camera I have to use my older one.
After I reworked the pocket folds I also had to rework all the insides to make them fit. We ended up eliminating a card to get everything in the pocket, but it really didn’t hurt since it had been a reception card that we had been trying to eliminate since we really didn’t need it. What we ended up with were the 3 cards I showed you in the last post…
Pocket cards
I designed all the inserts using Inkscape a free Open Source vector graphics editor that is similar to Illustrator and CorelDraw. I found it a little easier to use than Photoshop which was the only other program I had for this kind of stuff. I am by no means even a beginner with the program so I will not be doing a tutorial of exactly what I did, since sometimes I don’t know how I figured out how to do what I wanted. LOL were you able to follow that?!
So on to the insides….
We used the same design motif for the main invite panel as we did for our save the dates with a bit of modification….
Invite main panel
Then we laid out the pocket cards in inkscape and put as many on a sheet as we could fit based upon their size. I made light gray lines to be cutting marks after I had everything placed. These were what we ended up with…
All the inserts...
Each card is a little smaller that the previous card. The largest is the accommodations card…
We are only putting a few of the larger hotels on the card and then a longer list on the wedsite. We were only able to get one hotel to give us a block and for some reason though it is the nicest hotel it is also the least expensive.
Then we have a slightly smaller card with the basic from the interstate directions…
And last we have the smallest card that is our mail in RSVP. We will have online RSVP also so that info is listed at the bottom….
We decide to do some cute wording to spice up the standard RSVP format so our cards choices are…
- number to attend with bells on
- number to attend, but undecided about the bells
- number who will not attend
We also added a line that will hopefully keep us from having added guests that says ” We have reserved _______ place(s) in your honor” which we will fill in for them before we send it.
Behind all the cards we will have the RSVP envelope, that is just a basic cream paper. And that covers our invites! Next up in Paper trail posts will be a post about how I made the pocket folds and were I got our supplies so check back for that!
Just a question though…. are any of you doing something wording or otherwise to help stop the +1′s (or as I’m worried about with the Boy’s family +4) to help you not get a numbers surprise? If so please post in the comments so we all have some more options to think about!
Other posts in the Paper Trail series:
- Paper trail: Our invites… the prototype
- Paper trail: Save the Dates
- Paper trail: Our design motif
- Who knew fonts were stressful!
Thank goodness we don’t have that many friends/family members with young kids, so we’re not going to even put a spot for people to write the number attending, just their names. I actually just spent all yesterday photoshopping our invitations suite, and the rsvp card was one of the harder ones to decide on. Yours look great though, and I especially like the fasteners on the pocketfolds! P.S. I left you something on my blog on Friday.
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