I printed a sample of our invitations!

KytchynWitche

I'm quite proud of them, though the colours didn't really come out right in the pictures... The background is a mint green, the text a dark green, and the "calligraphy" navy blue.

JCbride2015

Pretty!

pumpkinsandturkeys

Aw, very nice! That's exciting

KytchynWitche

Thanks! I know it's kinda AW-ish, I'm just really proud that my designs are improving!

pumpkinsandturkeys

Well, if you can't be a wedding AW here, where can you be?

pinkcow13

Awesome! They are really pretty, love them

KytchynWitche

pumpkinsandturkeys said:

Well, if you can't be a wedding AW here, where can you be?

This is true! LOL

cruffino

nice!

Cokezerofreak

Cute!  The invitations has been the most fun part of wedding planning!

smalfrie19

they are really quite lovely!!

Cookie Pusher

I love the design! Very pretty!

cupcait927

Those look fabulous! The design is very pretty and I love those colors together.

erinlin25

very nice, good job.  At first I thought it said at 1 in the morning!  But then I saw the other 1 and noticed it was 11

 I am glad I printed ours first for I would have missed spelling my husbands name wrong!  I typed in Micheal instead of Michael.  It went past three people's eyes before I noticed too!  That would have been a fun typo!

climbingsingle

Love it! 

KytchynWitche

Thanks ladies!

@erinlin25 Proofing is SO important. I used to proof music albums for the university where my mom works, because after a while she was blind to it. The trick is to read forward once, read backwards once, and read forward again.

My mom also read it as 1 o'clock in the morning. I told her that was something her other daughter (the one having the enforced dress code wedding) would do. LOL I may need to look at other font/colour choices for the text if anyone else reads it as 1 o'clock - we have a fair number of older guests.

CMGragain

They are very pretty, but I have to be honest - I miss capital letters!  The all lower case font makes your invitations hard to read.

KytchynWitche

CMGragain said:

They are very pretty, but I have to be honest - I miss capital letters!  The all lower case font makes your invitations hard to read.

I hear what you're saying, but I promise it's a lot easier to read physically than in the pictures.

The lack of capitals is a stylistic choice - I tried it with capitals and it just threw the balance completely. Also, the lack of capitals goes a little way to conveying the message that while this is an important day, it's not a formal day.

CMGragain

Well, I don't get that message. It just looks wrong and hard to read to me.  Pretty design, though.

KytchynWitche

CMGragain said:

Well, I don't get that message. It just looks wrong and hard to read to me.  Pretty design, though.

Fair enough. I'm sure all my guests will be able to read it though.

CMGragain

Just a suggestion on wording:

You are invited to the marriage of
Elizabeth
and
Sean
Friday, October 31, 2014
eleven o'clock
Venue
City, State

Reception to follow

RSVP before October 11, 2014

It's a lot less wordy.  Don't put "kindly rsvp by"  RSVP means please respond.  You wouldn't say "kindly please respond".  This is a grammar error.

Just trying to help.

KytchynWitche

CMGragain said:

Just a suggestion on wording:

You are invited to the marriage of
Elizabeth
and
Sean
Friday, October 31, 2014
eleven o'clock
Venue
City, State

Reception to follow

RSVP before October 11, 2014

It's a lot less wordy.  Don't put "kindly rsvp by"  RSVP means please respond.  You wouldn't say "kindly please respond".  This is a grammar error.

Just trying to help.

Thank you SO much! I can't believe I missed that! I had "kindly respond" on the first draft and somewhere along the line I must have messed it up.

This is why proofing is important!