Opinion Please: Invitation Colors

kthame

Hi Girls, Me again...sorry, looking for some opinions on the DIY Invites. My color is Tiffany Blue; I am already sold on the Metallic Tiffany Blue Perfetto PocketFold (from cards and pockets link here: http://tinyurl.com/yz34w82) but I cannot decide if I use an invitation mat, what color it should be. So...here's where you help me! LOL. What color would you use, should I just keep it all white?I'm pretty convinced that our flowers will be soft pinks and fushia (hydrangea) like in this photo http://tinyurl.com/yjgp7yv.As always, TIA!!!Kate

jess&lane52804

What about a white invitation over a silver mat?

kthame

I was thinking of the silver, in the metallic finish I just didn't have anything silver incorporated into the wedding so I wasn't sure if that would jive?

krisdi78

I highly suggest ordering some samples and seeing how it all looks together - I too was undecided on the mat color but knew I wanted the cornflower metallic pocketfold (after ordering samples) and had a metallic pearl I was using for the invites/inserts.  I thought black might be a good choice since I was using black font and it goes with everything without really adding another "color" into the mix.Anyways, I thought since everything else was metallic, the black metallic would go nicely, but it looked bad IMO - way too much metallic and I actually found the black matte finish to look nicer.Long story short - it's worth ordering samples (especially since colors can look totally different than they do on monitors) - I also found paperandmore.com to be more reasonable on most things than cardsandpockets.com (especially their samples), but unfortunately they didn't have the pocketfolds I wanted.

chosen175

I took my pocketfolds and a piece of white cardstock to Archiver's in Skokie and literally had 4 dozen colors to choose from. I ended up getting buttercup yellow cardstock for dirt cheap (sign up for their emails ahead of time) and am going to cut it to size myself. I also liked the lime green with the Tiffany blue but FI preferred the yellow. GL!

mandybear7

Ditto krisdi- order samples! FYI, the perfetto pocketfold is a square, which is extra postage to mail.

morgie44

I was also going to suggest black, but maybe a pearly white for the mat and then matte white for the invitation panel would look nice.  I agree with pp that the metallic black looks really cheesy/cheap in person.  Also, if you choose an accent color for the mat that you aren't going to use for other parts of the invites it is a lot cheaper to buy some from hobby lobby etc.  I think I needed like 20 sheet for the mats on my invites and it came out to 2 dollars at hobby lobby.

mtc2009

I think a light silver would look nice.  I know that you said you don't have silver at all in the wedding, but it would just be a small accent color.  Also, I noticed the "&" in your monogram in your siggy is a greyish color, so that's why i think the silver would look nice with the tiffany blue. Also, I know you mentioned you are using the pocket fold from cards & pockets.  Just wanted to mention that for your 'regular' paper I believe other sites are cheaper--like paperandmore. com

kthame

Thanks so much girls!!!!!I think I'm going to order some paper from paperandmore and then do some invite try-outs.

mjune3881

I LOVE the look of the invitation mat.  If you are using the lighter, brighter blue as the pocketfold and the white as the printed page, I would go with something dark but neutral which would be totally fun!  Maybe black, deep silver/grey or a dark blue?  Instead of ordering this part from cards and pockets, I would suggest going to Hobby Lobby and finding paper that you like.  It does not need to be thick like the cards and pockets paper and it saves you a little bit of money.  One drawback is all of the cutting.  We did a medium purple (I think it was called grape) from cards and pockets with a dark purple inviation mat (from HL - C&P didn't have any deep purples that I liked) and the card we printed on was white.

penniesfromheaven

can you get samples?