A dramatic reading of a real break up letter

Dear friends and family,

Please RSVP to my wedding. As of right now, only 89 people will be attending. While my parents will appreciate the budget cut, my heart may break at the sight of so many empty chairs.

People who apparently aren't coming to the gala:
-Josiah's best man and his wife
-The photographer
-The officiant
-One of my bridesmaids
-An entire half of Josiah's family

Do me a favor and fill out those precious postcards. They have polar bear stamps on them! Who could resist dropping a madlibbed polar bear postcard in the mail? Not me. I might mail myself one to make up for the unexpectedly small stack I've received.

The deadline is March 15. I can only hope you all are procrastinators.

Love always,
Celeste

P.S. - Obviously I can assume the above listed VIPs are coming (I'm only kidding about you!), but I'm using the RSVPs in the reception decor. I'd love some additional postcards to work with!


Our current count:
89 YES
36 ADDITIONAL EXPECTED
--
125 TOTAL

Crizzlin shiznit

I think my favorite part of the wedding has been our invitations. I am obsessed with them.

I am equally infatuated with the RSVP cards. When Invited Ink created the design, I instantly fell in love with this mad lib style response postcard. Josiah is a high school English teacher (and English graduate student), and I'm a journalist ... so the grammar game fits our nerdy personalities.

The RSVPs are addressed to my parents' house, so every day I bother them with a phone call around 3:30. It's been a blast to read everyone's answers. These are some of the early RSVPers (God bless your souls) that have been anxiously awaiting their Internet debut. Enjoy!

From the good people over at Llena de Moras.




From our boss haha.

Decorations

I am about to decorate my foot up TCA's butt. This is such a pain! I thought it'd be easy to think of some fun touches full of personality. Not true. I can't come up with anything good!

I spent most of Sunday afternoon crying because I have no idea what I'm doing with this wedding nonsense. Surprise surprise.

However, in the past couple of days I have:

1. Finalized the bridal shower invite list/addresses
2. Addressed 49/80 envelopes
3. Received the wedding photographer contract
4. Contacted the caterer to set up a testing
5. Contacted the coordinator at TCA to set up a meeting/viewing of the reception room
6. Forced Josiah to contact the officiant to set up a meeting

Other than addressing invitations, it's not much to write home about. But at least I am trying to do something. Anything!

Finally.

They came! Forgive my crappy cell phone picture. The color is a lot richer in person. I love them :).

No turning back!

The invitations are coming soon! They are expected to ship on Oct. 2. I can't believe it. This will be the first physical "thing" I have from the wedding. It's crazy to have done a ton of work but not really have anything to show for it (other than peace of mind, ha).

Onto our proof...



The huge version is available here.

Josiah's response to the invitations nearing completion:

"I guess it means you HAVE to marry me now, or it would be a waste of money
and paper ;)"

Such a sweetheart. Also, I'm pretty sure that's the first time he's used a smiley face. Priceless!

Real updates coming soon.

My dream invites

I was going to make another invite inspiration board, but these deserve their own post (because getting a post on my blog is such an honor).

I scooped these up from the Paper Shop Ink blog, where the designer, 9spotmonk, made a sneak peak post. Unfortunately, 9spotmonk's Web site says it hasn't launched its wedding invitation line.

According to the post, the invites are printed on 100 percent recycled chipboard, and the envelopes are 100 percent cotton. Stunning!

View bigger verisons (the detail is amazing!) here, here and here.

Sadly ... I don't even need to view the pricing to know these are going to be expensive. But seriously, how freaking beautiful/cool/awesome are they?