Postcards and envelopes and letters Oh My!

I'm very excited today - I just ordered our wedding invitations through VistaPrint!! We sent them to our parents for some final feedback and after some tweaking they were ready to order as soon as a good deal came up, which happened yesterday!

I've decided to order some beautiful cream linen envelopes from Amazing Paper as well.

We've got together a good draft of the letter to send along with the invites and RSVPs so I expect we'll be sending them out in early February as planned.

This is getting really real now.

Another sweet suggestion was to include a postcard for anyone who won't be attending the event, but would like to write a message to be read out at the reception - so now I'm off to design this one! Guests will be invited to send this back to our parents by the RSVP date.

I also stopped in at Beachhouse Boulevard at Spotswood yesterday to select a round craft punch for the clear monogram labels I'm making for the champagne stopper favours.

And that brings me to today's triumph - I've made my own twine monogram following Brianna Nichole's tutorials - that's right, I can use Photoshop! My list of newly acquired skills is growing very quickly indeed!

Some exciting bridesmaid news coming shortly...

around and around and around

So it goes - sometimes having too much time can be a challenge! If we'd only had the standard 12 months to plan our wedding, I probably wouldn't have changed my mind so much, I think this is why I've backed away from  the planning for a while.

When I first started daydreaming about colours, I tried out colourstrology - it's a fascinating way to find out your birth colour and match it to his - creating a truly unique theme. The colours we came up with were Gull Gray (me) and Molten Lava. If you find that your birth colours aren't exactly an idea colour combination, you could always consider your birth months - or even the date you first got together or got engaged etc. The best thing is that it also gives you the Pantone colour code, so you can make a perfect match. Here are some monogram combinations I tried out after reading Brianna Nicholes' wedding monogram tutorials...

But then, after deciding I really wanted cymbidium orchids, I found a more muted theme of cream and dusty pink and plum was to my liking. I sat with that for about the last 9 months until today I couldn't get my mind off this colour combination - and how much easier it would be to coordinate - and how much more fun and brighter it would be too. I also love the style of one particular wedding on The Knot website - it's Jen & Gabe's wedding and it shows how a preppy tone can be casual and classy all at once. Here's some of their inspiration...