Customized using Templates

From the creator (Leigh Gruwell):

These are not the invitations we originally planned. We started by designing our own invitations (I knew how to use InDesign and liked playing with it) but eventually time began to run out and I realized it’d be cheaper—and easier— to make use of one of the many website devoted to wedding stationery. We chose this design because it was in line with the overall “look” of the wedding, and also because of its informality. The language reflected the fact that my family was not “hosting” (paying for) the wedding, and signaled that our wedding was neither religious nor overly traditional. In the end, we loved how they turned out—we chose to frame one and display it in our living room—and, judging by the number that still hang on our guests’ fridges more than a year later, our loved ones value it just as much as we do.

From the creator (Dustin Edwards):

The process for choosing our invitation was largely collaborative. Certainly, Clare did more of the early work in deciding and selecting an invite. She has good taste smile emoticon. I recall Clare picking from a website about a dozen of her favorites--and then, together, we narrowed down the list to this final selection. I think part of the reason we chose it was that it resembled the kind of style we envisioned for our wedding--simple and elegant. It also matched the colors Clare had in mind. The part where I did more of the work dealt with typography and arrangement of the words. For example, in the main invite card, I remember playing with wording so that a line of alignment would move from the upper lefthand side down to the corner. It was a small thing that a design nerd like me cared about.

From the creator (Erin Brock Carlson):

My husband and I met in the newspaper industry and are both design/font snobs, so picking out invitations on Vistaprint (because that was our cost-effective option) was a little bit of a trial. We used a template, for ease and to save time, though that didn’t give us exactly what we had imagined, and then customized some of the spacing, the words, and the colors. Now that I look at it again, I hate the sans-serif font I picked…Our Save the Dates were very visual and colored, so we wanted the invitation to be more traditional. Our colors were mint and gold/silver, so I wanted certain elements to pop out in an accent of mint—which is why our names and the date are in mint. In regards to wording, “Together with their families” was one of the biggest changes or deviations, in my opinion. I didn’t want to have any text there at all, since my parents are divorced and we paid for most of the wedding ourselves, so it didn’t seem quite right to do the whole “Mr. and Mrs. David and Gail Brock” thing, but my husband is very close to his family and he wanted that to have a space in the invitation. The back of our invitation was my favorite part (and I think his, too). We liked the clean, modern design of the “e + e” logo and we had that on basically everything—save the dates, the programs, etc. My now sister-in-law even had champagne glasses etched with the logo, so it seems the guests picked up on it, too.

From the creator (Amy Cicchino):

We printed our invitations ourselves, so we bought the design plain from the craft store. The phrasing is pretty standard, but we did debate how we could indicate children weren't welcome to the reception without being rude and I still feel the phrase "adult reception" is a little funny.  Another memorable moment: Vinny was so excited to print invitations that he printed an entire set which contained a grammatical error (because he wouldn't wait long enough for me to proofread). The invitation you are seeing is actually our second wedding invitation due to that blunder.