You're All I Need

The invitation:



The inspiration:



By now, you've all hopefully received your invitations to our shindig in October. If not - contact us!! And if not again, how do you even know about this blog?? Anyway, we decided fairly early on that we wanted to replicate an album cover for our invitations. For Colleen, there are too many beautiful stationery designs to ever choose the one design that she could live with without going slowly bananas after the order had been placed. And we wanted something out of the ordinary, that would hopefully represent our love of music. There were a few album covers contemplated, but the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell cover was so sweet and simple, and honestly - fairly easy to replicate.

So our friend John came to our apartment one morning and shot many photos of us doing our best Tammi and Marvin. And did an amazing job capturing the vintage-ness of the shot, and the angles, and everything. Then another friend, Andrea took the chosen photo and some fairly loose ideas about what we wanted, and created some pretty unique and amazing invitations.

When the invitations came in the mail from the production company, we were so excited and eager to send them out to everyone. Then we remembered that we actually had to assemble them, and the excitement made way for mad resolution and the need for a bit more caffeine. But our friend Leah stepped up and helped in a major way with the cutting, folding, stuffing, etc. that was needed, and we're ever so grateful... Here are a few shots of Colleen and Leah, hard at work:


This seemed funny at the time.


Leah hard at work at the assembly line. The photo is blurry because she was fast as lightning.


Colleen thought the back of the mailing envelopes looked like little monster faces.

And here are some shots of the aftermath:







So the moral of the story of our invitations is: friends are awesome. We are very grateful for all of the help that has been offered to us as we check off our "to do list" leading up to October 3, including with the invites. And we are pretty proud of how they turned out - dropping them off at the post office felt like nudging nestlings out of the nest. Or, maybe that's a tad dramatic...

xoxo
c+r

PS - Don't forget to RSVP!