our wedding invitations
I’m so excited to finally be able to share our goccoed wedding invitations! You might remember the last-minute problems we had with the design & printing, but they turned out pretty well in the end. If you’re interested in gocco tips, or instructions on hand-tearing paper, check out this post.
I wanted our invitations to feel like a package, so we wrapped them in sheets of vellum and hot-glued labels with our wedding date to keep it closed.
Goccoing the outside of the envelopes was a very last minute idea, because I enjoyed using the gocco so much by the end!
Our RSVP cards were postcards. The front of the postcard is pictured above, and the back below:
The invitations were two-sided, with a yellow flower printed on the back.
We also included a reception card, so in total each invitation had three printed pieces.
My husband helped enormously with the whole process, and you can visit his website here. You can also see more photos of our invitations on Mint’s flickr!
Responses to “our wedding invitations”
erin
May 11, 2009 at 8:16 amellie, these are beautiful. i adore the color, but really, they’re perfect in every way.
ali
May 11, 2009 at 8:56 amtee hee, your HUSBAND
Chaucee
May 11, 2009 at 9:32 amThey are beautiful:)
Amy@OldSweetSong
May 11, 2009 at 10:24 amI love them Ellie!
Kelly
May 11, 2009 at 10:38 amlovely! i’m head over heels for goldenrod.
xo
Kelly
darling dexter
May 11, 2009 at 10:53 ampretty!!
Sarah
May 11, 2009 at 11:24 amthese came out so lovely!!
nole @ oh so beautiful paper
May 11, 2009 at 12:40 pmGorgeous!
two brunettes
May 11, 2009 at 3:00 pmLove them! You are a married graphic design team! How cute :o)
Rachel @ Design Lovely
May 11, 2009 at 6:02 pmOh Ellie! These came out stunning! I love all the details! You can tell there was a lot of love put into these. Great job!
Rachel (jolie jolie)
May 11, 2009 at 6:55 pmlove love love
Meghan
May 11, 2009 at 11:02 pmEllie, these turned out wonderfully! Many congrats to you and your new husband! :)
kelly
May 12, 2009 at 2:28 amLovely! I just made my first attempt at Gocco-ing this past weekend – still perfecting my process, but it seems like such a cool little machine!
anna and the ring
May 12, 2009 at 7:23 amOh, these are just wonderful. You are crazily talented. You have totally inspired me to persist with my poor neglected gocco.
knack
May 12, 2009 at 8:24 amellie…I have been catching up on your blog, and your wedding needs to be featured in a magazine! It is so flippin’ awesome and fantastic…you left no detail out, and I just can’t say with words how I feel about it……. xoxo
Happy life to you and the new hubby!
abigail
May 12, 2009 at 9:00 amso beautiful!
ellie
May 12, 2009 at 2:47 pmthank you so much!!!!
Anna
May 12, 2009 at 4:01 pmBeautiful. I also got married on 4/25/09.
Congrats!!!
Rebekah
May 12, 2009 at 4:25 pmBeautiful! I love the package idea, so that opening them is an event.
lovelymorning
May 12, 2009 at 6:02 pmGocco! they turned out just perfect Elle! Seriously.
And I so love your dress. You have the perfect coloring for it’s awesome alterno color. (assuming it’s the one i think it is!)
congrats!
xo
kelley@myislandwedding.com
May 12, 2009 at 6:59 pmThese are really quite stunning.
love them!
Adri
May 12, 2009 at 9:04 pmBeautiful! I keep seeing more and more beautiful gocco invitations and they all make me want to purchase one!
phi-style
May 13, 2009 at 1:25 pmYour invites are gorgeous! I’ve been perusing the web at Gocco invites and am so confused by the entire process. The final products always come out so fantastic though!
Just curious – how much was the total cost for all your invites?
jen jafarzadeh
May 14, 2009 at 5:42 pmYour invites are so pretty — love the color scheme. And really makes me wish I had a gocco.
ellie
May 14, 2009 at 5:51 pmthank you!!
Kari
May 15, 2009 at 6:10 pmI love your cards – what type of Gocco did you buy, now I am on the hunt for one! Any advice??
ellie
May 16, 2009 at 9:57 pmHi Kari, I bought a used PG-11 from etsy, and my only complaint is how expensive the supplies are!
Alison
May 18, 2009 at 12:28 amWonderful! I love these. I gocco’d invites today! How many screens did they use? geesh! And yes, supplies are so expensive, but only recently because RISO announced they will no longer be making the supplies. So although I love my Gocco TO DEATH, if you don’t already own one I might invest my money elsewhere. (Tabletop letterpress!?!) The supply prices, like polaroid film prices keep going UP and UP!
xoxo
Christine R
June 21, 2009 at 1:21 pmThis is unbelievably beautiful. It almost brings tears to my eyes. I have seen hundreds of invitations and I so love yours. You haveimpeccable taste. Thanks for sharing the pics with us.
Kate Schwager
February 17, 2010 at 11:46 amI would LOVE to know what fonts you used for your RSVP card?
Caroline
May 2, 2010 at 3:59 pmHi! I would also LOVE to know what fonts you have used here. They are lovely. Are they your own or can you recommend anything similar?