And she's getting married in October. I'm the Maid of Honor, I'm married I know, it should be matron but... well... just no. Recently, I threw her a wedding shower. Now, her mom wanted it to be a more classic affair, girls only, cute dresses, very lady's luncheon. She also wanted to invite most of the bride's family living on this coast, the bride lives in LA and her parents and I live near Boston. I was happy to throw the shower, I love the bride like a sister and was planning on throwing one before her mother chimed in anyway. Only now the task was a bit more complicated. The bride isn't what you'd call... traditional, in fact I believe her wedding is going to be one awesome non-traditional shindig. But her mother was pushing hard on the traditions. So what's a Maid of Honor to do? Compromise.
Every year when the bride comes to visit in May, all of her friends living on this coast throw her a birthday party. These parties are always themed and involve costumes. We always end up on my front lawn taking pictures and freaking out our very normal neighborhood. What the bride had originally intended for this visit was a Game of Thrones Birthday party/ bridal shower. So... I did what I could. Starting with the invitations. I wanted something simple, not too intimidating but with a nice nod to Game of Thrones. I was also for some reason really interested in using rubber stamps. So... to the internet I went until I found this on a delightful little shop. This woman does good work and she does it fast. The stamp is frankly a work of art in and of itself.
The bride is quite fond of house Targaryan (though truth be told she's also I huge Lannister fan). I went with the dragon stamp over the lion stamp because I found it to be just a striking stamp. I felt that it was pretty and interesting but lacking the slightly more masculine harsh feel of the lion stamp, and I also wanted to theme the shower in purple and red and the dragon stamp just sang purple and red to me.
Here are a few pics of the finished invitations and envelopes.
I used a fast drying ink for these along with nice card stock from paper source. The ink really didn't bleed at all and it didn't take much ink to saturate the stamp enough to get a nice clear print. Just in case you're wondering, yes your home ink jet printer can print on a smaller piece of paper with nice paper stock with ease and grace. I used a regular non fast drying ink for the stamps on the envelopes, these took around 8 hours to dry, which slowed things down significantly.
These were really easy, though I was super stressed while I was making them out of fear that I would mess something up. Which in the end I did, I put the wrong date on the invite and there was a whole second send out that I ended up doing. It all ended up ok though, since I got to ask everyone for recipes for the bride with the second batch of invitations and ended up making her a nice cookbook with recipes from friends and family.
I'll have more crafty things to post about the wedding soon! This is going to be a very crafty wedding.
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