DIY wedding invitations

So it’s crunch time! The wedding is 8 weeks away as of the 27^th, it’s crazy! I mean this year has gone by so fast and we have been so busy with wedding stuff its unreal. I decided to save some money we would make our own invitations. It was so easy! Well we sort of made them. I ordered our paper and pocket fold invitations from a website. I also took them to office depot and had them printed, and cut for me because well that’s a lot of work and time that I just don’t have right now. Anyways I will put pictures and our measurements on here in case you love them so much you want to diy your own as well.

Materials:

·         Pocket folds( we used the Retangolon style in purple, purchased from Cards and Pockets )

·         Card stock( we used turquoise and cream purchased from Cards and Pockets, it is 8-1/2” X 11”)

·         Adhesive tape (make sure it says permanent! Purchased from Wal-Mart)

·         Ribbon(we used turquoise ribbon from Michaels 5/8” width)

·         Hot glue gun and glue

Assembly:

Invitation & Inserts:

I designed the invitation and all the inserts. I designed them on Microsoft power point and then once I finished and I made all my corrections and what not I just moved them to MSW (Microsoft word). I knew I was going to have them printed so I called around and got prices for printing and cutting, and office depot was the cheapest. So I called and they told me to say my file as a PDF onto a flash drive and bring it in. I had all the paper printed and cut in about 4 days.

Sizing :(I put my measurements in decimal form because I entered all the information on sizing into my computer)

·         Pocket fold center: 7” X 5”

·         Mat(turquoise card stock):     H-4.750     W-6.375

·         Invitation:                                H:4.5”        W:6.125”

·         Directions:                               H:3.812”    W:6.75”

·         Reception:                               H:3.00”       W:6.75”

·         Accommodations:                   H: 2.562”    W:6.75”

·         RSVP:                                        H: 3.75”       W: 4.875”

I started with attaching the cream paper to the turquoise paper with the adhesive. I used four strips for each attachment. I then attached the paper to the pocket folds using four strips again.

I then put all the inserts in to the pocket. I did mine large to small(directions, reception,& accommodations) so you could see the top of each card. Once I put those in, I added the RSVP card and envelope.

 

For the outside of the pocket fold, to keep them closed I added ribbon with a bow (I hand tied all the bows) to all the invitations. I glued the bows to the ribbon to make them stick. The white you see in the picture is some paper before I hot glued the bow.

That’s all there was to it. They are very simple and look really good, but if it wasn’t for friends and family it would have taken me forever to get these done all by myself.



My mom and grandma helping "stuff" the invitations.





For Grandpa!

Growing up my dad wasn’t around much, I mean he was there but he was gone A LOT. My parents fought and as a result we moved in with my grandparents. That was 12 years ago. Growing up, both of them have basically been another set of parents to my brother and me. It was both a blessing and a curse at once. My grandma has grown to be one of the people I feel I can talk to about anything and everything. We may fight and disagree, but She has always been there and believe me God knows I didn’t treat them the way I should have.

The real purpose of this post is for my grandpa. He has truly been one of the most important men in my life growing up. Without him I wouldn’t be where I am today. He means the world to me, and I would be lost without him. He is by far the most caring and giving man I have ever met. Growing up he would give me rides to and from school, he always encouraged me to do my best at whatever I put my mind to and always believed in me. Throughout the years he has help me countless number of times with whatever I needed. He has helped friends of mine, heck he even helped out Jesse.

He has always had my best interest in mind no matter what. I don’t thank him as much as I should, or say I love you as often as possible but i wouldn’t have made it this far in life without him. When it came to actually telling people I was engaged I was more nervous about telling my grandpa then my dad. I am so excited to get to share a special dance with my grandpa at my wedding. I couldn’t picture anyone else who I’d rather have a dance with. He means everything to me and I am honored to call him my grandpa. I love you grandpa!

Just waiting

Hey everyone!!

Alright so I want to start by saying there are only 90 days till the wedding!!!!! 90 flipping days, I am beyond excited and really starting to get nervous about everything coming together like I hope it will.

Last Saturday was my bridal shower, and we got so much stuff that it had to be put into storage for now. The shower was amazing thanks to my MOH and my aunt, it was a good turn out too…I got a picture of most the stuff but my computer is acting up so I might have to put up pictures from the shower on the blogs FB page.

I just got measurements for the flower girl dresses, and we are getting paper and other stuff to make the invitations next week I think!? Not sure yet when we will get them done, but I will put up pictures because they are DIY whenever we actually get to finish them.

I have 2 weeks of school left for now so that will give me more time to do wedding stuff and actually get on the ball of things.

Jess started a new job so he’s been extremely busy, but he loves his new job so we are both happy about that. The only downfall is he works the night shift right now so we only get to see each other on Sundays usually unless he gets a day off.

Nothing new for now, but I am sure as it gets closer to the wedding I will have more new…90 days…I can’t believe it’s at the 3 month mark already : )

Home..

Hey everyone!

Ok so some of you know Jesse and I went to Ohio this past weekend for my grandma’s walk. It was so much fun! We got there on Friday night, and we were able to see my aunt and her family and one of my cousins. Saturday we went to the zoo and spent most of the day there…ill try to put the pictures on the blogs FB page…most of them are on the camera, but a few I got on my phone (I didn’t realize my phone took such good pictures) so that means it’s going to take longer to put them on to FB from the camera, because I am just too lazy to actually take the time to do it! Ha!

Sunday we went for the walk..And I was able to see most of my family that I hadn’t seen in awhile, and hang out a little bit with everyone.  They had a really good turnout for the first walk!

After the walk Jesse and I went four wheeling with my dad at one of his friend’s house…it was so much fun! His friend has chickens and one of them is called a lap chicken (I have no idea if those are even real) but she came and sat in my hand! It was so cute, she was so so soft and really mellow. After we got done we figured we would head home it was about 7 hours from where he lived so it was a long drive, but I was so happy to be home! I will put pictures on FB tomorrow probably…Jesse is yelling at me to put my laptop away because I am supposed to be watching the newest transformers movie with him right now!

Step out 4 Lillian

Hey everyone!

Ok so if you are friends with me on FB then most of you know I will be going to Ohio next weekend!!!! I am so excited!

Anyways I am going for the Step out 4 Lillian event. The event is going on to raise money for the Stepping out for Scleroderma foundation. My grandma died of scleroderma January 24, 2011 and we (the family and friends) are raising money for the walk. I started a page for fundraising today and anyone can donate and I will post the link below. Please don’t feel obligated to donate; if you do donate know that the proceeds will go to the Scleroderma Foundation Ohio Chapter.

Thanks everyone!

If you would like to donate, click the link below and it will late you to my page!

http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/ashleyrasmussen

I am going to need help!

Hey everyone! Ok so sometime next hopefully..I will be making some wedding centerpieces..but I have a few different choices in mind so I will be doing a poll with pictures hopefully if I get time and I need every one to vote on which one they like best. It would be super helpful if people would actually vote and give input!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Summer time

Happy summer!!!

Summer is finally here and I am so excited! Flip flops, shorts, tank tops, tans the list goes on and on. Summer does come with a price though…school tomorrow! Excited and not so excited all at once that’s for sure. I am so happy to finally start, but that means I don’t really get a summer because for those of you who know I work at night. So school 12 to 5 and the work 8 to 3am…not much time for anything but sleep which sucks big time, and my not so tan skin is already suffering from it.

I do however get to spend time with one of my best friends and her amazingly cute daughter. The best thing about being in a “couple” is “couple” friends.  I love getting to spend time with Jesse and our friends who are together and have kids. Like tonight the four of us took the kids to get ice cream and honestly it was the most fun I had all week : )

Earlier in the week Becca and I attempted to make this mac n cheese….kind of a bust, but it was fun while we did it. Oh and cupcakes too, those turned out way better then the dinner part of the night.

Bridal shower is in a little over a month so that means on the 27 four months till the wedding!!! I am getting super excited. We are having the shower a little early because of vacations and school starting in the fall for some people, but who cares.

Alright so I have a problem with wanting to just put my wedding dress on and whatnot, but 2 weeks ago I tried it on and it was too big! Best feeling EVER! I mean the part for my boobs didn’t even fit, I almost cried when I put it on because I was so happy that it didn’t fit right anymore.

One more thing before I go, we are having trouble deciding on what favors to use for the wedding…any ideas??

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