Wedding Thank You Cards

After a fun laid back wedding and reception, I finally completed some lovely thank you cards for all the well wishers and guest! With how simple the design for both were, I'm surprised it took me well over a month to get these all done. I suppose it has something to do with having to adjust to things. I mean, I did get married and a couple months later it still feels surreal! Me? Married?!? Nope, that was not on my life agenda and you can ask anyone in my family or any of my close friends (including my husband). But I got pretty damn lucky and I can't imagine spending the rest of my life with anyone better!

So, for well wishers that we unable to attend the wedding or reception, I bought a love note heart template from Homemade Gifts Made Easy. Both the heart template and the envelope were less than $10! I originally had the idea to make these the wedding invitations. Since my husband (still weird!) and I thought a full on traditional wedding wasn't really our style, I just converted the heart template to a cute thank you note.  

These were super fun to make. It gave me the perfect excuse to practice my origami skills.The template allowed the message, font and color scheme to be customized. I left it at the default red so it would pop from the white paper.

I did update the message. I don't know, something told me saying super mushy to some co-workers would lead to confusion and possibly a talk with HR. I went so far as to personalize each envelope and put a heart felt (hee hee!) thank you message on the front and inside of the heart. The hearts and envelopes came with complete cut guidelines. If you cut everything right, you can get the message to line up and everything comes together really nice. Oh, and thank goodness there was a tutorial. They used their own template in their step-by-step video to fold the perfectly heart every time! That baby got watched over a billion times while I was working on these with plenty of pausing to catch up on steps. Thank Bob for YouTube!

I had lots of fun designing the cards for those who could attend the wedding reception. I was really trying to go for a low-key elegance -- which means keep it simple. I'm not sure if I captured it, but I really liked how the embossed card stock gave the card some texture and the shimmery card stock added a splash of color. Maybe it is just me, but the embossed background with the shimmery paper reminds me of The Great Gatsby, making it classy and fun. It feels like you were just invited to a New Year's Eve party and are going to meet up with Leo DiCaprio for drinks on the balcony during the fireworks, don't you think? *cough* Maybe that's just my fantasy.  

I still sit back and go "Aww" when I open the card to those wedding birds kissing. They are just super cute. I wanted to put them on the front of the card, but I figured a nice thank you to be more appropriate. Now to find other cards to put those love birds on. Anyone else having a wedding?

I really feel so lucky and appreciative of everyone's support in this new part of my life and I hope it reflects in my thank you cards. I also had a lot of fun with this project. It has given me lots of ideas for for the future. I'm so looking forward to getting started on something new!