Invitations...Check

Months ago at my monthly wine night my girlfriend's suggested us girls make our wedding invitations. I initially was not on board with them because it just seemed like a lot of work and I am very particular on how I like things and I wanted to make sure they are done right. After some convincing how much fun it will be to have a girl day and make the invitations I got on board. My friend, Kim, gave me an invitation idea from her husband's cousin's wedding and I thought the invitation was great and only needed slight tweaking to make it ours. The next step was to purchase the necessary materials and thanks to my friend, Amber, I was able to get the correct paper at the best price from the website she purchased all her paper from to make her wedding invitations. With all that said, we met yesterday to slice, tape, glue and assemble the wedding invitations at Kim's house. Thankfully I had help from my fabulous friends: Jessica, Amber and Kim because I could never have done this without them. I never even would have thought about making the invitations without them. I am glad I did make them because now I have memories of making my invitations with my girlfriends and that is way better than having the invitations made.

With having a destination wedding we only needed 61 invitations so that doesn't sound bad...right? Well, it took us 7 hours to make the 61 invitations...keep in mind we had four people doing this. I honestly had no idea how long it was going to take, but once we sat down and got started I knew I would be at Kim's house well into the night.

Here is the first photo of the day....we are all smiling because we have no idea we will be at this table for the next 7 hours.

While we were hard at work we were able to munch on my favorite appetizer ever...a pesto and roasted pepper cheese ball with crackers. This went well with the wine we were drinking. Kim made it as she knows that is my absolute favorite and I love when she makes this. It is so yummy!

Here is my workstation. This is where I sat for hours on end slicing paper.

Here is Kim hard at work.

Amber is also hard at work.

The last photo is of the group towards the end of the slave driving.

I am not going to include photos of the invitation that we all worked so hard to make as there has to be some element of surprise when you receive yours in the mail.

I did not take any pictures of Ella and Stella as they were there all day too and they were very good little girls...and adorable little girls, might I add. I am very glad us girls got together and made the wedding invitations as I had such a great time. I also appreciate their help as I could not have made these invitations without them.