Our Wedding Invitations

I have been meaning to write this post for months, but just did not have time.  So I am making time tonight! 

Justin and I have been having so much fun planning our wedding.  Once we decided on our location, the theme of our wedding came together easily We decided we wanted to try and recreate the look and feel of vintage or retro travel.  Think the glamour days of air hostesses. 

We started our adventure with a retro travel postcard save-the-date (that we actually mailed from Hawaii with the help of our wedding coordinator). 

As a follow on, when it came time to create our wedding invitation, we expanded upon the travel idea by creating a travel brochure from our very own travel company… none other than The Detmar Travel Company. 

Here was our inspiration…

Working with iStock Photo, Adobe Illustrator, the friendly staff of Kinkos, and countless scrapbooking tools we created this…

The front cover has graphics from iStock photo, it reads:

“Hawaii… Island of Enchantment

See Hawaii

The Detmar Travel Co.

From Los Angeles to Honolulu Direct”

Inside the cover we listed the “Top 10 Sights” of Maui from everything to Ziplining to of Our Wedding  

The inside pocket included a quick message from The Detmar Travel Co. (A.K.A. Justin and I) inviting our guests to paradise and our wedding. 

The back of the invitation has a reference to our San Diego reception, so what better way to do that then to have The Detmar Travel Co.  do an advertisement to for our sunny city. 

Of course, every vintage travel company always mailed the boarding passes to their passengers… so of course we had to do the same.  Every wedding guest received their very own Detmar Airlines boarding pass.

We got creative with the sections of the boarding pass by using the “check in by” box for our RSVP deadline, “boarding time” is our ceremony time, and you can’t forget the “after flight entertainment” which is our reception   We even added a few more “boarding pass” items on the back of the pass to add to the authentic feel of the pass.  We tied Detmar Airlines to The Detmar Travel Co. by putting the following in really small print at the bottom on the back of the pass “Detmar Airlines is a subsidiary company of The Detmar Travel Company.”

To top it all off, we ordered retro airmail envelopes on Amazon and put the return address from The Detmar Travel Co.  Even my sister and Aunt mistook our invitation as either “junk mail” or an advertisement from a travel company…  I guess we got the authentic part down, thank goodness they didn’t throw it out!  

We are very happy with the final product and have received many compliments on our invitation.  Many people thought that we had them designed and professionally made.  Let me attest to the many hours of scoring the internet for ideas and designing them in adobe, three (yes three!) trips to kinkos for reprinting, and even more hours cutting, taping, and folding, that Justin and I definitely made these ourselves!  But hey, thanks for the compliment!  Authentic, not cheesy, was what we were going for, so mission accomplished!

Comments

[Charlotte]

They were so well done I thought we had actually received tickets to Hawai'i there for a moment! Excellent work!