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I nominate Amarillis for BTB for all the help she gives everyone. Carla

Hi All, I love the look of the embossed paper. What is the best way to dry emboss A LOT of sheets of paper? I am hoping there is a better method than stencil and stylus. Thanks, Carla

I love it!!

Hi All, I saw the invitations below and I love the outside part. I am trying to find this style but square instead of rectangle. Anyone know where I can buy a square version? Thanks, Carla

Forgot to add our own Sarah of Sproullie Designs. I just love all her stuff! Google Reader - Sproullie Designs

Congrats and welcome! You will love everyone here. Carla

Quote: Originally Posted by Morgan mpix does retouching, including braces removal Mpix.com - Retouching Services their prints are great. I wonder if you'd get a digital file of the retouched picture though? Sounds like they charge you per order placed. As long as I have a couple good ones with the braces removed I won't worry.

We are using the super soft transfers from Dharma trading company and are printing our monogram on them. Each bag should only cost a couple $$ this way. We use these transfers for our robotics teams shirts and they look great. If you are going for a darker bag get the opaque transfers as they have a white background instead of clear to print on. Hope that helps, Carla TRANSFER PRODUCTS

Thanks Morgan! As always, you come to my rescue When I googled it the best result I got was Amazon trying to sell me a book on how to be a assistant photographer...

Hi All, So I am trying to figure out what the different responsibilities are between your main photographer and their assistant (or second photographer). Does one do the main shots and the other do the detail shots? So confused. Carla

Quote: Originally Posted by DallasAshli I'm not artsy, so its hard for me to visualize what it would be like. I do love the STD inspiration! I would do a sample run and then post so we (I) can see LOL Don't worry I will but it may take me a bit to make the actual template. Those were just some quick images I threw together in photoshop when I had the idea. Plus I promised SandDune a AHR invite template first.

One more to add: Google Reader - Gourmet Invitations Blog

Hi All, Now that I have finished designing my STD's I am thinking about invite design. So I am back to my lifeline, BDW, for advice. (Please forgive the bad photoshop work, I am at work so I had to do it fast when inspiration struck.) I found these SOOO cute STD's that I want to turn into a pocketfold invite with of course some modifications. Here is the STD: So my thought I would change the matte color to orange and line around the picture to pink. The text around it would have our saying "a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step ~Lao Tzu" And the bottom would have our names, date and location. Then because there isn't a lot of space to put text I was going to set a layer of vellum over the top, not attached to the invite, printed with the more traditional text/information like this: Then the inserts, which still need some work, would look something like this: And then the pocketfold would be sand colored and look kinda like this minus the pink ribbon and of course in the sand color (back side is on the left): Then instead of the ribbon we would seal them up with clear, maybe orange, wax and an old fashioned M stamp. Kinda like this: Finally we would place them in a clear envelope so the monogram on the backside of the pocket fold would show through. Might even put a bit of confetti in there to give it that pop. Something like this but with different confetti: *whew* Wow that was a lot to get out. So am I crazy? What is way to over the top? Carla

They are soooo cute. Great idea for Christmas gifts!! Maybe after we do ours next year I will do the same thing. Carla

Have you thought about getting a knock off from china? There are a couple threads on here of other brides who did it. I am because of the huge cost savings. If you have a picture they can make it. Here is where I am getting mine made: Cheap Wedding Gowns, Wedding Dresses, Bridesmaid Dresses, Discount Bridal Gowns-Lilywedding.com

Quote: Originally Posted by trophywife Our wedding is going to be no more than 50 people tops in Hawaii. Anyone have any idea how much a wedding for that size should cost?? There are so many factors it would be hard to answer. Best thing to do is do a rough budget, that is how we finally decided on MX. In my siggy is a link to all my templates which also has one for the budget. Might give you a good start because I broke it out into a lot of different groups. Hope that helps. Carla

Hi all, Here is a great how-to for creating pocket folds from scratch. Hope this helps some others, Carla Pocketfold Templates

Great DIY blog: Google Reader - iDiY Google Reader - Style Me Pretty : The Ultimate Wedding Blog http://www.google.com/reader/view/fe...atom.xml?hl=en

I have to add another. These photos are so beautiful. Google Reader - Moore Blog!!

Thank you so much for posting this. I would like to get a couple for my wedding but am soooo clueless. Carla

Quote: Originally Posted by KEE LAC We are buying all our expenses on a credit card to earn miles to help pay for the trip but at the end of the month we pay off the entire balance. Us too except we are using a points system that you can use for any travel related expense! We figure in 2 years it should pay for a decent part of our resort costs.

I use picasa and LOVE it. I am actually using it right now for my planning ideas albums (see link in siggy). When our wedding gets closer I will sign up for another account for everyone to post to. Carla

I just read a review that of someone else that ordered them and their guests had problems with the monogram peeling off! http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t19779

Well ladies I went last night and saw my mom. She promised to be less negative but somehow I am not believing her. She was getting her new computers so she was already pretty happy. I guess all I can do is wait and see if she follows through or not....

We are doing 2 sets of invitations. One for DW guests which will include a invite to the AHR. Another one that looks just the other invites but with information for the AHR only. We are also sending out engagement announcements to those people who we are not inviting to the wedding so its kind of a heads up that we will be having a party back home. We are calling it a tapas celebration. I have also heard people call thiers a Mr & Mrs Party to celebrate the mr and mrs. xxxx.