Our invitations were meant to set the tone for our entire wedding - so we put so much love and care into designing every single piece. Avery and I are both creative so we loved working on the vision for these - I am a watercolor artist and graphic designer and Avery is a photographer. We designed each piece and I hand-painted all of the details on the cards. One of my favorite parts was the vellum liner, which was a watercolor painting of our venue that opened into the full invitation suite. Our wedding venue was a conservatory, with glass walls enclosing the reception space that lent itself perfectly to a vellum liner that matched the feel of our wedding. Inside, the floral details and our wedding logo matched the actual flowers at our wedding. The cards were printed on watercolor paper to give a hand-painted feel and were enclosed inside a sorbet yellow envelope embossed with our wedding logo (we had a custom embosser created for this purpose). The RSVP envelope was a forest green to pair with one of the main colors of our wedding. All of it was enclosed in the vellum liner and stamped with hand-melted wax seals that we had a lot of fun putting on each invite. We truly felt like every piece of this told our story, felt like us, and were so excited to find the perfect envelopes and vellum liner to complete it all at Cards and Pockets!

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