I personally believe that a wedding invite (or any invite for that matter) can tell you a lot about what the event is going to be like. With that in mind I knew I wanted ours to be crafty, fun, and unusual! I also wanted something that was special to us. If you can remember our Save The Dates we had made them to look like concert tickets. So when I saw a picture of these record wedding invites I knew I had to have them! They fit my vision perfectly!! Only problem was I had no idea how I was going to pull it off... With much research I found a couple on Etsy who designs the template for these record invites, the only problem was they had removed the listing and were not creating them anymore. But I decided I was going to private message them and beg them to do it for me anyways....& they did! I gave them the picture we wanted to use and the colors and they took it from there! I found on ebay a listing for 100 old 45 records for dirt cheap so I ordered those. I still needed about 80 more so I was a little worried I wasn't going to be able to find them or would have to pay a lot of money for them. BUT as I was cleaning out Todd's garage I found the rest of the 45's I needed!...who's really surprised?? (; ...everything was falling into place. As I have told you before our good friend Rafi, who is one of the funniest people you will ever meet, owns his own printing shop. So once the invites were designed I took them to him and he printed the templates for us, now all we had to do was cut them out and assemble them!
Now even for a crafter like me, That was easier said than done...Luckily I had a bunch of beautiful ladies who offered to help me! The first day my mom, my aunt Deb, my soon-to-be sister in law Debbie, and my cousin Hailey all helped me cut out every single one of the invites. And let me tell you, cutting out those circles was not an easy task at all! I could not be more thankful for those girls that day because I don't think there was enough time in the world for me to finish those by myself!
A few days later my pretty friends Maria and Emma came over with my mom to help me fold and glue them all together. We had to glue the covers to make them into sleeves & also glue the new Todd & Amanda record label over the original ones. What would've taken me weeks to finish these ladies helped me finish in just 2 days! I could not be more thankful for them all!
We were super nervous to take them to the post office to find out how much it was going to cost us to send them but it ended up being reasonable. When we got to the post office they started showing us stamps that had butterflies on them and clowns that were pretty awful, but then the sales associate pulled out some different music artist ones! We ended up with Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash, & Jimi Hendrix!
It could not have been a better match for our invites. It took me forever to address those babies but I think all in all it was well worth it. They came out pretty rad don't you think??
We were super nervous to take them to the post office to find out how much it was going to cost us to send them but it ended up being reasonable. When we got to the post office they started showing us stamps that had butterflies on them and clowns that were pretty awful, but then the sales associate pulled out some different music artist ones! We ended up with Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash, & Jimi Hendrix! It could not have been a better match for our invites. It took me forever to address those babies but I think all in all it was well worth it. They came out pretty rad don't you think??
Be on the look out for them!
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