Invitations Part 2

Last week I showed you the front of our invites, so today we are going to talk about the back.  One day Rob and I were driving and I looked over and saw a truck with a decal on the back of a fish/music note - to this day I have no clue what it means, but I knew it was perfect for our wedding logo, as it combines my love of the ocean and Rob's love of music - so we took a picture of the truck, had Rob's mom redraw it, and then Travis magically made it digital.

*Disclaimer - our invitations consisted of 1 single piece of paper.  That's It.  Done.  Nothing Else.  No weird pieces of tissue paper between other pages, no separate card for the reception, not even an RVSP card/envelope!  What, you can do that???  Heck yes you can, it's your wedding, you can do whatever you want!  I personally didn't want all the extra stuff because A. it's pointless and stupid  - sorry, just my opinion :)  B. it costs a lot of money  C. it's wasteful.  Instead of RSVP cards for people to mail back in, we simply asked them to RSVP on our wedding website - the only concern we had about doing it this way was that some of our older guests may not have internet access - but for us this was such a small number of people that we chose to call them instead.  You could also include RSVP cards just for those that you think might have trouble with the website.  As for all the other "stuff" that is typically included, it just wasn't necessary for us and I figured if someone was that offended that we didn't use proper wedding etiquette, then they didn't have to come :)  I actually found the exact opposite to be true, as so many people complimented us on our invites for being so personal and unique (or they were just saying that to our faces, haha!).  Pretty sure no one decided not to come because we didn't have 15 pieces of paper for our invitations, but you never know!

Ok, back on track:  Here is the back of our invite - our actual invites had our names and the date as well, but I added that in on Vistaprint, which brings me to printing...

Yes, we used Vistaprint to print our wedding invitations!  And guess what?  They came out great!  Not going to lie, I was a little nervous, but am so glad I decided to just go for it!  I considered printing at home, but after the huge knock down drag out fight I got in with several printers trying to just do the envelopes, I decided it wasn't worth it :)  I uploaded the front and back of the invites and chose premium, 100lb. white matte paper stock.  I also threw in some return address labels.  So for 100 invitations (and envelopes) + 280 return address labels, I spent less than $100!  The total was $74.01, and that includes shipping!  So less than $1/invitation!  And of course I used a coupon code to get this great price - NEVER buy anything online without first checking out www.retailmenot.com!  

So those are our invites!  What do you think, awesome?  Or are you horrified that I didn't include RSVP cards and used Vistaprint???  Haha!