Bridesmaid Cards, Part Three

So to recap, I've been slowly but surely working on cards for my bridesmaids (see: will you be my bridesmaid cards and bridesmaids cards part 2) and it hasn't really come together until just recently.



































TADA!! Two of them will be hand delivered because they live within a day's drive but the other one will have to be sent via USPS. Even though it's being sent in a padded envelope I'm hoping that USPS handles it with more care than they do my mail because on more than one occasion I've gotten bent mail.

I know that at least one of them will be saying yes but the other two are giving me a little trouble because I expect them to wear a dress for the day. While I could understand if I picked out something poufy, neon or expensive I'm letting them decide on the style and between the three of them pick either white, blue or brown as the color. So what I've decided to do is sit down with them and figure why and give them a deadline to say yes to wearing a dress or I'm not having them as bridesmaids and ask my four sisters to be bridesmaids instead. Sure that seems a little cold but I feel like I'm being more than fair and I hope that it doesn't all somehow blow up in my face.

Furthermore, if I do end up asking my sisters to be bridesmaids I would also want my fiancee's sister and only sibling to feel involved as well. Sure I'm having her daughter be the flower girl and I think she will be 3 by the time we get married but I worry that she'll have performance anxiety. So if it looks like either of these are the case I plan on asking his sister to walk down the aisle with her.

Other than that I'm still planning away, we'll see where everything goes from here.

Photoshop and Mockups

Recently I purchased a bunch of paper that came close to the colors I wanted to do a trial run and get a feel for how these puppies are supposed to work (I'll post the photos as soon as I remember to take pictures). There were a few snaffoos that I came across through trying to use a ruler that doesn't have a good start line and using a cutting tool that doesn't like to cut thick material but overall I liked the design. The few problems I had were that the size of the font for the announcements, accomodations and RSVPs felt a little too large and the pocket fold looked a little too vacant in the pocket area. Without wanting to waste more paper I put together a design in photoshop to see if the design could be tweaked without going mad. So far I've decided to add in a map of the Las Vegas strip, decrease the width of the RSVP and came up with this:












































I think this is done in Agency FB 11pt for the names, but I forgot to save some of the text layers unmerged.
Edwardian Script ITC size 30pt for "Las Vegas Map"
Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.75

border on announcement: 6.75 x 4.875

Pocket Fold:
Dimensions:
13-1/8 x 7 right now
16-1/8 x 7 when it's all unfolded

creases at:
3" from top
3" from bottom
8" from bottom

Adding the map does make this feel more complete but I'm not too sure if I like the map design just yet. While I want to get as much information on the map as possible it feels a little too crowded. Another problem is that when you search for a map of the strip, no two maps are alike which in turn has made me go a little batty. Originally this map was in red but after some long hours of photoshop tweaking I eventually changed it to blue. Again, I'm not thrilled with how crowded this looks or how tiny the lables turned out but this is just a first draft. Maybe make it fold in half so I can stretch the image and make the font bigger? Thoughts?

THE Earrings

Again I've been searching a lot for what I want and found that I've been leaning towards chandelier earrings but a lot of the ones I like are usually expensive. I managed to find these earrings at a local craft fair and since they were less than $25 I decided to go for it. So even though I have yet to try them on with the dress or the hair style I have yet to pick out, if they don't work out at least they'll look great with an evening gown.