Offbeat invitations
By Never teh Bride
Some of the most fabulous weddings invitations I’ve seen feature a plain sheet of paper with the relevant information paired with a second, patterned sheet for pizazze. For those looking for really gorgeous or really crazy patterns, origami paper is the way to go. Paper Source carries beautiful sheets of Japanese paper with matching envelopes in a wide range of playful and colorful prints.
Origami paper is delicate, pretty, and, can help you differentiate your wedding invitations from those of your friends. Origami itself is furthermore creative and offbeat. If you want to really individualize your invites, include a small sheet of origami instructions. Your potential guests will be hard-pressed to forget about your wedding date after they’ve spent a few mintues creating a crane or box out of a portion of your colorful and vivid invitation.
July 28th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
While I loved our invitations, I sort of wish I’d thought of the origami paper. It would have been a subtle, graceful way of working in a little more of my beloved’s Japanese heritage. Neat idea, NtB!
July 30th, 2006 at 2:44 am
What a great way to help your invites stand out from the crowd! I can just see a bunch of folks doing a “quick sort” through the mail, only to find themselves jumping up from the table three hours later, triumphantly holding aloft a lopsided crane or jumping frog…
July 30th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
Those cranes can be wicked tough!
July 31st, 2006 at 5:02 am
Hah, I’ve done the “thousand cranes” thing for a sick friend once so I bet having to do a few hundred won’t be too hard!
The “thousand cranes” superstition:
http://www.sadako.org/sadakostory.htm