LOVE/HATE: The ‘Not Your Momma’s Wedding Invitation’ Edition

April 15, 2010 in Invitations with 11 Comments

The fab Dr Nic sent along this stop-motion wedding invitation – about a hundred years ago, but still in 2010 – and I thought I’d run it by the Manolo for the Brides readership because you folks know what’s what.

So, this. Too gimmicky? Awesome? I’ll say right now I love it, but only because it’s the first of its kind that I’ve seen. If every bride- and groom-to-be under the sun started sending out stop-motion wedding invitations on CDs instead of plain old paper invites, I think I’d get sick of having to rewind 50 times to get all the info down. But since I’ve only seen this one? It gets a free pass in my book.

What say you?

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11 Responses to “LOVE/HATE: The ‘Not Your Momma’s Wedding Invitation’ Edition”

  1. Megan April 15, 2010 at 7:43 am #

    I love it! It’s not something I would do, but for someone who is really into stop-animation (as it seems the groom is), it’s really cute and personal! I would love it if I got an invitation like this one.

  2. dr nic April 15, 2010 at 8:06 am #

    A few details: this invitation was done solely by the groom, and made the bride very nervous because she thought it was taking to long. It came with a written summary of the details/location. And the dress he used was the dress she wore on their first date.

  3. Jen April 15, 2010 at 3:07 pm #

    I have tears in my eyes and I just posted it at my blog, because it is so sweet. I love how he opens the door for her! The cutest invite ever.

  4. Omnibus Driver April 15, 2010 at 5:52 pm #

    That rocked.

  5. JRM April 15, 2010 at 6:02 pm #

    What’s really great about it is how personal it is and how much it says about the bride and groom. I don’t think most couples could pull this off. But I could see more video invitations in the future, which I don’t necessarily think is a good thing…

  6. ChristianeF April 15, 2010 at 7:14 pm #

    Sooooooo cute!!!

    I’m not sure I’d like to see this become a trend, but this video is adorable.

  7. April April 16, 2010 at 12:40 am #

    Wow the video was sooooo amazing. I wish I had seen that before my best friend’s wedding. That would have been totally awesome. Thanks for posting, I enjoyed the video so much.Very cute and quite creative!

  8. Charlene - Balance Beam April 16, 2010 at 5:18 am #

    Wow – I can totally appeciate the amount of WORK that went into that. You could really do something like that for so many things. Very cool! I do wonder how they kept the shirt so clean, even being dragged around like that. (LOL!)

    Also, Thanks for your comment on my special SITS day. I gave you a special mention in my latest post! :-)

  9. Michelle April 19, 2010 at 1:51 pm #

    I love it! It’s not something I would do, but for someone who is really into stop-animation (as it seems the groom is), it’s really cute and personal! I would love it if I got an invitation like this one.

  10. lijihu May 19, 2010 at 3:25 am #

    I wish I had seen that before my best friend’s wedding.

  11. Lindsay July 1, 2010 at 4:27 pm #

    i LOVE it
    it’s such an inventive, cute music video
    actually, if you search Coldplay’s ‘Strawberry Swim’ it’s done the same way only with chalk. it’s really cool. :)