invitation update

Justin and I found some wonderful notecards made out of recycled paper - exactly the kind of paper I had been looking for to print the invitations on. We were going to go with square invites, but to have to pay more for square just didn't seem like the best idea.

We bought the invites, and a couple of stamps and ink, and voila, a couple of hours later, our invites are now nearly finished.

What you see here is the envelope along with the outside of the notecard. We're going to take the actual invite (not yet printed), and place it inside of this. We're going to print off a map and directions to get to Round Lake right on the back of the insert, and we'd like to do RSVPs entirely online/by phone.

There is also a picture here of the guest book - a much better picture than previously posted.

Guestbook

There are some things I just can't justify spending a lot of money on. While it's certainly been fun having something to spend all of my money on, I still like trying to save money by getting good deals on things.

One thing I didn't want to spend an arm and a leg on was a guestbook. I knew I wanted one, and I knew I wanted to personalize it myself, so it didn't make sense to get an actual guestbook.

Justin and I were at Target and found the perfect book to use!! It definitely goes along with the wood theme, but is still fancyish...

I'm going to keep the "personalized" part a secret for now...ask if you're curious :)

food

We had originally intended on having a big bbq for the wedding...lots of grills, lots of brats, hot dogs, hamburgers, etc. We realized this would be a bit of a pain, considering a) we would need a lot of grills up at Round Lake and b) we would need a lot of people to watch over all of those grills...

So instead, we have decided on a different idea, which I think is much more fun than the bbq idea--TACOS!