Big Day! Wedding Invitations

Today, we are finally putting our wedding invitations in the mail. Which means, I can unveil what they look like on this blog. I had such a great experience picking out our invites. I went to Village Invites in NYC. Their boutique is small, but super cute, and Adrienne (their wedding invitation specialist) is lovely to work with. She got my style -- and understood my budget -- from the moment I walked in.

Adrienne also introduced me to Spark Letterpress. I thought I knew every invitation designer in the book, but apparently not. Spark was created in 2005 by a Midwest couple, Jim & Valerie. Read their story here and you may fall in love with them like I did.

We chose their Ava suite, which features linen patterned peonies and classic stripes. Take a look:

Original Sample

Here's how ours turned out:

Invitation

Post Card Reply Card

Direction Card, from WeddingMapper.com

And to complete the look, I can't forget to mention our Save-the Dates. These were designed by my talented and soon-to-be brother-in-law James Protano. They were meant to look like a vintage post card.

Post Card Save-the-Date