Invitations: Paper and Printing

This is me holding out on you just a liiiiiittle bit longer.  One of my bridesmaids lives in China, and I'm going to pretend she hasn't gotten her invitation yet. *wink*

So. A while back, when I first was working on them, I was telling you about the different components of the invitations. Once I had my envelopes, I went about designing our invitations. I never intended to print them myself on my printer, because I wanted them to have a higher-quality finish than I think my printer can provide. I contacted a couple of printers in town that we use at work to get pricing information, and found out I could get them printed for much cheaper online.

There are a lot of places online you can order prints, but I decided to go with Catprint.

Not, not you, kitty-boo.

Hi everyone. I'm Miss Hyena. And I am a crazy cat lady.

THIS:

via Catprint

They had tons of paper options for printing, and since you can't actually touch things through the screen (yet), I asked them for their wedding paper samples, which they sent to me for free. They felt pretty. I couldn't decide between four of the five samples they sent me! They were all so nice, and one was textured, and two of them were shimmery ... I let Mr. Hyena touch them, and he decided the one he liked best was the 130-lb. ultra heavy card stock in white. It's soft. ^_^  Oh, and they did a beautiful job on the invitations, and I lurve them.

The thing I really like about Catprint is that I could order the invitation pieces in the quantities I needed them; I found through most of the local printers, you had to purchase quantities of 100, 250 or 500, and I didn't need that many of them. Especially because, as you'll see soon, I had many varieties of inserts for the invites...

I promise the next post is the big reveal! Pinky swear!

(Catprint did not pay me for this post. They're just awesome and I can't stop saying nice things.)

Snack Attack!

This is my darling kitty-boo, Elliott.

(Personal photo)

(Don't worry, she likes being under the covers. I'm writing on my bed with my knees propped up under the comforter, and she crawled underneath and fell asleep.)

Wanna know what else she likes? Eating ribbon. Eating flowers.* Eating my clothing. Eating random things she finds on the ground. This does not bode well for my many wedding projects!

In order to keep her from chewing up everything I have done so far, I've had to keep everything far away from her. Currently, I'm keeping all my (cat-edible) projects in a Snuggie box on the top shelf of my closet, and I always make sure the door is shut, but it won't be long before the top shelf is overflowing and I'll have to find another way to store all my goodies. Not to mention, when I finally get my dress in from the shop ...

Do your pets try to "help" you with your wedding planning? How do you keep them from destroying all your hard work?

*Seriously. My poor engagement roses lasted about 20 minutes before kitty-boo discovered them, and then I had to keep them in the shower when I wasn't around to supervise her.