DIY Lavender Wedding Invitations
Bees, you’ll have to pardon my hiatus of a couple of weeks. My students’ state testing started yesterday, and things are pretty crazy around here until next week. Then my job calms down and I will have time to blog my bridal heart out!
As you might recall, we ordered invitations about a month ago, and Blue Mom, Mr. Blue Moon, and I have been trying to find the time to get together and stuff them to get them ready for mailing. We settled on last weekend, and after I furiously cleaned my house for a week, Blue Mom and Daddy Blue Moon arrived from Tennessee. I love having house guests, but this weekend was all business.

Blue Mom and I spread all of the stationery out across my kitchen table, and it sure looked overwhelming at first. I had put her in charge of handling everything wedding related during the three weeks leading up to my students’ state testing, and like me, Blue Mom tends to go overboard so that we have a lot of choices. We had lots of different envelopes and stamps to choose from, and different materials to tie up the invitations.
We stuffed each invitation in the order you see here, following the traditional order of invitation under reception insert under reply card. We tied up everything with hemp twine for a rustic element and to throw back to the kraft brown envelopes we used on our save the dates.

It took a lot less time than I expected to tie all those bows and stuff every envelope! We got an assem...