Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Part 1

The envelopes have been addressed and sealed and the stamps have been placed! Our invitations, the project I have labored over for well, about as long as we've been engaged, are out of our hands and into the hands of our guests! This also means that I am done teasing you and ready to reveal... which I plan to do in just two posts!

Hopefully you won't laugh at my humble attempt at calligraphy! I addressed each of the envelopes myself with chocolate brown ink.  I gave up on being a perfectionist about calligraphy, but they are my best handwriting with a calligraphy pen!  Even though I didn't have much time to learn, I really enjoyed doing this. I'd love to take a class sometime and become better skilled in the art of calligraphy!

I also had a lot of fun playing around with postage stamps. I am kind of a closet philatelist. When I was a kid, I was in a stamp collecting club with my friend.  Our moms used to drop us off at a local country club for meetings during the summer, where we would break out all of our albums and equipment.  We were intense, right down to the magnifying glasses! Anyway, when I started running across the idea of using vintage stamps, on the pages of my favorite magazine, Martha Stewart Weddings, I was all over it!

Photo courtesy of Duet Weddings Blog

Our invitations ended up costing more than we expected to mail, ($1.04 a piece, what the heck, USPS???), so I ran out of vintage stamps and ended up using the wedding cake and wedding ring stamps on a lot of the invitations. Oh well. But I did go vintage stamp crazy on some:

Love it! And so did my bridesmaid, Julianne! 

After all my hard work, it was kind of bittersweet to send my box of pink envelopes out into the world, all on their own!  But I'm definitely a proud parent... and I've enjoyed collecting the little mini pink envelopes that have already started making their way back to my mailbox! 

Next up, I'll show you what's inside the pink envelopes! 

So, did you put as much thought into the outside of your invitations as I did? Did any of you attempt to address your envelopes yourself?