My vintage DIY invitations, by Nina Kristine

This guest post comes from OBT member ninakr!stine, who shares her vintage-inspired diy wedding invitations with us. The wedding was last August, but these invites are, erm, TIMELESS!

We designed our invitations to look like a packet of items you might find in your grandmother's attic. Here's what we did…

1. A old letter to a mother from a son detailing he's met the love of his life and is getting married. My future hubby wrote the letter (mostly fiction, of course, since it's a period piece) and we printed it out in a handwriting font. We dyed the letters with tea and stamped letterhead with a rubber stamp and brown ink.

2. On the back of the letter are the actual details of our wedding and the traditional wording…which I loved because it just felt so stately, proper, and elegant. Almost like a queen summoning her people with a decree.

3. The envelopes were old air mail envelopes that the post office has since stopped using/allowing. We also dyed these in tea, got old vintage (nearly worthless; fret not stamp enthusiasts!) stamps from a local stamp collector, and postmarked them with a craft stamp we edited by tearing out bits of the rubber with tweezers.

4. An old 45 with various types of music (some were veteoed for having song titles like Better Luck Next Time or Run Away ) that we re-labeled with our wedding details.

5. Old-style photobooth photos, printed them on cardstock, and (see a trend here?) dyed them with tea.

6. A vintage pinochle card (there's more face cards in a deck) that indicates our preferred dress code {anyone else doing this and feeling a little wedding-couplezilla for demanding specific colors?}

7. All of this plus a feather (crafty leftovers from an eyelash contest I entered) and a card directing people to our website or to call us to r.s.v.p…

8. Finally, we wrapped it all up in brown paper packages tied up with string!
(attn: green grooms & biofuel brides, everything was recycled or post-consumer waste!)

Many thanks to Nina for letting me reprint her invites. Oh, and as a special bonus? Here's a shot of the bride & groom on their wedding day!