Reveal: Family Shower Invitations

Did you think we forgot to share the invitation to our family shower with you? Well, we didn't. We just took a little while to take pictures of them. But, here they are! Better late, than never.

Reveal: Our Wedding Venue- Mama's Fish House

By now, you may have already figured out where we are getting married on Maui. We gave you a big hint when we had our cake tasting. We pretty much flat out told you it was at Mama's Fish House. Yes, really. We are getting married at Mama's Fish House! Yes, we are as excited, even more so actually, as you!

We will be having an early morning beach ceremony at Kuau Cove. This will be followed by our morning cocktail hour for guests while the two of us enjoy a little time alone while we have our pictures taken to capture those precious just married moments. Our lunch reception will, of course, take place at the restaurant at Mama's Fish House. Double YUM!

We couldn't be happier with this location. When we visited our venue, we thought if we had built it ourselves, we couldn't have dreamed up a more perfect place for the two of us to get married. Let the pictures speak for themselves and check out what we are talking about:

Kuau Cove

Reveal: Mahalo Brunch Invitation

Or How to Throw a Morning After the Wedding Brunch

Let's just jump right into the big reveal for our Mahalo Brunch invitation. I think I owe all of you that not being around for the past couple days. But, that's what happens in the life of a bride. Sometimes you just don't have time to blog.

What's a Mahalo Brunch you ask? Well, it's the same thing as a day after the wedding brunch. We just wanted to give it a different name with it happening in Hawaii and all. Like we did with so many of our other wedding activities. Like the Wahine Party.  With the idea of it giving us one more reason to say thank you to our wedding guests for traveling all the way to Maui to celebrate with us, Mahalo Brunch it was named!

Reveal: Wahine Party Invitation

Now that all of the wahines (woman in Hawaiian) should have received their Wahine Party invitations by now, I can now share the invitation with all of you! What do you think? Again, I love it! 

I love how bright red they are. It really makes them pop. Perfect for a Wahine Party. And of course, they once again match up with the wedding week activities insert. 

Reveal: Cock n Hen Invitation

I've got another reveal for all of you! This time it's for our Cock n Hen party on Maui! All of our guests have now received their invitations so it's save for me to share them with all of you. I really hated how the invitations looked with parts being erased so I decided to share these in a different way from here on out. I will first share a image of part of the invitation that doesn't show any private information or specific details. After the event has taken place, I will post another image showing more of the invitation. Sound like a good idea? Great, glad we agree. :) 

And now the moment you've all been waiting for, our Cock n Hen Party invitation reveal!

What do you think? I love it! I love the vintage cock graphic and how it goes with all of the other wedding paper. I also love how this too matches the wedding week activities insert card. One of those things that maybe only I notice, but love. I can't wait to share more about the Cock n Hen party with all of you and what we will be doing that night. But that is a post for another day.

Reveal: Rehearsal Dinner Invitations

Last week was all about wedding mail! (which reminds me, I have some other wedding related invitations to get into the mail....) Not only did the first wedding shower invitation come in the mail, but the invitation to the rehearsal dinner came in the mail, too! Woohoo!

Our MOH and I created these invitations for Drew's parents. We wanted them to go with the wedding suite and have the same look and feel as all of the other wedding paper. They look similar to all off our additional wedding related invitations, but are unique in their own way. I love the tiki on these ones! Notice how it has the palm trees on it and matches up with the wedding week activity insert. Drew and I think they came out great! I never heard what Drew's parents thought of them. But, they have to love them, right? I mean really, how could they not?!

Reveal: The Wedding Shower Invitation

I just got a letter! I just got a letter! I just got a letter! I wonder who it's from....

It's from my Maid of Honor, Nicki! And it's not just any letter, it's an invitation to my first bridal shower! Eeeeee!!!!!

I was so happy to finally get to feast my eyes on this lovely invitation. MOH designed them to match with our wedding invitations. And match they did. And wonderful they looked. Truly, she has gone above and beyond designing so much for Drew and I for our wedding. (She's working on our wedding program, as we speak.)

Sorry, about my  horrible erasing skills. 

Reveal: Portland Wedding Celebration Save the Dates

While on our Maui Wedding Planning Trip, we mailed out the save the dates for our Portland wedding celebration. We wanted them to have a Hawaii postmark to go with our wedding theme and thought it'd be cute to have them mailed out from Paia, the little town we are getting married in. Little did we know that everything sent from Hawaii gets postmarked in Honolulu. 

We got lots of comments about our save the dates being mailed from  Hawaii. 

The Year of the Dragon stamps came out the day we were leaving Maui. We made sure to go to the post office on our way to the airport to be able to pick them up. We thought they were the perfect touch for celebrating a Hawaii wedding. Plus, I was born in the Year of the Dragon. 

Reveal: Ev'rybody Loves a Hukilau

We interrupt our previously scheduled Wedding Planning Trip blog programming to bring you this post: 


Oh, we're going to a hukilau
A huki, huki, huki, huki, hukilau
Ev'rybody loves a hukilau
Where the laulau is the kau kau at the big luau

1948 Jack Owens

 
Having a destination wedding that can be more costly for guests to attend we wanted to make sure to do as much as we could for our guests. You might remember from before when I talked about our wedding week activities. The first wedding activity we have planned is our Welcome Hukilau on the 4th of July!

While on Maui, we mailed out the invitations to our Welcome Hukilau. We loved the addded touch of the Hawaii postmark. Our guests already got their invitations so we can now share them with all of you! Feast your eye on these fabulous works of art and notice how the large graphic in the top right hand corner matches up with the graphic on the wedding week activities. Yeah, it's another one of those little details that we planned.

Reveal: Wedding Week Activities

Or How We Are Going to Fit a Whole Lot of Fun into 4 and Half Days!

One of the great things about having a destination wedding is all the days leading up to the actual wedding. All of the little ideas that you liked while looking for wedding inspiration can be given a chance to come to life. If you have 50 different ideas you like and only one day to do it all, you are going to have to cut out almost ALL of those ideas. I know, just thinking about it makes me sad, too.

We have three days of activities leading up to the wedding and one half day after the wedding. There are so many great things to do on Maui from sunset cruises to snorkeling to exploring the many beautiful beaches and so much more. Really, I could go on and on. Because of this it was in no way easy for us to decide what to do with our wedding guests and what was best for us to do on our weddingmoon. We wanted to show our guests an amazing time, but we also didn’t want them to have to break the bank to do it. We wanted to treat our guests to as much as we could, but we didn’t want to break our bank either. (Which really means putting it on a charge card. We all know how that goes, right?)

When selecting our wedding week activities we tried to find a middle ground on what we would invite guests to do with us. We wanted to make sure that they would all enjoy the activities and that we could cover the cost of some of them. We are asking our guests to travel to Maui after all and they deserve lots of little extras as a result of it. We came up with the following:

Reveal: Tiki Wedding Extravaganza Invitations

The moment you've all been waiting for! Pictures done by the amazing photographer, Sara Sanger. A huge thank you to our Maid of Honor and friend, Nicki for doing the graphic design for our fabulous destination wedding invitations, as well as spending many hours helping me put them all together. And now, our wedding invitation reveal!

Since we sent our invitations in boxes, we wrapped them in kraft package paper to give them a vintage feel.  I wanted to use labels that looked like the old Special Delivery labels, but wasn't able to find anything like I wanted.  Nicki made these ones for us that we loved and were even better than what we were thinking. 

Reveal: Destination Wedding Save the Dates

Our destination wedding save the dates went out in the mail on 07.07.11. We thought it'd be fun to have them post marked exactly one year to the wedding date, even if no one notices. By now, all of our wedding guests should have received their save the dates. We actually waited on posting this until we thought everyone had them.This article on how to make boarding passes and luggage tag wedding invitations and save the dates had been moved to our new site AfterGlobe.

Reveal: Engagement Party Invitations

By now, you should have all received your invitations.  If you did not, please let one of us know.


Our fabulous engagement party invitation were done by our friend, Nicki. This was the first time she has done a design like this and was pretty excited about it when we approached her.  If you are interested in hiring her for a job, let us know and we can connect you with her.

Love these invitations! Thanks, Nicki!