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Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #674660]

Fri, 08 December 2006 03:28

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So I have been thinking I would design some great botanical invitation theme, but then my friend's invitation was so witty and creative that I realized I wanted to have more fun with it.

Does anyone have any fun and creative ideas that they used with their invitation either to tell a story of how the couple met etc? I'm thinking maybe pictures of us when we were kids and our different families, square vs. hippie and then maybe a little stick figure trail for each of us to our final meeting place???

Please tell me if that sounds good, any extra ideas or if it's just plain hokey.

-having trouble being creatively witty

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #676109]

Fri, 15 December 2006 08:52

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My tattoo guy has offered to make us invites like the ones he made when he got married: a trifold invitation with stick figure drawings of groom and bride with the text "(pg1) See groom. (pg2)See bride. (pg3)See groom and bride get married," Like the Dick and Jane business. I think it would look better with children's-book-style illustrations, but I thought it was a cute idea.

formerly miss_mouse, not Miss Mouse.

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #678829]

Thu, 04 January 2007 03:01

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That's a great idea, I have actually thought about stick figures just need the artist friend to materialize my ideas. I think something may materialize as the wedding gets closer and I begin to enlist the help of my friends.

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #686104]

Mon, 29 January 2007 04:29

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Reviving this thread because I spent a long time googling humorous wedding invitations and only found teddy bears dressed up as bride and groom (hilarious).

Anyone seen, done, heard of something funny or clever?

Thanks!

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #686159]

Mon, 29 January 2007 10:52

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I saw a wedding invitation in a design annual that was entitled "How to Tie a Knot". It was printed on brown, unbleached paper with a very sparse font (it almost looked like it had been typed on an old-school typewriter), and took the form of an instruction booklet for sailors or boy scouts. And, of course, the booklet was bound with knotted twine.

Also, I kicked around the idea of making a STD or invite that looked like a maze from the back of a cereal box or something, with my face at one end and my fiance's at the other.

Then, of course, there are always hilarious the invites that have the pears on them and say "A Perfect Pair!" Get it? Because pear = pair? Those are almost as fabulous as the dressed-up teddy bears. Rolling Eyes

Rolling Eyes

Good luck to you, SassySpice.

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #686241]

Mon, 29 January 2007 15:01

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If you go to http://today.maganda.org/yesterday/000900.html
and scroll down you can see her invites. She and her husband are both illustrators and they drew their own pictures in the style of a children's book. It might give you some ideas.

Baby, don't you know Hamburger Helper Enchilada Mix is an aphrodisiac? - my man last night

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #686431]

Tue, 30 January 2007 00:09

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Thanks, guys. You've given me some ideas - now I just need to learn how to draw.

I'd love to hear more if anyone has seen it, though I really don't think anything could be funnier than a pair of pears. Laughing

Laughing

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #686693]

Tue, 30 January 2007 15:51

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Some friends of my parents got married in their 50's. It was the second marriage/wedding for both of them. Their invite wording went something like this:

John "Over my Dead Body" Smith
and
Jane "Absolutely Never Again" Jones
announce the eating of their words.

I'm not sure how appropriate it is for everyone but it still make me giggle.

Though the names Jesus and JAAAAYSUS are phonetically similar, the latter refers to a completely different set of ideology that few would classify as Christianityor even sanity.
-Mark

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #686818]

Tue, 30 January 2007 20:04

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Quote:

John "Over my Dead Body" Smith
and
Jane "Absolutely Never Again" Jones
announce the eating of their words.

Hectoria, I love that! I freaked out and postponed my wedding but I don't think i should incorporate that... guess I'm stuck with a pear of teddy bears. Smile

Smile

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #686850]

Tue, 30 January 2007 22:12

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I saw this site and thought of your post
http://www.teardropweddings.com/
I never would have thought of the peanuts or chili peppers.

Baby, don't you know Hamburger Helper Enchilada Mix is an aphrodisiac? - my man last night

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #693693]

Sun, 18 February 2007 02:34

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Not sure if this qualifies as witty or funny, but we did our own invitatations in the style of a movie poster. "Starring Nolaqueenie and Mr. Nolaqueenie (Big bold letters of course for names), in a love story only New Orleans could write." We went for cheesy glam, and I think it worked.

I got the best ideas for cheesy creativity in general from www.filmposters.com, in the "bad girl" genre list. If nothing else, entertain yourself with movie tag lines like "I don't need a gun to catch a man!"

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #694145]

Tue, 20 February 2007 00:17

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Twisted Evil

coolest invitations I have ever seen (and of course I can't remember the website)---it was a small clear plastic box with two tiny scuba diver toys inside (like scubasteve and a girl scubasteve) and on the outside of the box was a clear sticker with the heading "taking the plunge" and then the rest of the invite wording below--

if only my budget were $50/invite

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #694530]

Wed, 21 February 2007 00:36

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Kitkat, here you go, scuba divers Smile

Smile

http://www.cardtricksdesigns.com/wed/wed_05.html

Smile

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #697936]

Fri, 02 March 2007 23:36

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I would really love to see the movie poster invitations, if you have a photo. Did you print them yourselves?

"I think I speak for everyone here when I say, 'huh?'" -- Buffy

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Sat, 03 March 2007 05:09

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I have no idea how to upload files here, so here's my first shot. If it doesn't come over I'll keep trying.

We did the invitations ourselves, using silver metallic pearlescent paper that I bought at Office Depot. I've seen the same paper on papersource.com, where I bought the black envelopes we used. So, black envelopes, silver address labels and silver fleur-de-lis envelope seals. it looked nice I think, and still glam and a little cheesy.

We wanted movie poster invites a la 40s era movies (again, see www.filmposters.com for ideas), but it seemed like you'd have to be a real artist to do some of that cool stuff. So I went with some basic imaging tools and made these at home, printed at home. Total cost for paper, envelopes, etc, was about $50. We've gotten rave reviews from guests, so I think they turned out well.

**Okay, that didn't work. Notes here say there should be a browse button at the bottom where I can upload from hard drive; I don't see such a button. Also, there's an icon to insert a picture but it's asking for image URL, which there is none; it's on my hard drive. Any suggestions for the newbie??

[Updated on: Sat, 03 March 2007 09:07]

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #697995]

Sat, 03 March 2007 10:10

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Nolaqueenie wrote on Sat, 03 March 2007 05:09

**Okay, that didn't work. Notes here say there should be a browse button at the bottom where I can upload from hard drive; I don't see such a button. Also, there's an icon to insert a picture but it's asking for image URL, which there is none; it's on my hard drive. Any suggestions for the newbie??

I think IB only lets you pictures that are hosted somewhere on the internet. You could upload your pics to a image host, to a Flickr page, to the McFakey account on the Kodak Photo Gallery, etc. then use that image URL to insert your pic in your message.

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #698010]

Sat, 03 March 2007 11:29

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Hey, thanks Ginger!

Let's try this again for a pic of our movie poster invite.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7194117@N04/408822709/

p.s. we live in a historic house/neighborhood in New Orleans named for the French guy who founded it. Title translates to "Love in Treme," name of our neighborhood.

[Updated on: Sat, 03 March 2007 11:39]

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #698044]

Sat, 03 March 2007 14:26

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Nolaqueenie, thanks for the picture. Those are really fun and pretty!

I was curious about what you did because I'm thinking about doing either our save the dates or invites (or both) in either old movie-poster style (with dramatic wording like in those old film reels), or either a gothic novel or pulp novel. Got plenty of time to think about it. Thanks so much for sharing your picture!

"I think I speak for everyone here when I say, 'huh?'" -- Buffy

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #698048]

Sat, 03 March 2007 14:46

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We honestly considered using the silly feauture on the Black Snake Moan movie website to photo shop Me and DH's faces in place of Christina Ricci's / Samuel L Jackson.

We decided it wiould really give his mum a heart attack if we did.

(DH is a massive R.L. Burnside fan and he's really psyched about the film)

If you go to the website, skip the into and then click on the menu button, then mess around, the click on down home facelift)

[Updated on: Sat, 03 March 2007 14:47]

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Sun, 04 March 2007 15:11

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That Black Snake Moan feature made my day.

"I think I speak for everyone here when I say, 'huh?'" -- Buffy

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #698349]

Mon, 05 March 2007 04:19

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There's no saying we won't use it for the Thank you cards!

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #698770]

Tue, 06 March 2007 12:32

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We did a play on words with our save the dates, which I thought was hi-freaking-larious. FH got a little photoshop-happy, so it doesn't read as clearly as it could, but a few people still got it.

http://www.garamond10pt.com/fw/front.gif

I love everyone else's adorable ideas too!

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #698884]

Tue, 06 March 2007 16:48

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Okay, I admit it. I don't get it. Please explain EmilyFlew.

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #699007]

Tue, 06 March 2007 22:34

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Thank you bluebomb, I didn't get it either but I was too chicken to admit it.

Baby, don't you know Hamburger Helper Enchilada Mix is an aphrodisiac? - my man last night

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #699115]

Wed, 07 March 2007 10:26

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It's a visual pun on the word "date".

July 14, 2007.
There will be a wedding.
There will be rum.
There will be PIRATES!

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #701303]

Wed, 14 March 2007 05:45

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hi all,
long time lurker, first time poster

speaking of movie posters - here's our save the date cards

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s186/princess_jessica_rose/savethedatecopy.jpg

it's from 'arsenic and old lace' my boys fave old film! yep, that's our faces there (love photoshop! LOL)

it got good responses from everyone but a few raised eyebrows - save the date cards aren't common at all in australia.

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #701366]

Wed, 14 March 2007 10:29

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Sweet!
I love Arsenic and Old Lace, and y'all did a fabulous job of photoshopping on your faces!

My sister wrote us a limerick for our STDs. I'll post it in a bit-- I'm trying to get them finished today.

ETA: I especially love the "In Association With" bit at the bottom! I didn't notice that at first.

[Updated on: Wed, 14 March 2007 10:30]

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Wed, 14 March 2007 18:57

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Jochick I am completely inspired! Thank you!!

We do not see the world as it is, we see the world as we are.

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Wed, 14 March 2007 21:22

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raindancer; I love the limerick idea! cute without being cheesy!

pixifave; glad that I could maybe provide some inspiration Smile

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #702496]

Fri, 16 March 2007 18:27

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EmilyFlew, that's hilarious! I was thinking about doing a photo of a date in a ziplock bag, but I couldn't figure out how to avoid having it look like a cockroach and/or piece of poop to those who didn't get it.

You nailed it, though, with the almonds and such! Context is everything.

So close, and yet... so what?

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Tue, 20 March 2007 08:06

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Thanks! Yeah, first we tried a date on its own, and it totally looked like a piece of poop. Laughing

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The plate of food was FI's idea.

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #705264]

Sun, 25 March 2007 15:06

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invitedink wrote on Wed, 21 February 2007 01:36

Kitkat, here you go, scuba divers Smile

Smile

http://www.cardtricksdesigns.com/wed/wed_05.html

Smile

Smile

The Groucho themed invitations on that website are the new love of my life.

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Re: Please share witty/creative invitation ideas [message #705479]

Mon, 26 March 2007 12:03

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Here are my pirate invitations.

We hand delivered bottles and sent a few. The wax sealed ones are being sent in the mail.

This was the result of a fantastically fun invitation party/ wine and cheese. Even with windows open, my living room smelled like smoke for two days, but it was well worth it.

We hand burnt, rolled, tied, and corked!

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2291/3253/1600/920343/DSCN1929.jpg

http://

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/2291/3253/1600/430896/DSCN1935.jpg

[Updated on: Mon, 26 March 2007 14:49]

July 14, 2007.
There will be a wedding.
There will be rum.
There will be PIRATES!

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