oooo letter press oooo

Well as for an obsession for any bride the invitations are the beautiful thing that is supposed to excite all invitees and say - i cannot WAIT to go to this wedding! Its as if you order tickets to a baseball game (ahem NYY vs BOS), you wait in anticipation and when they finally arrive its Christmas morning (or July 13th) and you open them up, inspect them and are just thrilled to hold them in your hand - knowing full well that when you get to this game (or wedding) the excitement will explode onto an awesome event.

Enter letter press - the choice (re: expensive) of all exclusive brides. I am not however as fortunate to afford such a luxury item as I am saving (anywhere) to afford not only throwing an awesome wedding/ceremony/reception - but a weekend full of activity PLUS the extra for our honeymoon.

So when I saw this post on Perfect Bound - i nearly had a heart attack!

So i jump over to Dingbat's Letterpress.....and read the rules and want to cry. My thoughts for a wedding invite to go with our uuber casual wedding in the woods - how awesome would it be to get FREE design AND invitations. My OCD may be in overdrive because it's not my design but as I flip through pages and pages on their blog and website....my heart SOARS!
(image Dingbat on etsy)
I certainly don't need 100 invites - my mere wedding of 90 can be kept to wraps w/ 50 invites, etc. but heck they're BEAUTIFUL! I particularly love all of the floral references....and although delicate the simplicity of the colors, just amazing.

So....we wait and see!

contest

I just submitted this to the "I Do with Mirassou" Contest where i wound up recieving

Mirassou invites you to save on the purchase of your wedding wine through our partner TheBarrelRoom.com. Simply enter code Ido2008 and receive 20% off your purchase of 2 or more cases plus free shipping!

for applying to the contest.
But that's not why i solely write. In the event that we do NOT get chosen i wanted to share with you my vision for the wedding.....

"We do not want a 'destination' wedding but rather a slightly-just-up-the-road-away-from-home 'wedding'. We want this enchanting weekend to be full of fun, laughter and good times had by all. We intend on having our closest of family and friends attend this weekend. A chance to rekindle relationship, retell old stories and make new ones. We envision the daytime filled with activities, possibly tubing down a river, a stress-free enjoyable afternoon. A low-key, classy, free-wheeling outdoorsy woman, I envision our setting to take place alongside a body of water (ironically as we’re from the Jersey Shore we are not thinking ocean as to avoid sand blown in crevices to be found days later). We would love the foreground to include trees adorned with ribbons and hanging jars with candles and if the setting calls for, off in the background the mist of mountains hidden behind the far shoreline tree canopy. We want a magical outdoors reception that will allow us to dance through the night with the stars as our guiding lights. As we are whole-heartedly not champagne drinkers we already are dead-set on a wine toast – possibly our favorite Pinot Noir. An idea we dreamt up at one of our main celebrations/milestones attending wine festivals and tastings. Summing it all up, we hope to enjoy lots of sun and laughter in the daytime filled with smiles and stars in the evening."

OH and I absolutely LOVE this new blog The Grooms Truth: They're All Crazy