Official Free Wedding Template - Really

In my quest to figure out how to create printable PDFs, I have aged, cursed, and may have teared up a bit in frustration.  For me, nothing - nothing - is every as easy as they say it will be in a tutorial when computers are in the mix. Never. Ever.

Gone Too Long

Okay, it has been a long, long, LONG break-- but I am back.
The wedding is done and was amazing!  It was a fun destination wedding that truly went by way to fast!  There wasn't even a do nothing day for me and the hubby. (Well, I think he got slightly more chill time, but not that much more.)

We got over 40 people to get on a plane to paradise (St. Croix, USVI) and partied like rock stars! All my DIY's are over and there were many that I just couldn't do.  I realize I am a lot more anal that I thought and wished I had been slightly more bridezilla at points... oh well.  Our guests all thought everything went off without a hitch (-little did they know- and thanks to my wedding planner --I missed some near disasters too!)

The wedding weekend and the weeks leading up to it actually had quite a few accidents... I can laugh about them now, but before I was a bit of a neurotic mess. I will recount the many small catastrophes in my next post.  Since a picture is worth a thousand words... I'll share and stop talking about the beauty that is St. Croix! (Not in any particular order....)

 Hotel where we stayed, great staff -- very poor management. Hindsight is 20/20.

The guests still had a good time.

 My (new) family walking around Christiansted.

 My hair and make-up all done (wedding day)!

 Me and my best friend, also one of my Ladies in Waiting.

 My other Lady in Waiting & Saving Grace!

 Coming back from the Buck Island snorkeling tour.  God, look at that water.

 One of my beautiful sorors, pregnant and looking FLAWLESS when the rest of us looked...not so flawless!

Looking down from our TanTan (crazy adventure ohmygodamIreallydoingthis) Jeep Tour, looking at another resort, The Carambola. The jeep tour was tons of fun, not to be missed if you are fortunate to get to St. Croix, and I am so glad I did it.  It was really an adventure that day...

This pic does not capture the beauty of this beach.  All covered in rocks and some coral, when the waves recede, it sounds like applause! Mother Nature is grand.

Me and my sweetie -rehearsal dinner/party.

Me and my Daddy!

We did it!

Be vewy quiet...it's an iguana.

These pics barely begin to cover the jam packed days of the wedding celebration...it was AMAZE-BALLS!

Free DIY Wedding Invites

As a budding graphic designer who did her own invitations... (crazy, YES! -- worth it? YES, YES, YES!) Anywhoo, one of the things I wanted to do was try and share my invite with others.  The basics have been left out for you to fill in as necessary.

As I am not sure how it will look right now, I will post just the invite. If I get requests for more, I will post the coordinating bottle tags, bottle labels, mailing labels and RSVPs too.  This was for a message in a bottle wedding invitation, so if anyone is having a destination or beach wedding, this might be for you!

There are some crafty tutorials on the web but I am more that willing to post my winning tutorial here!  So here is the basic invite:

The font was Baroque Script. I've not worked out how to make this an editable download so if you like it or want something similar, email me and let me know! 

What do yo think?