How to Make Your Own Beautiful Chocolate Brown Wedding Invitations

When it comes time to tell the world about your big day, you want to make sure it is special. A great way to do this is to create your own homemade wedding invitations; your invitations opening up from the generic white, silver, or gold cards to something that is a little more fitting to your personality. Chocolate brown wedding invitations are perfect because they are a neutral color that gives you a lot of room to work with. This way you can create a unique look in a sophisticated color. They're easy to make, too!

Materials:

Chocolate brown cardstock, or precut 4x6 chocolate brown cards
Textured cream colored paper (I used it with pressed grass/flowers in it)
Cream colored paper with a low-key pattern
Translucent solid paper, for printing
Cream colored flower accents (found in the scrap booking section of the craft store)
Scissors
Adhesive or glue
Computer with printer

Instructions:

1. If you don't have precut cards for your chocolate brown wedding invitations, then cut the brown cardstock into 4x6 cards (or whatever size for the envelopes you purchase).

2. Cut 3 different sized flower shapes out of the patterned paper. This can either be done by drawing a flower shape on the back freehand and cutting them out (which is what I did), or you can find a stencil, pattern, or a stamp that cuts in the shape of flowers. The idea is to get enough cream colored paper situated on the top right portion of the card so you can read the text of the printed translucent paper. After cut, use the adhesive to stick them to the top right portion of the card (where the text will be situated). Use your best judgment on placement.

3. Using the textured paper, cut out the shape of wedding bells-making them a bit larger than the flowers. Adhere the bells to the bottom left corner of the card, opposite the flowers.

4. Using Microsoft Word or a Similar Program, type out the text of the invitation. This should include the name of both bride and groom, and the details of the ceremony. Use a cursive font (I believe I used Monotype Corsiva), typing the names in a slightly larger font than the rest of the text, all centered (using columns will help in the printing process). Print this on the translucent paper (I would suggest doing a test sheet on regular paper in case something is incorrect or you need to adjust the size), and cut out so that the text box is roughly 2x4 inches. Adhere to the card over the flower cutouts.

5. After everything else is in place, add the flower accents-either as displayed in the example here, or however you think they look best. Remember, these are your chocolate brown wedding invitations-make them fit you!

Making wedding invitations can be very easy, especially if you do each of these steps in bulk. Estimated time to put it all together could be the course of a few hours-it really depends on how many people you want present on your special day!

The only other advice I can give is to have fun with it. The process of planning a wedding can be very stressful, and you want to take care to enjoy each step along the way-even if you're just making wedding invitations! Congratulations and enjoy your big day!

Note: The author is not getting married, and this invitation was merely created as an example. Sorry to get your hopes up, kids-check back in a few years!