Just a quick post about our wedding invites!
Actually I got something else I really wanna blog about but I’m embargoed… until Monday :X
So Monday wait for it ok!
So Fats and I wanted a silly looking wedding invitation.
Traditionally Malaysian Chinese wedding invitations look something like this:
A lot of red and gold, that Chinese character that looks like a mirror image of itself, maybe some peonies and dragons.
But more creative and Westernized couples in recent times have come up with more Western-style elegant looking invitations that look like this.
(not to say Chinese cards not elegant la)
But since our theme is so atypical, our cards have to match too right! (themed weddings are apparently not that common here yet; most people pick colors and create the whole wedding around the colors)
So we contacted Chee Ching (blogged about her before!) to do our invites.
These were the first few versions of it (pictures stolen from her blog)
I couldn’t decide on the eyes so we did a few tests hahaha.
Other options for the back of the card.
Then we sent it for printing.
When we got it back, this was how it looked (eh sorry ah heavily filtered)
Cute but it nagged at me that it looked too much like a kid’s birthday card rather than a wedding invitation, even though I didn’t WANT it to look like a typical wedding invitation.
Women. *shakes head wtf
So back to the drawing board.
Actually back to the Pinterest board lolol.
Because there were no good inspirations for UP or Disney invites, I searched for ‘adventure’ themed wedding invites instead.
Found this!
An invite that looks like a map! I thought it was awesome until I realized it could potentially be quite messy-looking. And people cannot fit it back into the envelope or something wtf you know in movies people always end up being unable to fold back the map and it becomes a big papery mess.
Then I remembered this scene from UP! 😀
When Mr Frederickson realizes that years have passed and he and his wife haven’t made it to Paradise Falls yet. He goes and buys plane tickets there to surprise her but then she dies wtf.
So that’s where the inspiration for our wedding invites v2.o came from 😀
I did a search and found quite a lot of people have done this idea too 😀
To us, plane tickets represent an adventure ahead of us, and that’s what marriage is too. A lifetime adventure!
Some troll said that it’s a bad omen referencing UP because the old lady dies and they never have kids. HAHAHA wtf. He’s missing the point completely because the old lady died after a long happy married life together DESPITE the fact that they couldn’t have kids.
Not being able to bear children could very well be a problem for me but that’s not what I’m taking out of the story. What I get is that every couple will face problems big or small in their marriage and being able to overcome them and grow old together is what counts.
And ya cos our wedding is in Penang a lot of people have to board planes to get there also hahahaha so it’s apt.
To add to the slightly cartoony, vintage-y vibe, instead of regular envelopes, we’re putting the invites in airmail envelopes 😀
We also got a stamp made DAMN CUTE HOR. To make it look like what the postal service stamps letters with before it arrives at your doorstep 😀
Can use for the rest of our lives HAHAHA. Every document I come across Imma stamp it wtf.
Fatty having the time of his life stamping.
His childhood ambition was to be a postman -___- So he’s living the dream wtf.
Comments (34)
love the plane ticket idea! so clever! gonna steal your stamp idea, soweeeee
i love the boarding pass to your wedding dinner 🙂 but your guests have to get another boarding pass for themselves to penang too. haha..
love the finished result!
love the idea ! it’s unique and lovely.
Will I be invited too ? *wink* :p
super!
And I totally agree about your understanding of UP! They both did the best for each other and had a real marriage, really cloth bonding 🙂
picture of tim making his life stamping made me laugh. It’s so cute the stamp was made for the envelope. Yeah, gonna stamp all the documents, like the japanese, having the family?!/personal stamp as signature stamp(not sure, but i am kinda sure you know what i mean. Do u?) for the formal document. cool…
Love the stamp!!! Tim looks like he is doing some serious stamping!!! XD
love love love it! 🙂 especially the “adventure is out there” thing!
lots of people do the passport- invitation thing (for destination weddings), but I think your boarding pass thing is uber cool too!
omg to cute
so cute!! haha very nice!
Aiyerrrr.. my fiance and I had the exact same idea for our wedding invitation cards la. (but definitely can’t match with you guys one! So cute!)
Now if we do something more or less the same, karang people say we’re copycats. Boohoo to us =((
dying at your ridiculously cute process for this <3
freaking adorable – and the stamp/picture at the end! omg. :]
Hahaha 😀 This is so sweet.!
the cards are beyond cute!
cool~~~how i wish to attend your wedding!!! >.<
so cool leh!
AWWW!! major gush. now i also wanna get married. gonna make up some fictional wedding like sue sylvester (glee) and marry myself! lolol. i also wanted to be a postman as a kid 😀 obsessed with letters and envelopes and stamps. YAY. how lovely your theme is. definitely one of the better wedding themes. ((:
ps: i actually really like the third option for the back of the card. one with cartoon tim’s glasses coming off. lols.
i’ve always maintained that i’ll never get married (LOL) so i guess this is something i’ll never be able to enjoy, but i felt really happy just reading this entry.
and seriously just don’t. give. a. shit. ’bout the trolls anymore! they are so evil omg. i mean there are people i don’t like too but i’ll never say things like how they’ll never have kids etc. damn evil and there’s something called karma so good luck to them all.
i mean congratulations again! 😛
Hey Aud,
I’m stealing this line
“What I get is that every couple will face problems big or small in their marriage and being able to overcome them and grow old together is what counts”
I don’t like to comment but I thought I better let you know AND you’re such an inspiration! You just put it in a perfect sentence what I’ve been trying to express about marriage. Thank you and wish you the best of luck on your wedding!
Hi Aud, if you noticed, you wanted to cover up the wedding date, but on the stamp I think there is the date of wedding….
wow. 2 more months to an actual wedding! you must be nervous 😀 ! girls always nervous when comes to their wedding! it’s indeed a huge day for all the girls! congrats and hope to see more of your wedding related post 😀
<3
wow! they are so beautiful and colorful. These save the date cards are perfect match to make the upcoming special day more exciting to the friends and family.
O.O I LIVE NEAR STRAITS QUAY LOL
Have fun on your actual wedding day Aud :3 Straits Quay’s a pretty pretty place ~
I loveeee both versions of your wedding invites, though the first one does seem a little more like birthday party invitation. BUT SO CUTE!
You know what would be great if you had all the cash in the world?
Rent a plane and ferry all your guests and their plane tickets are your wedding invites 🙂
Love the idea btw!
Should have asked Tim and the designer to filter your invitation details on their sites too.. but I guess it’s a little too late now.
The card is sooo beautiful,i love it!!
kimcun: hahaha go ahead!
fish: hahaha ya or they could drive!
ash: thank you!
debbz: hahahah ask our parents wtf
olga: exactly!
lynn: yea i know! that’s a fun thing to have haha
constance: ya he very serious ok hahaha
I: thank you!
kimmie: thanks 😀
jean: haha thanks
nonnie: no la! this is proof that you thought of it first!
vy: hahaha yea my favorite part is the stamp too1
meitzeu: thankew 😀
addie: thanks!
jessie: hahahaha ask my parents wtf
hadjar: thanks!
sgrmse: HAHAHA YA I LOVED THAT EPISODE
zihwye: why you don’t wanna get married! i didn’t particularly dream of getting married either la but i wasn’t against it hahaha i still thought i’d do it someday
semsem: steal steal! thank you 🙂
c: haha thanks i know! it’s ok la i don’t really mind i just thought i should do it..
fiionx: hahaha no wor today my colleague said i’m the most relaxed bride he’s ever seen wtf
nathanpatrick: thank you!
saphy: hahaha where you live!
fionachan: ya first one not so suitable la hahaha
yy: ya if i were that rich indian guy mital i would!
aishi: nah my parents don’t really mind i think. i thought tim’s parents would but he said it was ok. i just filtered cos i thought i should haha
invitations house: thank you!
I always like the idea of having a boarding pass as wedding invites as i love traveling. Love how you made it more fun and quirky 🙂
Didn’t you also do personalised stamps? Dem coolness… 🙂
Hi Audrey,
Side track abit. Any nice cheap good salon for coloring hair because I will be heading to kl for two days on fri and sat..
haha i love that kimberlycun gave you the heads up on the stealing. ;D
love d extra touch of d stamp on the envelope! ^^ <3
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