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Stationery
Well we’d done things a little unusually by not inviting any of our friends (and hardly any of our families) to our
wedding
,so we wanted to carry on doing things a little differently for the big summer celebration party as well.
The first hint our guests would have of what we were planning would be the invitation. I was mindful that there was likely to be quite a lot of information to include (details of what was going to happen at our “wedding without the wedding”, information about our alternative wedding list, and sign up details for the children’s creche), and so looked at pocket-fold type invitations to house the multitude pieces of paper. In addition, I wanted to bring in the Summer fete picnic theme we had decided on and so set about trawling wedding shows and the web for inspiration.
Although I found some fantastic designs featuring carousels, fairground entry tickets or billboard fonts, nothing quite clicked and I was slightly put off by the £5 plus per invitation price tags I was seeing. Then browsing through one of the many wedding magazines that had started piling up to precarious levels at the side of the bed, I came across
The Original Wedding Tea Towel Company
and I immediately fell in love with the concept.
The idea of a tea towel linked in beautifully with the afternoon tea picnic we were planning and with the bespoke design option we could aim for something which hinted at the other elements we were planning for our day. An added bonus was, that even with the bespoke design fee, the towels came in at a lot less than paper invitations, as well as being a lovely keepsake for all the guests.
