This makes me feel sorta shy, but lots of you have written me to ask about our wedding, so here’s the first of my wedding posts (don’t worry, I won’t saturate the market, as it were…I’ll just post about a wedding topic every once in awhile).

This is our invite, which I designed myself. I went to Papyrus to look over the invitation options, and quickly discovered that even the simplest designs (including an invitation, RSVP card, thank you card, etc) were totally out of our price range for the number of people we were inviting (about 150). Plus, I had a very specific idea about what I wanted in mind, and when it comes to weddings it seems that specificity = expense.

So Kendrick and I spent a night running around Brooklyn looking for old-fashioned photo booths (the booths in the first two places we tried were broken), and finally located one that functioned at Bushwick Country Club. I had my design-savvy friend Liz (who, along with Vanessa, was one of our maids of honor) photoshop the shots in a sepia tone, and then I worked with the Soho Papyrus store to pick out pale-pink recycled paper, a chocolate-brown typeface, and a dark-pink floral design. The whole thing ended up costing about $300 - a fraction of what it would have cost had we not designed them ourselves - and I was thrilled with the result. It was just…us.

So there’s no RSVP card? So what.