invitations- finally!

these ones are like the traditional chinese calendars!!!

i love the bow- gorgeous

this is similar to our invite... but we're not doing the pretty envelope thing as people just throw it out! and ours are bilingual- chinese on the back

after ages of procrastinating and trying to get things right, we have finally gone to the printers and submitted our design! i get to see a sample on monday the 29th! yay! i can't wait! they're simple, and elegant, and totally personalised as we have our own monogram. we also got rsvp card things too which we didn't expect to do, but it makes sense. we decided to go with a company called good day and its lucky that i can speak cantonese otherwise we wouldn't be able to communicate! anyhow, they were fantastic and we got 20% off the invite price (minus embossing fee, chinese on the back, and rsvp cards). the invites come with lai see packets, envelopes and stickers to seal the envelopes. the total price came to just over $1500 for 130 invites. i guess that's pretty good- actually, they got some real super elaborate invites but totally not our style!