William Chong

(This post is replicated on our wedding site, which is off to the side for now.)

Cheryl:
My mind has always gone for the small, intimate wedding: more meaningful, and less expensive (in general). So we construct our guest list, and without at all intending to we are edging on 150 people. Great, stop right there, that’s fine. Happy, happy, all is well. We present the guest list to our parents for the final approval, having estimated a few people here and there that we think they’d like to invite as well. Everything seems to chug along smoothly, so we start making more detailed plans according to our very long list of to-do’s.

When the parents get back to us, we very quickly learn of one item of asian culture neither of us expected to encounter, despite that we have both been asian all our lives: The parents are supposed to invite EVERYONE they know.

(Deep breath. Note to self: negotiate guest list numbers to the glory of God.)

And negotiate we do, as humbly as we can. After a lot of discussion and back-and-forth-ing, we agree, just as happily as we have the first time, on another, final, number. Praise the LORD, we’re all still alive!

William:
And that’s a big interlude to the topic of this post… which is about invitations!

Most of you know that we like doing creative things. And we like saving money. So our approach to invitation designs were no different. We’ve elected to design and make our own invitations (all 200+ of them!) by using the following:

- nice card, bought at bulk for a cheap price – we can then print our invitation text on them
- a stamp purchased on my recent impromptu Malaysia visit for the red seal with our surnames written in Chinese
- green organza-like ribbon tied betwixt some well-placed hole-punched corners

Here’s a preview of some of the designs we’ve tested out:

Experimenting with different invites.