Well, guess what - now I can!
This summer is going to be my 10 year high school reunion. How time flies. I'm definitely more anxious than excited at this point, but the planning committee has done a freaking awesome job organizing it. There is going to be a band, a photo booth, drinks, food, games, and beer! (Thank God.) Maybe I'll actually write about it in my blog after and tell you how it goes, or maybe I'll have it on the "to do" list and it will be our 20 year reunion before I get around to posting it. You know how good I am at posting regularly! ha
Anyway. The planning committee approached me about designing the invitations for the reunion. OF COURSE I said yes! I was honored and excited to take on this project and I think they came out pretty great, but am still not totally believing that this is a real thing. Right? Didn't we just graduate?
As for the design, I thought maybe I could incorporate the school mascot but remembered our school was stripped of it’s mascot when we were seniors (we used to be the Oneida Indians) and I don’t think it was ever replaced with anything. So, we are now the Oneida Nothings. So, to keep it “school spirity” I just used our colors – orange and blue – and went for a simple, yet fun design. I even got to throw in a witty one-liner, so was real happy about that.
We had originally decided on a 5x7” invitation with a separate 4x6” RSVP card, but then decided to do something a little more efficient. We ended up with one piece that could be folded up and mailed out, no envelopes necessary. (Thank you to Michele for doing the folding, addressing, taping, and mailing!) The invitation was the top half and the RSVP was a postcard on the bottom half, separated by a perforated line. All that guests will have to do is tear off the RSVP, stick a stamp on it and mail it back. Which reminds me… I should probably mail ours in. Oops.
These were kind of difficult to photograph, since they are such a unique layout, but they give you an idea at least. Nadine's address was also blurred out for her privacy. I know all of you readers wanted to mail her flowers for doing all this hard work, but you will have to find another way.
-- Alison --
