bridespeople invites.

I love the idea of formally inviting the closest people in your life to be a part of your special day. After all, they will be going above and beyond [hopefully] to make your day great so why should they not get the royal treatment themselves? My ladies and gent loved these plus they made clear lines of communication on their specific roles like Maid of Honor, Bridesmaid, etc.

The invites did take a bit of time but well worth it! My Bridesmaids/man literally giggled like grade school girls when they opened them and it made my heart melt.

Materials Needed:

• Scizzors
• Pencil
• Paper for the skin tone (Enough for the bodies and to make separate heads)
• Paper for hair (I picked these to match myself and the invitees)
• Paper for the dresses (white Bride and Bridesmaids) Tip: I encourage you to make these slightly textured to add dimension to your invites
• Paper for a stencil
• Envelopes
• Tape measure
• scrap booking double sided tape
• a computer or great penmanship to write out the formal invitation

Step 1-
Pick out your envelopes. This will dictate the size of your invitation and little people. I went with a standard 4 3/4x6 in case I mailed the invites instead of personal delivery (standard shipping costs would apply at this size). Then I went through, several times, our local craft store for the right skin tone color paper, dresses, and hair colors.

Step 2-
Using your envelope size as guidance sketch and cut out your stencil. Make sure you leave enough room for the cutout to fit into the envelope once you add hair. I'm a sucker for big, voluminousness  hair so I had to calculate accordingly.

Step 3-
Trace and cut out your "bodies" at first I was having the face contacted on the same paper, but the extra line of the jaw really added a lot, so what I would have done from the start but I had to go back and do is just make a long neck to attach the head instead of taking the time to cut out a circular head on these. This step took the longest. Be prepared.

Step 4-
Using your bodies stencil make your dress stencil and cut these out. Once completed you can attached these to the bodies, I used scrap booking double sided tape.

Step 5-
Make a face stencil, cut these out and attach them.

Step 6-
Using the face stencil make hair stencils, cut them out and attach. You could do just one style for each Bridesmaid, but making them look like the ladies was a lot of fun!

Step 7-
Due to an unfortunate pencil eraser incident on one of the bridesmaid dresses I added a heart to the corner to cover it up. Of course I ended up likely it and added it to all of the cut outs. I also cutout a hair piece for myself, it's the details that make things great!

Step 8-
I made up the actually invite that read: "It's hard to believe in just a little while, [groom's name] and I will be walking down the aisle. Nothing will give me more joy and pride than to have you there by my side." Printed them from my own printer and began assembling the nearly, almost completed project!

Step 9-
To hold the invite together I used a simple silk ribbon I had left over from another project. Then placed the invites in the envelope and creatively wrote their names on the outside.

Step 10- The Delivery!
For some of the ladies, I left the invites places around their house I knew they would find quickly (Like their bathroom door, another on their bedroom pillow) those I had difficulty hiding, I hand delivered.


Inspiration---
http://www.projectwedding.com/wedding-ideas/diy-wedding-challenge-2010-ajfisher-s-will-you-be-my-bridesmaid-cards

http://www.oncewed.com/16446/wedding-blog/diy-wedding/diy-bridesmaids-cards/