Wedding Moments I Missed | Making the DIY Invitations

Yes I was crazy enough to DIY my wedding invitations. This was before the days of beautiful invitation templates. This was just glitter and craziness. And it was another key wedding moment I missed on video.

Our whole family was behind our master plan. Blow the budget on booze and band. And guestlist. Large family meant large guestlist. Everything else was DIY. And they were all enlisted to help.

First up were the DIY wedding invitations. We had the pale cream cardstock professionally printed at a local printer and the purple (can’t recall the trendy name for that shade of purple) paper cut at the printer as well.

Then I went to the paper boutique, learned how to emboss and bought all the supplies.

Our very much DIY invitations

That’s when the fun started. And the booze. How else do you think I could get my air force veteran father-in-law to emboss some wedding invitations? With the booze freely flowing, along with glitter and glue guns, we made about 200 wedding invitations. It was a wild bunch of bridesmaids and my future-in-laws getting all crazy with glue. Stories were told. Invitations were made. I would say memories were made, but I didn’t get it on video. Years later, I can’t even recall exactly who was there, let alone the stories that were shared.

These are the once in a lifetime moments that are great to get on video. When you get your family together to help with those DIY projects, make sure someone also has a camera or smartphone out to capture those once-in-a-lifetime wedding memories.

If your mom is helping, ask her to share a story about DIY projects from her own wedding – and film it. When the glue spills and your finger is permanently stuck to your forehead have someone else film it. There are tons of silly, embarrassing moments that happen when you DIY projects for your wedding. You and your friends can catch them all on photos and video with the wedding video app. We can include those clips in your edited wedding video later.

Try to get closeups of the invitations themselves when they are well lit. When interviewing your family for the video, make sure you can hear them over the cackling bridesmaids. If needed, take them into a separate room. And always remember to hold the camera sideways!

What is your favorite DIY wedding project? Want some tips to film it? Leave a comment about your project and I’ll film a tutorial to teach you how to film it.