Getting married next October means that I’m starting (very slowly) to plan our big celebration! One of the very first items on my checklist was to figure out a way to gather my 8 best friends (yes 8!) from their various homes across the country to come down to Raleigh to party, play, and pamper with me. I wanted to make a very special invitation for them since they are such important people in my life and almost automatically I remembered the most precious DIY invitations from one of my favorite wedding blogs, Once Wed. Using that as my guideline I put my own little twists on it and my sister and I had so much fun making them!

See more photos after the jump!

Didn’t even know, but my printer can print on envelopes! What a happy surprise!

I found these stamps a few months back on clearance and had to buy them because they were so cute! My fiance’s last name is Gull and my last name is Byrd so it was too irresistible not to use these stamps on something! (I put them above the return address on the back flap of the envelope!)

*To make a cheap envelope look fancy cut your favorite piece of paper the size of the inside, slide the paper in and glue stick it to the top flap! Viola!!

I wrote the names of all the girls on their sash across the doll as well as customized their hairstyle and color. The colors used in the whole package are going to be the color scheme of my wedding.

What a fun little project and such a great DIY find on Once Wed!!!

ps – the girls LOVED them!!