The Wedding Invitation 2.0

When my husband and I planned our wedding, there came a month where I kind of lost my mind. Granted, there are easier things than planning a giant southern wedding from 2000 miles away, but when we started arguing about font - FONT, people - I realized I had maybe inched a few steps closer to plunging over Bridal Falls. Everyday there were phone calls, emails, the "but if we do it in 12 point with the serifs our names might have a slight edge over the ornamention of the background" blather. After a month of this crap, my husband to be took me firmly by my bridal-buff shoulders and told me that he was no longer answering anymore questions pertaining to F&$%ing font, and that if I tried to ask him again, he was removing himself from the planning process altogether. Chastened (not that I needed his input anyway, hmmph, I assembled a fab invitation, we got married and he only slightly twitches when the word "font" arises in conversation. Strangely, post -wedding, it has. But I get ahead of myself...)

So imagine my shock and admiration when I stumbled upon these 2 hardy souls in love. They made an animated film that they then burned and distributed as their invitation. It's about the itty bitty annoyances that go into the minutae of planning a wedding, an enterprise that apparently took 9 MONTHS to create. I believe they still made it down the aisle relatively unscathed.

Apparently the DVD as invitation is a hot new trend, soon to be followed by an email with a link to YouTube of a short film of an engraver making your invitation as your invitation to follow closely behind. Whether the trend explodes or fizzles (it took 9 months!!), this one is seriously cute.