Paper Perfect

Paper Picture Perfect

Two things right off the bat: 1. forgive me for jumping ahead to after the wedding on you but this is too good to pass up and 2. I fully admit that the main reason for starting this blog was so that I could continue my subscription to several wedding related magazines without my husband making faces at me.  It's market research my dear...get over it.

My two real loves (right now)...my wedding invitation and my wedding pictures.  You see I am embarking on a journey known as "narrowing down your wedding photographs to hang in your house" which is very long and hard.  So while doing "market research" for this lovely blog, I often stumble across creative ways to display your wedding photographs...tastefully of course...if I weren't going for tasteful I would wallpaper my entire house top to bottom.  I digress (as usual) - my point here is that I dug out my old wedding magazines and my new wedding magazines and sprawled out on the floor only to find an earmarked page in the Winter 2010 Martha Stewart Weddings issue.  I am brilliant! It was a ridiculously good idea and I had the forethought to ear mark it?! I can only imagine what else I've so brilliantly ear marked along the way...I'm sure they'll turn into fabulous posts as soon as I find them...

Back to the post...If you're like me, when the wedding is over you've probably got boxes and boxes of wedding related materials left over...you probably also ordered a few extra invitations "just in case"...here's an idea to use an extra invitation and highlight one of your favorite wedding photos:

Photo Credit: www.marthastewartweddings.com

From Martha's magazine - Winter 2010 Issue

"Here's another way to recycle your invites - and to give a framed photo extra edge.  Using a craft knife, cut out the decorative motif from your wedding stationary set and have it act as a picture mat.  (if your invites feature arwork on all four edges, you could also cut out a rectangular mat.) It's a subtle tasteful way to remember your bid day.

These invitations featured in the picture are by Carrot and Stick

This idea could be great for your wedding day pictures, trash the dress pictures or even your engagement pictures.  Phew I am so glad that Martha had this wonderful idea and that I was smart enough to ear mark it! I'll give it a try and post my results!!!