PRE-REHEARSAL PIZZA

What do you get when you combine...

1. This odd shape:



2. With this more familiar one:



3. And then add in some words:

4. And some embossed letters?

The Latte Pre-Rehearsal Dinner Invitation!!!

Yup, I said PRE-Rehearsal. Our rehearsal will actually be going down on wedding day. An hour before the ceremony. Sigh. There's a wedding at our venue the night before, so we won't be able to rehearse until the day of. I won't be there because I don't want to ruin the "walking down the aisle in my wedding dress" moment for Mr. Latte (and myself). I am trying my best to look at the bright side of the situation...it'll be the perfect time for Todd to take some bridal shots!

We decided that we still wanted to get everyone involved in the wedding together to thank them (in advance) for being with us on our big day. Hence, a pre-rehearsal dinner. We wanted a fun, super casual dinner with good food. And since most of our dinner guests will be coming from out-of-town, we knew exactly what we wanted to eat, and where we wanted to eat it: Pizza at Lombardi's.

Lombardi's is America's First Pizzeria, but more importantly, it is home of our favorite pizza. It is just SO amazingly delicious that just thinking about it makes me drool. The place is small and sort of maze-esque, but we've secured the upstairs rooftop room for our dinner. We may have to overflow downstairs but we don't mind because we don't have any toasts or other scheduled events for the evening. Just family, good friends and delicious pizza.

Are you drooling yet?

So back to the invitations. I made the whole thing in Paint and Word. Yup, I went old-school and didn't even open the fancy shmancy Photoshop for this one. I wanted to have Lombardi's (or what is supposed to be Lombardi's) lit up against the black NYC (or what is supposed to be NYC) skyline, so I gocco'd the yellow "lights" first, then the black skyline over it. It was NOT fun trying to line it up perfectly, but I got it to work after a couple of attempts.

I gocco'd the "PIZZA" sign and then heat embossed it to make it look "lit up." I miniaturized my Empire State Building, gocco'd it to the front of the envelopes, addressed them and sent them off!

Anyone else going super-casual with their rehearsal (or pre-rehearsal) dinner and invitations?