Breakfast at Tiffany's { tea party invites }

I decided on 

Breakfast at Tiffany's 

as the theme of this years

Mother ~ Daughter Tea Party.

I wanted to make invites that resembled a Tiffany's shopping bag with a "gift" inside containing the invitation so I created each of the 3 main parts as well as the envelope. I used jewels to embellish the actual invitation, satin ribbon for the "box", added handles to the "shopping bag" and stamped a chandelier on the back of the envelope to tie it all together. Once I had my invites designed I needed a square envelope so I used some leftover silver foil lined Costco envelopes that I had saved from my Christmas photo cards and cut them down to fit the square invites. It worked perfectly. I knew they would require extra postage so I asked Ron to take a few to the post office to find out just how much. Unfortunately, not only were they going to cost an arm and a leg to mail, the post master did not like the fancy font I used for my address labels on the envelopes AND there was only 1 Post Office that had a machine that could handle a square envelope and of course that Post Office was across town...UGH.

Since time was running short I decided to make a Save the Date evite to email to everyone and then hand delivered the traditional invitations.

I will be posting photos of our very fun Breakfast at Tiffany's Tea Party over the next several days which will include decorations, games, food and 

The Crown. 

Happy Friday!