To Have and To Hold

Our Hallowedding: Help Me Choose...

...our invitations!

One of the reasons I'm so excited about our "Hallowedding" party is that there really aren't any limitations to what we can do!  Halloween is officially in 52 days.  That's not a whole lot of time considering I have our actual wedding related projects in the works.  My first priority is figuring out what we're going to do for our Halloween invitations; I only have a few weeks left until they'll need to be sent out.

Here's where you come in!

I have a handful of ideas for our invitations, but I just can't decide.  If you were a prospective guest, which invitation would impress you the most?

Message in a bottle invites from Martha

These bottles are actually pretty inexpensive.  They'd be packed and shipped in small mailing tubes.

Also from Martha

These might be a little bit gruesome... buuut I thought it'd be kinda cute to put a quarter machine ring on the finger.

 

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Obviously these don't scream "Halloween" now, but I'm imagining them with a Gothic-style invitation card lying on top of candy corn.  Or black licorice... truuue, black licorice is gross, but it'd be cute!  Our guests don't have to like the candy, right?

 

 

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This is probably the most childish of all the choices, and while the example is cute, I'm really just using it as inspiration.  I like the bat-winged pocketfold idea, but I think I'd get rid of the head and chicken feet.  This one would be sent in a regular old envelope.

Taking into consideration that our Hallowedding will be an adult affair, do you like any of these invitations?  If you have any ideas that might be better, I'd love to hear them!

Our Hallowedding: Getting the "pumpkin" rolling

With a classic Twilight Zone marathon serving as motivation, I turned to the internet to find inspiration for our Hallowedding (doesn't "Hallowedding" sound fun!?)

I've never actually thrown a Halloween party before.  In my head I imagine classy, Marthaesque decorations with tasty food and tastier drinks.  I spent hours searching for inspiration and came out with a small bounty of photos that will lay the foundation for a memorable party to celebrate our nuptials.

{Photo sources: Love-o-lanterns, tissue pom, bottle invites, tulle poms, pumpkin cooler, witches candy, pumpkin punch bowl, Halloween garland, brain cupcakes, luminaries}

Now, I do want this to be more of a Halloween party than a reception, and B agrees.  As I stated before, we don't want our civil ceremony to make our wedding in May any less special.  So, I'm not going to use our relationship as a focus of the decor.  No dates, no monograms, or any of the like.  I do think "J <3 B" jack-o-lanterns would be super adorable, though!

I'm really looking forward to getting started on our Hallowedding party crafts.  I even have the perfect costumes in mind for B and me... I'm keeping those secret, though!

Have any of you thrown a totally fab Halloween party?  Do you have any suggestions or ideas that would make ours memorable?