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Costume Party Prep: Invitations

While we still have a lot of house prepping to do before we throw our costume party, we knew we had to get our invitations circulating.  We went…

While we still have a lot of house prepping to do before we throw our costume party, we knew we had to get our invitations circulating.  We went back to the format of our first party’s invitations and decided to dress up for a quick photo for a few reasons.  First, although we’ve always had almost everybody in costume at our parties, we’re in a new town and we want to make sure our new neighbors and friends know that we mean costume business. ;)  We also decided it would be a good idea to include Greta in the photo since there are always a lot of questions (even though we include it on the invitation) if kids are welcome.  We like keeping things family friendly and hope that Greta’s cute mug will drive that point home. I mean, how cute is she:

If I had to list a third reason for going back to the photo format, it would be we love the challenge of putting together costumes for exactly zero dollars for these.  We are “busy” “working” on our actual costumes behind the scenes, but for the invitation, we give ourselves 30 minutes to get something together.  Luckily, this time around we had access to my parents’ dress up collection to rummage through. I ended up with part of my dad’s old air force uniform. Chris put on a lot of fake fur and jewelry and called himself a p.i.m.p. and our little Native American is actually wearing a belt around her head. :)

When it comes to fonts, I usually google around for “free Halloween fonts.” This year, I decided on “Flesh” and “Fright” from the collection this bloggerput together.

A lot of of our friends will see the invitation virtually, but we are also printing out several to hand out to new neighbors that we haven’t connected with online yet–and really, that’s almost more fun anyway. Anyone else throwing a halloween party this year? You can check out our first invitations (and the outtakes) here and our second invites right here.

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  1. Aw, what awesome invitations. So envious of your party skillz… Halloween is my favorite. Mostly, we will just be trying to scare the crap out of trick-or-treaters. :)

  2. Awesome. Great invitation! And love the one from the first year too. Looks like a great time to be had :)

  3. We are distressed that there is no costume Halloween party in our neighborhood this year- we may have to throw it! :) Miss you guys!