One for the books! For Christmas my boyfriend and I decided to give the gift of experience, rather than physical items or objects. As life gets busier and schedules are harder to align, we wanted to put a date on the calendar to make it a point to enjoy the special time with our friends and family.

Drawing inspiration from the simple but elegant style of hand drawn lettering, illustrations, and elements, I set out to create an invitation suite (mostly) by hand! All the artwork on the invitations was hand written and illustrated on an iPad, and the envelopes and faux stamps were illustrated, cut and assembled by hand, and with love.

While none of that may have been 100% necessary, we felt it important to infuse every element with intentionality, as we truly enjoy the community around us and feel they deserve to be treated to a night out!

In a truly surprising turn of events, I had no idea that the invitations I designed by hand would turn out to be inviting our closest friends and family to my own proposal. While the gift of a night out was a surprise to those we gifted it to, they were all in on the surprise proposal. (And I absolutely was not!)

Take a look below to see the full suite, illustrations, and a glimpse into the best night I could have asked for. (I said YES!)