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I need help with invitation ideas for a "White Trash" party.
Hello. I hope you guys are feeling goofy today because I need some help here... for YEARS our friends have thrown a white trash party every summer, and every year DH and I make the invitation and it's always rediculous. It's gotten to the point where the invite is highly anticipated... people wait for it all summer and when it comes they bring it to work and show their co-workers who have been waiting to see it all summer... it's fun, but it's a lot of pressure!
Anyway, in the past we've made up songs, replaced the text in cartoons and even made a 10 page magazine with articles when the theme was "prom". This year's theme is "White Trash Wedding" and we want to make a wedding invitation that is *beyond trashy*. We don't want to do cammo or anything like that since some people actually use that for their weddings... (we don't want to offend) our fist idea was to print it out on torn up beer boxes but we just learned that you can't run a beer box through the printer. We've also considered using a girlie calendar as "cardstock", priting it on the back of food lables, or pasting it to a bottle of beer (but that would be hard to mail, and you can't bring it to work!) We haven't' come up with a great idea yet, so I thought I'd try you ladies... please give me any ideas you have. NOTHING is too crazy. Thanks!
Re: I need help with invitation ideas for a "White Trash" party.
Can you crush up empty beer cans and put the invitation in a box with a few? (Ideally the cans tied together?)
Like how people have done the "letter in a bottle" invitations - they mail a box with the invite.
Or a beer bottle and the invite can be the label?
Or a box of wine, instead of beer? Or a fake menu with things like ambrosia salad, pigs in a blanket, crock pot meatballs made w/jelly (btw no offense - I love those things) as a sample menu?
Or a DVD with the invite as a really cheesy ppt slide with pictures of the "bride and groom" from awkward family photos or something?
Sounds fun - I'll try and think later.
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how many invites are we talking about here?
~ if it's not too many i was thinking you could use a pack of cigarettes. the cheap off brands are trashier! you could open the pack and write the invite on a piece of paper that would fit on the pack, then replace the plastic wrapper. does that make sense? i know when i used to smoke i kept all kinds of things in the wrapper of my cigs.
~ or cans of snuff. that would be hilarious!
~ you could mail a wife beater to everyone with the info written on it.
~ party info put on labels and then attached to 40 oz beers.
~ this would be funny with the party hosts posing for a pic. you could do the invites on snapfish or somewhere similar.
~ this is also funny, with a title like "We's gettin' hitched! Come join us for a white trash wedding party." i even like the idea of the twinkies and ho ho's for party food.
that's all i got right now. have fun and come back to let us know what you decide to do!
Ok, I don't know anything trashier than that My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding show on TLC. I went to see a few friends last weekend and they were watching it- train wreck! That could inspire for sure!
Anyway, the idea for the beer boxes- you could print on cardstock and glue them on or mod podge them on.
I LOVE the idea of the posed picture and using that as the invite... PERFECT!
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You could make a fake postcard with a scene of a trailer park on the front
You could send the invite in a packing tube filled with old potato chip bags, newspapers, trash, etc
You could take a picture of the hosts with billybob teeth and trucker hats
Use really backwoods wording.. Pa's got the shotgun ready and we's gettin hitched yall
Play on the Dixie Chics Song- White trash wedding
Iron the invite on a tshirt that has fake yellow pit stains and is just torn and grubby looking
Make a fake wedding announcement. Black and white newspaper style with a hillbilly photo as the couple