This is a continuation of the previous post on making our wedding invitations. We gave out lots of invitations in person at friendly gatherings so I didn’t need to put them into envelopes. Others, however, we had to mail out. My original plan was to use the regular letter envelopes I already had and just fold it to the right size. But I got lazy in trying to figure out just how I was to do that, so I searched for an origami envelope instead and found the following, which was very easy to make and was perfect for the size I needed. This was my process: (sorry if the images all look differently coloured, I’m not a photographer.)
1. Using the same pastel blue print paper, I put them through the paper cutter, cutting once at 8.5in to make them into squares.
2. Place a ruler from corner to corner, fold the other corners into the center at the 6″ mark.
3. From the top corner, measure 7.5″ down the middle and fold the bottom corner up to that point.
4. Use the ruler as a guide, place horizontally at the point that was folded up in step 3. fold the bottom 2 corners towards the center of the paper, lining up the top side of the fold with the ruler guide.
5. Open it back up.
6. Using the crease, fold in the outer 2 creases first.
7. Press down on the pentagram to crease it.
8. Fold the entire bottom half of the paper upwards so that the top horizontal edge can fit in the V shape part of the first folds. (It needs to be able to get tucked in later).
9. This is probably not the best picture but you want to take the V part mentioned earlier and tuck in the 2 points from step 2 under the pentagram formed in step 7.
10. Put in the invitation or card to determine the height of the envelope. Fold down the top flap so it can encase the invitation or card. 
Done! Now because I needed to put these envelopes through the mail, I glued the bottom flap in addition to tucking in the corners so secure it. I also glued the opening flap.
I love origami templates as there’s no cutting involved in the process and all you have to do is fold.
Material: Paper
Time: ~20 seconds per envelope.
I made a prototype but we agreed that it was too fancy for our light summer wedding. So I had to improvise. I thought of making some kind of folding chair as those are the chairs that will be at the wedding (none of the expensive chair covers). The one thing we have in common would have to be movies: he loves making them, I love watching them. And so, I drew up a template for the director’s chair. This is the prototype.
blade impressions 