major wedding accomplishment

Our invitations went out this week! Exciting! After a few mishaps, the most frustrating of which included seriously crooked printing, they are in the mail. After researching recycled paper options, because we were planning to letterpress our save the dates and invitations ourselves, I found the perfect invitations on a clearance rack at a paper goods store—on super sale because it was an opened package. So we bought the “almost used” invitations, and after letterpressing our save the dates ourselves (time consuming!), decided to print them on our regular printer. Well. Flexibility came into play again, because after too many tries, they were still not perfectly straight. It was one of those wedding planning experiences where it’s easy to get incredibly frustrated because It’s Not Working Out the Way I Planned. We went to plan B and hand wrote all of the wedding invites ourselves. Luckily, I have handwriting that’s passable for such projects, and they turned out great! I was happier with them handwritten than I would have been had the printing worked out! And we mailed them, and now we wait for the RSVP's! In an effort to minimize, we went with the single sided card stock invitation, with a website for the details beyond the date and time, We are also using the website for RSVPs—and just this morning it occurred to me that we should have included a note in the invitations for our elderly relatives who aren’t so web savvy letting them know they can call us to RSVP. Our photographer, a local student, got in touch to schedule our visit to the wedding site, to do some test shots for lighting and photo locations, so things are moving right along! Next on the agenda: planning our ceremony (a friend is officiating) and getting the ceremony music nailed down (right now in a holding pattern waiting to hear if a professional violinist Uncle can make it—fingers crossed!). Posted by Kerry - Blogger Bride Thanks Kerry! Kerry's tale about her wedding invitations is a common one! Trouble printing on a domestic printer and then finding out that her hand writing is fun to do, more personal and the result is entirely satisfactory. The other thing is to try and remember, before the invitations go out, that there may be some elderly rellies who do not use the internet, so make allowances for how they are going to RSVP. Make them feel included at this early stage.