Our Wedding Invitations

Our invitations were somewhat of a blessing in disguise. We originally decided on the feel of our wedding based off of the bridesmaid's dresses (black and blue damask). We then looked at the huge notebooks of wedding invitations at all the little stationary stores and settled for this large but simple invite from an adorable store in a ritsy part of town. I took a trip to the post office with the invite measurements to see how much postage would cost before we ordered them. An insanely rude postal woman informed me it would be a dollar, because it was so big. Frightened to tell my parents, I researched for myself. We wound up sending them with 42 cent stamps, and what do you know! Everyone got theirs.

To save on postage we figured we'd do the online RSVP'ing through the Knot. That wound up being the worst thing we could have ever done. People couldn't RSVP, thought they did, etc. It was a disaster that wound up with a professor and his wife attending our wedding without a spot to sit! Never ever do this! I dont' care how great of an idea the Knot makes it seem, always ALWAYS go with the standard pre-stamped RSVP card in the invitation.

We ordered the invites, checked the proofs and were delivered a box of 300 with the misprint, CVIC Hill intead of CVIC Hall. We were basically screwed, seeing as we had signed off on the proof. Luckily, the sweethearts at the cute little store called and made a case for us, and we were sent not 300 but 600 correct ones! We had invites coming out of our ears. What was a girl to do, but to make them into our wedding programs. I simply designed our program, printed it out and slapped it on some black cardstock then onto our invitations.

Since the ceremony was moved inside, to the reception tables we used the programs as place settings for the plates. Conventional, no, did it work and look great? You betcha!