August 28, 2006

  • Things I’ve learned

    A few things I’ve learned while putting together my invitations.  (Pictures are coming soon, I promise!)



    • Check and recheck every name and address.  I had to recheck a lot of my guests’ information.  People move, break up, or start dating so its best to keep track of all progress.

    • Make sure you have a set rule regarding “plus one”.  I don’t have a hard and fast rule about this, and its made the process a bit difficult.  As you know, my RSVP card says “____ of ____ will attend”, and I filled out the second blank.  But without a rule regarding “plus ones”, I had to make a decision on the spot about who got to bring a guest and who didn’t. 

    • Do not assemble your invitations before you are ready to stuff the envelopes.  I made the mistake of having Mr. Butterfly stuff the pocketfolds with all 3 of the inserts – “RSVP, Information, and Rehearsal Dinner”.  The only problem is that not everyone gets the rehearsal dinner card.  So as I was stuffing the envelopes, I had to remove this card based on who I was sending it to.  Then we got all confused and had to re-open 9 invitations (after they were sealed) just to check that they didn’t get the rehearsal card. 

    • The most important rule:  Do not seal the envelopes until right before they go out.  We must have wasted 10 envelopes and 1 invitation due to making small mistakes.  Luckily, my vendor sent over extras of everything, so we will hopefully have plenty left over.

    • Oh yeah – get extras of everything!

    You wouldn’t believe the amount of time its taken to pull this together.  But, I gave my first invitation (by hand) to my MOH last week, and she was very impressed.  The extra tape for my tape guns are coming today, so I will be able to finish it off tonight and have it ready to go out tomorrow.  Yay!  Its almost over!


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