Things I’ve Learned

Things I’ve Learned

August 28th, 2006 @ 12:50 pm by Mrs. Butterfly
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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 it’s best to keep track.
Make sure you have a set rule regarding “plus one.” I don’t have a hard and fast rule about this, and it’s 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 it’s 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 them off tonight and have it ready to go out tomorrow. Yay! It’s almost over!

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3 Responses to “Things I’ve Learned”

Guest

Monkee

I like it a whole lot better!!!! ^_^

8/28/06 @ 1:01 pm (reply)

Guest

kanipark

almost there

8/28/06 @ 1:38 pm (reply)

Guest

These are some of the things I’ve leaned

1) Make sure you check and read carefull emails from your vendors. One of our choice for dinner was “Chilian” Sea Bass (which was extremely delicious when we did menu tasting), but we wanted some minor changes on the veggies on the sides, and change the complete menu for our vegetarian menu. After a few emails back and forth from the chef, I was not aware that they changed our sea bass to “Pan seared ocean” Sea bass (which taste different) I was too focused on the things we asked them to change, and didn’t bother double-checking on the things we were happy with I only found this out when I was eating during our wedding Boo.

2) I love food… and i love pictures of food. I didn’t tell my photographer to make sure they take pictures of each dish. So they only got a few shots of appetizer In conclusion, make sure you be specific on what you want!!!

3) Make sure your receptionists are encouraging!! we had 370 guests, and i ordered 300 personalized wedding wishes cards, but i have so many left overs!!!!! (which is useless now because I designed it with our wedding date on the bottom) So make sure your receptionists ask all your guests to sign… or if you girls want personalized wedding wish cards, maybe not to put the dates so you could use it as memo cards in the future?

4) I don’t know what happened to the bridesmaids bouquets… i wished i asked them to keep it so i could use it for the reception decoration.

Hehe i know i sound like an old woman complaining but overall, it was a great day, so just relax and have fun!

8/29/06 @ 8:21 am (reply)