Weddingbee Blog

I’m sorry Miss Snail. I don’t really like mine either I thought a ribbon being tied around it would help but no. You’re lucky you can plan around with the options!

Everyone keeps telling me, “It’s not the invitation that we care about, it’s seeing you two get married.” Yeah well tell that to my scrapbook!

I agree - do what you can! You need to be happy with your invitations. Mine came with the wrong color ink - a slightly lighter shade. I tried to get over it, saying it didn’t matter, saying no one would notice, saying it was an insignificant detail comparatively and I didn’t want to be a loony bridezilla type.

Then I thought about how my parents have their invitation framed in the china cabinet and I would be miserable looking at our invitation for the rest of my life… and I got them reprinted. It was worth it. I am happy with our invitations and that’s important to me.

When I first got engaged, I said I really did not care about any of that “weddingy’ stuff, except My dress, My make-up, My hair and My shoes. I said everyone else could do the “work” and I would just sign off on things. That was right up until the first choice had to be made. As soon as I saw the first potential venue and wanted to vomit, I realized if I did not make these decisions, someone else would. And generally, I think I like my choices better. I soon came to realize I not only had opinions about My Dress, My make-up … etc… i also had opinions about My invitations, My flowers, My music, My photos, My dressing room, My tablecloth color… I am lucky that my relatives are accepting of my choices, but I think that is in large part because I don’t ask thier opinions. It’s only when the bride doesn’t know what she wants that others feel justified in enforcing their opinions. Otherwise, the bride gets to choose… That’s my experience anyhow.
For the invitations nightmare- I had one too… I designed my invite myself and sent the final art to the printer EXACTLY as I wanted it. He emailed me confirmations and went to print…600 of them. I was totally excited when they came in the mail- and not a second too soon, as each would have a ribbon wax sealed onto it, a time consuming process, and we were close to late. But the print quality wasn’t great. The invite had 3 parts- the Main english card, a complimentary hebrew card and the reply card. The main english part and the reply card were ‘fuzzy” Not terribly, but more than I liked. I wanted to have him reprint, but i was afraid for the timing, and decided to just have him reprint the reply card, which was the worst, and decided no-one would notice because the overall invite really was so nice. I sent my dad in califorinia, his 200 invites, ribbon and wax seal completed for his people. He called me and first thing out of his mouth? “I don’t know what this guy charged for the printing, but he did a crap job” I was crushed and pretty much told my dad to shove it. So he did:-) Invitations went out last week and we are getting phone calls just to tell us how pretty they are.