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katiey are they two of the same album or two different ones?

My question is about the guest list. My wedding is in my home state which is halfway across the country from where I now live and work. I would like to invite my co-workers even though I know a lot of them most likely can’t make it. (first of all, is that even okay or would it just seem like i’m asking for gifts, which i’m not!) What is the proper way to send invites? To their home address or can I hand deliver them at work? Thanks!

For Nancy…
I would strongly suggest a few things when dealing with vendors/barganing. I am the same way, I don’t like to haggle over prices but through some trial and error I figured some things out. As far as flowers go, see if you can meet with your florist and go through some ideas and prices and see if they can give you a proposal after you decide what you are looking for. At that point, you can add/subtract what you like before signing anything definite. I have a fabulous florist and what we did was schedule a meeting, go through what I had in mind and what she thought she could do with my “vision” and then she gave me a proposal with prices and details. I didn’t say yes to anything until I had taken it home, gone through everything in detail and done some other research, just to be sure.
Since then I have been able to easily make changes and she has been wonderful to work with.
I learned the hard way about dealing with vendors when I started out looking for caterers.
The first caterer I looked at came highly recommended and with a great reputation. I talked through my ideas with her and she too gave me a proposal which I thought was ridiculously overpriced but everyone kept telling me how great the food was. I was set to go with the company until we started to get into contracts, etc. She e-mailed me a contract but I mistakenly erased it. I called right away and said what happened and after that for some reason it all went down hill. I could never get in touch with her and when I did, it took her over a month to send a new contract which needless to say I did not sign. I looked for a new company and found a great caterer who we met with were much more comfortable. We ended up with essentially the same menu for about half the price and the food at the tasting was delicious.
Long story short-take your time when making decisions. Even if you don’t haggle or ask for a lower price, it helps to really research your options…

J - I think that all guests should be invited the same way - a mailed invitation. And make sure they know that (while, yes, it’d be expensive to travel out to your home state) you would certainly love for them to attend. Some might even take you up on it. And, hopefully, they will see it as the warm, inclusive gesture that it is, and not just asking for gifts.

Would you be inviting them all if it were local?

I wrote customer service and it seems you can’t combine two albums on one purchase. You have to buy them seperately unless you order multiples of the same, exact album.

If you’ve purchased an album from them, can describe the quality difference between the higher priced album and the regular album?

Thanks!

Bethgraced - wow, the people doing that to you make me so angry! If it were me, I’d tell them they’re not invited, but then, there are actual family members I’m trying not to invite to mine, so instead can I suggest you tell them that it’s pretty much family only? And thank them for their kind wishes (whether they give them or not), so they hopefully get the point.