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I think the new 2oz rate is 58 cents, or at least that’s what my post office told me!

Check out usps[dot]com and you can browse the full selection of stamps. There are a few pretty stamps in higher denominations (60 cents, 75 cents) that were more than I needed but less expensive than custom stamps (which, in my case, worked out to ~$1 per stamp).

It’s all about zazzle.com. Design your own- 20 stamps for 12.99 right now. Mine has our “logo” as pretentious as that is- it’s only for the response envelopes since our invites are going out in boxes and are going to have some ugliness from the post office on there.

Not OCD at all, Miss Pearl, the stamp is part of your overall invitation design!

I too was at the post office this week to look at stamps & have to mail my invites out early June! Therefore I will probably miss out on the release of the new “Love” 2 oz. stamp, which is a pretty heart. **SKK is right, though, the 2 oz. rate is 58 cents.

I have decided to go with the 60 cent red “Eagle” stamp. (How convenient of USPS to earn 2 cents extra on every invite because they’re late on releasing a .58 cent stamp!!) My envelopes are a deep red, plus I’m marrying a lawyer (the stamp looks sorta patriotic and official looking), so the red eagle stamp will blend with the envelope color + be somewhat relative to us. However, I’m sure this is not the case with most couples- I just lucked out.

My post office said they weren’t sure when the “Love” stamp is getting here, just sometime in June. Maybe you’ll luck out and get them in time? Or maybe you can get the .39 cent “Our Wedding” stamps, and pair them with the .24 cent Butterfly postcard stamp (both still available for purchase online at usps.com, if not at the post office). At least those are pretty, even if you have to use 2.

I bought stamps that just had a bit too much postage, worked out to something like 15 cents times 60 invites = $9 and they were gooorgeous. So not OCD of you (haha unless I am too!) I also got fun combos of 39 or 37 cent stamps + 4 cents for the rsvp’s since there are a ton more options for the below-41cent stamps!

I also am having this problem, and am going to pick up my stamps from our local post office in a few hours. I settled for the flag stamps, because I began researching these last week and am mailing them tomorrow. However, they kind of go with my wedding, because my color is navy. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.

Consider ordering (stamps.com, zazzle, etc.).

I bought vintage LOVE cherub stamps (from 1995) for the invites, since it was cheaper than personalized stamps.

I used the forever stamps on my RSVPs… they matched my gold envelopes really well.

I used the Super Hero stamps and people absolutely loved them. There are a lot of nice extra postage stamps that work well with the colors. Not at all wedding-y but we got great feedback.

I feel your pain! I hate the USPS right now. My outer envelope looks pretty good (it’s orange, and I used the liberty bell forever stamp — so it matches and I like that the stamp says “forever”). However, we had to use the blue panther 26-centers on our white, pink and orange reply postcard…YUCK.

For .58 cents we used the liberty bell + the .17 antelope (forgive me if i have my horned beasts confused) The blue in the .17 stamp actually brought out the blue in the bell and it looks kinda pretty on our carnival red envelopes, in a modern sort of way, which is cool by me.
We also used the cougar (um, forgive me if I have my feline beasts confused) .26’s for our reply postcards. Our invites have a red and blue sort of asian-latin mood to them so the cougar looks AWESOME on them. When I first saw my lack of options at one of NYC’s biggest P.O.’s I was worried but I’d say that we are very pleased overall.