Weddingbee Blog

its_v - honestly, I don’t notice the stamps. However, I feel the need to mention that it’s a felony to use work resources for personal use.

Jen - istockphoto.com! They have tons of great options, and they’re all quite inexpensive.

Andrea - I think people coming to a wedding understand that sometimes they won’t be invited to certain functions. If you’re worried, try to get someone who you’re close to but who wouldn’t be invited to do something else at the same time for guests who aren’t invited to your luncheon. (They could go to a museum, take a tour, etc.)

T - I also bought votives and candles from cudge and they are CHEAP and cute!! I was really impressed with the quality and they came quickly and packed very securely.

I’ve got a question!
How do you word your invitation when your wedding is at 5:30? Do you write it out “Five Thirty in the Evening” or “Half Past Five in the Evening”? Any other suggestions?

Katy: it’s half past five in the evening.

sackets2007: Just use PowerPoint. You just put the pictures on a blank slide and arrange them to your liking. You can then save the slide as a .jpg for easy uploading and sending.

Jen–do you mean flourishes that you want to print onto the invites? Font sites like DaFont and urbanfonts have a great selection. you could also use stamps.

1. like other poster said, not a great idea to use work resources for your personal use, saving money on postage is not worth risking your job.
no one will care about what the stamps look like though.

Andrea — No worries, most guests don’t want the full BM treatment or its obligations. It’s nice to keep most/all “wedding party” events exclusive so the BMs/GMs feel appreciated and singled out for their extra time and effort (and let’s face it, expenses). Don’t dilute a special event with all those extra folks. Also some events are better as all-women or all-men, anyway.

it’s v–I second the motion on noooooooo to the mailing invites from work idea. It may seem “free” since the machine magically stamps each envelop, but it’s not worth risking your job just to save a few bucks on stamps. A square envelop requires more postage than a rectangular envelop, and the accounting office will take notice of an unusual mass-mailing setting like that. Also, some machines have a limit on how much postage they have, and it would be very hard to explain if it “ran out” in the middle of your project and your coworkers started investigating.

Katy–I think “half after five o’clock” is better than “half past five o’clock.” See Chad_n_Jared’s bio on TheKnot for more details.

Sorry about the long comment - just needed to vent!!!