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Friday morning I took my box of invitations to the 24 hour post office in Boston. I walked up to the desk and my palms were sweating and my hands were shaking. The clerk admired my stamps and the address design, put them in a tray next to her station and said she would personally hand cancel them herself. When each guest receives theirs, here is what they will experience:
The outer envelope (minus the stamps because I took this picture before I had them)
The inner envelope…Mr. Corn hand addressed the inner envelopes. Notice our embossed monogram on the flap.
A close up of the monogram on the flap.
Opening up the inner envelope
The invitation
Response card, envelope and map insert on the left, invitation on the right
The back of the invitation also has our monogram embossed on it, just behind the ’Reception to Follow’ text on the inside.
Close up of the response card and envelope…notice the embossed return address on the enevelope. That was also on the back flap of the outer envelopes.
Wilshire Graphics Press also made us a stamp of our address so I could stamp it on the response envelopes in silver ink, instead of having to write them all out.
I cannot even begin to tell you how wonderful it feels to have these out the door. I have been working on them since November!! That is when I first finalized the design and ordered the paper. The save the dates were cut from the same card stock as the pocket folders and they went out January 2, which is part of why I have been working on them for so long.
I can’t wait to start getting official responses back!!
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That deep blue color makes me want to go to the beach!! I love that lobster, so cute!
They’re so beautiful! I love that blue color.
your invites look awesome…quick question, what does ‘hand cancelling’ mean exactly?
I love how you addressed the outer envelope, very unique design! I also really like the metallic-ness of the blue papers! =) Shimery and preeeeetty…
I waited with anticipation to receive mine, and was SO excited to come home on Saturday and it had arrived. 
Miss Corn, they are fantastic! Excellent Job! My RSVP should be in the mail soon!
They look great. I was looking at getting an embosser or address stamp for my pocketfolds as well. Did the post office tell you they could read an embossed address for the official return address? I was worried that I would have to use a stamp with ink.
I’m also a little confused about your rsvp envelope…is your address on both the return flap and the front of the envelope?
They look awesome Miss Corn! Yeay!
ot- hand cancelling is when they manually stamp (cancel your stamp) your invite instead of putting it through the machine. I highly recommend asking for this, or even do it yourself, thats what I did…. it helps preserve your hard work a little bit more…
Hey Jessica. No one at the post office said anything about my return address being embossed. And one of my save the dates got returned to us and it had an embossed return address on it.
Our RSVP cards have our return address embossed on the back and the stamp of our address on the front. I figured no matter what, they needed to get back to us, so I might as well double up on the address.
How did you get a rubber stamp from WGPress? Their website says stamps are “coming soon.”
So cute! Where did you get those envelopes?? If you made them where did you get the enbosser??
Yay! they look lovely and very personal. your friends and family will love them, I’m sure.
Hi BB…I ordered the rubber stamp in November, so maybe they are changing how they do them?
Kamy - I will have to get back to you on where I ordered the envelopes themselves (I assume you mean the outer)…the others all came from papersource. For the text on the outer envelopes, I found a design online somewhere (after googling custom addressing or something like that) and then I recreated it myself with some edits in Word. The embosser and the stamp came from Wilshire Graphics Press.
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Mrs. Corn, Newport, RI
Age and Occupation in '07: 31, HR for public accounting firm
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Consultant for public accounting firm
Engagement Date: October 7, 2006
Wedding Date: September, 2007
Blogging Since: June 1, 2007
Venue: North Lawn of Fort Adams State Park
About Me: I am a lazy scrapbooker who loves the instant gratification of making cards and I am very easily distracted by all things shiny. In honor of my childhood nights spent hibachi BBQing on the beach with my family, we are hosting a traditional New England Clambake for our reception.
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