Wedding Blog

Here’s one reason to order extra envelopes: My printer seemed to fall in love with at least 10 of them (I had to print out 67 in total) and almost refused to hand back to me their mangled little bodies. After a few, I felt like a new mother staring at a baby when asleep to make sure it is still breathing — I carefully watched each print job, fingers crossed, and clapped in delight as each survived its little birth.

The good news is that the Save the Date cards reached their destinations safely, and we even received compliments on them, which is always a good thing. I think some people liked their envelopes more than the cards themselves and I don’t mind one bit! After all, I only ordered the invitations, but I printed all the envelopes myself. It’s not calligraphy but…um, yeah, it will have to do.

Truth be told, there isn’t anything terribly amazing about the envelopes: point is that calligraphy is, of course, a lovely detail, but we figured to save on some costs, we could use our little home printer and still have our addressing look formal and pretty.

To match the font featured on our STD, we used Edwardian Script font for the names and zip code. For the addresses, we used Andalus font, with extra spacing between each letter. The zip code numbers are also spaced out with one tab between each one (about 5 spaces). I don’t know why, but I like the extra spacing.

Here’s a close-up of our addressing:

Microsoft Word also gave us the option of selecting an A2 envelope as the paper size, so we didn’t even have to play around with any margins. Just set the whole thing to be centered and off we were!

We ordered our STD’s from Wedding Paper Divas, who I have to say, were just delightful to work with. Not too expensive, and you get e-mailed proofs at no extra cost! Green was not one of the original colors to choose from for this layout, but for only an extra $15 they were able to change it to the color of my choice. They were also offering free shipping, and best of all, their turnaround time was amazing — I ordered them online in the morning and by that afternoon I had a proof in my inbox. Woot!