Tired of Spreadsheets

Tired of Spreadsheets

August 18th, 2007 @ 12:31 pm by Mrs. Kiwi
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I’m sitting here transferring all of our addresses from our website planning page to an excel spreadsheet. At first I thought it was going to be a ton of work- until I realized we have 38 couples/families we don’t have addresses for, so I only have to address about 60 of them. I blame Mr. Kiwi for this, and rightfully so! Most of the addresses are for his co-workers, and various students he wants to invite.

Now begins the great debate: who actually gets invited. I don’t like this, having to pick and choose which person gets invited. Initially I had assumed this would be fun. Until I realized how hard it is picking and choosing from a ton of family members, each one who doesn’t get invited will hold it against me for years to come, and those who DO get invited will wonder why we didn’t invite so and so. It was a few days ago, I found out Mr. Kiwi had two other cousins I didn’t know about. We sent save-the-dates to the cousins I knew about, and now the two brothers haven’t heard anything from us. At first I felt bad… then I remembered: I didn’t make this guest list alone! Mr. Kiwi forgot his own family! Blame him!

Now that it’s the middle of August, we must get our invitations ready to go. This whole “dead hard drive” thing is driving me insane. I can’t work from home, so I must scramble to get all my info into the computer at work, to email myself the report, in case the computer comes back early.

I was sitting here thinking, “huh, I should have done this ages ago”. So I have no one to blame but myself. And Mr. Kiwi. Tired of Spreadsheets : wedding invitations los angeles Silly041 silly041

How are you arranging your addresses for when you have to address the envelope?

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5 Responses to “Tired of Spreadsheets”

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Julie

It is really tough picking who does and does not get invited! We had to cut out a lot of our friends from the list, but it is starting to kick me in the rear. A very good friend of ours just moved away to California, and at his goodbye party, he kept telling everyone “I’ll see you in the spring at Julie’s wedding!” except that half the people he told that to aren’t on our list (not that we don’t want them, we just don’t have room!) and now they think they are going to be invited. I have no idea how to break the news to them that sorry, they’re not at the top of our friends list, so they’re not invited.

8/18/07 @ 1:30 pm (reply)

Guest

Sara

We have our addresses on two spreadsheets. They both include all the same people, but one has columns for things like “# of invites needed (as in 1 per couple)”, “likely to come”, “gift”, “thank you sent” and the other has the addresses. I put the addresses on a different spread sheet so I could print it out easily and highlight as we went along.

8/18/07 @ 3:18 pm (reply)

Guest

aoedorothee

aughh, i hate this too.. i’ve been sending the invites out, and honestly, i’ve just been turning a blind eye to the actual count and hoping that the right number of people decline and accept. cross your fingers!

8/18/07 @ 8:33 pm (reply)

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Moi

We kept a spreadsheet for guests’ names and the gift record (what we received, date the thank you was mailed), but for addresses, I’m strictly a Rolodex gal. Too many horror stories of losing info from the computer, or you can’t launch the PC fast enough when you want to make a call. The card includes names of spouse/SO/children, anniversaries & birthdates (if I have them), email addresses, work info and a notation about when the card was last updated. All set for Christmas cards, when we’ll mail with each card a photo from the wedding.

(We hand-addressed our invitations, but if I were printing labels, I would have definitely built a spreadsheet to generate the labels, of course.)

8/20/07 @ 11:56 am (reply)

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bethgraced

I made a spreadsheet on google documents with 4 pages. The first three are of people we *must* invite: one with my family, another with his, a third of our friends. The fourth is a page of friends and distant family we’d like to invite, but will probably be the first to be cut from the list. This way, we don’t have to scour the pages of one long list and miss someone.

I have a column for the names on the invitation, the total number of people invited, contact info, thank you notes, gifts, etc.

The invites will be hand-addressed, this is just to organize.

The best part is that because it’s on google, I can access it from any computer I have internet access without having to remember to save and email it to myself.

8/20/07 @ 12:31 pm (reply)