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Miss Cherry Pie, Seattle/Polebridge, Montana Age and Occupation: 25, Marketing Communications Specialist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Nurse Practitioner Engagement Date: August 26, 2006 Wedding Date: September 2008 Blogging Since: April 1, 2008 Venue: A tiny town just outside of Glacier National Park About Me: I think of life as a journey and I love the places it's taking me! I went to school to study Magazine Journalism, ended up with a second major in Japanese language, and now work at a company that makes software for libraries. I love writing, computers, photography, and the great outdoors. I spend most of my time playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band or geeking out online with Mr. Cherry Pie. I'm happiest when I'm on the road, especially traveling abroad, or just nesting quietly at home with my sweetie, who is a fabulous cook and bakes a delicious rendition of a certain cherry-filled dessert!
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Cordially, Of Course

July 21st, 2008 @ 1:31 pm by Mrs. Cherry Pie

Guess what came in the mail this Wednesday afternoon after ANOTHER exciting round of Where is Miss Cherry Pie’s X?

Our awesome letterpress invitations!

Unfortunately, the Post Office had decided that “Priority” mail was not really a priority and we spent a few long days hand-wringing while waiting for them to arrive. After I stayed home and accosted the empty-handed mailman yet again, we called the post office to file a claim and they located the package in Olympia, WA.

After his 10 AM visit (sans invitations), our gracious postman actually went back to the depot to look for my package and returned at 4PM to deliver it directly to our door. I didn’t even ask! He must have seen the desperation in my eyes when I ran out to meet him with face cream slathered all over myself and taken pity. Honestly, I thought he’d flee in terror never to return. Ever.

But besides our great postman, brides beware, the Post Office is the embodiment of the phrase “good enough for government work!” If you can at all help it, always ship time-sensitive packages with UPS or FedEx, if just for their superior tracking.

Because out invitations were so late arriving (today is the last day our blocked rooms are held and our RSVP date is July 30), we had to rush them out the door. After spending only a few precious hours with our invitations, we’d assembled the whole batch. First thing Thursday morning, I took them around to post offices looking for one that would hand cancel. The main branch of the Seattle PO obliged me, but I’m only half convinced that they won’t show up machine canceled anyway.

Now, they are on their way. With luck, the first will arrive today.

Before I say any more, let’s give the invitations a chance to speak for themselves.

Above, you can see the complete suite, with custom tri-fold enclosure, main invite (secured with photo corners), lined invite envelope, RSVP card and envelope, custom paper sash, and Thank You notes.

Here is the main invitation, up close:

The invite secured in the center of the tri-fold enclosure:

The outside panels of the tri-fold (Which, if you recall from the last layouts I posted, contain our wedding story, lodging/registry information, and directions with a map):

The closed tri-fold with custom paper sash and letterpress envelopes lined with chocolate paper. You can see some glue reflected on this one, but that wasn’t common. The sash you see here is horizontal, but we actually spent a hour or so carefully redoing every one vertically. It was just way too hard to get the sashed invites into envelopes safely and without the sash staying in the envelope when the invite was removed. Vertical looks just as nice!

Our double-sided RSVP cards with letterpress envelopes. One side has basic RSVP questions. The other has space for a note and lodging information:

Our matching folded thank you cards with wheat design. The return envelopes for these have my new last name. Eeeeeee! I totally love it.

The invites came out really well, with only a few flaws carried throughout (some slight press misalignment and image ghosting). Realistically, I only noticed these things because I work in design. And I’m anal-retentive. I think Kristin (of Twin Ravens Press) does great work, especially considering that her letterpress business is new, and our huge custom job must have been a real handful for her to tackle by herself!

It’s such a huge relief to have these sent out, even if the end result of the delays was that we had to call or email most of our guests to let them know our lodging information (the Park Service only holds rooms until 60 days prior to an event and gave us 2 extra weeks anyway. Oh well, a little extra personal attention never hurt anyone!

We have some lovely extra copies sitting on our table at home, as well as a nice custom tag to fill in the hole in our mailbox guest book.

How are your invitations coming along?

32 Responses to “Cordially, Of Course”

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Miss Green Tea says:

wow… fanfreakingtabulouso…

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Miss Pomegranate says:

How totally friggin’ exciting!!! I’m so glad they’re finally here! They’re gorgeous.

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jilian says:

Wow - I love the images, the colors, the layouts. EVERYTHING. Superb job :)

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Mrs. Bee says:

PS - Miss CP is totally fine with not blurring her info. :)

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Miss Sweet Tea says:

Love them! So pretty…

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Miss Cherry Pie says:

Haha, I love that you can tell how obsessively the bees read the site by how fast you all commented on this post.

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Miss Cookie says:

Oh, Miss CP! They are B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L! And I’m so glad for you that they are finally on their way to your guests!

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Mrs. Penguin says:

MMMM SO HOT. Pengy Rikes. I can only imagine what these look like in person, and I LOVE the layout and how only the invite is in color, making it really stand out. Uh-May-Zing!

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Mrs. Toucan says:

oooohhh… these came out so beautiful!! :)

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Miss Pinot Noir says:

What a nice postman! I’m convinced our postlady skips our block sometimes :(

The invitations are beautiful! Looks like they were worth the wait!

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Linzerella says:

These are so fricking gorgeous! You guys did a great job coming up with a design that’s unique, sophisticated and reflects the rustic wedding you’re hosting.

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notsojenny says:

those are beautiful! i love the neutral palette and the pop of color… very nice

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Ambrosia says:

As with everyone of your posts, my green envy monster bubbles up. Why can’t I have those invites? *Wink* But, really they are magnificent!

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maritessb says:

*DROOLING* absolutely stunning

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Miss Espresso says:

So GORGEOUS!! Your guests will love them!

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groomzillaisme says:

OMG I Love your invitations! What is weird is that ours kind of look like yours, well, a little bit. Don’t you think ? BTW, did anyone ’slap your @ss and call you sally’ as you requested a couple of days ago? ! LOL

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AliCherri1 says:

WOW GORG! I love the way they turned out :)

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anon... says:

As a public employee, I take exception to you using the phrase “good enough for government work.” I think it is unkind and unfair for you to single out a huge class of workers like that.

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nashgirl says:

i luuuurve them :)

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Amanda says:

Miss CP - those are gorgeous! What color paper did you use for the tri-fold/invitation envelope/RSVP envelope? That color paired with the chocolate is almost exactly the combo I’m looking for.

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Miss Cherry Pie says:

@anon…: Sorry you’re offended! If it makes you feel any better, though, the phrase originated with the meaning “top-notch, the very best.” So take it how you will!

@Amanda: The papers are Waste Not paper in Khaki and Chocolate. Paper Source has very similar colors (with identical names) in their paper line. Good luck!

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Marlene says:

Those look fabulous!

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Miss Cream Puff says:

OMG, I love how the first like, 15 comments all have colorful icons next to them!

GORGEOUS, CP!

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sja says:

Gorgeous!

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Jessica says:

They are absolutely gorgeous!!! I bet you are oh-so-excited! I love them!

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nejireta says:

Wow! They look great!

I want to state that those “other” (UPS and FedEx) mail carriers arn’t always timely. I once shipped a box UPS to Arizona (from the east coast) and it took 3 months!!! I had a tracking number on it and half the time they couldn’t locate the package. The one time they could, it was in Alaska. :P

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Anon#2 says:

@anon…:
As a public employee, I can relate to your use of the phrase “good enough for government work.” I think it is pretty typical of government work and workers. Anyone who is offened by this is probably covering up their own insecurities about how lazy they are at work. Let it go. One of us. One of us. One of us.

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Anon says:

Another public employee chiming in! I too am frustrated daily by the sub-par work standards, timeliness, and efficacy of the majority of my fellow government employees. I would have more of a problem with the use of the phrase “good enough for government work” if it didn’t truthfully reflect the work ethic that I observe from other public and government employees.

Anon #1, I’m sure that you yourself are in the minority with me; a public employee who cares about producing quality work and doing so in a timely manner. Sadly, unfortunately, and frustratingly, we are the few, the proud. That’s why we work for the big bucks, lawls. Or at least good benefits.

I /finally/ got my damn invitation in the mail today, no fewer than TWO DAYS after all my friends in the same city had received theirs. The address was correct and no I haven’t moved my mailbox in the past few days. Screw the post office and eeeeeeyay for Ms. Cherry Pie’s wedding!

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lou says:

G-OR-GEOUS! :)

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Mrs. Cherry Pie Miss Cherry Pie, Seattle/Polebridge, Montana Age and Occupation: 25, Marketing Communications Specialist Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Nurse Practitioner Engagement Date: August 26, 2006 Wedding Date: September 2008 Blogging Since: April 1, 2008 Venue: A tiny town just outside of Glacier National Park About Me: I think of life as a journey and I love the places it's taking me! I went to school to study Magazine Journalism, ended up with a second major in Japanese language, and now work at a company that makes software for libraries. I love writing, computers, photography, and the great outdoors. I spend most of my time playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band or geeking out online with Mr. Cherry Pie. I'm happiest when I'm on the road, especially traveling abroad, or just nesting quietly at home with my sweetie, who is a fabulous cook and bakes a delicious rendition of a certain cherry-filled dessert!