Weddingbee Blog

We’re trying desperately to get our invitations together and out the door. I think I have an easier time wrangling my 4-year-old into socks, shoes, and her jacket at 6AM every morning.

If we can ignore the multiple redesigns these invitations have undergone, the story will be shortened significantly.

Really, I won’t bore y’all with my historic indecisiveness. I thought Mr. CC was going to shoot me by the time it was all over with.

My mom and I planned to work on them this morning.

The paper was ordered the week before Christmas. I should have known better than to order anything that week, but the money was there, so I went for it. When the FedEx man attempted to deliver my paper, we were both at work. So, he left it on the porch, hidden from plain sight behind a couple of bags of mulch. Not just hidden from plain sight, but also hidden from my sight as well. I totally overlooked it on the porch, went out of town, and then I checked the tracking system and realized it had been delivered. People, I had been stalking this paper! Well, before I flipped on the delivery man, I waited to get home and of course, there it was, safe and sound, on the porch.

I hadn’t ordered the vellum I wanted, but I remembered seeing it at one of the office supply stores and figured I would pick it up later.

I thought that would be the only hurdle we would have to jump. Boy, was I ever wrong.

The day I went to get them printed, I realized (after I had already driven to the printers) that I hadn’t ordered enough paper. Actually, I ordered half of what I needed. Argh. I went to every single office supply and stationery store in town trying to find something similar. No luck, and no vellum either! So, I ran home, placed another order online (plus vellum), and hoped it wouldn’t take too long to get here.

FedEx attempted delivery on a day when I was teaching class until 11:45. They delivered it at 11:40. And this time, they wanted a signature. Fortunately, I was home the next day when they delivered. But what I ordered was not what I wanted. The vellum was all wrong. Instead of panic, I redesigned. Okay, problem solved.

This morning, I went back to the printer and got our invites successfully printed. However, the cutting was a little bit of a different story. “A couple of hours.” So much for our invitation filled morning!

Has anyone else felt like they were jumping through hoops to get their project accomplished?