The Perfectionist Resigns

The Perfectionist Resigns

December 14th, 2009 @ 9:02 am by Mrs. Spaniel
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Recently I’ve started prepping the invitations. I know it was early—I didn’t actually plan to send our invites to most of our guests until late January—but my dad wanted to hand out invitations to my Pakistani family while he was there through late November. And it makes sense, I suppose, except for one thing: all those extras I was going to add to the invites, like envelope liners and belly bands? Yeah, I hadn’t done that yet. I hadn’t even ordered the paper yet. OOPS! In fact, the only special fixin’ that the early invitations got is a special RSVP insert with our website URL and instructions to RSVP online (all of our international guests will get this insert instead of a postcard, which I’m afraid will get lost otherwise). Here’s what I had with five days to go.

The Perfectionist Resigns : wedding invitations stationery Afsd afsd

The plan was to have it printed on ecru cardstock (four to a page) and cut in quarters, then unceremoniously placed in the envelope sans liner and belly band. Oh well. It’s functional.

Of course, I had a whole five evenings and only ten invitations to do… so I thought it might be time for a trip to the craft store for some fun paper! I might not find a perfect match, but a little something extra would be better than nothing. As pretty as I think my invites are, they kind of bore me right now… and I just can’t bear to send them out half done.

Did anything in your planning process turn out not quite up to your original standards? Do you think anyone else noticed?

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7 Responses to “The Perfectionist Resigns”

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elisterine (message) 235 posts, Helper bee

I think they look awesome! So, don’t worry! Your standards are not being compromised :).

And, even if they are, it’s okay to make compromises for realism sometimes!

12/14/09 @ 9:41 am (reply)

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Ms. Library (message) 1,250 posts, Bumble bee

I think the design of them makes up for the lack of embellishments that you wanted to add. No one but you will know that they weren’t quite as done as you would have hoped, and they do get the message across to the right people. I am a perfectionist too, so I can’t tell you not to let it bother you, but I guess you could just look at the silver lining: the important part is the actual inviting of people to celebration!

12/14/09 @ 9:53 am (reply)

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Mrs. Mouse (message) 5,844 posts, Bee Keeper

Oh man, everything! I ended up half-assing so many of the paper projects. In the end, it doesn’t matter nearly as much as the projects you do for the wedding day itself. I’m sure your invitations are going to look lovely, though!

12/14/09 @ 9:54 am (reply)

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KMSull (message) 6,442 posts, Bee Keeper

I’m totally a victim of the “but I have LOTS of time to do that…” syndrome. I dread it when it comes to wedding stuff!

12/14/09 @ 9:58 am (reply)

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Miss Pug (message) 3,753 posts, Honey bee

it’s definitely difficult leaving things be, especially when you put so much work into all the other details. however, i actually think those look lovely just as they are, so whatever you decide to do or don’t do is fine!

12/14/09 @ 11:23 am (reply)

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Jessie516 (message) 5,480 posts, Bee Keeper

I totally fell victim to this, too. The main area I ended up slacking was on the ceremony decor. I had all these plans to do things and, in the end, just ran out of time.

12/14/09 @ 12:26 pm (reply)

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Miss Hamster (message) 4,045 posts, Honey bee

I totally find it difficult as well to be satisfied until the finished product looks *exactly* how I picture it in my head. That being said, I think your invitations look lovely even without the extras!

12/14/09 @ 11:22 pm (reply)