Weddingbee Blog

OK, so I can truly say that every time I read abut brides being so attached to their invitations I thought they were crazy. Until — I became one of them!

When we sent our Save the Dates I was so relieve that the task was done and maybe just because they were not much work I had no feelings when we let them go. But now it’s totally different!!

Yesterday, MIL B and I went to the post office to ask about hand canceling them, because well, I did spend 2 WHOLE DAYS sewing those little Kraft envelopes. The Post Office guy said that there was no difference between just sending them normally hand canceling, so I believed him and painfully handed them over.

The funny part was that I sent a Save the Date to one of my friends in Chile that never got there, and when he saw our invites he asked me if we were the same people. He actually remembered us because the design of our STDs were so similar to our invites. That was pretty cool!

Anyway, here’s my face after letting them go!

Notice those empty containers? Well this is how they looked minutes before:

I wanted to get a lot of vintage stamps to go with our pretty wrap-around labels, but all the ones I found had crazy colors or I needed like 10 of them to make the 44 cents, so in the end I ordered the normal ring stamp (after all, I’ll never use that particular stamp again ) and since I could only get them in sheets of 25, I got 100 ring stamps, pretty lighthouses for the other 12, and normal 98 cent stamps for our international invitees.

I selected all of the single men we had on our list and gave them the lighthouse.

Did I mention I sewed labels for 2 days? … OK, just checking!

And the last little detail was the return address stamp I ordered from JLMould!

I totally loved it, even though I have to work on my stamping skills – Well actually, since I ordered the stamp without the clear block, it was a little harder to find something to put the stamp on.

So, the final moment came, and after working so hard on the invites (I’ll show off the actual invitation in my next post!!) it was kind of sad to send them away, but at the same time I’m super excited for them to get to their destinations soon!! Hopefully we’ll get good reactions from our guests!

How did you feel when you sent off your invitations?