Weddingbee Blog

My days have lately been consumed by paper products, paper problems, and paper parties! I consider what I’ve gone through a tour of paper hell. Let me recap…

Menus: A Mini-win for Lobster

Last time on Lobsters Shouldn’t DIY, I had major fails with the printer when working on the menus. After taking the hive’s advice, I cleaned the print heads and did some printer maintenance. It didn’t find fix the problem. But by some miracle, the menus turned out 98% perfect. How not-so-perfect with the 2%?

The dreaded dashed line was still there. Before you think I’m crazy, I know that the dashed line isn’t noticeable. And so I carried on.

this is one of the better ones

In order to keep the dashed lines to a minimum, I had to print only a few menus at a time, turn off the printer to rest, do the happy printer dance, and hope it would print good menus again.

The final product:

Yay! I was so ecstatic and proud of myself when these menus were done.

Next challenge?

Stupid Freakin’ Escort Cards

The dreaded escort and place cards. Cue scary music. I *could* have written a whole post on just that but I didn’t take any pictures because printing these suckers was SO frustrating. Lesson here? Use a big printer or the one at work. ’Nuff said.

Next!

The Guestbook

Here was an easy project inspired by one Mrs. Pug who so eloquently put it “Sign My Butt” No, Mrs. Pug, YOU sign MY butt. I got through this project in 3 hours using our engagement shoot pics. I’d recommend super high resolution for this puppy for the book to turn out pretty. I submitted my project on a Thursday night (or rather 3 AM on a Friday morning) via MyPublisher and got it by Wednesday.

It arrives in cute packaging and makes your photos real. I’d recommend MyPublisher. It even has a “check price” button so you know when you’re going overboard with the pics!

So there you have it. Two heart-wrenching paper projects balanced with one positive one.

How did you conquer all your paper projects before the wedding?