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This post should probably be a detailed, how-not-to-complete-your-biggest-project book. OK, so if you are a perfectionist…you may want to stop reading now and get back to your life. This post is for all of us who have all the tools to make things easy but still manage to screw things up.

Step one is to make a mock-up of the kind of invitation you want: booklet, pocketfold, rectangle, square, whatever. Once you have spent a sufficient number of hours deciding and making an example, you go online to look at paper. At this time, browse websites that do that all for you and allow you to print on the paper yourself. You take a break from the invites for a month or so because your brain is exhausted and you no longer know what you want. Make sure to store all your examples in a box with other junk that has no place.

A month goes by, and you decide to scrap the pocketfold invitation for something you saw in Martha Stewart Weddings. You’re feeling refreshed and motivated, so you order the sample packs of paper right away from Paperandmore.com. They come in, but you decide to have a few beers instead of looking at them. Two weeks goes by, and you call over your Sara (make sure it’s during her finals in order to maximize time wasted). You decide on a base color and one envelope. You write down how much of each paper and envelope you need. You chose the patterned envelopes that are hard to match, but rather than look at all the colored paper in your packets, you decide to wing it and order the Sand color. You’re going to want to make sure that you order the wrong color (in this case: Sand).

You change your theme and must start from the beginning.

You finally order the paper and let it sit in its box for a week. You realize the wedding is a year away and finally get your ass in gear. You call Sara to come over a few days later. When you take the paper out of the box, you realize the Sand color doesn’t match and that you ordered the wrong color blue for the invites. You start the return process, but think better of it until Sara can come to discuss the decision. You pick a color that you are comfortable with and then decide to test the shimmer paper in your printer to ensure it prints before you order something you’ll have to return again. You choose an obscure color from the pack and head over to your printer. You decide it’s a pretty color after you’ve printed on it and once again change your mind.

This is the time where you send all your crap paper back and reorder the fresh-to-death paper. You know to check it as soon as it arrives, so you take it out and organize it on your sewing desk, where it will sit for an absurd amount of time.

But it all changes tonight, folks! The paper has been sitting on my sewing desk for many a month now, and with the arrival of my stamps (squeeeee!), it’s on like Donkey Kong.

Are you going to do it? Do it yourself? The invites, of course! Where’d your inspiration come from, and are you as bad a procrastinator as I am? I feel there is a severe lack of procrastination wedding blogs out there. I hope it’s not because I’m alone on this island…