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I mailed our invites!
I took these:
and brought them to the ugliest looking mailbox I could find:
and now they’re off! Um, except for the few that are still in our apartment because there’s still some relatives’ addresses that have not been communicated yet…
I found mailing (most of) our invites really exciting. I feel like it is one of those major steps in the wedding planning process that makes you feel like the wedding is actually happening. The other major one for me was booking our venue.
What made you realize your wedding is really happening?
So cute!! I love the pink! Isn’t it such a good feeling? I loved getting ours back!
I am sending out our Save the Dates today! This makes it officially official! Such a huge step and my first DIY project completed! A really great feeling! congrats on getting your invites out - and that IS the ugliest mail box…ha ha
How awesome! Those invites look deliciously adorable. Perfect for the ugly mailbox. 
I think my “OMG I’m getting married” moment was the first time I put a veil on at the bridal shop. I’d tried dresses on, but the veil (even though it wasn’t one I was getting) was the freeze-frame moment!
I think getting back responses made me realize the wedding was really happening….not only did I mail the invitations, but people are actually going to come to this shin-dig!?
buying our wedding bands together was the one thing so far that has made me feel like this is really happening. Of course trying the dress on was amazing and all the planning thus far has been great but the wedding bands are really what symbolize marriage for me.
YAY INVITES. I think.. mine will be finding the dress. And also, the STD & invites!
Going to a friends wedding this weekend. I realized, “Holy crap, that’s going to be me.” And I mean holy crap in the best possible way.
I agree with @Nikki Moore, putting on a veil with my wedding dress was the game changer for me. I really looked and felt like a bride at that moment. But sending out our save the date postcards did make it seem official.
I agree - sending the invitations was one of those “it’s really happening” moments. The wedding planning was no longer just in our apartment and people were really going to start making plans!
Mailing my wedding invitations must’ve made my heart skip several beats! Dropping them a few at a time into the mailbox and watching them fall down the black hole led me to prayer, hoping they’d get where they were supposed to go! I handmade my invitations, I’d spent so much time on them, and releasing them into the postal system lifted a lot off my shoulders. I was glad to be able to move on to spending time on other wedding projects.
Congratulations! That is a big step! Cute invites, btw! My moment (I hear ya, Nikki!) was finding the veil. The second it was on my head it was…OMG. I’m getting married. REALLY. =-) Great moments!
I love invitations! Did you have another post about what the actual invitations look like, or is that coming? I love paper!
Mailing the invitations was a big step into reality of it happening for us too!
I want to see the invites. Maybe I missed a post. Anyway, I don’t think it hit me I was getting married until my younger sister flew in from Seattle. Then I cried, happy to see her and I really was getting married.
@neontl: It’s coming! I’m just waiting until my guests have received them.
Can’t wait to send ours out (of course that means I have to put them together first)! For me, sending out the save the dates was the first “this is really happening moment”.
That is a seriously ugly mailbox hahaha. What happened to the blue ones with an eagle on the side?
I haven’t had that moment yet. I have no idea when or where it will happen, but I’m a big ball of emotion, so guaranteed there will be tears.
So far my moment was when we went to our venue last weekend 30 minutes before another wedding was supposed to start. We got to see the reception area all set up, the staff bustling around finishing up the last minute details. It was just that moment of… soon this will be for US!
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Mrs. Knitting, Toronto Age and Occupation: 24, Student Recruitment Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Neuroscience PhD Candidate Engagement Date: October 2009 Wedding Date: December 2010 Venue: University of Toronto Faculty Club About Me: I'm a pearl wearing, etiquette book reading Toronto girl who loves cooking and baking, museums, charm bracelets, and collecting books on Jackie Kennedy (a lot). I've been known to spend Sunday mornings at the antique market, Wednesday evenings at sister sushi dinners, and any bit of spare time reading. After six and a half years of many late night walks, watching DVDs together in bed, travelling to places like New York, and Tobermory, doing Sudokus together on the couch, lots of Indian food, the occasional yoga class, moving in together and so much more, Mr. Knitting and I are planning a cozy Christmasy (it's a word!), vintage wedding in Toronto complete with many DIY projects (eek!) and lots of help from our amazing group of family and friends.
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