You Bought *What*?

You Bought What?

January 17th, 2011 @ 3:17 pm by Mrs. Lox
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Sometimes the tiniest wedding purchases make me unreasonably happy. Now, with every paycheck I’m attempting to buy something for the wedding. This way the purchases are stretched out and the pain of spending money seems less painful. There is a method to my madness. However, my next purchase was so small that I just made it willy nilly when the mood struck me. On a whim, even. I mean, it cost me under four dollars for the item and shipping (which was inexplicably from Hong Kong!).

So what is this tiny purchase full of joy? What four-dollar item has made me unreasonably happy? Let’s see if you can guess from these pictures…

You Bought *What*? : wedding baltimore invitations Lox11 lox1

Nothing to see here, right? Just a crazy lady holding up a plain old envelope…

You Bought *What*? : wedding baltimore invitations Lox2 lox2

Gotcha! Turns out it’s hard to take a picture of the result when shining a black light. My pithy message is “Does this work?” I know—I’m so witty.

OK, OK. My inner five-year-old got the better of me on this one. But seriously, how cool is invisible ink?

Now, I can hear you all out there. Miss Lox, what on earth does invisible ink have to do with your wedding? Well, I’m so glad you asked. This is going to be my RSVP-herding solution. Come invitation time, I am going to number each RSVP card with this invisible ink. And then, if a card comes back without a name filled in? I’m going to shine my super special light on it, and the invisible ink will give the culprit away! And the best part for this occasionally anal-retentive bride is that I don’t have to mar whatever beautiful RSVP cards I have ordered with numbers! They’ll be on there, but they’ll be invisible! Hooray for me!

Did you buy any weird items that were actually wedding specific? How did you herd incomplete RSVP cards?

All pictures courtesy of me. Think you could do better?

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19 Responses to “You Bought What?”

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FutureMrsBondo (message) 445 posts, Helper bee

Wow! My inner geek loves this idea! It sounds like something out of those kid detective books I read when I was little. What a clever idea!
I haven’t gotten to the invite/rsvp stage, but the nameless responses is something I’ve worried about. This will definitely be one of those things I toy with doing when we get to that point. Thanks for sharing!

1/17/11 @ 3:20 pm (reply)

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jbz (message) 54 posts, Worker bee

Where did you get it? I’ve been looking on ebay but haven’t found any that inexpensive.

1/17/11 @ 3:29 pm (reply)

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ChillyBear (message) 175 posts, Blushing bee

I got mine at office max…. they have them with the counterfeit money indicator pens

1/17/11 @ 3:31 pm (reply)

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Kate

Wow, I had no idea . . . is that a big problem with reply cards?

1/17/11 @ 3:35 pm (reply)

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Miss Elephant (message) 6,182 posts, Bee Keeper

@jbz: I found them at this site for $1.30
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.88

1/17/11 @ 3:39 pm (reply)

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Ruby

Miss Lioness just wrote about invisible ink too. Worked well for her.

http://www.weddingbee.com/2011/01/13/how-to-keep-track-of-rsvps-2/

1/17/11 @ 3:46 pm (reply)

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eleroo02 (message) 116 posts, Blushing bee

What an uber fantastic idea!

1/17/11 @ 3:48 pm (reply)

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MrsPrince (message) 95 posts, Worker bee

I love the idea of the invisible ink.
Alltough i ended up doing my rsvp’s with preprintet names of all the guests (all guests pr.invitation on one rsvp).
Took a LOT of time and a few bad words but i feel it’ll be worth it in the end. We’re having a small intimate wedding with just our closest family and friends and didn’t want to get stuck with a few +1 guests to many. So now our guest will know excactly who is invited since all their names are already printed on and there is no room to write and extra name on them, to top it off, i know excactly who’s coming and who’s not.

1/17/11 @ 3:49 pm (reply)

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erin *sparke & hay

i know many people who have used this and its been a LIFESAVER - great idea!!!

1/17/11 @ 4:57 pm (reply)

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chicklet1587 (message) 225 posts, Helper bee

you know what…. I just thought about doing the same thing the other day!!!!!!!!!

1/17/11 @ 5:17 pm (reply)

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Miss Sydney (message) 749 posts, Busy bee

@Ruby: I thought I had already read this post?

1/17/11 @ 5:42 pm (reply)

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Miss Lox (message) 1,128 posts, Bumble bee

@Ruby: @Miss Sydney: Further proof that great minds think alike!

1/17/11 @ 5:47 pm (reply)

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Lilacgal (message) 380 posts, Helper bee

LOVE your idea! So cool!

1/17/11 @ 7:27 pm (reply)

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Soon2BeMrs

That. Is. GENIUS!!

1/17/11 @ 7:46 pm (reply)

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Seaside (message) 645 posts, Busy bee

ha i love this!

1/17/11 @ 10:25 pm (reply)

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Miss Eggs Benedict (message) 339 posts, Helper bee

I really wanted to do something like this but I ran out of time. Luckily for the rsvps that we’ve gotten back so far, only one person forgot to write their name - but they’d put a big ol’ return address stamp on the back of the envelope so I knew who they were!

1/17/11 @ 10:53 pm (reply)

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ScooterBride (message) 280 posts, Helper bee

That is an AWESOME idea!! I have a toy/pen of Doctor Who’s sonic screwdriver that has a UV ink nib, and the light at the end reveals it. Now I can actually say that it’s useful, instead of just being a collector’s “toy” that amuses pretty much no one but me.

1/18/11 @ 11:25 am (reply)

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mebless (message) 512 posts, Busy bee

genius!!

1/19/11 @ 6:55 am (reply)

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hulahoop (message) 68 posts, Worker bee

I got them from DealXtreme too and it was such a great surprise! Since they came quite a few weeks after ordering them, I wasn’t remembering them anymore, so when they did show up, I was so excited!!

1/25/11 @ 4:56 pm (reply)