Weddingbee Blog

I’m ready to reveal our invitations to you (FINALLY), but I want to talk about the horrible experience I had getting stamps for them first!

I really wish this post was about how helpful the folks at my local post office are, but unfortunately, that’s not the case. Rather, my mom, Mr. B, and I were all given misinformation on several different occasions that ultimately resulted in (what might as well been a dagger to my heart) mismatched stamps on our wedding invites! Not just any mismatched stamps: the King & Queen of Hearts and the Polar Bear stamp. Ugh.

Let’s start with the back story: My step mom mentioned “the love stamp” to me one day in passing. It stuck out to me as something I definitely wanted to get (even though I had no mental picture of what this stamp looked like) and I told Mr. Brooch about it.

I went to the post office a few days later and the person I spoke with supposedly showed me all of their stamps. She looked confused when I mentioned “the love stamp,” and Mr. Brooch got the same reaction when he went asking about it at a different post office.

We thought maybe this “love stamp” was the King & Queen, since that’s what everyone kept trying to give us. I didn’t want to put off sending out invitations, so I agreed they were probably the same thing. Cool.

I asked Mama Brooch to go to the post office and pick up “the love stamps,” which in mind were the King & Queen, while I was at work and I also asked her to get the invitation weighed so we knew if one stamp would be enough. She said she did, the one was enough, and we got to stamping away.

I really liked it, too! It looked nice-Yay! Then I get a call from Mama Brooch the next day. She was back at the post office and now they were telling her something different! They were saying one 44 cent stamp wasn’t enough and we needed to have  65 cents!! Are you kidding me?!? Mind you, this was the fourth trip among all of us to the post office.

I took my last and final trip to one the next day. I went to the Regional one, hoping I’d get some answers and they’d have all the supplies of everything to chose from. Well, sure enough we did  indeed need another 20 cent stamp and the only ones to pick from were a clock and a polar bear.

A glimmer of hope arose in my heart when I spotted a butterfly in the mix and asked the woman about it. She said that  it was 65 cents and I should have just bought that one in the beginning.

Ugh. Really? Thanks a lot.

I begrudgingly put the .20 cent polar bear next to the King & Queen on our invitations. I CRINGE at how the blue clashes with the green lettering.

I don’t mean to make a big deal out of this, but WOW, all of those trips were obnoxious.

Alas, there was absolutely nothing I could do. I tried to let the whole thing go and that same day I went to visit our venue, which really helped. Just two days later, though, I was reminded of my epic failure when I received an invitation to my bridal shower from my step mom. You won’t believe what stamp was on the envelope…

…it was the love stamp we thought never existed.

It pains me to tell this story because I’m so beyond irritated with myself for not just picking up the phone and calling my step mom about this stamp and/or not forking over the extra $20 for more King & Queen stamps. It’s in the past, though, right? It’s what’s inside the envelope that counts, right? (Siiiiiigh.)

My advice to other brides out there is to really research your postage options and go with something you love!

Do you have trouble finding the stamps you wanted for your invitations? Do you feel the post office was helpful answering questions regarding your invitations?

Here’s another great article on a similar problem by Miss French Toast.