Weddingbee Blog

One of the many things I love about wedding planning is getting things in the mail. It is no longer just bills and J.Crew catalogs! People are actually sending important things to me. Now I have a reason to go through the mail instead of carrying it in from the mailbox and then letting it sit on the entrance table for days. It is kind of thrilling.

I don’t know anyone but a bride who could get excited about getting envelopes filled with envelopes in the mail. But color me excited! Our envelope samples arrived, which means we are that much closer to finishing our invites.

I ordered two sets of sample envelopes. One from Envelopes.com and one from Envelopemall. First up, Envelopes.com:

I ordered a sample of smoke, tan, and grocery bag. I am pretty sure I wanted the grocery bag/kraft paper, but I ordered two other samples just to see. From this batch I definitely like the grocery bag, but the smoke is a strong contender!

And now from Envelopemall.

Almost the same exact order. I ordered the size A7 envelopes in starstream anthracite, genesis in fossil, and the kraft paper. The other two were nice, but it just confirmed that I like the kraft paper. Hopefully Mr. Cucumber Sammie agrees because I haven’t run a single one of these options by him yet…oops.

Here are the two kraft options side by side. I am sure their differences are obvious…OK, I lied—they are exactly the same. The one from Envelopes.com came with a 10%-off coupon, which automatically had me leaning toward those.

Envelopes.com lets you order in multiples of 50 and Envelopemall only has multiples of 100. We eventually decided to get 200 envelopes from Envelopemall for a completely arbitrary reason I can’t even remember anymore.

Have you gotten any fun packages in the mail recently? Is it strange to devote an entire post to envelopes?