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Mrs. Cucumber Sandwich, Washington, DC/Cape May, NJ Age and Occupation: 28, School Counselor Fiance's Age and Occupation: 40, Collegiate Athletics Engagement Date: March 27, 2010 Wedding Date: October 2011 Venue: Congress Hall Hotel About Me: I am a school counselor who spends my day wrangling children and my nights attempting to be creative with wedding projects. My enthusiasm for each of these activities far surpasses my skill. Thank goodness Mr. Cucumber Sandwich is there to pick up the pieces and be the voice of reason about my DIY tries. I have an obsession with terrible romantic comedies (‘From Justin to Kelly’ anyone?, anyone?!?), competitive Scrabble play, and hot dogs. I could eat astronaut ice cream for every meal and can’t seem to resist buying more shoes. Our wedding is going to be a true hodge podge of semi-destination, tradition, Yuengling, New England charm, with just a dash of ‘Jersey Shore’ thrown in. It has been six years in the making and I can’t wait to marry my best friend.
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July 27th, 2011 @ 5:29 pm by Mrs. Cucumber Sandwich

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.

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

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Oooh, so pretty

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.

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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.

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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?

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9 Responses to “Cover Me”

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kate02121 (message)  396 posts, Helper bee

O I LOVE them. We’re likely going to do kraft envelopes too, and I love hearing that you liked them as much as you thought you would.

 
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Miss Doily (message)  637 posts, Busy bee

Ah invites, why do they have to be so difficult? I’m glad you found some that you liked though!!!

 
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Mrs. Pain au Chocolat (message)  1,698 posts, Bumble bee

Like you, I ordered samples from multiple online retailers looking for the closest matching shade of yellow. While it may seem frivolous (blogging about it), it’s an important detail when you’ve slaved over every other aspect of your invitations.

 
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Miss Teacup (message)  621 posts, Busy bee

:) I ordered sample envelopes online and then just went with silver ones from Michael’s for our STDs. The 40% off coupons really made them a steal :)

 
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Mrs. Tartlet (message)  3,207 posts, Sugar bee

I would get super excited when samples arrived in the mail, too. :) I still have all of my ’swatches’, too, for future reference! Kraft brown envelopes are the best. :D

 
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Mrs. Elephant (message)  6,182 posts, Bee Keeper

I so miss the excitement of going to the mailbox :( Now it’s back to junk mail.

 
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Miss Pony (message)  4,171 posts, Honey bee

I love getting samples! And many of the colors ended up being way different that I thought they would be, so it was a good investment.

 
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gymdive22 (message)  180 posts, Blushing bee

Ha, I also loved getting the samples! And yes, I felt ridiculous being so excited about getting an envelope full of envelopes and blank paper :)

 
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Miss Cucumber Sandwich (message)  569 posts, Busy bee

@Mrs. Elephant: I’m sorry :( We have just started getting rsvps so mail is fun again. What is not fun is the bills that I got to go along with everything I ordered.

 

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Mrs. Cucumber Sandwich, Washington, DC/Cape May, NJ Age and Occupation: 28, School Counselor Fiance's Age and Occupation: 40, Collegiate Athletics Engagement Date: March 27, 2010 Wedding Date: October 2011 Venue: Congress Hall Hotel About Me: I am a school counselor who spends my day wrangling children and my nights attempting to be creative with wedding projects. My enthusiasm for each of these activities far surpasses my skill. Thank goodness Mr. Cucumber Sandwich is there to pick up the pieces and be the voice of reason about my DIY tries. I have an obsession with terrible romantic comedies (‘From Justin to Kelly’ anyone?, anyone?!?), competitive Scrabble play, and hot dogs. I could eat astronaut ice cream for every meal and can’t seem to resist buying more shoes. Our wedding is going to be a true hodge podge of semi-destination, tradition, Yuengling, New England charm, with just a dash of ‘Jersey Shore’ thrown in. It has been six years in the making and I can’t wait to marry my best friend.

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