Weddingbee Blog

Sometimes, things don’t go quite as planned. You can adapt and overcome or scurry about arms flailing, with your ramblings made incoherent by sniffles and a deluge of tears. What could possibly make me freak out so bad? Finding out that more than a few guests never received their invitations a mere 2 weeks before our RSVP deadline.

Let’s pretend that I didn’t watch the postal employee hand cancel every single envelope or that I didn’t verify each address using the USPS website prior to addressing them. Our invitations (with an extra 24 cents in postage) should have made it to all our guests, including my grandparents who’ve lived at the same address for the last fifteen years.

There’s no explanation other than some wonderful postal worker thought our invitations were so insanely awesome they just had to keep seven for themselves. Anyways, let me share with you what I ended up doing to remedy the situation.

Note to future brides: Don’t be cheap. Buy more than just 10 extra envelopes.

I had a few extra invitation pieces on hand, but I’d completely run out of the purple envelopes. My mother, being the practical person that she is, said to stuff them in plain white envelopes and that no one would be the wiser. Not exactly what I wanted to do given all the time and thought I put into them. Macs agreed and told me to order more, but spending thirty dollars to overnight $3.50 worth of envelopes was less than desirable.

After a Michaels run and messing around on the computer I ended up with 7 of these:

I bought a few sheets of 12×12 scrapbook paper which would provide just enough room for a flat A6 envelope. Normally I’d say just take apart an envelope and use it as a template but I didn’t have any to spare. After a little googling I found a die line at Designers Toolbox that was the same size as our envelopes but I tweaked the flaps so they’d be a closer match to our reply envelopes. Since my office printer has larger margins I was able to print directly on the scrapbook paper.

Cut it out and score all four sides and you’ll have yourself an envelope ready to be sealed. I’d recommend using one of these bad boys given the thickness of scrapbook paper.

Image via CreativeCrafts

All in all not bad for a whopping $2.32. Would I recommend making all your own envelopes? Hell no. But it’s totally doable if you’re in a pinch and somewhat of a stickler for consistency.

Did you have any issues with mailing your invites? Please tell me I’m not alone.