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I should have known our response cards were cursed from the start. I loved the final product when they were sent out in our invitations, but these are little cards have been the bane of my existence from the beginning.

The response cards were originally supposed to look like this:

Then I attempted to print them. I couldn’t figure out Mr. Pony’s printer’s settings for the life of me. I just wanted to print what I had created, but the blessed printer kept resizing my cards to fit within its printing parameters and nothing I was doing was making them look any better. I finally decided I didn’t care and was going to print them, weird margins and all.

Horrible, right?

So I printed them. And cut them to size. And decided I had to let it go. But then I noticed something with the color seemed off. Somewhere along the line I decided to make these cards red to add a little more color to the suite. Which is fine and good except my tired eyes failed to notice how off the colors were until after the printing and cutting was complete.

Sorry for the weird angle, I was fighting the lighting.

You can kind of see that the the words on the bottom are a brighter red and the words on top are a muddy more brown red. It doesn’t look that bad, but, of course, it looked terrible to me. I asked Papa Pony, who said he didn’t notice, so after worrying about it for a while, I thought maybe I should let it go. Then I realized that on the flip side of the cards, the colors were also off. Not as noticeable, but it was the last straw for the cards.

See, not as bad.

So, I printed new cards. I cut the new cards. I was still unhappy with the margins, but I was going to get these done. Proud of my correctly colored cards, I was ready to call it a night. And then I noticed something odd.

What the @#$%^#$?

Yes, I misspelled the word attending. On 160 cards. Yes, I printed double what I needed. Math=fail.

I corrected my mistake, deleted the dumb swirls that were messing up the margins, and printed these blasted things again. This time I finally got it right and I was so ready send these out and see how our guests would fill them in. This was the good part, right? Umm…no.

You see, I originally planning on using a black light pen or color changing markers (that I found out about on the boards) to help identify cards in which the name portion was not filled out. In the rush of just wanting to get these out the door, I figured I could let this detail slip and everything would be fine. A few people would forget to fill in their names, but our guest list is only so big, we can figure it out. WRONG. I would say about half of our guests failed to fill in their names. We’ve even received a few cards without a postmark to help us identify whose cards they are. In short, these little cards have been a nightmare.

Despite everything that went wrong with the response cards, the cards with messages on them never fail to make me smile.

Mr. Pony’s response card (yes, I made him send it back) was by far my favorite:

Awww.

Anyone else have a DIY disaster story? Also, thanks for letting me vent, it was very cathartic.