Weddingbee Blog

Hello, my name is Miss Ticket and I am an indecisive font monster. Yes it’s true. There’s no hiding it. I spent so much time staring at and changing fonts that they all became one giant blur to me. I said I was done with invitations and yet somehow I still sat down in front of my computer to AGAIN revamp the RSVPs (while watching one of the worst movies ever made please don’t watch Skyline…. save yourself, just say no!). I printed out another 8 options of different fonts and wording and continuously asked opinions of Mr. Ticket. I think even his eyes grew confused after all the different fonts.

It was shortly after this point that I decided to give up. It’s not normally in me to do that, but I’m afraid it was the healthiest course of action for my sanity. What I had was good enough. They would have to do. It was time to finish the little monsters and move on with my life. I knew I had hit my limit when I begged Mr. Ticket to redo our RSVPs and he said, “Only if I get to include a picture of a Starcraft Zealot ripping a Disney Princess’ head off.” (Since of course he knew I would never agree to this.)  I agreed…we were definitely done with the invitations!

After making Mr. Ticket, Mama Ticket, and Daddy Ticket double…triple… and quadruple check spelling, grammar, directions, etc. It was time to print these babies out!

We actually contemplated sending them out to be professionally printed for a long time, particularly when we realized that Mama Ticket’s printer doesn’t particularly like pink. But in an attempt to save some money I decided to rework the coloring of the invitation for the temperamental printer. It was actually painful to see the neon pink on my computer screen, but I knew it would print out the color I wanted. So we printed out the invitations, RSVP cards, directions and maps on our home printer on ivory card stock from Staples and braced ourselves for a serious round of paper cutting and trimming.

This shockingly turned out to be not so bad! After hunkering down with the paper cutter for a few hours on a random Saturday I got all these babies cut out and ready for assembly. The next step was to attach the invitation to the backing. After a great suggestion from genius WC I decided to pick up some ’3D’ stickers at Michael’s and go to work.

These little stickers really made the invitation pop off the page. I loved them!

Mr. Ticket periodically came in to check on how the invitation progress was going, at one point he picked up an invitation and asked if I had cut them using scissors. I immediately sensed a criticism incoming… “No. Why?” his reply, “Well this one looks a little crooked.”‘

Busted. There were a couple I had used scissors on in an attempt to rid them of thin little strips of non colored sides that the very dull paper cutter was unable to get rid of. I of course ripped the invitation apart immediately and ran to the paper cutter to fix the offending crooked edges, to which Mr. Ticket laughed and said, “I’ll never point out a flaw again.” He left leaving his approval of the overall invitation project.

So, after a few hours of embossing, stamping, wax sealing, and sewing (Mama Ticket and Mr. Ticket helped out at different points) I boxed up our invitations and I mailed them off this morning. I’m done thinking about them…done worrying…just done. It feels good; I’m not going to lie. My inner perfectionist can just shove it, because I think they turned out alright. I’ll share good pictures with you in a couple of days once most of our guests have received them in the mail.

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Were you pleasantly surprised by the simplicity of a project you anticipated would be difficult? Or do you now have a fear of designing ANYTHING like I do?