I promise, this is the last post. I do want to talk a little bit about the envelopes, though. Sure, everyone is going to tear into the invitations and then completely disregard the envelopes, but this wedding-fanatic-blogger part of me rebelled against doing any old envelopes.
There was no way I was going to hand-write all the addresses:
Calligraphy wasn’t an option for us because of cost, but I wanted to do something a little more special than printing them on a label and sticking them on. I didn’t tell Mr. Lemur this until AFTER he bought labels and arranged all the addresses…I really am sorry about that one, babe.
I decided that I would print them out on a printer in a nice font and call it a day. Couldn’t be too bad, right? And actually, it wasn’t, but the setup was a little tricky. First of all, my obsessive mind wanted the fonts to match the invitation. Well that wasn’t hard since the template listed the fonts—except they weren’t standard fonts on my computer.
Step one: Download the fonts and install them.
Step two: Ask Mr. Lemur to arrange all the addresses…again.
Step three: Print the envelopes.
This is a mind-blowing tutorial, I know. Wait till you see the reveal pictures.
I’m actually very, very happy with them. I bought them from the same shop where our invites were printed, so the color and weight of the paper matches exactly—and they were only $0.10 each, which is a plus! The colors are off in the picture but they’re a nice ivory, and the words are printed in a dark gray. Printing them on my computer took about three hours on a Saturday afternoon, but I only ruined two in the printer (plus five or six more that were my fault for not double checking the addresses before I printed)!
We dropped our invites in the mail a few weeks ago and we’ve already gotten some online RSVPs, which makes me so so happy! I’ll keep you updated on how the online RSVP and guest list works out for us.
How did you address your envelopes? I’ve seen some really awesome tutorials for printing them and then lettering over it, but with 80 invites that was just way too much for this girl!
I found this tutorial quite reassuring! People keep trying to tell me it will be impossible to print on envelopes. Thank you!
@cafrinB: Oh, it’s not! If you want more information, just let me know. The hardest thing is figuring out the first envelope. Then I did them in batches of five to prevent jamming. And it went really well 
i wanted calligraphy but with the prices it was impossible for me so i used the tutorial that one of the Bees post here and print 200 envelopes at home and then did the faux calligraphy
it was like 3 weeks of hard labor getting those babies done!! 
@tonejis: Oh girl, I have SO much respect for you. I bet they looked incredible!
I know a lot of people can’t tell the difeeence, but I really like the color.
Our invite set had labels for us to print adresses there, we only printed the name of the recipient since we hand delivered all of them.
My current plan is to do faux calligraphy, but I might totally wuss out. Your printed envelopes look fantastic!
Although I had calligraphy for the main envelope, I printed all the RSVP envelopes at home on my parents’ laser printer.
Can you tell me where you got the envelopes?
I wanted to print our envelopes so badly but I could not get any o our three printers to do it without ruining the envelopes. Yours look beautiful!
@Mrs. Toadstool: Hand delivering invites sounds really neat! And it would have saved a lot of money on postage… but I guess you’re spending the money to drive to deliver them
@Miss Airplane: Faux calligraphy looks sooo good. I’m just way too lazy. Haha
@Mrs. Bracelet: Oh I hadn’t even thought about the RSVP envelopes for those who are doing it! Good point.
@Cecilia: They were from a local print shop. If you’re in the Greenville area, send me a message and I can give you some recommendations!
@Mrs. Pony: I was afraid of ruining the envelopes! And if I tried to do more than five at a time they would jam… but thankfully I managed to get down a system where it worked really well.
yes! can you tell us how you did that? they look amazing!
@ash: Sure! I (ahem, Mr. Lemur) set up Microsoft Word to be the size of our envelopes—ours were 5″ x 7″. Then I used text boxes to get the words exactly where I wanted them to be. Then all I had to do was load an envelope and experiment! I printed eight or nine times on two envelopes… just trying different font sizes and making sure everything was centered correctly. It’s definitely trial & error. Just make sure you load the envelopes correctly!
@electric: Thank you!!
I’m debating… I will probably try to practice up on my calligraphy skillz and give it a go, but if I don’t care for it, I’ll just skip right over to the printer. They’d probably look nicer than my handwriting anyway, so it’s a solid “back-up” option.
being the crazy anal-nutso bride that I am, I printed all my invites, replies, inserts and envelopes, because I wanted the same font on everything. The test pages are super important for sure. Plus the settings in your printer make a huge difference as well. I found a great deal on printer cartridges online and stocked up for everything we need to print. I am planning on doing the programs in the coming weeks.
I am definitely here to help if anyone has questions about the printing!
Yes! Another bride like me! I have horrid handwriting, and the thought of having to hand write all those addresses leaves me shivering in fear. I plan on either A) having my mom hand write them B) buying a return address stamp or C) printing them out.
But I’m scared that they will print weird or wrong on my printer…. and I don’t have tons of envelopes to do test runs.
@Blonde17Jess: Knowing me, the printer would probably look better than my calligraphy, traced or not
@faeriegirl05: Yay that’s awesome! I did have the invites & programs professionally done, but I was thrilled to be able to match the envelopes on my home printer.
@PeachSnapple: Return addrses stamps are super cute! If you decide to print them, I would suggest taking one or two envelopes and printing on them multiple times. On the first envelope, just keep flipping it over until it looks exactly the way you want it. On the second envelope, make sure you’re able to load correctly. After those two, I didn’t ruin any. If you’re better at it than I am, you won’t even have to ruin two!
I would actually like to say that it would have been much easier if Miss Lemur had just told me how she wanted them to be printed. She would have been able to do away with all of the trial and error by simply tweaking a few things in Microsoft Word.
On the plus side though, they turned out looking pretty sweet!
Mrs. Lemur, Greenville, South Carolina Age and Occupation: 22, Graduate Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 22, Security Officer Engagement Date: October 9, 2012 Wedding Date: May 2013 Venue: Pleasant Ridge Camp & Retreat Center About Me: I may fancy myself a doctor after too many episodes of House—but in reality I'm finally almost done with my degree in business administration (less than three months left!). My fiance and I met at school in undergrad hundreds of miles away from either of our hometowns and have been happily running and hiking together ever since. We're undertaking a long distance relationship as I finish school and we plan our casual wedding for a day after graduation—needless to say, it will be the busiest and most exciting weekend of our lives so far!
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