Bye, Babies…
July 22nd, 2008 @ 3:09 pm by Miss Sundae
As of approximately 8:11 this morning, the invitations are in the mail. I’ve worked so long and hard on those things, I feel like I’ve given birth to them! I packed them up as carefully as possible last night and then handed them over this morning to a perfect stranger who is sure to mangle and otherwise attempt to destroy those beautiful little pieces of paper. I had lofty ideals about having them hand cancelled, but trying to get that done in the city of Chicago makes the phrase “uphill battle” an understatement. I had done my research; I knew that I could probably get them hand cancelled if I tried hard enough, but that in the end they’ll go through sorting machines anyway. So when I went in this morning armed with my beautiful boxes of correspondence, the conversation went something like this:
Me: Gooooood Morning!
(Nothing but an evil glance from Grumpy McGrumperson post office worker. I quickly decide that the cheeriness is going to get me nowhere, tone it down a notch)
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Invitation Details… Stamps and Postcards
June 16th, 2008 @ 3:58 pm by Mrs. Cream Puff
This post will be sort of a mish-mash of a couple of things I discovered while experimenting with and mailing our invitations. First, I present you with a photo of Future In Law Puff’s invitation, which is evidence as to why you may want to go to the trouble of hand canceling if you made custom stamps (and no, I don’t have any suggestions on hand cancelling–I didn’t end up doing it because it seemed like too much work):
I am more and more thankful that I stopped caring about the stamps.
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Vintage vs. New: After All It’s Just A Stamp, Right?!
June 13th, 2008 @ 5:30 pm by Miss Cookie
Darn you Martha Stewart and your impeccable use of vintage stamps! (Sorry, Martha!) Ok, first off let me say that I love vintage stamps, and I love the look of them on wedding invitations; however, I am trying to prioritize our wedding splurges. Already our splurges have been on location, food, my dress, and hiring a string trio for the ceremony (which I haven’t posted about yet). But, I am always in the mood for hunting for a good deal! So, I did a little vintage stamp investigation to see if I could possibly add one more splurge item. 
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All You Need Is Love (Stamps)
June 11th, 2008 @ 1:35 pm by Mrs. Lemon
DIY Calligraphy and Stamp Disasters!
June 2nd, 2008 @ 3:43 pm by Mrs. Cream Puff
Hi everybody! Today is a momentous day! Our invitations are finally going out!! Although I don’t want to post them here until our guests have received them (think end of this week), I thought I’d share the DIY pseudo-calligraphy I did (some of you seemed interested) and our adventures with stamps. Now, I’m not entirely convinced that anyone actually notices either of these two things, but we brides certainly do. So here we go.
First off, the calligraphy. I decided I wanted to get all fancy-pants, so I got a calligraphy pen and decided to try my hand at calligraphy. What did I discover? I suck at it. I can’t make all the little swirls and swooshes look good. Instead, I look like I am trying to be pretentious. So instead of addressing the envelopes using fancy calligraphy, I did two things: First, I just used the calligraphy pen with my regular handwriting. Then I added the one fancy pants calligraphy thing I really like, which is the spacing-out-of-the-zip-code (more on this in a moment).
Here is one of my envelopes:
Away They Go!
May 31st, 2008 @ 10:24 am by Mrs. Tiramisu
I was SO happy to mail my invitations and get them out of here I thought I was going to burst. We finished the invites about a month ago, but getting all of them assembled, numbered (I almost forgot to number the RSVP cards, even after lots of bee advice!), addressed and stamped took awhile!
My mom and my grandmother helped me to put the finishing touches on our envelopes. First, my grandmother carefully glued these liners into our envelopes:
We only used two different papers because we ran out of the first, but I ended up liking them both.
I’ve Now Officially Spent Way Too Much Time Thinking About Postage
April 25th, 2008 @ 12:30 pm by Mrs. Tiramisu
I went to the post office yesterday to get one of my finished invitations weighed. I was happy to find out that it was well under 2 ounces weighing in at a featherlight 1.20 ounces. The friendly postal employee even tested its thickness and I am happy to report that it fit easily through the test slot, saving me from the lumpy-bumpy surcharge (I’m pretty sure that’s the technical USPS term).
Permanent… Yup It’s Forever
April 11th, 2008 @ 12:41 pm by Mrs. Flamingo
Many fellow bees have blogged about having stamp issues with their invitations. Some purchased stamps at one point, but because of an increase in rates, they purchased those annoying 0.01$ stamps. Luckily for us Canadians we no longer need to deal with $0.01 stamps because they’ve introduced permanent stamps, similar to the forever stamp issued last year in the US.
I was really excited about this news, especially being someone who rarely uses stamps. I went to the post office and purchased 2 rolls of 100 adhesive permanent stamps. The only disadvantage of these stamps I would say is the variety, but a pretty flower like the one shown is nice and wedding invitation worthy.
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They’re Off!
March 11th, 2008 @ 3:26 pm by Ms. Dahlia
Yes, these
are off in their hand-canceled glory.
A note about the hand-canceling, as I know that some people have different experiences with it than others.
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My Martha Moment
February 22nd, 2008 @ 4:47 pm by Mrs. Tulip
For the most part, we’ve focused on only the important things for our wedding. Any high ambitions I may have had regarding fancy DIY projects have fallen by the wayside in light of my lack of time and energy….
But there was one Martha Stewart idea I simply HAD to try:
(image courtesy of Martha Stewart)
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