81 cents. That's what the postage cost to mail out our wedding invitations. Laura loved every minute of the invitation selection process. To me it was fun, but also a bit stressful. You start off by looking at books and books of sample invitations. We looked at invitations for over an hour, we narrowed it down to five, then out of those five we selected the winning invitation.
Soon after picking our invitations we received the "proofs." We must have read over them at least two dozen times. If you do not catch the errors on your proofs then you are stuck with errors on your invitations (yes you can reorder but it just takes up time). So you triple check everything - yes our wedding starts at 5:30 p.m. Did they spell our names right? Did they put the correct hotel? Actually the lady who did our invitations was great so the invitations were flawless.
The stress came when I had to put the address labels on the envelopes and then seal them. You have to make sure the labels are centered and when it came to sealing them I used this fancy liquid glue stick that is suppose to make things easy. Well I found myself either putting on too much glue (those that get the invitations that are impossible to open will know what I mean) or too little and the invitations would pop open ten minutes later. Now since it cost 81 cents to mail them I needed to put two stamps on the envelopes - even more stress lining up the stamps. Probably for most of you reading this it would be an easy process. Me? I have no arts and crafts skills so it was no walk in the park.
Well all of that is behind us and the invitations are all set to go out. I look forward to seeing everyone at the wedding.
