The invitations are complete and ready to go!

Once we finalized the meal situation and the guest list was cut down a bit more, I could finally go ahead with the invitations. You will read a lot of websites that give you wedding invitation etiquette and it will bore you to tears unless you are into doing things the traditional and apparently polite way. This, on the other hand, is the "I dont give a shit" method of doing invitations. So as you may remember I got my invitations from homesense and got an excellent deal. For a set of 50 invitations, with response cards envelopes and all that jazz it was $9.99 comparable to about $50 at Michaels and they aren't ugly, they're actually quite nice.

Most people ask for help with invitations and I'm here to tell you that would have been a good idea for me to try. Unfortunately I went it alone, and by alone I dont mean Josh helped me, I mean ALONE. It took me about two solid days of printing, writing, stamping, licking, tying to get to them all finished. I worked from an excel file that I started when I got engaged with everyones names, partner and children's names, email addresses and mailing addresses. I highlighted each person green when I finished their invitation and when I get the RSVP back I will highlight it some other colour. Why? Because I am the most unorganized person in the world.

How our invitations are working is that everyone is getting an invitation. Some people say we should have done e-vites but lets be honest the older population just dont get that and dont appreciate it. People like paper invitations. With that said we are asking everyone who has access to the internet to rsvp on our wedding website under the rsvp page. For those without the internet, yes those people still exist, they can send back the response card but if i'm being honest I didn't include a stamp, because as far as I'm concerned they can call me and i'll put them in the website.

Three pieces of advice when doing invitations:
1. Buy extras because you will screw up on some of them
2. Buy an address stamp for your return address, I didn't do this until after all the response envelopes were addressed. BIG MISTAKE. 23 bucks at London Rubber Stamps for a personalized return address stamp on Kempt Road, saving your wrists from Carpel Tunnel --- Priceless.
3. Hand deliver as many as you possibly can. I made my invitations a couple weeks early (they should go out 4 months prior to the date) because my graduation is this week and my nephews birthday is next week, which means I can hand deliver a huge chunk of the invitations within the next two weeks. Its a little earlier than the norm but I trust that people can protect that one piece of paper with the website they need to rsvp on which I will remind them of on facebook. NO BIG D.

 Finished Product