04/26/2010
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Wedding Invitation
Finally sent them out!

Today is the 6 week mark, guests should be recieving their invites in their mailboxes today! Yay!

Unpredictable bride created them for us & we printed them at Staples. Printing them was a much larger (& annoying) task as I had planned.

If you plan on DIY your invites, keep a few things in mind...
- Know your exact dimensions if someone is designing them for you (Unpredicatable bride was GREAT throughout the process).
- Pay attention to the cost for postage AND what's available. We chose to use a postcard for our RSVP cards. BUT, didn't realize that the only 28 cent stamp available from USPS is a polar bear!!!!! I refused to use a polar bear stamp for a June wedding so we ended up using the 44 cent wedding bands instead---total waste of money!!! But ordering from zazzle would have taken too long & cost even more. Plus, we used customized stamps for our STD's.
- we ordered our pocket folds from paperandmore.com they had SUPER fast shipping and great prices.

*Now let's hope people start sending in the RSVPS =]
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unpredictablebride's Black wedding
 |  Oak forest, IL, USA  |  04/26/2010
OHH they turned out great all put together! I love seeing the complete design..yay!!!
gratefulbride's Blue wedding
 |  Charlotte, NC, USA  |  04/26/2010
They look amazing.  I love the details & shimmer of the enveloping.
macbride's Orange wedding
 |  Hamilton, ON, Canada  |  04/26/2010
So pretty!
tashasita's Purple wedding
 |  Mount hope, ON, Canada  |  04/26/2010
They look amazing!
princessfortheday's Purple wedding
 |  Toronto, ON, Canada  |  04/26/2010
They are gorgeous!  Woohoo!  So exciting.
foreverstartsnow's Black wedding
 |  Barrie, ON, Canada  |  04/26/2010
Great Job ladies! :)
alwaysandforever's Pink wedding
 |  Knoxville, TN, USA  |  04/26/2010
Oooohhhh they look so nice. I am thinking about having Shayne do our invite as well. As soon as I figure out all the details I am getting in touch with her. I love her work.

Thanks for all the little tips. They will for sure come in handy. What made the printing process hard? Was it just getting the size right? Or was Staples difficult?

Also what did you use to address them? i love the white on the black envelopes.
kittieswed's Purple wedding
 |  Brooklyn, NY, USA  |  04/26/2010
These came out great love them, exactly what I want. Question about printin did staples cut them for you or did you have cut them yourself
shawnamarie0509's Green wedding
 |  Asbury, NJ, USA  |  04/26/2010
Wow. They look awesome! Great job!
sophdd's White wedding
 |  Oak lawn, IL, USA  |  04/27/2010
Thanks ladies!!!

@Unpredictable bride- they did turn out great, thanks to you! I truly appreciate your help & willingness to change sizes and things for me on such short notice!

@alwaysandforever-Do it! Shayne is awesome to work with. I'm not sure how she gets it all done (& quickly) while planner her own wedding. The printing was difficult because of the Staples store I dealt with--not Staples in general. I kept getting different price quotes from different employees. When it came down to the final order tho, they were very patient and willing to make serveral prints & adjustments to make me happy. I would recommend them, they're b&w printing is super affordable--color is almost 3x as much tho!

I used a white gel pen ($2) from Michaels, I bought a few different brands and tried them out, the basic gel one worked the best. It dried super quick and was so easy to write with.

@kittieswed- I had Staples cut them! I think it would have been a nightmare to do them all myself. It's $2 per cut at Staples, I ended  paying the same amount in cutting than in printing--but it was worth it.

The prints and cutting was a total of $68 bucks (with a $5 coupon).
camyam73's Black wedding
 |  Innisfil, ON, Canada  |  05/10/2010
I love the black envelopes!  where did you get them???  I would love to use that as well!  And the damask stickers are fabulous too!!!
sophdd's White wedding
 |  Oak lawn, IL, USA  |  05/10/2010
The envelopes are from :
http://www.paperandmore.com/
$10.00 for 50
The stickers are from Michaels, $3.99 for 25.
camyam73's Black wedding
 |  Innisfil, ON, Canada  |  05/10/2010
No way!  Love it!  Thank you so much
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