Did anyone else want to scream when they were doing invitations?

Original post by beatle06

Mar 22, 2006 07:59 PM

Invitation week is upon me...

Monday night I had the Calligrapher girl come to my house.

We worked from 6pm-12:30

Tuesday we worked from

6pm-1:30
Thank God we finished the envelopes last night, but I have had appox 5 hrs of sleep and am running on empty.

Tonight I am putting the stamps on,

and then tomorrow, my FI, my parents and sis and I will do an assembly line to stuff them..

I can't believe what an arduous process it has become...

my advice to everyone, make sure your list is typed out, and pre scanned to a T before you start writing them out!!

is it Friday yet?

MayBride06 Posted: Mar 23, 2006 01:26 PM

Re: Did anyone else want to scream when they were doing invitations?

Posted by cindyandkevin

Omg, I'm working on these now and I can't wait for this process to be done with and finally put them in the mail!! This has been one of my least favorite parts of wedding planning!!

Cin, Do you need help? I would be glad to come over to help you!!

beatle06 Posted: Mar 23, 2006 01:40 PM

Re: Did anyone else want to scream when they were doing invitations?

Posted by Aphrodite07

Mels will you help me with mine!

of course!

scorps1027 Posted: Mar 23, 2006 01:55 PM

Re: Did anyone else want to scream when they were doing invitations?

i can relate...i had 300 invititations and i wnated to scream bloody murder while doing them:) defly the most annoying part of wedding planning!

EMES2006 Posted: Mar 23, 2006 02:03 PM

Re: Did anyone else want to scream when they were doing invitations?

Yes, and I DID SCREAM!!

Ugh..addressing the outer envelopes was easy, it just took patience.

But the inner envelopes were too thick to go through the printer and I was ruining a LOT of my inner envelopes and was running out of extras.

So I took the easy way out and started on only write the names on the inner envelopes if they were 'Mr. Smith and Guest'. Mr. and Mrs. Jones got a blank inner envelope. I don't think anyone will notice, and if they do, I don't care!!!

mbm750 Posted: Mar 23, 2006 07:50 PM

Re: Did anyone else want to scream when they were doing invitations?

Posted by honeybee06

Posted by mbm750

Welcome to my world. My envelopes arrived from the calligrapher on Monday. My best friend and put together all the invites and wax sealed 1/2 on Monday night. It was a late night. We finished them last night... and they are going out tomorrow!!! I was too tired to go to the post office today. But my god, what a pain - this was my least favorite task. Just think though - soon you'll be done and they'll be out!!!

thanks that's comforting that some else out there feels my pain! And also comforting that you're giving exactly 2 months as well. I was beginning to think compared to everyone else I wasn't giving enough response time. thanks!

Two months is plenty of time. And from what I've read, 6-8 weeks ahead of time is standard. I'm very impressed by the many brides on here who are so on the ball and get them out before! But I just couldn't get it done until I absolutely had to - I was dreading this task and rightfully so. You'll be so relieved when you're done! It felt so good to drop them off at the post office today. And, they were so nice - they're going to hand cancel them for me and didn't give me a hard time about it at all. Hang in there - it's almost over!