Invitations going out - What is that trick? - Long Island Weddings

Instead of using pencil which I saw and it drove me crazy, we used a marker under the return address stamp with teh number and figured we can peel the stamp off worse case scenario

Invitations going out - What is that trick? - Long Island Weddings

thanks for clearing this up ladies! I had no idea to think of doing this

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Posted by Fashion Bride

Instead of using pencil which I saw and it drove me crazy, we used a marker under the return address stamp with teh number and figured we can peel the stamp off worse case scenario

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great idea I am going to do this too

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Posted by larlynn

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Posted by Fashion Bride

Hand Cancel is where they just stamp the 'paid postage' signage on the invite instead of running it through the machine which creates barcodes on the invite and can damage anything delicate on the invite in the enevelope

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They still go through a machine, even with hand canceling! They can cancel out the postage by hand, but the barcode on the bottom goes on after it leaves the local PO and it's done with a machine. My invitation place INSISTED that hand canceling avoided machines completely but it's not true....I checked with multiple POs. I had crystals on my invites and a bunch came off (I question whether it was the PO's fault or the invitation people did a shoddy job, leaning towards the latter). If I could go back in time I would have nixed the crystals....they ended up being a waste of money.

Sorry for the rant, but revisiting this got me annoyed again!

Also, I did my numbers in invisible ink....the pen was like $2 at barnes and noble.

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Sorry to make you revisit this but Thank you for the information. I do not have crystals on my invitation so I'm guess it will be fine going through the machine..I hope

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Posted by cets1290

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Posted by melhunny46

what do you mean by the trick? I don't get it lol someone please explain :)

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Basically, you assign each invite a # that corresponds to that person you are sending it to. That way, if you get an RSVP and you're like 'who the heck is this?' because their handwriting is illegible, you can flip it over and look up the person by their # that you put on the back of the card :)

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i never would have thought of this. definitely doing this ... i love that people send them back blank ...

Invitations going out - What is that trick? - Long Island Weddings

I did it lightly with pen on the back of the RSVP...one of our friends thought it was funny and wrote '63' HUGE across the entire RSVP hahha

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Posted by Chaz

I did it lightly with pen on the back of the RSVP...one of our friends thought it was funny and wrote '63' HUGE across the entire RSVP hahha

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Haha! Cute! That must've given you a laugh when you received it...