Wedding invitations…

I can hardly believe the humor of creating our own invitations for our wedding. Amy and I really thought it would be a good idea to save some money (which in fact it REALLY saved a LOT of money). The real humor is that creating our own invitations for the wedding really created a LOT of work. I worked on them in Russia and really got a good headstart.

When we got to the States, I just had to drop in the text and we were ready to go. Amy and I headed off to the copy shop to print a test invite and… they didn't have legal sized card stock… so I changed the invitation to letter size. Then we printed a test. It was perfect.

So the next day we returned to make the invitations. They didn't have the same card stock… it was too thick which made it too difficult to fold the invitations and they didn't look as nice.

So the quest began. There is a store in Ann Arbor called Xpedex, which basically only sells paper and related products. So we found the right weight of paper and the right color. We needed enough to print 200, so I got 250.

All was great until we were walking out of Kinko's (the copy shop) and realized that the invites are 2 pages of double sided… which means we needed 400 sheets of cardstock… and it was already 5pm. So another day lost in the process of putting together the invites.

In the end, they are created and this weekend we'll be folding, stamping, stickering, labeling, and mailing them! Look out paper cuts and gummy tongues.