Monday, November 15, 2010
Gulp! People are getting their invitations! (61 Days)
8:04 PM | 
Posted by
mishlowe |
Hey People,
Last weekend I began the tiresome chore of assembling, addressing, and mailing out the invitations. Each step had a slight roadblock.
Assembling flat out took forever. I guess that's the penalty of choosing pocket invitations. Each invite had to be mounted onto the mat, then 3 pocket inserts, a band around the bottom, and sealed with hot wax. Yes, hot wax like they did in the 1800's. The end result looked pretty cool. I hope ya'll like it.
Then once they were assembled we had to deal with tempermental mail merges and a few envelopes became casualties to the printer.... yikes. Not to mention in our haste to get them all printed, I ended up sending out one invite without a zip code. grrrrr!
Finally, at the post office I was told I had incorrect postage for every envelope. I was angry because when I got the invites weighed the first time I was told I would require a 61 cent stamp. Now all of a sudden I needed an additional 78 cents, per envelope. That's $78!! She went on to tell me that I had one of two options. A) Mail the letters as they were and hope all of my guests would not get charged an additional 78 cents when they receive them. or B) Put a stamp of Fredrick Douglas looking a hot mess on my invitiation. Finally the stress got to me and my eyes started to tear up in the post office. The woman probably felt sorry for me and gave me a third option, telling me that I may be able to go to the New Orleans post office and they will postmark it without a problem. 20 minutes later, the New Orleans post office took all of my invites off of my hands and I was beyond relieved. Today some of my friends have confirmed that they have received their invites without any complication.
Now that the invites are out of the way, I'm looking forward to going home and spending time with my family, and seeing some people who may not be able to make it to the wedding. Not to mention getting some of my mama's home cooked food.
Thanks to everyone who helped get the invites out. Shout out to Denise, Brandon, Lori, PJ, and Cindy. Ya'll are awesome.
-Mish
Last weekend I began the tiresome chore of assembling, addressing, and mailing out the invitations. Each step had a slight roadblock.
Assembling flat out took forever. I guess that's the penalty of choosing pocket invitations. Each invite had to be mounted onto the mat, then 3 pocket inserts, a band around the bottom, and sealed with hot wax. Yes, hot wax like they did in the 1800's. The end result looked pretty cool. I hope ya'll like it.
Then once they were assembled we had to deal with tempermental mail merges and a few envelopes became casualties to the printer.... yikes. Not to mention in our haste to get them all printed, I ended up sending out one invite without a zip code. grrrrr!
Finally, at the post office I was told I had incorrect postage for every envelope. I was angry because when I got the invites weighed the first time I was told I would require a 61 cent stamp. Now all of a sudden I needed an additional 78 cents, per envelope. That's $78!! She went on to tell me that I had one of two options. A) Mail the letters as they were and hope all of my guests would not get charged an additional 78 cents when they receive them. or B) Put a stamp of Fredrick Douglas looking a hot mess on my invitiation. Finally the stress got to me and my eyes started to tear up in the post office. The woman probably felt sorry for me and gave me a third option, telling me that I may be able to go to the New Orleans post office and they will postmark it without a problem. 20 minutes later, the New Orleans post office took all of my invites off of my hands and I was beyond relieved. Today some of my friends have confirmed that they have received their invites without any complication.
Now that the invites are out of the way, I'm looking forward to going home and spending time with my family, and seeing some people who may not be able to make it to the wedding. Not to mention getting some of my mama's home cooked food.
Thanks to everyone who helped get the invites out. Shout out to Denise, Brandon, Lori, PJ, and Cindy. Ya'll are awesome.
-Mish
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