Not only were the invitations absolutely stunning, but they were handmade, down to the DIY letterpress.
~ Mrs. Border Collie
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Well, it looks like we are officially having a wedding. Not as if all the other things we?ve been planning indicated otherwise, but sending out the invitations made the event somehow seem more tangible than ever before. We?ve received the first of our RSVPs back (they said yes!), so I think it?s high time for me to share with the hive.
You might recall that I planned to DIY our invitations from the beginning, and boy oh boy, DIY they were. I got a few text messages from guests who knew my DIY plan and asked, ?Well which parts did you make yourself"? What do you mean which parts" Save for creating the envelopes from scratch and weaving our own twine, we made everything! The scene at the post office was not as hectic has I had imagined. It might have helped that we mailed our invitations from our hometown in New Jersey rather than NYC. My parents? dining room had become my invitation headquarters as there just wasn?t enough space in our studio to spread out a suitable crafting station. We were able to keep the postage to the 70 cent wedding invitation standard (I was very nervous about the weight), but the first post office we went to wanted to charge us 21 cents extra for hand cancelling. I had never heard of an upcharge for hand cancelling so we tried another post office in town. Lo and behold, no upcharge there. Winner! We did end up h...