At long last we?ve collected our invitations! By the time you read this post, I hope we?ll have sent them out too?indecisive as usual, we?ve left things a little late and now it?s a bit of a mad rush to get things going on a reasonably timely basis.

Wedding invitations were one of the first things my mom and I looked into after I got engaged last summer, but when it came down to it Ben and I very nearly skipped print invitations altogether. There are so many gorgeous options out there, but once I realized how expensive our wedding was going to be paper invites started to seem like any easy thing to cut.
After all, it?s so much easier to go electronic all the way. No gathering addresses (assuming you’re a  terrible Millennial like us and don?t keep many on file), no addressing envelopes, no figuring out postage, no fiddling with RSVP cards. And there are lots of great templates out there; you?re certainly not stuck with a boring plain-text email in Calibri. My mother, however, had other ideas. She feels that a wedding merits old-fashioned printed invitations, and since she volunteered to cover the costs and handle the addressing?the two biggest cons for me?I thought I might as well give way to her preference. While it?s true that your wedding is really about you and your fiancé, it can be nice to let parents (or other close relatives) weigh in on some points?especially the ones they care about much more than you do. This is doubly true for us, since our respect...