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Wedding Wednesdays: Invitations

So, in the style of Miss Smidge, I’m going to jump on the Wedding Wednesday bandwagon (hosted at Something Charming).

Today, I’m going to panic about invitations.

In the words of Randy Newman; it’s a jungle out there!

Before I started this whole planning malarkey, invitations seemed like a necessary evil of the whole day. They’d let people know about your wedding; date, place and time. Bish bash bosh, you’re sorted!

But surprise surprise, that’s not the end of it! The invitations can be embossed, engraved, indented, printed, hand-written, plain or elaborate, funny or traditional. There are so many different companies offering different services and it’s almost impossible to choose!

We’ve decided to make our own invitations. Cost is obviously one of the major considerations that led to this decision, but also the whole “i’m already a bridezilla” factor. At least when we make these invitations ourselves, we can make them exactly how we want them.

I’m obviously not going to show the invitation stuff here (and yes, 2+years to go, and we’ve already bought stuff for the invitations. Don’t judge!), but let’s just say we haven’t gone for something that’s traditional, or particularly wedding-y. And no, it’s also not going to be one of those invitations that are very much “in” right now; you know, the festival-y/ticket-style quirky cool invitations. Yes, they look fantastic, but they’re not really “us”. And the traditional white pearl-effect dreamy invitations with the pretty calligraphy isn’t really “us” either.

So, we’ve got the basics sorted. We’ve got the materials and we’re all ready and raring to go. Now the next thought will be wording the invitations. Apparently, this is a very important part of the invitation. There’s the traditional wording for when the bride’s parents are hosting, when the groom’s parents are hosting, and when the happy couple is hosting. Then there’s the one where there are step-mothers, stepfathers, step this and step that. It’s just SO complicated! Again, we’ll be breaking tradition on this one. We’ll be putting exactly what we want on the invitations, screw what anybody else thinks.

But doing it this way, I feel like we’re missing out a bit. We’re not going to get to experience the feeling of our fingers brushing against expensive card in a fancy shop. We’re not going to have our hearts jump to our throats when that parcel from the calligrapher’s arrives at our door. We’ll be in control, and there will be no surprises. And sometimes, surprises can be good.

What’s your strategy for your cards?

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