Another good article from Yahoo! Food: The Big Wedding Money Wasters. Here is my response to their list:
Save The Date Cards: Our cost, $0. We didn’t send them out. We didn’t really see the point.
Letterpress Invitations: We did these ourselves on my rinky dink ink jet printer I’ve had since high school. Here’s a link [...]
Supply and Cost Breakdown:
Brown Pocket Folds – $144 (this was a total splurge for me, but well worth it in the end!)
Brown Envelopes – $48
Insert Paper 26×20 cover weight (for the RSVP cards) – $3
Insert Paper 26×20 text weight (for all the other inserts) – $24.30
Postage Stamps – $91.50
Postcard Stamps – $44.80
Shipping & Handling – [...]
Now that our invitations have had a good two weeks to find their ways to their new homes, I think its safe to finally reveal to the rest of the world what they look like.
Here is the entire suite, certain information has been blurred to protect the innocent:
The entire pocket fold contained the invitation(on the [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...People have been receiving their invitations and I have been getting lots of compliments on them. I’d like to show you how they all came together at Invitation Bonanza last Saturday.
Here are all the pieces neatly organized and ready for assembly. Everything was ready to go- all of the envelopes were addressed, they just had [...]
Today is the two month mark! And after a slight hiccup involving the post office and 40 missing stamps, we are happy to announce that our invitations are in the mail and headed to their new homes.
We dropped them off at the Post Office on Saturday night after Invitation Bonanza.
The Mister putting the last of [...]
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