elrohwen
Ideal_Rock
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Hey girls! I haven''t been on in a while ... mostly because of my vacation last week and being really busy/stressed out with work. I''m trying to catch up on where everyone is at and looking at all of the pics from recent weddings. Congrats to everyone who got married in the past month or two! I''ve been very delinquent on commenting on the picture threads.
Anyway, I had to come on and vent about my invitation issues with people who would understand. I''ve been working with the company "Invitations by Dawn" because they seemed cheap and had cute designs. I didn''t want anything fancy, just something nice and reasonably priced. I found cute ones with fall leaves that had a little something special (I like the paisly pattern in the leaves):
http://www.invitationsbydawn.com/We_ViewEns.cfm?sItemCode=WedEns8167&sCatalogCode=WedEnsDD&iStartRow=1&format=WedEnsDDa&lCriteria=247&strcontinue=yes&strsearch=yes
I ordered them on 6/27, thinking that would be plenty of time for my 9/25 wedding. Well, after at least 4 proof iterations, it was already early August
Basically, I just wanted them to change the spacing between the lines on the invites, but they consistently got it wrong (at least they didn''t charge me for every set of proofs). At this point, they were pretty late, so I changed the response date from 8/25 to 9/1 to give people at least a week or two.
Finally they got them right after some phone calls and mailed them out on 8/3. I didn''t realize how far away the company was and was shocked to find out they wouldn''t arrive until 8/10, when I was on vacation!
So I get back from vacation on 8/15 and am all ready to mail these suckers out. I open the box to find that they sent all 100 invites, envelopes, etc, but only 25 ribbons to tie the invites together with
So FI and I run to the fabric store and just happen to find exactly the same ribbon and get everything assembled to mail on Monday, 8/17. Phew.
I thought everything was taken care of and I could finally relax. Then last night, FMIL calls and says that "transportation" is misspelled on the last page of the invite. Thinking it''s a little thing, I grab an inite and it''s spelled "transportiontion"
I was trying to be calm about the whole thing, but I can''t help feeling really let down now ... I''m so not a wedding person and the only reason I''m doing this is because I want a party with my friends. I''m pretty sure if we eloped, I''d be stress free, but I would probably regret not being able to share it with so many friends who we love. But this whole thing just turned me off the whole wedding thing again and bummed me out
I''m not super upset about it or anything ... bummed out is really the best expression. When I see how much of a discount they''re willing to refund me, we''ll see if my mood turns around
If you read my whole rant, thank you for listening! Just had to tell someone and my co-workers probably wouldn''t care. They''re mostly men, I can''t blame them
And I really wouldn''t recommend this invitation company ... unless you leave lots and lots of time for them to do things over and get it perfect. And if you''re a better proof-reader than I am (though I''m usually really good at spotting errors!)
As FI pointed out, our favors (pint glasses with a logo inspired by the Guiness logo) came in and are super cool. At the end of the day, people won''t remember the invites, but they will remember the awesome pint glasses that they get to take home with them
Anyway, I had to come on and vent about my invitation issues with people who would understand. I''ve been working with the company "Invitations by Dawn" because they seemed cheap and had cute designs. I didn''t want anything fancy, just something nice and reasonably priced. I found cute ones with fall leaves that had a little something special (I like the paisly pattern in the leaves):
http://www.invitationsbydawn.com/We_ViewEns.cfm?sItemCode=WedEns8167&sCatalogCode=WedEnsDD&iStartRow=1&format=WedEnsDDa&lCriteria=247&strcontinue=yes&strsearch=yes
I ordered them on 6/27, thinking that would be plenty of time for my 9/25 wedding. Well, after at least 4 proof iterations, it was already early August
Finally they got them right after some phone calls and mailed them out on 8/3. I didn''t realize how far away the company was and was shocked to find out they wouldn''t arrive until 8/10, when I was on vacation!
So I get back from vacation on 8/15 and am all ready to mail these suckers out. I open the box to find that they sent all 100 invites, envelopes, etc, but only 25 ribbons to tie the invites together with
I thought everything was taken care of and I could finally relax. Then last night, FMIL calls and says that "transportation" is misspelled on the last page of the invite. Thinking it''s a little thing, I grab an inite and it''s spelled "transportiontion"
If you read my whole rant, thank you for listening! Just had to tell someone and my co-workers probably wouldn''t care. They''re mostly men, I can''t blame them
As FI pointed out, our favors (pint glasses with a logo inspired by the Guiness logo) came in and are super cool. At the end of the day, people won''t remember the invites, but they will remember the awesome pint glasses that they get to take home with them
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