Invitations are in mailboxes!!

Posted Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:46 AM

WHOO-HOO! The wedding feels like it is officially happening!! We’ve been getting phone calls from family members gushing about how adorable they are. Well, I take that back. No one has said a thing about the invitations themselves. Everyone loves our photo stamps from Zazzle.com. I told my mother that Jason and I could have written the information on 3x5 cards, stuck them in the envelope, and no one would have cared so long as those stamps were affixed to the outside!

Am I miffed? Eh…a little. I was really hoping people would be surprised that I had made them. My mother says you can tell they aren’t from a professional printer, but they don’t look cheap. One of my friends actually said they were quite elegant, and she was half expecting to see the phrase “black tie optional” somewhere on the invite. My only regret? I wish I would have used this icon on the invites:

…instead of the simple celtic knot I did. Well, live and learn. I can use it at the reception!

And speaking of living and learning, I am kicking myself for NOT putting our registry information in the invitations as well. I don’t freaking care how many etiquette rules it breaks, my guests were actually CONFUSED as to why we didn’t include it! This leads me to say this: know your guests. If you know they are all a bunch of wedding-etiquette snobs, then by all means follow true to form. But if you have received other invitations from family members with registry information in them (like I have), follow suit!! With so many other traditions being broken nowadays, no one is going to scorn you for breaking one more.