It’s that time, we’re in the midst of invitation printing, packaging and sending. We bought an invitation kit from Walmart, a Wilton brand, and I’m really really happy with it. I think it’s very pretty and we saved a TON of money by printing ourselves.
Setting up the templates and the printer to print correctly are a bit more challenging. We’re still fighting with the response card envelopes. And by “we” I mean “Nate”. For all my computer abilities, I’m really pretty awful with them, especially when it comes to this stuff, so the duty of printing has become Nate’s battle.
So on the topic of stress, I admit I’ve been letting it get to me lately. Just everything starts to pile up on me. My story yesterday: I go to the post office with one of my invitations all packaged up to have it weighed and buy the postage necissary. I pull out the response card and envelope, to be sure that’s only going to need the regular 44 cent stamp. The woman behind the counter takes it from me, looks at me with concern and says “how many of these did you buy?” My heart sank to my stomach. “100. Why?” She proceeds to tell me it’s too small to be mailable. She shows me on her little template thing that the envelope is 1/2 inch too small. Seriously? She gets on the phone with someone and has at least a 15 minute back and fourth with whoever she’s talking to about what to do. In the meantime a line is beginning to grow behind me. My blood pressure must have been through the roof. All we have left to do is print the response envelopes and the invitation envelopes. I let her know my save the dates were sent in an even smaller envelope with only a 44 cent stamp and they all seemed to be delivered fine. (**Please tell me if you did not get your save the date magnet, or if you were required to pay extra postage!) She didn’t buy that. All this work, no way is this happening. I was really on the verge of tears. She gets off the phone and tells me I can either A.) buy new, bigger envelopes to incluce and only use a 44 cent stamp or B.) use this small envelope, pay 60 something cents a peice “and risk it being deliverable”. I just said give me the 44 cent stamps.
To be honest, I think I’m just going to use the original envelopes. Shhh, don’t tell USPS! If the save the dates went out fine, I don’t see why these won’t too. I think she’s full of it. And while we’re being honest, I did cry later too. I was able to keep it back while in the post office, but once I got home I lost it. Not about the envelopes themselves, I guess, just everything. I told you I was on the way to becoming a crazy bride! It’s just my type A personality, I need organization and the slightest bit of chaos throws me into a panic. Just breathe. “I will not be a crazy bride, I will not be a crazy bride, I will not be a crazy bride…” 🙂
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