accidentally way over ordered invitations....don't be like me!

CaliMel11

So in our infinite wisdom, we ordered an invitation per guest! Sounds great right? Until I started addressing them and it dawned on me that DUH most of our friends/people were are inviting are couples...so that would be 1 invite per 2 people, or more if they have kids.
We pretty much ordered twice as many invitations as we actually needed. Which really sucks because what a waste of money! And now we have a lifetime supply of envelopes that are square lol.
Make sure you take a look at your guest list and count how many invitations you actually will need, don't just take the number of people and order that many!

WildMagelet

We picked up our invites one box at a time in the clearance aisles at random Wal*marts before we had a *real* idea as to just how small we wanted our shindig to be.  We figured it would be better to have too many and donate/resell them afterwards than end up running out.  We now have a ridiculous # of B&W pocketfolds  I've considered reselling the extras, but also think it could turn into an inside joke with FI where I just recycle & dress them up for different future occasions...for the rest of our lives lol.  I mean, B&W goes with everything, right! haha

CaliMel11

That's pretty much what we were joking about as well! Happy Birthday! Here's a wedding invitation from us! Merry Christmas! Wedding Invite! Hey, we're throwing a birthday party, here's an RSVP card! We're pretty much set for life on square envelopes with our address on them, and little envelopes with a return address to us on them. At least yours are, I take it, blank ones? ours are printed through Wedding Paper Divas.

WildMagelet

CaliMel11 said:

That's pretty much what we were joking about as well! Happy Birthday! Here's a wedding invitation from us! Merry Christmas! Wedding Invite! Hey, we're throwing a birthday party, here's an RSVP card! We're pretty much set for life on square envelopes with our address on them, and little envelopes with a return address to us on them. At least yours are, I take it, blank ones? ours are printed through Wedding Paper Divas.

Yes, they are the print-your-own kits.  I think we have like 7-8 boxes of 25, which is probably 5-6 boxes more than we actually need, even accounting for screw-ups!

ETA:  We found a style we liked and just bought *every* box we came across, one box at a time, lol.  To be fair if we would have actually used most of them if we would have opted for an extended family/lots of friends & clients type of wedding versus intimate

SouthernBride2013

I did the exact same thing! So now we have a box of wedding invites, rsvp cards, and envelopes sitting in our closet. I'm still thinking up some crafty way to use them as I used a couple in the book I made from all our shower/wedding cards. Good advice to remind others!

Mlewis1

So glad I came across this! Ordering all of my soon and I would have done the same exact thing! 

redwoodoriginal

Invitation costs was something I was freaking out about and then my friend was like, you realize you can essentially almost cut that cost in half bc most ppl you are inviting are a unit and get one for both... Right?

BIGGEST sigh of relief I've ever had haha!!

misscoffeeplease

I did the same thing with my STDs! I should have really only ordered 100+ something and I ordered 210. Ugh! I won't make that same mistake on our formal invitations.

Cookie Pusher

We over-ordered, but only by about 2 dozen (which really didn't cost us that much). Luckily, they're cute and I cut cut part of the design out and attach it to blank note cards to use.

d2va

Cookie Pusher said:

We over-ordered, but only by about 2 dozen (which really didn't cost us that much). Luckily, they're cute and I cut cut part of the design out and attach it to blank note cards to use.

I over ordered by about 20, and that is a fabulous FABULOUS idea!!!

CaliMel11

It's a bummer that the invitation companies don't have a calulator or something for that! Or at least a reminder, but they probably love it that we all over order lol.

I'll have to figure out a way to reuse them too.