So as my previous post said one of my friends who is a graphic designer volunteered to design our wedding invitations as a wedding gift. Great! So I thought! We met back in the first week of June which would give her plenty of time to design something since our wedding isn't until October 23, 2010. Well it took her over two month to design something and I finally got to see a design this past Sunday with final design emailed to me last night afer a couple minor color changes.
She had been doing all the research on paper, envelopes and printing. So I'm thinking she had everything under control and I would have my invitations by next week with the possibility it would be the end of August before I got them. I planned on getting them addressed and sent out before I go on vacation to Florida from September 4-12.
Well she sends me a frantic email today saying that it takes two weeks for the paper/envelopes to come in and then it will be another couple days for printing. WHAT?! I was so frustrated that she didn't get all this clarified the last two and half months so we could have ordered them in plenty of time. I called paperzone immediately to get them ordered and now they are saying they can't order one of the envelopes in the size and color that I need.
To say the least, I'm a bit stressed! My invitations will probably not get out to about 6 weeks exactly before our wedding.