Wedding Invite Assembly & Addressing strategies

SomethingBeautiful08

My invites got here a couple of weeks ago and I'm slowly getting through the assembly and addressing of them and I'm curious what strategy everyone is taking to get this task done.   Are you getting a lot of help i.e. a party? you and your FH taking turns at it?  You doing it in big several hour stretches or piecing it out over many days / weeks?

Personally I got the layers of the invite taped together in basically one long Friday night myself.  I'm hand writing them out so I made a "jig", which is just a piece of printer paper that I folded and cut to fit in my evelopes then measured and blacked in lines where the names and addresses go to help keep my lines straight.  Now I'm addressing and stuffing them one at a time, aiming for 4 or so per day so I can get them done sometime next week... No help yet though I have not asked for it either.

ktelizabeth86

I addressed them over about a month long period lol.

After addressing I stuffed, stamped and sealed with the help of FI.

I think it is much less painful if you spread it out.

mrshall1027

I'm pretty much doing them all on my own.  My mom has offered to help, but it's more comfortable for me to work on them while I'm on my couch watching tv.

As for addressing them, it was the easiest part because over the course of a week or so, I typed up all the names and addresses in a word document in the size of the envelopes.  Once I was ready, I printed them out ten at a time so that if the printer started acting up, I wouldn't have to worry about too many envelopes possibly getting ruined.

As for assembling the actual invitation, that's been more time consuming!  I have a wrap to hold the invitation, rsvp card and envelope and info card all together.  I am then taking ribbon and securing it with tape around the wrap.  Then, I am using a wax seal with a peacock image on the ribbon where the edges meet as a decorative element and to hide the ugly cut of the ribbon.  I'm finishing it off with a peacock feather inserted between the wrap and the ribbon.

It's a lot of work, but I've been splitting it all up over the course of a month or so with a few nights here and there.  One night, I printed the envelopes, another night, I cut the ribbon.  Now, I am putting the ribbon and the wax seal on and aiming at doing 10 a night.  I should be done by mid next week.

achiduck

I had my addresses printed, but I stuffed, stamped and sealed them myself. It didn't take too long, maybe 3 hours total and I camped out in front of the TV while I did it.

I think maybe aiming to do 10-15 a day should be a good way to get through it fairly quickly without ending up with carpel tunnel.

annanoel21

I have done it on my own. I printed the list of addresses off and got on MS Word and printed addresses on the envelopes in a pretty script. Marking off names as I go along. Then I went bk to make sure I had everyone on the list.

lepoissonrouge

We started designing our invites last year. Printed and cut and put together  the main invite portion in January maybe... we had vellum that needed to be attached to cardstock with brads. I addressed the RSVP envelopes a long time ago. We created the RSVP cards and reception info cards last week, printed and cut them. I hand addressed all the invites over the course of the last week or so (approx 180). My mom and sister have spent the last day or so helping me stuff and stamp them all. I am paranoid and haven't sealed them yet, lol. Need to do that soon so I can get them out of my apartment!!

CarolineandDean

I'm doing them myself.  I'm honestly too much of a control freak to let anyone else help.  I don't even want FI licking the envelopes.  Silly, I know, but I really can't help it.

I wait until I have a few hours to devote to it before I get started.  I've already addressed and stamped my RSVP's, so as I address each invitation envelope, I then stuff and stamp it.  This method is probably taking more time then if I addressed them, stuffed them, then stamped them, but my thinking is that I can ensure each one is perfect, and ready to send as soon as I'm finished.

violakat03

My invitations are 100% DIY. I've been working on them since April!! I work on them for a few hours at a time. Today's the first day that there have been some completed and sealed. I just printed off the RSVP postcards last night, and so I've got 20 of them that are assembled, stuffed, RSVP's stamped, outer envelope sealed and addressed!

I'm doing all the assembly myself. I'm too much of a perfectionist to let someone else do it. Then FI and I do the addressing together: I take out the RSVP postcard, mark in the number of guests (we have a "__ of ___ guests attending" line), put a stamp on the postcard, stuff it all back in, and seal the envelope. Then I write out the full address on a sheet of paper, wrap it around the outer envelope, and set it to the side. FI takes them, write out the full address and return address (he has GORGEOUS cursive handwriting) and sets them on the 'finished" pile!

tamrahelmer

I did them all on my own. I put together the invites a little at a time while watching tv or something. I would say I did about 30 everytime I decided to work on them. Then I addressed 10 or so envelopes everytime I sat down at my computer. The only thing I did all at once was stuffing and stamping the envelopes because I got in a groove and it just worked for me to do it all at once.

Good luck!