Has this happened to anyone else?

egm900

Our invitations were ordered through Crane & Co. via a local store.  Yesterday we realized instead of receiving 200 invitations, we received 179.  Clearly the mistake was at Crane & Co. since they only allow for orders in increments of 25, but we're supposed to be sending these out today (our RSVP date is August 1st), and since they're going all over the country, a lot of guests may not receive theirs to until the end of the week.  Did anyone else have this problem?  What did your invite company or local store do?  I called the store, and they're getting in touch with Crane to see what can be done, but in the mean time, I'm freaking out a bit.  We've already gone through the list to see where we could combine people onto one invitation if we absolutely have to (like my cousin's 19 year old son that lives at home could be put on her invitation even though I don't want to), but then we're still short approximately 10 invitations.

JessAndTrav

While that's a less-than-desireable situation, if you're only short the 10 invitations, could you send the ones you get later to people that you know are coming like parents and siblings?

I didn't have that problem, but if I did, that's what I would have done.

OliveOilsMom

I had a similar issue with my reception cards.  I didn't get enough.  But it was vistaprint and by the time I realized (since I ordered my invites so early), I just bought some more to make up for the missing ones.

I would say to send out all of your invites to everyone but the VIPs.   When you get the remainder of your invites, which Crane should be doing quickly and for free, then you can send the remainder of the invites to your parents, siblings, and bridal party.  Just give them a heads up as to why they haven't gotten the invite on time like everyone else.  You already know they will be coming, so you don't need their RSVP necessarily.

brilibby4

I agree with PPs.  I would probably hold off on sending invitations to our parents, grandparents, bridal party, etc. since I know they are definitely attending and would be understanding of the situation.

Maggie0829

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[QUOTE]While that's a less-than-desireable situation, if you're only short the 10 invitations, could you <strong>send the ones you get later to people that you know are coming like parents and siblings?</strong> I didn't have that problem, but if I did, that's what I would have done.
Posted by JessAndTrav[/QUOTE]

I think this is your best option.

pokepoke27

At first I thought I might not have enough invitations. So I addressed to out of state first, people I wasn't sure about their RSVP second, then everyone else last. Turns out that I not only had enough for everyone, but several extra. I somehow miscounted several times before addressing them. 

egm900

We didn't discover this problem until we had addressed almost all the invitations we had received in our order.  We have a limited number of extra envelopes at this point, and unfortunately close family were at the top of the list for addressing.  We're going to use what extra envelopes we have to address for people that haven't had an invitation addressed to them yet, opening the close family members invites to put them in the newly addressed extra envelopes.  

Crane is printing the missing 21 invitations either today or tomorrow, then shipping them out, for us to receive on Thursday or Friday.  I'm not particularly thrilled, but the holiday is delaying everything by a day.

pearlaqua

This may not be your favorite option, but call your guests and tell them about the mistake and tell them that their invitation should be coming.

Transparency might win a lot of points and prevent people from feeling B-listed.

They can't be on a B-list if you're calling them with tons of time ahead!

Good luck.

angelsong21

Our invitations were really delayed.  We ordered from WPD with a rushed status (H had some major health issues come up and we had to wait to decide on having the wedding as-scheduled).  When I received the invites, they were all blank.  The picture was on there but no text.  It took another 3 days to get the corrected to us, but that put us at another weekend and that delayed our mailing them another 2 days on top of the 3 day delay.

In your situation, I'd do what PP recommended and hold off on sending invites to your family that you know is coming such as siblings, grandparents, etc.