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Printing Envelopes for Wedding Invitations

I'm trying to print the addresses for the guests of our wedding on the envelopes and am having a lot of trouble. My printer keeps jamming or we can get the address to be in the right place when we can get it to print. I was thinking about resorting to buying clear labels and printing on those and then placing the labels on the envelopes to be mailed, but I've heard you're not supposed to do that? Does anyone know the etiquette behind this??? HELP!

Re: Printing Envelopes for Wedding Invitations

  • aragx6aragx6 member
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    You're not really supposed to do either. You're supposed to hand address them.
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  • Yeah, like PP have said etiquette is that you hand-address your invites
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  • I personally invested in a calligrapher.  I have bad handwriting, I didnt trust our printer and I wanted everything to look formal.  The lady I went through only charges $1.75 per envelope and they were gorgeous- I can give you her contact info if you want!


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  • Did you print on the envelopes from a computer or by hand? A calligrapher is not in my budget either.
  • aevenson - what I'm planning on doing is printing lightly on the evelope then going over with my calligraphy pen - that way it's the best of both worlds :-)
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  • A girl on my month board recommended getting a special kind of pen called "elegant writer" which is sort of like a calligraphy pen. She said her envelopes looked great.
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  • Either handwrite or calligraphy.
  • JCM10JCM10 member
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    I'm doing handwritten too; I think it looks a lot more personal than computer generated ones. I actually have never gotten a handwritten one, though, andI've been to 3 this summer (just graduated from college, so everyone's getting married!)
  • like I said in the other thread (which, really? why make another thread?), it's acceptable. I did it because it was too much time and effort otherwise (and when you're trying to finish nursing school at the same time, time is a rare commodity). it depends on the formality of your wedding, and mine was really casual.
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  • A lot of people say that labels are tacky - but really, I don't think they're a big deal.  My wedding is going to be enormous with roughly 400ish or so guests and we're sending out roughly 250ish invites.  I haven't decided if I'm going to be handwriting them all out or if I'm going to do computer printing or labels... but if people want to call my choice to use labels (if I do choose to use them) tacky, I don't care.  250 is a lot of freaking invites.
    panther
  • Have you played around with the settings on your computer and printer? Also, when I've done envelopes or invitations, I've had to hand feed them through the printer, not do a stack at one time.

    Personally I think a nice calligraphy font printed directly on the envelope is far preferable to handwriting (though not as nice as a "real" calligrapher). But I just received an invitation the other day with clear labels and I thought it really did cheapen the overall effect.
  • Labels are so tacky.
  • Thank you for all the feedback. Our wedding is all outdoors, therefore pretty casual. We also have a pretty young crowd. I'm torn because I feel like so many people really don't even pay attention to this sort of thing, but I don't want to offend those that do. If I hand write them can it be in print or does it need to be in cursive? I can print clearly and nice, but my cursive is not anything that looks pretty.... :)

    PS. Sorry about the multiple threads, it originally did not show my post so I did another...and what do ya know...now they are both there. LOL Apparently I'm not as computer savvy as I thought. :)
  • I'm running my envelopes through the printer, if that doesn't work then I will do the clear labels.  I do NOT care at all that it isn't proper to do this.  My handwriting/printing is horrible and the act of writing causes me physical pain, I type everything that I possibly can.  I think it is far more important that the post office be able to read the address and get it to the right place that follow some random "rule" that I didn't know about until I started looking at these sites.  Hiring someone to do it is not something I would spend money on. 
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  • If your parents' names are on the top line of your invitation, then these invitations are coming from your parents, and it's up to THEM, as the HOSTS who are INVITING the people, to decide how they want the addresses to get onto the envelope.

    Yes, traditionally the envelopes are hand-written.

    My mom insisted that she hand-address all the envelopes, since they were coming from HER.  So I sat with her and stuffed/stamped them.  But SHE was clear that this was HER decision.

    You really need to check with your parents about the decisions that are theirs...

    Q&A: Invitations: Addressing Them With Labels?

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    I'm thinking about using labels to address my wedding invitations. I've heard several people say this is tacky. I know handwriting them is more formal, but I just think labels will be less time-consuming. What do you think?

    A.

    You're absolutely right that labels would be less time-consuming, but the reason most invites are addressed by hand isn't just that it's more formal -- it's also more personal. It shows your guests that you so want them to be at your wedding that you took the time to handwrite (or have a calligrapher hand-letter) their name and address on the envelope.

  • I have to say I've never paid attention to if the envelope was hand written, printed, or had a label.  I would never consider that to be an indication of how much a person wanted me at their wedding.  If they invited me they want me there, that's the indication.
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