I just need to vent about this...I am so incredibly frustrated!
Because I'm having a destination wedding, I knew that most of my family wouldn't be able to come. But I still wanted to send them invites so that they knew they were invited if they could make it and to know that I was trying to include them in my wedding as much as possible. Months and months ago, in November, I asked my dad to get me the addresses of his brothers and sisters so I could send out the invites. I reminded him several times. He never did it. I asked my step mom. She also promised that she would do it and never did. I asked again and again and got nothing. Now the rsvp date has come and gone. My dad emailed me and said he decided to email them the invites. He scanned the invite, chose a background that looked "similar", chaged the font, and recreated the design. I am so so so pissed at him. First of all, I did not want the invites emailed, I printed enough and bought enough postage to send them acutal copies, which I think is nicer. Second, I think a scanned image that he altered and I have not even seen is horrible tacky. This is the one thing I asked him to do for the wedding, other than show up and walk me down the aisle and he couldn't even manage it. And it was for five people..it wasn't like I wanted him to get the addressed for the entire guest list. Argh! I am so annoyed...I know none of them are coming anyway, but I still wish I could have sent them actual invitations!