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Inviting the President and First Lady...anybody heard of this?

QkellygirlQkellygirl
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I thought I heard a few years ago from a bride (friend of a friend who I no longer see) that if you send an invite to the President that they will send back a regret on formal White House stationery, a nice little souveneir for your scrapbook.

Has anyone else heard or done this? I'd like to, but only if its worth the effort. I also don't want to be put on any weird government lists ha ha.
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Re: Inviting the President and First Lady...anybody heard of this?

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    lamoellerlamoeller
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    I have definitely heard of this -- supposedly the White House will send you back a letter congratulating you from the President.  I'm sure it's auto-penned but hey, pretty cool if you ask me!

     

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    Mavsfan41Mavsfan41 member
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    Are you on Pinterest? If you are, you can search "Heck yeah, you're invited" and it'll show you a pin with several well-known people who will send something back if you invite them to your wedding. Pretty neat stuff!

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    AddieCakeAddieCake member
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    Since you get back a generic response not actually from the person, I'm not really sure I see the point. 
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    Jen4948Jen4948 member
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    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_invites-paper_inviting-the-president-and-first-ladyanybody-heard-of-this?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:cd062f89-8272-496a-b0ab-225e1f87acecDiscussion:de528751-0640-4249-8038-ce91876e34c3Post:1d2fdb7f-55cd-470d-b8da-2c1ce0c90880">Re: Inviting the President and First Lady...anybody heard of this?</a>:
    [QUOTE]Since you get back a generic response not actually from the person, I'm not really sure I see the point. 
    Posted by AddieL73[/QUOTE]

    Me neither-especially if you don't actually know them.  It seems like a waste of postage and time to me.
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    NYCMercedesNYCMercedes member
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    How do you do the envelope? The President and Mrs. Barack Hussein Obama or Mr. And Mrs.?
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    Jager1219Jager1219 member
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    President and Mrs. Barack Obama
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
    Washington, District of Columbia 20500

    I used the below website when I was addressing my invitations.  I thought they had really good all-encompassing advice.  The bottom has "fun" people to invite that you supposedly get letters back from.

    http://www.artisticaddressing.com/Etiquette.htm
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    HobokensFuryHobokensFury member
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    We did this and got a cool post card back.  The envelope was written in the most perfect penmanship I've ever seen.
     
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    PreDempseyPreDempsey member
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    We're sending spare invites to the President, and Mickey & Minnie Mouse.  Considering we bought 400 stamps for everything, and then decided to get 100 different stamps for our response cards, I'm not worried about wasting postage..

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    loca4pookloca4pook member
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    The Queen of England (according to a special I watched) ACTUALLY attended a wedding of someone who had the guts to invite her. She thought it would be fun to just show up.


    I do know a story of someone who did this with random celebs and did get some responses back from peole on letterhead.

    I say "go for it". What do you have to lose? LOL
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