survey: Did you hand address invites?

birdy7797 · May 2011

Hi everyone,
I decided to print my own invitations and want to get them out by the end of this week for the 7 week mark. My future MIL is dead set on hand addressing them because that is what they did for her other son's wedding 8 years ago. They split them up and everyone took a stack to write. I know that is ettiquette but I was thinking of printing them on a laser printer in a fancy font. I was thinking about the invites I have received recently and many of them have been printed. I was originally thinking calligraphy but just don't think there is time. I would rather have the invites look professional/ all the same then be in random people's handwriting. What are your thoughts?

jmorta04 · May 2011

Etiquette does say you should hand address them. However, I highly doubt Emily Post will be at your wedding! I had wrap around labels printed and I thought they looked awesome...much better than someone's crappy handwriting.

chrispygal · May 2011

I did wrap around labels myself. My handwriting is horrible and I think the wrap around labels are kind of special.

jlsimon56 · May 2011

I know calligraphy so I did ours myself. If calligraphy isn't in the budget and your handwriting isn't readable, then printing should be fine. Better to have the invites get to the recipient!! :-) Maybe show your MIL an example so she feels involved still.

KBinRI · May 2011

I'm not a fan of labels or running them off the printer (and Emily Post might not be there, but that doesn't mean people aren't judging!); that's fine for holiday cards but not wedding invites, IMO. I hand addressed mine after a friend who offered to do them flaked out on me. My writing is not great at all and I have ligament damage in that hand so I could only do a few at a time, but I bought a calligraphy pen at Michael's and they came out pretty decent. A few people asked me who I'd hired; ha!!

mattoid43 · May 2011

Clear labels printed on a laser printer. They looked quite nice, took way less time, were still very personal (I hand-wrote most peoples' names on the RSVP cards, in part to avoid the RSVP-with-no-name and in part to avoid the RSVP-with-random-date issues), and if anyone who received on is judging me for it, they can RSVP no and not be missed! Doesn't mean I didn't agonize over the decision, but in the end, I'm really glad I didn't spend my very, very limited time hand-writing names/addresses on something that was going to be thrown out I also preferred that they look uniform, though to be honest, nobody except you is going to see them all in one place anyway, so nobody else will know they're not all addressed by the same person, and if that will save a fight with the future MIL, that might be worth it. Do whatever will make you happy, though--printing directly on the envelope probably would have looked even better, but I couldn't do it with ours.

birdy7797 · May 2011

jmorta- I love the wrap around. Wish I had known about those before they look awesome!! I ended up just laser printing right on the envelope. I had someone that could do the calligraphy but I didn't want to have to depend on anyone, who knows how long it would take, didn't have many extra envelopes for mistakes, etc. So they go in the mail tomorrow- we shall see what happens

Thanks again everyone for the avice!

Buttercup011 · May 2011

I am having the stationary store do calligraphy using their computer. I'm hoping the results are as nice as the samples.

Lauraandalastair · June 2011

My mother and I sat down one day and hand wrote out all the addresses. We thought they looked fine and more personable than printing them out. Hope this helps.

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