Grrr....I am ready to toss my invites in the garbage and just invite people by phone. After months of searching for the "perfect invitation", I finally order them/ They are pocket invites that need to be assembled. We glue all of the invites to the right side. Next I needed to tie on the bows (these go on the left side and are what hold the pocket closed). Because I am sort of OCD when it comes to the wedding, each bow took about 2 minutes because I wanted them just right. (Sad I know, no one but me will judge how well the bow is tied...). It comes with three inserts (RSVP, reception, and accomodations). We decided that since we are getting married at a location that is difficult to find, and the reception is about a 20 minute drive away, that we should include directions. Rather than just print the directions on a seperate piece of paper and include them (what most normal people would do), I decided to have them printed on the back of the reception card. I call up a local copy shop and ask them if they can do this. They say sure, no problem. I take the cards to the copy shop and drop them off. I go back the next day to pick them up. First of all, what they charge me is more than what they quoted me, but I didn't complain because I was just happy to have this done. I go out to my car and look at the cards, and see that the copy shop caused back printing to the cards, so now the front of the accomodations cards is smeared from the new printing. I take it back inside, and they tell me to reorder the cards and they will reimburse me. I call exclusively weddings, and they are unable to provide just the cards, they only come in a set. Call copy shop back, and they say they will create them on their own, but the ink will not be raised like it is on everything else. I am unhappy with this, but agree. Copy shop calls me the next day and says they are unable to match the card stock, blah blah blah. After dealing with them for a couple of days, finally get them to realize this is their problem and they agree to reimburse me for entire invitation order that I now have to re-order. So, I am now waiting for new invites to come in so I can assemble them and mail them out. In the meantime I take an assembled invite to the post office just to see how much postage will be. Remember all those bows I freaking tied? Because they are causing the invites to be too big to go through the postal machine, they have to be hand processed and it will be like $2.50 EACH to mail. Ummm, no, I can not afford that. So now, I have to take off all the bows I spent hours tieing and figure out another way to hold the pocket closed; I'm thinking of some type of band maybe. I am seriously ready to ditch the invites and just do a facebook mass invite! (Not really, but this process has been super annoying). OK, done venting, sorry for the long post!
