Invitation Creation

Guess what?  I'm not going to write a depressing post tonight.  Even I get tired of my depressing crap; my daily struggles and small victories.  Still, I suppose this is what living life is about, is it not?  Managing pain and embracing elation continue sway back and forth like a pendulum of a grandfather clock quietly ticking away the seconds and counting the mini moments of our lives.  I wanted that to sound more poetic than it does, ah well.  Anyway, this is not going to be a sad, confused, and weepy post like the recent few.  Though I won't make any promises for posts of the future.

Dave and I are officially making progress on the invitations.  We made some of the official decisions today, went out and bought the necessary materials, and in the beginning stages of putting them together.  Had we not discarded an original look, we could be further along but we both agreed that printing them on the paper we most recently bought looks far better than what we already purchased.  Unfortunately, it means that we've thrown $35 down the drain but I suppose that happens at times.  Even so, we will still have spent less than what we might have found or ordered for a specialty shop.  I went online to get an idea of how much a basic digital print of an invite would cost and if we purchased only the amount needed the total would come to $147.95.  This is from the more modestly priced http://www.weddingpaperdivas.com/; a wonderful site for simple, cheap invites.

This is very pretty but this is all I would get for $147.98;
 no special backing, pocket folds, response cards, envelopes
as those all cost extra.

For those who really don't want to think about designing their invitations or don't have enough time and don't want to spend a small fortune, these are perfect.  The above is just one of the many beautiful designs that they offer; however Dave and I decided that invites were not where we wanted to spend the bulk of our money and neither of us would be content with just the above as our invitation.  Of course, this means doing a lot more of the work ourselves, testing things, discarding things, and taking a lot more of time than many would want to take out of their daily lives for invitations that we hope will turn out almost as lovely.  Tonight we spent the night cutting, gluing, and stamping.  Hopefully they won't take too long to dry and we'll be able to print, cut, and paste the actual invitations in the cards without smothering the ink.  I am really hoping that in the end they will meet our expectations enough for us to be comfortable sending them to friends and family.

In a few more days, we'll see and the plan is that everyone else will see sometime within the second week of August.