While I was off for vacation I decided that, no matter what, I would get our wedding invitations ready to go out the first week of January.  Yesterday M and I ran to Kinko’s so we could get our lovely invitations printed and not waste our time.  I was more then a little surprised when the guy behind the counter looked at the invitation, looked at me and said, “it has to be a full sheet of paper.”  Umm, what!?!?!

After the confusion passed, we headed back to the house to figure out what kind of ink we needed so we could print them ourselves.  When we got home M set the printer up on the table and helped me figure out exactly what I needed to do.  I played around with the color and had almost given up when I finally found a pink that would work.  It was a little lighter then I wanted but the darker ones were either too red or too purple.

Once I was set on my color I began printing off my invitations and accommodations cards.  After I had everything printed out I set up a little station on the coffee table and began to construct my invites.  Which basically means I put the invitation in the holder and then put the accommodations card on top of that.  Then I stuffed all the invitations into the nice and pretty handwritten envelopes, sealed them and put a sticker on the back.

Determined to get these suckers out TODAY I packed everything up neatly last night so I could do my usual run out the door in the morning.  At lunch I decided I would run to the post office and pick up my stamps.  Since the invitations felt pretty light I was sure they would be regular postage.  Yep, I was wrong!  I think there is some wedding conspiracy!

I get up to the window and ask the lady to weigh the invite just to make sure.  Sure enough they are .1 ounce over!  ONE TENTH of an ounce over!  Seriously!?!?!?!  Arggg!  Anyway, the lady figures up the postage I need and rings me up.  Postage alone cost almost as much as the stupid invites and they were CHEAP.  But spending that on postage is stupid!

Needless to say the invitations are out.  People should start receiving them in the next few days.

The new year has really brought a new excitement about the wedding.  Each day that passes gets us one day closer.  Each week is one week closer.  I’m glad the new year brought this excitement because I still have a few more DIY’s I need to finish up.

~k