Wedding Invitations

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am definitely someone who does not stand on ceremony. I pride myself on being honest, straightforward, and direct, for better or for worse.

A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of a general.
Author: Henrey G.

I speak my mind whenever I can, and I usually frown on formality. So when I was in a position of having to plan my own wedding, things were pretty difficult for me. I simply didn't know how to go about it. I knew that it was important to my relatives more important than it was to me in fact. The wedding invitations, the wedding floral arrangements everything had to look just right. The problem was, I had no idea how to plan things out.

My original plan had been to use do it yourself wedding invitations. I had figured that I could make my own quirky, handmade wedding party invitations with a personalized message for each person. I thought it was a pretty good idea, and to my surprise, so did the relatives I talked to. My mother was all for it, as was my mother-in-law.

I hope you always have a shell in your pocket...and sand in your shoes.
Author: ?

I didn't realize how much work I was getting myself into, however. Planning out, executing, and customizing a couple hundred wedding invitations was just something that was beyond my means to do. I didn't want to spend that amount of money on wedding cards.

Nonetheless, I wanted to be involved in planning them out and designing them. I looked at several wedding invitations samples on the Internet to get some clue. Most of them were not very good. I think people are way too sentimental with their invitations for a wedding in general. They use fancy, embossed printing, tacky gold foil the works. I didn't want my wedding invites to look like that, but I didn't want them to look cheap and shabby either. I wanted down to earth, attractive, but simple wedding invitations.

Finally, I did the sensible thing that I should have done all along. I went to a wedding invitation printer. I was trying too hard to be unconventional, when I could have saved a lot of time going conventional and moved on to something that I cared about. I picked out some tasteful wedding invitations, sent them out, and was done with it. It is really much easier than I had been making it. I did learn something from all of this, however. I learned that I did care about matters of taste and wedding etiquette.

Do all the good you can,By all the means you can,In all the ways you can,In all the places you can,At all the times you can,To all the people you can,As long as ever you can.
Author: -- John Wesley

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