Invitations Oh My!!

Today we had our little invitation party!! There was Jonathan and I and my mother and his mom. Reye my MOH couldn't be there but that was partly my fault but that's completely OK!!

WOW I didn't know doing this was going to be such HARD work!! We worked all the way from noon after church and we did not leave his mothers house till like 8pm!

We had went over the night before and I made my first Holiday Cheese Log, Sausage Cheese Balls, and this AWESOME Peanut Butter Dip!! Might I say I did a pretty good job!

We did our own invitations, so what I mean by that was we bought the designs we wanted but we printed all the Invitations, Response cards, Direction cards our self so we could design them!

HARD WORD to say the least!!

We only had like 3 testers and boy did we use them and then some! To get all the spacing and sizing just right was a task in itself! But then I got the details just right and then the printer problems!! HAHA Jonathan was pulling his hair out it was funny. There were a few things messed up and when I walked back into the office he was like "Don't hate me!!" because of him messing up but I just laughed! He was cute. So after all the little mishaps, we were good.

Then came all the little details. Like my return address on the response card envelope! And the labels did not want to cooperate with us. So we had to run each response card envelope through the printer!! THEN, the labels for the "outer" envelope did not want to work either. So guess what? I had to write each address by hand.... can you say hand cramps? :) Then we remembered about the postage stamps for the response card envelopes and had to do that. So we actually put all the invitations together maybe 3 times before we had all the pieces in place and remembered everything. FUN FUN!!

Here's a few pictures of the mess :

See how much fun? My mother-in-law found the cutest stamps at Wal-Mart for the response cards, they are Christmas Stamps. I thought it was perfect to go along with my December Christmas wedding!!

SO MUCH PINK!! I LOVE IT~

This was towards the end where it was some what organized, after we had already pulled them part a couple of times!! We kept forgetting little things. Silly Silly us.

But all in all we had a very good day! Tying ribbons, stuffing envelops, getting hand cramps, messing up things, runs to Wal-Mart, and laughing was all worth it! I love you guys!

We are mailing all the invitations next weekend, SO after we get them all mailed. I will put up a post of more detailed pictures showing you what the invitations look like all put together. I LOVE THEM!! I hope you will to!