Invites are in the mail!

What a wonderful feeling of relief and satisfaction I have right now. The invitations are safely in the mail (well, except for poor Steve's, still waiting on an rsvp card for his. Sorry, Steve).

The invitations went out two weeks later than I had planned (six weeks out instead of eight), still with an RSVP date of Sept. 1 (oops) but at this point, I just don't care.

With 20 guests, some of them couples, we ended up with 13 invites. Is that bad luck? I love how the little stack of them looks, all addressed and stamped. Of course, this is after my list of people didn't match my list of addresses. I was short one. I forgot to invite the groom's parents. Whoops! Good thing I had an extra invite.

Which brings me to Zazzle.com, the website I bought the stamps from. This site is so cool and I highly recommend it. They sell stamps that are custom designed and uploaded by customers. I chose a fancy black and white stamp with RSVP on it for the RSVP envelopes that matches the black and white and touch of blue invites perfectly. And I found a stamp that said A&B (our initials) for the outside envelope in a pretty font and also black and white.

That stamp actually said M&M originally but Zazzle allows you to customize stamps. It was super easy. Click customize. Change the Ms to A and B. Click save and tada! They cost a little more than stamps from the post office, but I'm so pleased with how they look.

Hit a bump with the RSVP stamps, however. They were much bigger than I expected, even though I ordered the smallest size. The addresses on four of our RSVP envelopes were printed a tad high, so the stamp would have covered part of the address. All the post office had was red and green heart stamps, which don't match the black and white and touch of blue scheme at all, but at this point I really can't care about such things.

After dropping them off at the post office, I got a massage and tonight Mr. Fried Rice is taking me out on a date to a new restaurant. No wedding talk allowed!