outsourcing is good!
Invitations. Someone told me that they set the tone for your wedding. They are the first thing that people see. Now while I generally do not subscribe to wedding hooey, I did want the invitation to be unique and me. I went to traditional wedding invitation stores (back to sticker shock land). I went to a shop to which a printer friend of mine told me had good prices. I was a little wary when the store was located in a part of the city that I had never been to, the signs were not in a language that I understood ,and when we called for directions, the sales lady asked me if I was Vietnamese or Chinese. Hmm…I think we got the white people pricing package. Since I am not much of a haggler and it was obvious that haggling was going to be required here, we quickly checked that store off of our list.
I ordered sample invitations that were in my acceptable price range from well known invitation catalogs. They came. They were boring and drab. They were flimsy card stock. They did not seem uniquely me. I happened to be talking to a friend of mine and she told me that she had found really good invitations on the internet. I had been to her wedding and I definitely remembered the invitations. The trick was, the invitations were from India.
I went to Indian Wedding Card and started to look at the hundreds of invitations. I even engaged my best friend in the invitation search. She and I searched the site simultaneously and sent each other links over IM chat of the ones we thought were pretty. In the end, I ordered 14 samples. The samples got to me in a week. They were exotic, colorful and uniquely me. They smelled a little odd, but I looked over that. I loved them all. Of course, some of them were a little too Indian for our wedding, so they were quickly eliminated, but there were at least 4 in the running.
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