You have no other option but to come
The invitations sat, “airing out”. Mom and Dad came over for dinner one night and I handed them their RSVP card to have them fill out what they wanted for dinner. They gave me their RSVP and I tossed it into the RSVP box. Two days later, for some reason, that RSVP flashed into my brain and it occurred to me that I didn’t remember Mom checking a “will attend” box. I went racing upstairs to the RSVP box to confirm my suspicions and it was true. We were so concerned with getting the food choices on the RSVP that we did not give the guests the choice to attend or not. UGH. Thank goodness that we ordered them early. I still had time to reorder, but not much.
I went onto the website again and reordered the RSVP cards. They said they could turn them in 5-10 business days. This put us mailing the invitations somewhere between 6-7 weeks before the wedding. Common etiquette tells you that you need to mail the invitations 6-8 weeks before, so we were cutting it close. The Indian site did get the cards into fed-ex very quickly and they sent me a fed ex link, so that I could track my shipment. It was scheduled to show up July 3rd. All was going fine until there was a storm in India. My shipment got delayed! Because of the July 4th holiday my shipment was not going to show up until the 5th. This meant that in order to get the invitations out with in 6 weeks of the wedding, we only had a couple of days to get them out. The troops mobilized. Mom and Dad came over for dinner (that Mom brought over, thanks Mom). We set up different jobs for each person. Mom put the invitations together and numbered the RSVP cards (see: Things I Learned), I put the numbers by the guests names in the master spreadsheet, Dad stuffed the envelopes and my fiance sealed them (I had already put stamps on them days earlier).
Things I Learned: Put little numbers on the back of your RSVP cards. Keep a list of which guest the numbers are assigned to. Then, if an RSVP card comes back without the guest’s name on it, you will know who that RSVP card was sent to.
”The envelope is not sealing”.
What? Yes indeed, according to my fiance the envelope had no glue on it. Hmm. That was interesting. Well, there were some gold seals included with the envelopes. Perhaps we were meant to use those. I thought it was a bit odd, but didn’t think much of it.
It wasn’t until a friend of mine called me after she got the invitation that I figured out what had happened.
“The invitations were beautiful” she said, “but I thought I should let you know, there was no glue on the RSVP envelope, so I just taped it”. No glue?! Then it occurred to me. There had been a box for “self stick envelopes” when I ordered the invitations. I checked “no”, thinking that it meant that the envelopes would have that strip of paper that you had to peel off to stick the flap down. I thought that would look a little tacky on the RSVPs, so I opted “No self stick”. Of course, I thought by opting “No” that was opting FOR normal glue stripped envelopes, but evidently not. I opted for NO glue. Oops!
My fiance’s solution? “Just tell everyone that tells you that their envelope didn’t have glue….’Really? It must have just been yours. Everyone else’s came back glued”.
Funny guy my fiance.
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