Invites - This Is The End

Posted by: Dan on May 05, 2008

Well it was a good weekend… mainly because we’re finally done with the invitations!!! I’m sure you’re just as sick about reading about the invites as I was near the end of getting them done.

Let’s recap the weekend and the final stages of the invitation invitational.

Saturday Brooke came over early so we could head to the post office to get the postage. I wanted to weigh the invites to make sure that we’d have right postage for the size/weight. Turns out we could get away with a single 41 cent stamp. However the reply cards, which I though we could get away with a smaller stamp, was the save thing. Since postage is going up we figured we should go with the “Forever Stamp“. So $123 later we were out the door and on our way home.

Notes on the trip to the post office… Waukesha’s post office sucks. The people are nice and helpful but the parking is super-awful-bad! We had to park across the street and run over. When we left some guy parks right in front of me (note that I was in some crazy “sideways” parking spot). There’s a billion other spots in the lot and Captain Pink Shirt has to park in front of me.

Bettina (Brooke’s sister and close friend of mine) was super-duper cool and brought us lunch. She also put the return addresses on 100 envelopes to help Brooke and I out. Cool ain’t she?

I had to print up the directions (yeah I know they should have been done months ago). I was very short tempered at this time because I was fed up with the invites and short on sleep. I think I snapped at Brooke once or twice (sorry hon!). Those finally were printed and cut. By then Brooke was done addressing her envelopes and Bettina was off.

Brooke took a nap and I pretty much finished up all my invites. Wrote the addresses, stuffed the envelopes, sealed them and put stamps on them.

By this time both Brooke and I were done for the night.

Sunday we pretty much finished up Brooke’s invites. I assembled the invites and stuffed the envelopes while Brooke licked, sealed and stamped them. I stuffed the all in a bag and put them as far across the room from me as I could. :)

Monday it was time to mail them. Brooke took the bag of invites along with her and after work hit the post office to send them out. I had one or two more invites to finish up tonight and now I can officially say we’re done.

Brooke and I were joking that “now it’s for real” and there’s “no turning back now”. Not like everything we’ve been doing up until now has been pointless. It’s just that almost everything so far has been “for us” and hadn’t involved too many others outside out family (include close friends in that “family”). Besides our parents and our wedding party helping out with a few things it’s almost like… I’m not sure really. I don’t want to say like no one knew… but that’s kind of how it feels. With the invites out it’s “official” for everyone invited.