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We've already printed our wedding invitiations (Doing them ourselves...some of you have seen, those who haven't go to www.chesneyandjason.com and click on our invitiations...the password is invite)

Anyways. We have a small amount of room as you can see on the vellum part of the invite. I copied and pasted directly from a website that does wedding invitiations...There was a comma missing between the dates and I didn't catch as I wasn't the one printing them. My fiance also had to arrange the wording so everything would fit. Well we took it thanksgiving to show his aunt and she pointed out all the mistakes (as she is a teacher).. the comma is missing..ok....she also said that the date should be on the same line and we should take the zipcode out...oh and leave our wedding website off of it..because it's incredibly tacky.
The wedding website has our bio's our engagement story, bridal party, honeymoon plans, our engagement pictures soon and registry info

2007-11-25 01:36:27 · 21 answers · asked by ? 5 in Family & Relationships Weddings

(which the registry info isn't even up yet).

We ran out of ink printing seventy invitiations and his aunt said she would purchase new ink for us to print new ones out again.

I feel bad but Jason doesn't want to reprint them.

keep in mind, same aunt also said that miss manners would approve of a cash bar and we should have one as opposed to no bar at all..
lol

do we redo the invites or just let them go....no one else noticed the issue

2007-11-25 01:40:29 · update #1

All of the answers are appreciated :) However, those of you telling me to go buy invites everywhere else, thats not an option...we've put over 70 dollars into putting these invites together plus ALOT of time....im not going online and ordering (the easy way) after all that hard work has been put into it. I just don't know if it would be worth it to reprint everything (take the invites apart) or whatnot...the thought HAS crossed my mind to put the comma in ourselves....but not sure how that would work on vellum paper.
Anyways...we went to scrapbooking stores bought the paper, ribbon (47 yrds by the way lol) and cut EVERYTHING...thats alot of work :)

2007-11-25 04:08:37 · update #2

21 answers

1. Having the wedding website on there isn't tacky unless the second you open up the page you get a big banner that says something like "check out where we registered!". Guests find it convenient...welcome to the age of technology. It's probably safe to assume his aunt is older so in her time it WOULD have been strange. But not anymore.

2. Leave the zipcode. You need them to mapquest and stuff. Sure it's not super formal to have it but not a complete disaster.

3. Same for the rest of it. It's small details and not worth completely pre-printing your invites because one old biddy pointed them out. The majority of guests won't take the time to critisize your grammar.

2007-11-25 01:40:58 · answer #1 · answered by pspoptart 6 · 4 2

Hi Chesney,

Personally, I would leave it alone. You and Jason have done a nice job. Don't worry about it. I am a part-time English "nut" because of all my years working in an office and doing so much editing, and to be honest, when I first looked at it I did not notice the comma missing. It flows good and is easy to read. 99.999% of the people getting the invite will not notice.

I certainly would not spend more money doing them over. I know you don't want to hear it....but you know it's true....most people look at the date, the time, the place, and then it will eventually get tossed in the garbage. Don't worry about one little comma, and a zip code. Maybe it's my computer, but I could not even see where the website was. Maybe that will be on another little card? Keep everything as you have it. It's fine!

2007-11-25 08:37:21 · answer #2 · answered by iloveweddings 7 · 2 0

I work in the wedding invitation industry (a DIY store) and I know the work that goes into it. Its a lot. my question to you is why did you show off your invitations at thanksgiving? also, you should have had them spell checked on plain paper first before making them. my suggestion would be to fix a few (for your aunt and anyone else who would keep it, like parents, grandparents, etc) and just send out the rest as is to friends and other people who just need an invitation to remember the date, time, and place. congrats!

ps leave the wedding site on the invitation, its common, and will be a big help to guests especially if you dont want a million phone calls from people asking you where you are registered and more specific details on how to get to the church.

2007-11-25 07:29:15 · answer #3 · answered by flutterflie04 5 · 1 0

Ok, your Aunt has serious issues. I can't read your invites so I'm assuming she's right about the comma, not sure about the date since I can't see it, the zip code should not be there, but isn't a huge issue. She's definitely wrong about the website. Putting your website info on invites is a very modern thing to do and is not inappropriate. Putting your registry info in the invites would be incredibly tacky. I really like your invites, they're pretty.

2007-11-25 04:25:30 · answer #4 · answered by maigen_obx 7 · 1 1

I found out when doing my own invitations that the "proper" way to do it is not have the groom's parents on the invite. The invite is for the church, and the bride's parent's are the ones giving their daughter away, so they are technically the hosts of that no matter who pays. If you are going somewhere to get your invitations (rather than online or doing them yourself~which is fine, too!) then you should have a consultation with somebody who will help you figure out exactly what you want. We put both parents on despite what we were told. We liked it better The brides parents should go first: Mr (and Mrs) Father's Full Name Ms Mother's Full name announce the marriage of their daughter, Your Full Name to His Full Name Son of Mr and Mrs His Full Name etc OR Mr Your Father Ms Your Mother and Mr and Mrs His Parents request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their children Your Name and His Name PS...I know how much it sucks, I'm in your shoes. Trust me, every little bit you get done is like a weight off your shoulders!

2016-05-25 07:43:41 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

I think that the invitations look good enough to forget about all of that stuff. If the commas are that huge of an issue, get a superfine permanent marker and put one in.

Wedding website is fine even if it has registry information, like another answerer said as long as it's not like WE ARE REGISTERED HERE before anything else.

We also made our own invitations, it was a lot of work. We had one mistake, and there was no way in hell I was changing it.

My two cents: anyone who uses the word "tacky" to describe something someone does for their wedding is a stuck up snob. Some of the answers I get on here are only "oh my god that is so tacky" when in the real world it's not, it's called practical.

2007-11-25 02:30:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3 2

It depends on how picky you are; if it bothers you then I would fix it. If it's only one little comma that really stands out I wouldn't worry about it! In retrospect it's actually not a big deal at all. And it's not tacky to put the website on there! Honestly hun, it's 2007 and anything goes! It's your wedding and your invitations and you can do whatever you want! :) A little comma won't make a difference because they look AMAZING! Good luck hun and have an awesome wedding!

2007-11-25 01:48:26 · answer #7 · answered by ♥Amanda♥ 2 · 4 0

Now a days so many people do things differently with invitations and weddings as a whole. I say just leave the invites...they were DIY projects, they won't be perfect. We made our own also...there are 2 things I would change but I don't feel like re-doing 75 of them! We put our website on the save-the-date magnets and left it off the invitations. We're doing a cash bar, it might strike people as odd or cheap but when you're paying $100 per person for food alone (not counting the amount you paid for the space, DJ, photog, dress, flowers, favors, etc.) I think people can pay for their own drinks...I don't want to pay for people to get drunk at my wedding.

2007-11-25 04:28:29 · answer #8 · answered by Jennifer T 3 · 2 0

I went to your website.(absolutely wonderful,by the way!) I took a peek at the invitations. They are gorgeous! It sounds like his aunt is someone that isn't happy unless she has something to complain about. Or would like to tell everyone that SHE had to step in and help you w/ the situation.......anyway, do not change a thing! There is not anything wrong w/ the website being listed. I think there would be people on each side of your families that does not know ea. others fiance's and this is a great way of taking an inside look and satisfying their curiosity. GREAT JOB!!!

2007-11-25 02:04:13 · answer #9 · answered by Frog 2 · 3 0

Ok so you missed a comma..no big deal and I think it's kool you have tracked your progress on a website because there's a chance that not everyone who gets an invitation will be able to attend so they can at least go there to see you.And I'm sure you'll be posting wedding pictures on it too so they will sort of still be a part of your special day.Congratulations and good luck.

2007-11-25 01:41:49 · answer #10 · answered by Janell T 6 · 3 0

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