The invites are out!

So we've finally got the invitations in the post!

We bought penguin and puffin postcards from amazon for £14 to make the invites, and we've used less than half of them. The rest of the postcards we're going to use as a sort of guestbook, the idea is that people will sit down and write us a postcard at a little table at the wedding party and then post it into a little postbox that we're making. We'll then put the postcards into a photo album with clear sleeves so you'll be able to see both sides of each card, which should make a nice bright record of our day. And hopefully people will enjoy writing us a postcard!

So this is how we the invites went:

First we laid out all of the cards so we could see them all and choose one for each guest, this is half of the postcards:


We stuck each persons name on their card on a post-it note:



Then we addressed them and stuck stamps on them, or stamped and addressed an envelope for the ones going overseas. We got the addresses collected by sharing a spreadsheet with our parents over google docs, so they added all the addresses they knew and we just had to find the remaining ones.





Once we'd done that we used a stamp we got from vistaprint to stamp on the main invite details. The stamp actually wasn't as great as we'd hoped since it ran a bit, but it did save us a lot of time. Then we just wrote greetings and any little messages we wanted on the cards and we were done. Here's our stamp:



So that's another big tick on the to-do list! And because we chose postcards it was nearly as green as physical post can be - minimum space and weight used. If we'd used recycled postcards it would have been better, but we also chose them based on price and looking nice and £14 for 200 different really awesome postcards of book covers was kind of a done deal.

I think the decision to send out paper invites at all kind of sprung from the fact that I really like getting post because it's a bit of a novelty these days, can you get that same kind of feeling from a web invite I wonder? There's definitely plenty of websites with invite options around, and if you're committed to making the greenest choice possible I think that has to be it.