The Great Invitation Debate

aight, so maybe it isn't so much a debate, but more so a "more stress than i need to have" sort of situation...after days of hemming and hawing over what the heck this blasted thing is going to look like, i finally cracked...there really are just too many invitation designs and options out there, there are a billion different kinds of paper, like five different kinds of printing methods and then you have the sky is the limit in terms of design and look of the dang thing...in the end most guests will probably throw these guys away and or forget what they look like after the event anyway...seriously, i'm one of those people so i can't exactly point fingers at anyone haha...over the years and after countless invitations to various events wedding and non wedding a like... i can honestly say maybe 2 or 3 invitations i can actually recall from memory and even those are not in great detail...so why the heck was i stressing out over paper!?!?!? since chris doesn't particularly care about stationary, i decided i was just going to pick an invitation company and just pick a design that i liked and order these suckers...cuz seriously enough is enough...

in the end this is what i'm deciding on, i'm waiting for a sample of the paper and once i see it, feel it, know i love it...it is totally going into print! without further ado...i present to you the tse capuozzo wedding invitation version 1.0

the my gatsby serena invtation, the script is carpenter and the text is copperplate...

reply card, both pieces are in ivory cardstock with navy blue print color

now onto the dollars and cents of this guy... i tried to do research about affordable invitations out there, and i had set out with a 2 thousand dollar stationary budget for 175 invitations...it wasn't until i actually started to scout out invitations that that budget was WAY too high...so i lowered it to 1 thousand dollars for 200 invitations (yes my guestlist has grown since my initial foray into invitation searching) ... through my limited research that was a budget i can live with.. of course i like most other brides out there would prefer to spend the least amount possible without sacrificing quality... it was to my great surprise and pleasure when i happened across the mygatsby.com discount line...the invitaitons are thermographically printed, which was a requirement for me...ivory card stock...and navy blue flourish that will echo my wedding theme and colors...but can you believe it? the quote came out to less than $500!!!! i was over the moon, i was thrilled!!! my wedding invitation search seemed to come to happy ending after several weeks of moaning, groaning and dreading to look up wedding stationary... i'll update more on this when and after the whole process is done...but so far things are looking pretty darn good...what do you think?