A labor of love...Part 2

First I must say that I have the greatest mate in the world and he helped out with this "labor of love" sooo much. I can proudly say that this was a task done by both of us. At times I felt as if i was doing it alone (only because I embossed for months) but then we got to the RSVP portion of the invitations. This was largely done by Mario.

Once we had decided to make our own invitations we also decided to be non-traditional and do a website where people would RSVP and get the most personal experience possible. It was also a neat little way to show Mario's talents, save some trees, and not have to wait for snail mail RSVPs.

So, that meant that by the time we sent out the invitations our website had to be done and all of the personal urls had to be set up and ready to go. Then he had to make each persons RSVP card with their personal url. I was so proud of Bubbie! Not only did he get all of this done on time he also clipped all of the edges on the RSVP cards and all of the purple cardstock.

Granted, we did have a few rough spots along the way, like the mook at Kinko's who did not cut the RSVPs correctly. This was a lesson in wedding planning 101 on "don't sweat the small stuff". We just ran with the mistake and went with another option. To our guests they wouldn't know the difference. And the guy felt so bad that he didn't charge us for all the cutting he did.
After all of the cutting and prep work was done I headed up to my girl crew in Modesto (Mom, Tena, Rosie, Neet, Idie, Re, and Raquel). Mario and I cannot begin to thank these ladies enough. They sucked it up and assembly line style whipped these bad boys together. We ran out of glue at one point so Tena ran to the store and saved our production line.

After about two hours of assembling, addressing and embossing envelopes we were done. They were proudly boxed up and were sent out on that Monday. And by Tuesday we were actually already getting RSVPs.