Hmm I didn't realize that it was proper to handwrite them out. I wasn't going to because I have awful writing as well. Guess I'll have to figure out something. My sister is the only person I know that has really nice writing but she's also a perfectionist and she'd probably do every single one twice just to be sure. Thanks for cluing me in!
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Hand addressing invites?
Started by KJT1985, Nov 05 2009 08:31 PM
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#11
Posted 06 November 2009 - 05:23 PM
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#12
Posted 06 November 2009 - 05:32 PM
Hey there, I am not sure what is 'etiquette' - but I actually enjoyed handwriting them (unless I aligned the writing improperly and had to re-do them), I did 60 ish by myself - but it took only a couple hours.
#13
Posted 06 November 2009 - 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by sjmacphe Hey there, I am not sure what is 'etiquette' - but I actually enjoyed handwriting them (unless I aligned the writing improperly and had to re-do them), I did 60 ish by myself - but it took only a couple hours. |
#14
Posted 06 November 2009 - 05:49 PM
Hey again!
I have no big secrets I am sorry - I am big into eye-balling haha. Definitely screwed a few up, but I just re-did them. After I did a few I started getting a better idea of where to start writing depending on how long the person's name was. I tried to be consistent but honestly, some were slightly different than others (like which line the PC was on) but I figured ppl aren't going to be comparing them to each other. As long as they were neat and tidy, decently centered I was ok with it
. Maybe I am not that much of a perfectionist. I would buy a big box of envelopes and practice a few until you get into the flow. Also, a nice pen helps - I got a Sharpie pen, I like them a lot
. Good luck!
I have no big secrets I am sorry - I am big into eye-balling haha. Definitely screwed a few up, but I just re-did them. After I did a few I started getting a better idea of where to start writing depending on how long the person's name was. I tried to be consistent but honestly, some were slightly different than others (like which line the PC was on) but I figured ppl aren't going to be comparing them to each other. As long as they were neat and tidy, decently centered I was ok with it


#15
Posted 06 November 2009 - 06:00 PM
Yeah, I bought a calligraphy pen at Michaels last night but I need to practice. I played around with calligraphy a long long time ago. I also didn't order extra envelopes so I guess I need to pull out some regular ones!
#16
Posted 06 November 2009 - 06:22 PM
I'm not sure what proper 'etiquette' is on this either, but my thought is that most rules go out the window with a DW so go ahead and do what you want
I'm giving my printer an excel document with all the address information and he's doing a mail merge and printing them for me.

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#17
Posted 08 November 2009 - 10:38 AM
My invitations are being hand addressed. I found a vendor on etsy.com who will do up to 75 invitations for $50. Well worth the price! I think the printer ink is more expensive than that....and she has a great handwriting.
Carolina
#18
Posted 08 November 2009 - 12:26 PM
I agree with the post above. Our wedding is not very traditional and the feel of our invites are also quite modern so I didn't feel bad about not sticking to the tradition of using caligraphy to address our invites. I say do what you want to!
#19
Posted 08 November 2009 - 03:34 PM
I hand addressed about 80 invites. I did them in batches of about 20, so it really wasn't that bad. As long as you space it out into doable amounts, it's really not that bad.
#20
Posted 09 November 2009 - 03:25 PM
It is a pain, but I hand addressed all mine. I am extremely anal and it drove me crazy that they weren't all perfect, but oh well.....I do like the personal touch! I also put some tropical stamps in our wedding colors on the envelopes to jazz them up a bit (ours were just plain white).
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