Diary of a Green Wedding #3: Introduction to Invitations
Hippyshopper editor Gabrielle chronicles trying to have a small, affordable wedding while pleasing her dreamed-of-a-fairytale-wedding-since-he-was-a-boy fiance and trying to keep her consumerism low. Invitations are a guaranteed puzzler.
In addition to being cantankerous, non-girly when it comes to weddings, and, shall we put it nicely, value-conscious about my spending on events, I am also not much of a crafty type. Arts yes, crafts, not so much. Nonetheless the idea of making my own wedding invitations was appealing, partly for the strictly practical reason that it meant I could design them to be a more standard letter size and thereby avoid the postage premium attached to non-standard format envelopes. I’m also aware that the closer the wedding gets, the less time there will be to deploy the human touch – we’ll be increasingly disposed to shell out for ready-mades.
The first question, of course, was, "John, how many invitations do you think we’ll have to send out?"
"Oh, about two hundred," he said, and went back to typing.
"WHAT?"
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