The wedding is 8 weeks from yesterday. My goal was to send the invites out 8 weeks before the wedding. "They" say to mail them anywhere from 4 to 8 weeks before the wedding. We went with 8. I like to plan. I am mailing 109 invitations. Invitations to my wedding. Where I will be getting married.
Wow.
It's one of those moments... a right of passage I suppose. There is a certain amount of pressure where the invitations are concerned. How much pressure depends on the bride. Some brides freak out about everything and some brides pick random things to freak out about. Every bride wants to have pretty invitations. Even if they are super simple, you have to pick out wording and fonts and all of that. And of course, being a designer, I wanted to love my invitations. I started finding samples that I like months ago! In the end, there were way too many things that I liked. I picked the one that I seemed to go back to the most and I created something similar with our wedding colors. It's not formal! It's whimsical. I am okay with whimsical... but I hope it doesn't look like I went to Kroger and grabbed a random card to use as my invitations. Also, I didn't hand address them. Not unless you consider typing everyone's address into Quark before I printed labels hand addressing. I know there are people who will think it is tacky, but I decided I was more embarrassed by my handwriting than I by labels. John said that I should write a note on the envelopes that says "if you are offended by these labels, please do not come to the wedding - just send a gift". Silly John. Of course, I found two typos when I was putting them on the envelopes. One was inverted letters - I typed Maire instead of Marie. And she's a bridesmaid. Way to go Kim. And then I completely left off the apartment number on Daniel and Nicole's address, so I couldn't use that label. I had to hand address their's, and, like I always do, I got carried away with my loops, so it looks like Damiel instead of Daniel. AND... haha... most of the labels are crooked. I don't know how that happened. They looked straight until I pressed down. Then suddenly they were crooked. So there you go.
But it's done. I'm done with the invitations. Tomorrow morning they will go in the mail and then I will be waiting for RSVPs.
Wow.
Today was the first day since the move that I didn't get to go to the new apartment =-( Brett did laundry tonight. I want to do laundry in the new apartment! I like to do laundry. I'm so thankful that there are a few chores that I enjoy doing - I like to do laundry, I like to do dishes, and I like to vacuum. So I'm not happy that I didn't get to go over today and because of it, I missed a load of laundry. Of course, I did 3 loads of my laundry here, but that's not fun. It's just normal. Fun is doing laundry at the new place, like a wife.
I haven't been home except to sleep since the move. I needed to spend some time at home today to do laundry, to take care of the invitations, which took twice as long as I expected it to, by the way, and to reassemble my room somewhat. I moved my desk last weekend to the new place. It is the only piece of furniture there that is mine. And without it, my room at home was a MESS! I didn't realize how much I kept in, on and around the desk. But now things are a little more organized, so that's good.
Okay, time for bed. This week we will be cleaning out Brett's old apartment. I may not get to go to the new place much =-( I'm not happy about that. But I will be THRILLED when the old place is empty and we turn in Brett's keys. Sigh.
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