With 11 days until I need to mail our wedding invitations, there’s no time for a meltdown. Honestly, after being engaged for 14 months, I’m tired of freakouts. I’ve come to realize lately that it’s totally ok to just go with the flow.
Initially, when I ordered my invitations, I knew that I’d have to DIY one teeny tiny part of it. It’d be our “accommodation/registry” card that we’d stick in. Yeah, yeah call me tacky, I don’t care. Sticking in a card that specifies where to find our hotel blocks and our registry isn’t tacky to me…it’s more informative. Plus, I’ve asked loads of people in our families if they find it tacky. Everyone agreed that it’d be easier if registry stuff was included in the invitation packet since a lot of people don’t visit the wedding website. Maybe it’s because I’m Hispanic. Maybe that has nothing to do with it. Either way, Mathew and I are convinced that we’re being informative, not rude (if you disagree, that’s ok lol).
I set out today in search of pearlized metallic paper to match our awesome invitations that we got off Etsy. After the 3rd store, I finally found what I was looking for- ish. I initially wanted an ivory pearlized cardstock, but none were the correct shade. I stumbled upon silver metallic cardstock which was perfect because it matched the reception card included in our invitation suite.
I strived to match the font as perfectly as I could to our suite and came up pretty close. I looked at the words on the screen and everything looked perfect. I pressed print (on a scratch regular computer paper), and looked it over (ok ok…I merely glanced at it, but that’s not the point. Well actually…it is). It was great! FSIL Kristin looked at it too and concluded it looked like the right size and I put 15 pieces of paper into the printer (I had 12 accommodation/registry cards per page of paper). I loved how well it printed on the cardstock and immediately showed it to Mathew. With his stamp of approval, I ran down the hall to Mama Julie. 
The reason I love Mama Julie is because she looks at everything carefully (especially when she knows I won’t because I’m super excited). She noticed 2 errors. WHAT?! Yep…2 errors. First, on our URL for the wedding website, the “s” in my name was cut off by the margin (on every single “card” on the first column of the paper) and that the “e” in Mathew’s last name was cut off on ever single “card” of the last column of the paper.
I’m pretty tired of hashing out so much money, so I said “forget it”. Hardly anyone will notice this tiny tiny error so I pulled out my handy dandy pen, wrote an “s” in for my name on all 15 pages’ 1st column, and wrote an “e” in Mathews last name on all 15 pages’ 3rd column. Tomorrow, I’ll use the paper cutter at work and carefully cut them out, but other than that, I’m not going to worry about them. Guests will only glance at them and I am not going to die because every single one isn’t perfect by 1 character in a tiny card.
All in all, it’s just not worth the freakout. 🙂 I have better stuff to do like wondering what kind of stamp we’ll use and addressing envelopes! 
I don’t think its tacky! Its smart!!! I am having invite probs too. We want adult reception for many reasons! I want to make a point of putting “adult reception to follow” but people have said its tacky. I don’t know what to do. Ughhhh weddings! LOL
Our registry card was separate from our invite in the envelope. And our invites plus the registry were all handmade 🙂 Ill have to take a pic and show you soon.. I have on above my computer.. I heart them 🙂 Cant wait to see how cute yours turned out!
not tacky at all love!
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Girl, I love your attitude and that is a great way to deal with little blips (that nobody would even notice but you!). Keep up the great outlook!
You have such a great attitude! And I don’t think it’s tacky at all to put the registry card in.
Def. not tacky and Love the attitude! You are so right – not worth the freak-out, you had a great resolution to the problem!
Haha good attitude! I had the same thing happen with my save the dates! My fiance put calandar instead of calendar… I was sooo mad at first, but then I was like “Who cares?”
I agree with you – not worth the stress! Good for you for having less freak outs, especially as you get closer and closer. I can’t wait to see how they look!
HAHAHA that is awesome that you just put it aside and went with it and wrote in the s and the e. I love it!
I remember those days, I actually printed out our invitations at home and it was work! Everyone was impressed that I printed them at home, but it wasnt fun! So I say you are great for going with the flow because your guests will just see how beautiful your invitations are and wont see the little error that you see.