There’s No Such Thing as Too OCD.
Well, there might be. Someone like Monk(you know, the TV show with Tony Shalhoub) might be considered to OCD. But when it comes to DIY wedding invitations, I don’t think you can ever be too OCD.
That’s right, we were creative(and cheap), and designed and printed our own wedding invitations from home, with the help of Mr. Adobe Photoshop, and some fancy paper we got at Staples.
It only took me an hour or two to come up with the design(once I actually sat down to do it), and after at least five other pairs of proof reading eyes looked over it and could find no more typos, we deemed the design okay for printing.
We got our fancy border embossed paper for a mere $30 at Staples, and before we knew it we were done with the test sheets, and got down to business. It was so smooth, and I couldn’t have been more happy with how everything turned out. Here’s all 50 of the invitations laying out to dry at my parent’s house when were were all finished. They all looked awesome.
However (oh yes, there is a however), the next day on my way to work I got a call from my Dad, who tells me there’s something wrong with the invitations. No typos necessarily, but a double word.
See, no one read the invitation out loud. We all just skimmed it word by word, to make sure there were no misspellings, or typos. But, we didn’t actually read the invite the way our wedding guests would. As a result, the first two lines of our invitations read:
The honor of your
your presence is requested
Luckily, for some reason, I bought two boxes of the fancy paper from Staples, so I was able to reprint them on the same paper, as soon as I got back to my parent’s house. Needless to say though, I was a bit unhappy to realize that we would now have 50 useless, double your-ed invitations just hanging about, evilly reminding me how I wasted a precious $30 on the wrecked first batch.
After much huffing and puffing, my Dad was kind enough to shine a light of positivity on our situation. He reminded how only a few days before I was insistent on just having them all printed at Kinkos, because it would be cheaper.
Had I just send my design to Kinko’s, and had them all put in their perfectly addressed envelopes, I might not have noticed my annoying mistake until they had all been sent off. Which would have definitely annoyed me A LOT more. Thankfully, however annoying our little error was, it was easy to fix, and our invitations turned out perfectly.
So for all you brides to be out there, be sure to have as many people as you possibly can read your DIY invitations OUT LOUD.
