Wedding Invitations!

This week has been the week of wedding invitations! In preparation for today, when we went up to St. Andrews to write and put everything into envelopes, there was a lot of background work that went on.
Firstly I had to source the inserts there is a brilliant web site called Mad About Cards and they have everything you could posssibly need so managed to get precut inserts ready to print to save time. Also bought envelopes and red confetti hearts to put into the invites.
Then I had to plan and print the inserts with the correct wording, used a brilliant desk top publisher called PagePlus to do that and they turned out really well.
I had to write out the gift list number and Rachel and Simon's names onto little cards to be put in as well in case anyone wants to buy a gift from Debenhams for them.
I wrote out the directions to get from the church to the hotel and also found some information on places to stay locally so we printed them out as well (had the help of my husband to do the double sided printing as he can only do it from his computer upstairs)
Last bit of preparation was to put the doublesided sticky tape into the cards ready to pull off the backing to place the ineserts into the cards (Tip courtesy of my friend Lynne who is an amazing crafter, making cards and scrapbooks)
In amongst that I was also working on the bodice of the wedding dress to get it to a stage for Rachel to try on today.
So today we took all the various parts up in the car and we set up a production line around the table with Rachel writing the names on the inserts, Simon sticking them into the invitation cards, Mark folding the info and wedding gift list cards, me writing out the addresses on the envelopes  and Ian putting eveything into the envelopes including adding the red confetti hearts!
We did the whole day invites before lunch and the evening ones after lunch so a very good days work. We also listened to hymns on a CD to try and help them choose which ones they would like for the service as they can't make up their minds.
Right at the end they looked at menu choices so I have left them with the menus to make their final decisions for when they come back at Easter.
Rachel also tried on the bodice, which fits prefectly, and confirmed the trimming was correct for the dress as well as a necklace she wants to have made for her wedding day to check it out against the bodice. It looks lovely. We have commissioned her friend Naomi to make it for the day.
So a busy but successful week. Will it get calmer for a while I wonder!