WOO SPRING BREAK

It is 79 degrees F, 27 for those of you who are celsius-inclined. Dresden weather is always a shock. Even after nearly four (OMG) years here, I'm never used to the speed at which it changes.

Weather. HOW EXCITING.

Anyway. This past week I've been pretty busy on the wedding-planning front. I vowed never to be one of those people who plans things down to the length of the fork tines, and I have been pretty successful so far. My cousin's getting married one month after me so we compare to-dos and things like that. I know if she's doing something, I really need to get it done, so she's been a huge source of motivation, especially since I'm a lifetime member of the Procrastinator's Guild. She mentioned invitations and I was like, crap. I looked at a couple sites and realized $300 for 100 invitations was just not something I wanted to spend money on, especially since I didn't want to waste paper, wasn't planning on doing mail RSVPs, plus there was a big chance my mom was going to be the one to stuff envelopes and I just didn't want to do that to her. Therefore I killed a couple birds with one stone by "making" my own.

I say "making" for obvious reasons... it took about 5 minutes to type stuff on a template and send it to a copy shop in my hometown for my mom to pick up (bless her). There are a certain things that are priceless when it comes to planning a wedding from overseas and one of those things is a Paypal account. I found MMScrapShop  (run by a very nice lady) on Etsy, bought the library card template ($2.99) and it was sent to my email immediately. I actually did this back in February and it just sat around in my email for a while. I finally opened that bad boy in Pages (like, last week) and downloaded a couple fonts for the typewriter and stamp font.  I emailed it to a local Ohio copy shop and asked it be printed on white cardstock. They called my mom the same day for her to pick them up. The huge bonus is that this template comes with five cards on one page, and I estimated 75 invitations to send (lots of families and couples), so I only needed 15 pages printed! The cost was $17.85. I got 100 envelopes for $17.98 plus $3.99 shipping so the grand total for our invitations was