First Wedding Breakdown....

So up until this point I have been relatively calm. There have been small issues that have come up and I haven't gone too crazy about them. Well this past weekend I think it all hit me.

I like to think that I am a pretty crafty person so I decided early on that I wanted to hand design and make our wedding invitations. I spent countless hours and wasted used tons of paper and ink testing the look. I was finally done. I had to do some digging to find the best site to purchase the supplies I needed and once I did, there was no holding me back.

The paper came within the week followed shortly by the box containing the envelops. The only thing that was holding me back was how to print the invites. Most places wanted me to pay almost $1.00 per sheet of paper per side. That was NOT an option. 2 of my girls had taken a few sheets to see if maybe the invites could be printed with their office printer and for some reason both of the printers decided to "eat" my hand picked labor of love #107 card stock. So I tried them in my home printer.... one by one....and after a hour or so of CLOSE supervision, the invites were printed! **Cue my excitement.

The next day I took all 180 sheets of card stock to FedEx Kinko's to be cut to size. I was told it would only be 20 mins until they would be done. So I left my precious invites at the store, went to Jo Ann's to grab some last minute items needed to complete this project and came back to pick them up. I took all of the supplies and freshly cut invites and inserts over to one of my bridesmaid's houses so that we could put together the completed invitation. Once everything was laid out I noticed that some of the inserts seemed a bit...off. The wonderful people of FedEx Kinko's some how missed the dotted line I had for them to cut on and COMPLETELY messed up my inserts. They cut right through the words on some cards and completely cut off a whole sentence on another.

Here I am the ready to put these pocket fold invites together and in the envelops and I can't because I don't have enough correctly cut inserts. Now the thing is, I cannot even go back and reprint and re-cut the inserts because I do not have enough paper. I purchased just enough to complete this project and allow for a few test sheets. So right now, I have to go back online, buy more paper than I even need (only comes in counts of 100) print and re cut the invites and still hope to get these invites out by my deadline date.

I cannot even express my frustration at this point. I just pray to God that the paper ships fast and I can get a move on it.