Much Ado about Not Very Much

The most pressing part of our wedding preparation lately has been the addressing of invitations.  Diana’s uncle is a graphic designer and was able to design and print our invitations for us.  The design was beautiful and fit great with the theme of the wedding. 

            However, the difficult part is addressing them.  In every etiquette book that Diana has read, people have to hand address each invitation in order to keep from committing a major fopaw.  While I knew this would be a lot of work, the major problem was that Diana and I both have awful handwriting; you guys are lucky that blogs are typed rather than handwritten (although I don’t know how that work).  I was quite afraid that they would never reach their destination and no one wouold come to our wedding (dramatic, I know). 

            But I also didn’t really feel like taking the time to handwrite every invitation.  One etiquette book that Diana read said that you should have one person write all of the invitations so that they all have the same handwriting.  I didn’t really see the point in that; were people from Texas, Michigan, Florida, Virginia, and Scotland all going to drive down and bring their invitations to make sure that they all have the same handwriting.  If they’re going to do that they need to not come to my wedding.  But I don’t know why I have to handwrite them at all.  We live in an age where we have computers to do our bidding in tasks such as this.  I wanted to just do a mail merge and be done with it rather than commit myself to hours upon hours of work.

            However, Diana convinced me that we should follow etiquette and actually address them.  So we turned on the TV and got to work.  An hour later, we decided to call it a night and realized that we had already addressed 2/3s of the invitations.  So, that fear I would be spending hours doing this was totally unfounded.  Seems like most of my fears about this wedding are unfounded.  I’ll take that as a good thing.