Advice for do it yourself wedding invitations:
A dozen tips . . .
1. Enlist the girls. Spend some quality craft time with your friends by hosting an invitation-making party. I’m hosting an afternoon tea, complete with scones, Darjeeling tea, and invitation supplies. It’s not only productive and extremely helpful, but it’s just another fun excuse to hang with the girls, catch up, chat, and eat.
2. Enlist your guy. I bet it’ll be pretty enjoyable watching your
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Dear Ann Landers: I am getting married next year to a wonderful guy. His mother passed away when he was very young. My future father-in-law never remarried, but he has had a “significant other” for about 18 years — it just happens to be another man.
My fiance is very close to his father’s partner. He says it is like having two wonderful fathers. Would it be proper to put his partner’s name on the wedding invitation? My fiance says that his father would marry his partner if it were legally possible and that his name should be on the invitation. I don’t want to embarrass anyone by making a public announcement of their living arrangement, but neither do I want to offend my fiance by not including this man. How can I diplomatically resolve this? — Fiasco in L.A.
Dear L.A.: Significant others, whether gay or straight, should not have their names on wedding invitations. Your father-in-law’s partner will be very much in evidence at the festivities, so he should not feel that anyone is hiding him. To put his name on the wedding invitation as if he were a spouse would, in my opinion, be improper and invite a lot of criticism. Don’t do it.
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In 2008, the U.S. Postal Service will reissue the designs of the two
2007 Wedding Hearts stamps featuring vines that form the shape of a heart.
These stamps are designed especially for mailing wedding invitations and
RSVPs and are sure to add an elegant touch to invitations and response
cards.
The stamps will be available in two denominations to cover both the
one-ounce and the two-ounce mailing rates. Each one-ounce stamp is intended
for use on the RSVP envelope often enclosed with a wedding invitation. Each
two-ounce stamp will accommodate the wedding invitation with enclosures.
Illustrator Nancy Stahl of New York City based her designs on memories of a
wide range of intertwined objects, including silver charms and
old-fashioned garden gates. The one-ounce denomination features a sage
background, while the two-ounce denomination features a melon background,
as determined by Stahl and art director Carl Herrman of Carlsbad, CA
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