Handwriting invitations
greg | April 21, 2010“Though we’ll have only 10 guests at our wedding, we wanted an opportunity to celebrate our marriage with old friends. So, my parents are throwing us a shower on May 8 at my dad’s church...”
With our small wedding guest list and Paperless Post, I really thought we were going to dodge the necessity of invitations sent through the USPS.
But, a bunch of the people we would like to invite to our shower in Indianapolis are from the church my father pastored for most of my childhood, and for many, we don’t have email addresses.
I looked for the most technologically saavy (read: lazy) way to do this. I looked for a service that would let me create a card online, feed it an address list, and automagically send the cards through the USPS. When I came up short, I went looking for invitations I could feed through a printer, only to find that all stationary stores within a couple miles of my house are closed on Mondays.
That’s when I realized I was spending more time trying to optimize this task than it would take to just do it. There’s only about 20 of these invitations to be sent, and it seemed like a good opportunity to slow down and do something that was more about people than convenience.
And so I bought a bunch of simple, blank cards, and hand wrote invitations for each of our emailess guests. It’s required some work, but it’s been rewarding and has caused me to reminisce about some people I haven’t seen in 12 years, and the roles they played in my life from third to twelfth grade.
If you are reading this, you are invited to join us on May 8th at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church. And if you’d like a handwritten invitation, drop me an email, and I’ll send you one.
