Okay, so the beautiful invitations I ordered online for super cheap ($96) were not so marvelous after all. I get them from UPS and its a very small box. I am thinking to myself "Wow, how did they fit 100 invitations in this little box with all that ribbon and everything?!" I found out after I opened them and realized the ribbon was fake!!! It was just a photograph of ribbon!! I was so mad! It's kinda funny now that I know the "Zazzle Promise" lets me send them back and get my money back! So I looked at invitations on the internet again, back to square one. Finding them for around $200 and nothing I found was just so amazing that I would spend the extra money just to have them made because they were so cute. I went to Inscriptions downtown Fayetteville and couldn't find anything I like for less than $300. So I went back to the original plan and decided I would just make them myself. I went away from that plan just to try to save myself some time and hassle by having to make them but oh well. So I went to Office Max to get the actual invitation/wording part printed on white canvas paper. That was going to be way cheaper than using my up ink which is $40 a cartridge. When I spoke with a lady on the phone about them she said it would take about 24 hours. I get there in person and am getting it all straightened out and the lady says next Tuesday ( 5 or 6 days later than what it was currently). I had planned on putting them together over the weekend, but I guess not. So Tuesday comes around, which is perfect because Asa was coming over that night. I thought we could spend out evening watching TV and putting invitations together. But after 6pm I called Office Max wondering why they hadn't called me and it was because my invitations were not done! So finally yesterday (Wednesday) I get an email telling me they are ready to be picked up. After waiting in line for 1/2 an hour at the print desk, the guy pulls them out and they are the wrong color and wrong size!!! I was there for over an hour straightening it out (at least trying). I finally felt confident after I left Office Max thinking, okay, surely things will be right from now!! Well I have a missed call from them this morning, and the lady that originally took my order that messed up the ink and size wanted to know "why I changed my mind about the size we had discussed." I just told her that the ink was wrong anyway so they were still gonna have to be re-printed and left it at that. I have never had to deal with such a hassle about something!! It should be Monday before I get the prints of these done. So if anyone wants to come up next week and assemble invitations please feel free :-) I have also realized I have more planning to do than I realized. Me, mom and Kara went to Hobby Lobby Monday to shop for stuff like vases, and candles, etc. But then I realized I have no idea what I want because I don't know what is going where. So I am trying to figure out where to put decorations and stuff. I am also still working on the flower thing and trying to reduce the cost of the $7100 flower estimate! I really am not that picky it just seems that any flower I pick out happens to be expensive. I am not sure what flowers are expensive and what flowers aren't so that doesn't help. Also, if anyone has any chair linen covers that people use for weddings, could you let me know please. That is another thing I still need to either buy or rent. The cost for renting or buying is about the same so I am thinking we will probably buy them so we can sell them and get some money back for them. But I am not for sure. Also, if you have any flower advice please let me know!!
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