Thursday, February 21, 2008

Wedding invitation sweatshop

Last night we had Calin and Susanne over for supper to help put together our painfully homemade wedding invitations. A couple of weekends ago I spent much of one day cutting and gluing these strips of paper into log cabin quilt blocks, and found that I only managed to get 27 done. And so I brought home another glue stick from work, and decided to call on some friends for help. I didn't get any pictures of the labourers actively at it (perhaps I don't allow cameras to record the working conditions?), but here's the scene just after they left. As you can imagine, the cat was lots of help.
Don't think that this was unpaid labour though - they were treated to a thoroughly unhealthy meal of ribs with North American-style BBQ sauce, sweet potato fries, and a giant salad, all prepared by Jeremi. Here they are, sitting down to it.
By now you're probably wondering what the invitations themselves looked like. Here's an out-of-focus picture of one of the covers...and the inside has this in it:
Don't bother trying out the website listed yet - it's not up and running yet. But it will be by the time we mail them out! It may well be a while yet until they actually arrive at your door. We've got just over half finished now, and we still don't have a full address list put together. After that we have to address them and the RSVP cards, send the whole package to Canada, have the best maid of honour ever (aka Marie) stamp them, and mail them off. I can't see this taking less than a month, but that's still pretty reasonable.

PS If you find any spelling or grammar mistakes in the invite shown above, please don't tell me.

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