I mentioned a few posts back that i had ordered a sample wedding invitation from a website i'd found that allowed you to design and order your own cards for any occasion. Within 2 days i had received the sample and i was really happy with it (except i felt it was a bit small) so went on to order the invitations in the same design but making them a little bigger. Another 2 days and i was surprised to receive the actual invitations! We're so pleased with them, they're really simple but totally what we wanted and i can't recommend the website;
http://www.poobies.com/
enough! So the excitment is mounting because now we have the invitations we can finally send them out. It feels a little early to me but i'm reading about some brides who have their invitations for weddings abroad sent a good 6 months or more before the wedding and then i start to panic a bit! But now feels like the right time to get them out there, giving people time to make bookings etc, and us time to organise the food and transport and all that sort of thing, once we have exact numbers.
It's kinda nerve-wracking to actually be sending them out, although we already sent out save-the-date cards which was much worse, because that's when people found out about the date and where it was going to be and we worried that people might not be able to travel or get that particular time off work etc, but they were received well. So thank goodness that part is over with and the official invitation isn't going to hold any more surprises for our guests.
Check out the website, you can use the design's they provide or upload any photo's or pictures of your own. I had a lovely picture i found of Positano in Pastel colours and also some wedding stuff off the internet and put them together and i'm pretty happy with how it looks. Now it's time to get the felt-tips out and get them in the post! I'll let you know how long it takes before we get all of our replies!!!!
We're also in the process of finalising our wedding dinner menu at the moment. Chiara has given us choices of about five or six things for each course, all of which are traditional Italian fayre and not your typical wedding food. This is exactly what we wanted, having already tried and loved local Italian food, and also having attended a beautiful wedding in Rome a couple of years ago at which the traditional food was spectacular! But i do worry that our guests may feel a bit let down! I hope not, as Mamma Agata has after all cooked for the likes of Robert de Niro in the past and therefore has got to be good, surely! But still, it won't be what you'd normally expect at a wedding. It's so hard to choose as everything sounds lovely to us, but we'll try and pick something that will appeal to all pallets and keep everyone happy. It sounds like there's going to be plenty of it anyway, so i'm pretty sure none of us will starve, whatever happens!
By the way, i want to say Happy Valentines Day to all you loved-up brides-to-be out there for tomorrow! This is my last year as a 'Fiancee' so next year we'll be going for the 'husband' and 'Wife' cards!!!! Oh, how old will i sound then? Have a good one!!!
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