Come Fly with Me

No, I am not referring to Frank Sinatra's track or album, or the 1963 movie, or the 2010 TV Series. I am referring to our Wedding Suite Invitation by PostScript Brooklyn. After going back and forth with the proofs for over two months (I am a perfectionist and the pickiest person alive), we finally approved them and they are ready for the printer :)) I can not wait to send them out. I would post pictures, but I want them to be a surprise to my guests. I promise I will post pictures once my guests receive them :) 


I worked with Marcella, and she is amazing and very patient. I guess she had to be having to work with someone like me, who is so detail oriented. For our invitations, unlike the SVTs, we decided to have them in Italian as well. This made the task more complicated. I had chosen a design that would match  that of the SVTs ;) After months and months of internet browsing I came across the PostScript Brooklyn website. Luckily for me they had a design with airplanes (that is all I will say for now :D). It is simple yet classy. I loved it, but the price tag it came with was above the budget I had set to spend on them. You see, I wanted the invitations to be printed using the  letterpress technique, two-color printing, nice heavy paper and it had to come with an RSVP card and a reception card.  I discussed it with Mr.C and, while he acknowledged that the design was unique and it would match our theme, he also pointed out that it was too much to spend on "a piece of paper" that would most likely be tossed away. I had to agree with him on that. So I went back to searching an alternative but I didn't find anything I liked as much as the Come Fly with Me.  After two weeks of  fruitless search I decided to give PostScript Brooklyn a call. I am glad I did, because we were able to find me a package that cut the costs by half. Still more expensive than the average invitation price out there but more doable. I had to give up the letterpress technique and switch to digital printing. That by itself made a big difference. The invitations still look cute and they do not come with a hefty price :-D  Once we sent the down-payment, Marcella contacted me and explained to me the process. I had control over pretty much everything (you can guess how happy I was :)))). So I chose the font format and size, the colors, and the wording. I also made few changes to the design  to make it more US. This was the easiest part.Choosing the invitation wording was a pain, not so much the English though. Translating our beloved invitation from English to Italian proved to be tougher than I imagined. We had to pay attention to every little thing, for instance # had to be converted to N°, the date 09-07-2012 had to be converted to 07-09-2012, ETA/EDA had to be completely removed as there is no equivalent of that in Italian. The hardest of all was the RSVP card. Italians do not include an extra card for the RSVP with their invitations. Usually there is a little note at the end of the invitation where guests are kindly asked to reply within a certain date. There are no instructions as to how. Mr.C and my MIL told me that guests usually tell you if their coming or not over the phone. If they don't, then you start calling them. Hmm that would be a tad complicated seeing how we live on the other side of the Atlantic and there is 6 hrs difference to be taken in account, not to mention the costs of international phone calls. I told them both that we would send the RSVP cards to our Italian guests as well and that they would have to mail it back to us with their response. I was told on several occasions that that would not happen, but I am keeping my fingers crossed that they will mail their responses. To make things easier I had my MIL mail me post stamps from Italy so that I can include them with the RSVP cards and envelopes. Aren't they adorable? :))

Post Stamps

 Now there is no excuse :-D