Ask MetaFilter posts tagged with invitations

Cut My Corners?

dyno04 — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:41:01 -0800

I am looking for a punch similar to the following: Photo Corner Slot Punch. However this puts 2 slots in to the paper. What I am looking for is a punch that only puts one slots into the paper. This 2 slot punch makes the photos slide in and then come out the other slot. The one slot punch I am looking for would hide the corner of the photo creating an octagon effect. I hope this is a good enough explanation and any help would be appreciated.

How to arrange wedding invites around parental estrangement?

chudmonkey — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:36:33 -0800

How to arrange wedding invites around parental estrangement? My fiance and I are planning a small-ish Las Vegas wedding followed a week or so later by a large-ish reception at home in Calgary, Alberta. My fiance has a large, tight family, but we don't expect/want the bulk of them to travel to LV for this reason, so we figure the Calgary reception will give people less distance to travel and a more comfortable experience for some of the older invitees.

My extended family is not very close, and while I have no animosity toward any of them, I don't particularly care if anyone from my side attends either affair. I do, however, want to make it clear that the whole lot of them are welcome, should they care to attend.

The complication is that I have no desire for any contact with my parents, particularly at my wedding. I have no idea how my estrangement from my parents is considered amongst my family - not even whether most/any of them are aware of it, let alone what they think of it. So I'm very anxious about putting anyone in my family "between" my parents and I.

Since the wedding itself will be small, I'd likely only invite my maternal grandmother and two of my closest aunts (one from each side of the family), but if I'm going to invite anyone to anything, I think politeness would mandate most of the other aunts, uncles and cousins being welcome at the reception.

Because of the circumstances of our estrangement, it's likely my parents are going to feel very bad about being excluded from the wedding, and probably rather embarrassed when they find out about it from a third party, so I'm loathe to put any relatives in the position of dealing with that, as well as the position of having to "choose a side" in order to decide about their attendance.

My fiance has suggested simply telling my entire family that I eloped, but I'm wary of having to maintain that lie over the entire course of my marriage. I've thought about taking my fiance for some personal visits with my closest family members after the wedding, but since none of them are local to us, I can't guarantee managing that financially or time-wise anywhere in proximity of the wedding.

So, please: suggestions and thoughts of any sort are welcome. I'd love to know how you'd feel in the position of my relatives, or how you've dealt with similar matters.

Best wedding invite you've seen?

billyfleetwood — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:04:38 -0800

My friends have asked me to design their wedding invitations, and have said I could do whatever I want. Before I present them with my own ideas, I want to show them some cool invitations that have already been done. Have you seen any that struck you as really fabulous, creative or unique? Anything that I could show them online would be best, but written descriptions would be great as well. Mostly I'm looking to get them thinking creatively and expand their concept of what can be done. When I hit them with my "Lets engrave the invites into 25 pound wooden blocks" idea* their response should be "That's stupid" as opposed to "That's impossible".

*Actually, I'm saving this one for my own wedding.

What is a good, web 2.0, alternative to Evite?

stilly — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:53:21 -0800

What is a good, web 2.0, alternative to Evite? Preferably one that doesn't require invitees to register in order to RSVP... Okay, I'm officially sick of Evite. The site is too damn ugly, and the interface is clunky to say the least. I just want something clean, intuitive, simple. Is that too much to ask?

Also, there is one element of Evite that I would need any new site to keep: not requiring invitees to register for the site in order to RSVP.

Suggestions?

Help me get married!

santojulieta — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:07:08 -0800

WeddingFilter: OhMyHolyLord! There's a lot to plan for a wedding, and I have options paralysis! Help me married or engaged-to-be-wed wedding planning MeFites, you're my only hope! So, I am very excited about my upcoming nuptiuals. What girl wouldn't be? However, I am utterly overwhelmed with all the nonsense involved in planning a wedding.

I have the luxury of about 18 months to plan and (luckily) parents who are happy to throw us a wedding. So far, I have only one definite, the photographer.

My major issue relates to all other wedding related things. Every time I open Martha Weddings, I freak out at all the options. Likewise with Googling anything. There are simply too many options to for me. I also have a lovely fiance who has no strong opinions one way or another, so much of the decision making is left up to me.

What I really want here are your ideas and inspirations and internet links and other reference materials. Who printed your invitiations and what did you include? Where did you order your dress from? How do you go about finding a church in which to get married when you don't regularly attend a church? What is an appropriate price for dinners? What sort of favors do people like to get at weddings? Live pianist/guitarist or iPod? How do I go about planning our honeymoon - do we need a travel company? and so on...

(I have eleventy billion more questions on top of this, so if you have any references like books, articles, websites, please include them.)

I love you all dearly in advance for your help.

Help me find some brown-ink pens!

tastybrains — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:52:33 -0800

I'm not sure if these even exist - but is anyone aware of either ballpoint or rollerball pens that come in brown ink? I'm going to be addressing wedding invitations myself, and since my invitations are brown & pink, I'd love to find a brown-ink pen to address the outer envelopes with. I don't want to use jelly pens or felt-tip pens since I don't write as nicely with them. Ditto for fountain pens.

So, do any ballpoint or rollerball pens come in brown? If so, where can I get some? (I'm in the US.) I've tried a few crafts stores (Michaels, Joann) and Staples. Any ideas?

Is is impolite to invite some coworkers but not others to a housewarming party?

Anonymous — Fri, 12 May 2006 13:07:52 -0800

HousewarmingPartyFilter: Is is impolite to invite some coworkers (my immediate team) to a housewarming party but not others (the office at large)? I work for a company that has about 30 people at the location where I work, another 30-40 at a second location, plus a handful of people that work from home and so on.

I've also recently moved into a new house and I'd like to have a housewarming party. As far as the invitations (done via Evite, as you might guess), adding my non-work friends to the list is the easy part. However, as far as my coworkers, I've become good friends with my immediate team (of about eight people) and I'm on a first-name basis with the other people at the location where I work. I hardly know the people at the other office, so I’m not too concerned about that part. However, if I were to invite the people on my team (which I'd like to do), would I be obligated to invite the other couple-dozen people in my office too?

The scenario that I could envision, if I were to invite my team but not necessarily the rest of the office, is that on the Friday before the housewarming-party-weekend, Team-Person A could mention to Non-Team-Person B in the break room about the party at my place; and I wouldn't want Non-Team-Person B to feel hurt. It's not that I don't like the other people in my office, I just don't know them very well (other than their first names with which to greet them in the hallways and such). That, and my new place is about 1200 sq ft, so I can't invite an infinite number of people ;).

So, what does etiquette say about this? Would be more polite to invite everyone in the office, or would it be acceptable to invite my team and leave it at that?

PS In case it helps, I'm a 28 y/o guy and I work in the US in the tech/Intarweb sector.

Who gets invited to the Oscars?

jasonsmall — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:15:21 -0800

Who (besides, obviously, the nominees, Academy members and presenters) are all those people at the Oscars? And how does that invitation process work?

How many Easter bonnet jokes can a person make?

orange swan — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:46:09 -0800

Attention MeFi smart asses! Here's your chance to make justifiable wisecracks on AskMe. I need an Easter-themed witticism. Every year I host my family's Easter luncheon. I'm starting to design the invitations now. In the past along with the requisite info concerning time and place, I have included some little semi-humourous tag line. Examples of past lines have been "For your egg-hunting convenience, the Easter chocolate will be placed in plain sight", and "The last person to arrive is elected to wear the bunny suit". But this is my fifth year of hosting the Easter luncheon and the well is running dry. I can't think of anything new for this year's invitations. So, help me out. Try to keep it short, i.e., under 15 words or so. Sacreligious and/or risqué won't fly with my family (though if it's truly inspired I'll enjoy it, so throw it in just for the hell of it, and perhaps I can spin something off it).

Full disclosure: This was posted to MetaChat, but I didn't get anything useable, so I'm trying again here where there's a larger peanut gallery.

Paper for walls and not for desktops

MarvinJ — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:11:16 -0800

Help! I am looking for peacock feather motif wallpaper, as in paper for walls and not for desktops. I am getting married next year and want to use a strip of this peacock feather motif on the invitations. So far google-ing has come up with a lot of destop wallpapers and not so many actual wallpapers.

So does anyone know of places that would do similar motifs as wallpaper, paper, or card?

which way are fold-over rsvp cards folded?

about_time — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:54:14 -0800

We had response cards printed for our wedding invitations. They are the fold-over kind. Only one of the four sides has print: "please rsvp...". The cards are flat and ready to be folder by us for stuffing into the envelope...Which way are the cards folded over? So that the guest can write a reply on the blank inside? Or so that they open the card up to the printed rsvp "M______" text?

How do I address a formal invitation to a judge and her husband?

brain_drain — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:57:53 -0800

How do I address a formal invitation to a judge and her husband? I need to send an invitation for a formal event to a judge and her husband. Let's call them "John and Jane Smith." They are older and fairly traditional about matters of etiquette. How should I address the invitation? Options I am considering include, in descending order of current preference:

The Honorable Jane Smith & Mr. John Smith
Judge Jane Smith & Mr. John Smith
Judge & Mr. Jane & John Smith
Mr. & Mrs. John and Jane Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Jane and John Smith
Mr. & Mrs. John Smith

Paper Peddler

naxosaxur — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:30:39 -0800

I've volunteered to provide the layout and printing of invitations for my friend's upcoming wedding. Now I'm looking for recommendations regarding online paper goods vendors for the invitation templates. We browsed Crane & Co. together (at the store and online) for templates, but nothing works for her. I also know that Hallmark doesn't have anything suitable.

She specifically wants something dynamic, such as a tri-fold invitation or something else aside from a basic pallet card stock.

Has anyone ever used a successful online paper vendor that you could recommend? Thanks in advance for your help.

Question number 9615

ArsncHeart — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:16:17 -0800

I'm a current GMail user, and I just got my first invite to give away. I know a couple of people who might like one, but I want to contact them before sending it, since I know if they reject it, I don't get it back. My question: How long will the invite sit in my GMail inbox, awaiting dispersement?