Sigh of relief!

I dropped my invitations in the mail yesterday. That was an incredible relief! I must say the folks at the Arlington post office were super nice and made sure that I had the correct postage and everything.

Sepaking of correct postage, there was another bride with me in the post office who had a really unfortunate incident. She bought the wrong postage and had already stamped her 200 invitations just to get to the window to be told her size envelopes needed more postage. I felt so bad for her and ended up helping her re-stamp her invitations in the post office so she could get them out in time.

I did run into a little snag--I am sending invitations to England. I am still waiting on stamps from England to put on the RSVPs. This was due to poor planning on my part. Here I am assembling a million little pieces of paper not even realizing that I had no return stamps from the countries I was sending invitaions to! So now I am waiting to get my UK stamps so I can send out a few more invitations.

So be sure to get the right postage! Bring one invitation to the post office to have them weigh it before you splurge on postage!

And if you're sending invitations overseas and you plan on paying for the return postage, get postage from that country:-) It's taken about a week and a half since I purchased the UK stamps. This puts me a little under 7 weeks to get the invites out to my overseas guests.

Hope everyone's planning is going well!

Don't Forget!

Don't forget about the upcoming postage increase on May 11, 2009! The price for regular ol' stamps will rise to 44 cents. If you're sending out your invitations soon and your response date is after May 11, be sure you've got the right amount of postage on your response envelopes.

Forever Stamps can be purchased NOW for the current postage rate of 42 cents and will be good...forever! Maybe it's not the prettiest stamp on the block (sorry Liberty Bell) but I know for me it would be worth the piece of mind to know I had the right amount of postage no matter what!

Even though our invitations don't go out until August, and we'll be free and clear of the increase rate, I plan to purchase enough Forever stamps before the increase to use on our response envelopes. Hey, it might only save me 3cents per envelope, but with 58 response envelopes, that's $11 I can spend on something else!

Have you thought about your postage situation? What's your plan?