Bridal Blunder + Yay!

(Originally posted on 5.5.12)

On Thursday, May 4, we finally finished and mailed most of our invitations! I say "most" because I still have about 12 to make for Keegan's co-workers that he will hand deliver at work. I ran out of double stick tape, however, so I can't complete them until we run to the store.

All of my lovelies in a bag on their way to the post office. 

Anyways, before the wonderful day of sending my packets of joy into the world, I made a bridal blunder. You see, when I had the invitations about 50% completed, I weighed them on the mail scale we have at work. They weighed half an ounce. To use the regular 45 cent, or "forever" stamps, your letter has to weigh under 1 ounce. I figured that adding our RSVP cards and envelopes couldn't possibly put us over the 1 ounce mark, so I went ahead and purchased 6 sheets of the "Love" forever stamps from USPS.com to total about $57.

Do you see where this is going?

One day at work, I decided to bring in a completed invitation to weigh once again just to make sure we were still under the 1 ounce mark.

I set the invitation down on the scale and 1.1 ounces flashed up at me. I take the invitation off and weigh it again. 1.1 ounces.

Crap.

Long story short, I had to go to the post office, have them weigh it to make sure we were actually over 1 ounce and then buy $75 of the 65 cent wedding cake stamps.

We figured that it was cheaper for us to use one 65 cent stamp per invitation as apposed to two 45 cent stamps.

I suppose our water, gas, electric and mortgage companies will think we love them whenever we send in our bills.

Future, (or current) brides, take it from me. Double, no, triple check how much your invitations and save the dates weigh before buying postage. It'll save you from having your electric company thinking that you love to give them your money.