Well Wishes from Disney!

After seeing Laura's (of Saying I Do) post on sending wedding invitations to Disneyland and Disney World, I decided it would be fun to send one of our invitations too! :) 

Well, we received our wedding well wishes back from Disney!

I LOVED Cinderella as a little one... 

So I was SUPER excited to receive wedding congrats signed by 
Cinderella and her Prince Charming. ;)
It was sent from Disney World. 

AND 


We also received congrats from Mickey and Minnie Mouse!
They even sent a fun button! :) (A Cinderalla button even!!)
Sent from Disneyland. 

How fun is that?!?! 
You can send a wedding invitation to Disney and they'll send you a little something back as congrats on your wedding! :) 


If you have an extra invitation or two, the addresses for sending wedding invitations to Disney World and Disneyland are:

Disney World:

The Magic Kingdom
C/O Mickey & Minnie Mouse
1675 N Buena Vista Drive
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830

Disneyland:

Micky & Minnie
The Walt Disney Company
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, California 91521

I think we might frame these and hang them in the guest bedroom or the craft room/office. 

They'll make a fun memento from our wedding! :)

Even if the date on the Cinderella certificate is wrong now... haha. Oh well... 

Livin' on Arizona time!

We have friends and family coming from a few different states to celebrate our wedding with us in just a couple of weeks... 

Our invitations read that the ceremony will start at 5:00 PM...

 HOWEVER... it was not specified on our invites what time zone that would be. 

The wedding is in Arizona, so we assumed AZ time would be obvious.

But it's not. 

***

 Brides-to-be... 

My tip for you if you live on or close to a state border where people tend to ask, 

"What time do you mean? This time or that time?"

Make sure you note that on your invitations. 

You don't want to risk any number of guests showing up an hour late or early because of the confusion!!!

***

 My solution to our little time problem... 

To post it everywhere that we mean ARIZONA time. 

  5:00 PM AZ TIME

Facebook, my blog, twitter, our wedding website. 

Hopefully through that and word of mouth we'll get the word out what time our ceremony actually starts so our guests won't be confused!

And while we're talking about confusion, really look over your invitations before sending them to print! If there's a chance of ANY confusion with ANYTHING, that's the time to make a note and add a little blurb somewhere. Having your guests make it to your wedding is more important than a small note on your lovely invites!!!  

Something to keep in mind, huh... :)

Did you have a time zone issue with your wedding?? 

How'd you handle it?

Did guests get confused and show up at the wrong time??

Our Wedding Invitations!

Since we FINALLY seem to have sent out all of our wedding invitations, it won't be spoiling it for any of the receivers to share them with you all here on the blog now... :)

I work next door to a print shop... I think I may have mentioned this before... 

But my boss and his family dabble in a little bit of everything. 

I actually sell accounting software, in the back office of their print/copy shop!

So it was EASY to decide where to get our invitations printed!!

I always wanted something simple. Just a card, with LOTS of pictures. 

And thanks to Debi of CMI Quick Copy, that's exactly what we got!

I simply took her our CD of engagement photos, told her an idea of what I wanted and our wedding colors and in a day or two she brought me several options! 

I looked them over, decided which one was my favorite, then took them to Mr. M. 

Surprisingly he chose the same one!

So, for your viewing pleasure... haha. 

Here is the front of our invite! 

Excuse the squiggles... Still trying to protect at least a shred of personal information. :)

*Even though I've slipped and mentioned my fiance's first name a time or two... haha. Oh well.

I LOVED that the background sort of looks like distressed black denim.

I also LOVED how she placed the wording over the photo of us riding. :)

And here's the back.

The envelopes we chose were the classier plain white ones. We didn't want to spend too much on envelopes because they just get thrown away after they're opened... 

But we didn't want them to be see through either...

Debi even printed the addresses and our return address on the envelopes for us!

They have a new printer that does it so easy! She just used the same font that is on the invites and they looked really nice! 

Plus it saved me SO much time not having to hand write the envelopes!

Instead of paying for RSVP cards and the postage to have them sent back... 

Which can add up SO quickly... 

We just included a line at the bottom that said, 

"Please RSVP at www.ourweddingwebsite.com...." 

We aren't doing a plated sit down dinner or escort cards, so RSVP's weren't that important to us. The RSVP on the website will give us an idea of how much food to have and chairs, and that's really all we needed! Saved us a bundle! :)

So... What do you think???

Did you/will you do RSVP cards? Were they important for your day?

Other ideas for handling RSVPs?