Aside from, you know, marrying the person you love and having a big day to celebrate with all of your closest friends and relatives and getting a bunch of presents and taking a honeymoon and all that jazz.
Dude! You get a letter from the President! And the First Lady.
Ok, well, not automatically. First, you have to invite them. Yup, that's right - send one of your wedding invitations to the White House, and you get a letter back from them! Signed and everything!*
I saw this a couple of times in the various wedding boards. Project Wedding provides the address for the President, Mickey Mouse, and the Pope. Another website suggested sending one to your favorite celebrity, too. We only sent one to President Obama. We sent it out with all of our "regular" invitations, back in mid-August. We just received this yesterday:
How freakin cool is that?!? I heart wedding planning.
*It's a pre-printed signature. I did the smudge test. But still...too cool. But, our address, on the front - definitely hand-written. It was all rain-drop smudged. I am telling myself Michelle did it.
*All personal photos.
The invitations have been printed, assembled, stamped, addressed.... and now that they're officially in the mail and being received, I'm happy to share them with you! We are totally in love with our invites and so excited for everyone to see them!
We worked with Etsy (there it is again) seller The Extra Detail. She was fantastic to work with. She let us customize the entire project - the trifold color, the ribbon color, the invitation/rsvp/extra info card colors. She sent us samples of the colors that we requested, and let us choose EXACTLY what we wanted. Once we got that straightened out, she sent us multiple proofs and let us change the font as much as we wanted (which ended up being 4 different times). Once everything was absolutely perfect, we placed the order and a few weeks later, they arrived on our doorstep. Initially she sent us the wrong size outer envelopes, but she quickly corrected it, free of charge. Another great Etsy experience!
Sooo....are you ready to see them? Well, here they are, in all their gorgeousness...
We sent them out on Monday, and we've already gotten lots of feedback from people about them! I hope you like them as much as we do!
