Under Budget Blonde

Last night I got some interesting phone calls. First my mom calls. She received my brother's and one of my bridesmaid's envelopes unsealed and empty. Ok. Thats an easy one to figure out. Those must have been the envelopes Jon tried to seal with the sponge and just wiped off the sticky part. No biggie. I can resend those or just pass them out. But then I received more phone calls. First, from my friend Lisa. Her envelope showed up empty. Is the mailman trying to crash my wedding? Then another phone call. This time from Matthew. Yet another empty envelope. Ok. What the heck? Then I start replaying Tuesday night in my mind. Ah ha. At one point during envelope stuffing Jon and I started chit-chatting. I remember after our conversation, I looked down and there were no more envelopes. I literally said, "Huh, I guess I stuffed them all." I thought I double checked the stack. Apparently not. Must have shuffled the empty ones with the stuffed ones not even paying attention to what the heck I was doing. My favorite call was from our friends, Jason and Mandi. Jason applauded my Under Budget Bride efforts. Thought my idea of sending out empty envelopes so people would call, confused, was a huge money saver. No cost on invites or RSVP postage. When people called about the empty envelopes, I could just ask, "You coming?"

So moral of the story is, don't let your fiance in the room while stuffing envelopes. We have a similiar rule in the kitchen. If I'm wielding a knife, Jon is not allowed anywhere near me. It only took a little loss of blood to establish that rule. The whole situation has led to some laughs. Luckily, it has only been my friends, and a majority of them have been the old neighborhood crew. Just a day in the life of a B2B.