One of the first projects I focused on after we picked our venue was the invitations. I have been making invitations and cards for family and friends for as long as I can remember and I knew nothing would be more important than…THE WEDDING INVITATION (cue the singing angels). I immediately put a whole heck of a lot of pressure on myself to come up with the best invitation possible. I slowly began to realize that nothing I came up with would actually meet the expectations I placed on myself. When I came up with a potential design that I loved, I was disappointed when people didn’t faint from it’s beauty after seeing it…which is close to the reaction I was hoping for. Because of that I would start questioning my design and would change it. After all – would people actually tell me if they didn’t like it? Probably not. I went back and forth with several different designs and I am sure friends and family rolled their eyes each time I said “I changed the invitation…again!” The 3rd time was the charm when I finally did hear those angels singing and knew I had the found the design that fit my vision for the invitation. MY vision. I think the most important lesson learned through the invitation process and when planning a wedding is this…everyone is not going to like everything you do when it comes to a wedding. There are just too many opinions out there to please them all. You have to please the most important people – yourself, your fiancé and probably the parents who are paying for this shindig. That’s all you have control over. And after the wedding is over not everyone is going to remember the centerpieces you took hours and hours to pick out or the chairs you paid extra for. They are going to remember if they had a good time and that will be affected by how happy the bride and groom are. If YOU love the invitations and the centerpieces and the chairs, that happiness will be infectious and people will walk away feeling like they just went to one of the best weddings they’ve been to…even if they didn’t love your centerpieces.
Did you struggle making decisions because you wondered what other people would think?
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