I had an epiphany in the shower the other morning. All of the sudden a solution to my invitation addressing problems came to me: I’ll address the outer envelope properly with Mr & Mrs whomever etc. and then create a second set of labels that are less formal and can include the "& guest" and additional invitees such as children and put those onto the reply cards. That way people won’t have to write their name in next to the M_______ as is customary and I’ll also have a way to let people know who is invited within their household. Yay for my brilliance! I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me earlier. Now I just have to figure out who some of the people on our list are... I’m thinking it still might get a little tricky if someone who has an “& guest” replies that a guest is coming but doesn’t give me a name. Is it ok to call them and ask who their guest is? Uhgh, nothing is ever as easy as it seems. And as of now there’s a possibility of 6 or 7 kids under the age of 6 being there (3 of them being babies less than 6 months old!) Not likely they’ll all come, but it could happen. That could make things interesting…
In other wedding news, I finally made the hair appointments Wednesday night while we were up in Appleton browsing for carpet. I definitely think Heads of Time is much more my kind of place than Salon Aura was. I have a trial run set for about 2 weeks before the wedding and then appointments for all of us girls at 11 am the day of the wedding. The stylist assured me that they use enough hairspray that the up-dos should have no problem staying in place until and through the 3:30 pm wedding. I guess we’ll see. My hair can be kind of stubborn. I’m still undecided about what I want to do with it. I’m growing it out but I don’t know how much longer it will really get before August. I know I want to have it up off my face so it doesn’t bug me and is off my neck since I know it will be hot. Other than that I’m at a loss. I’ve been looking through magazines etc. to see if something inspires me but so far nothing has.
