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Proofread, proofread and then proof your invitations again!

March 7th, 2007

What’s the only thing worse than making a mistake on your wedding invitations? Making it on someone else’s!!

My poor friend Tracy was having such a hard time getting her invitations printed, she had chosen a design from Bella Figura, a seemingly reputable letterpress printer. When they stopped answer their phones or returning her calls, I offered to do the design work if she could find a local NYC printer. We were in a big rush to get the design files to the printer, and in the meantime Tracy and her Fiance Mike were at their engagement party in Charlotte and we were doing all of our communications by email.. not that that is any excuse.

I sort of had this feeling something was wrong.. like maybe I had misspelled something. Its that same feeling I get at my job right before I send an email blast out to 50k people.. I’m always convinced there is a mistake somewhere.

And of course - there was:

Can you spot the mistake? Go ahead, look again.. its good practice for the tedium of proofing your own invitations… Still don’t see it? Take a look at the year. Now take a look at the date of this post. DOH!!!

I hope that someday Mike and Tracy can forgive me…I was supposed to act as their wedding coordinator, now I think I may be to mortified to go to the wedding! I’m afraid the guests will all be pointing and whispering.. “there’s the girl who ruined the invitations!”. OK, maybe I’m a little bit paranoid, but you get the idea.

So let this be a lesson to brides everywhere. Or at least the brides that still haven’t sent out their invitations. Proof read them, have someone else proof read them (preferably NOT the person that designed them!) and then proof read them again. This is one typo you won’t forget. Ever.

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