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I’m often asked about wedding invitation etiquette. By now I’m sure you’ve discovered that looking online at a popular wedding website is little to no help, or it doesn’t answer your question about your specific circumstances. That’s when you need the expertise of an experienced stationer, not someone who just decided to do this to […]
Happy new year to you and your family! Really now, I can’t be the only person that was waiting for 2021 to arrive. I know that the woes of 2020 will still be with us, but 2021 gives us an opportunity to turn the page on a bad year, and start the journey to a […]
Just when we thought it was kinda safe to start to resume some type of normal lives, Thanksgiving happened, and Covid-19 cases and deaths are now projected to hit all time highs. Our country is still not moving towards the life we had before Covid struck. As I write this, it’s with the realization that […]
In these trying days and times, we must all be FLEXIBLE and adaptable to our ever-changing environment, not only in our homes, but in everything we do! More employees work from home and several of my friends, who have returned to the office, have indicated that working from home (WFH) has become the norm for […]
In two previous posts, I briefly touched on invitation wording. But I can’t have a discussion about wording, without throwing in a few snippets about the importance of grammar and punctuation. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a grammar guru, like my friends Shonda, Kate and Edie. When we worked together, they helped polish both […]
Since we now have an idea of how to start to word your wedding invitation, which depends on who is hosting or paying for the event, let’s discuss the writing of the bride and groom’s names on it. The old established rules for displaying the happy couples’ names have relaxed tremendously. If you peeked into […]
In a prior post, I talked about invitation wording that was composed by a couple. Now let’s talk about more traditional invitation wording. One of the key things to remember is that although it’s a wedding, it’s also a HUGE party that is being thrown or hosted by one or more people. Those people are […]
I don’t know about you, but 2019 seems to have FLOWN by. In just a few days we will be looking at the start of 2020 and a new decade! Where did the time go? I’ll tell you where it went….it went on meeting and making new friends and losing some old ones, it went […]
In an earlier post, I mentioned several couples who have opted to compose their own wedding invitation wording. I feel I need to add some clarification to that statement. Yes, they composed their own wording, BUT they made sure all of the pertinent information was there, AND it was tastefully worded. There were no […]