So today, we discovered possibly the most frustrating part of the entire wedding process: ADDRESSES and RETURN ADDRESS LABELS.
We decided that in order to send our save-the-dates in a timely fashion and without me going insane with finals and studying for boards, we would make the process more efficient with the use of labels. I know that it is proper to hand write addresses for the invites, and that will be done, but these were just save the dates and there are a LOT of them so we decided labels were more than acceptable.
Apparently, The Wedding Gods disagreed. Or at least our Kodak ESP 7200 Printer did (which is practically brand new, mind you). Matthew got MOST of the address labels to print just fine (minus the 30-something that he forgot to highlight and import with the rest... but we will get to that later). We were doing good.
Excuse my sidenote, but let me point out that it is basically impossible to get all of your family members to send you their addresses within a week of each other or the time you "think" you'd like to have them by. Keep an updated address book if you EVER want to get married. JUST TRUST ME.
Okay, back to the labels. So we had most of the address labels printed. Actually, we thought we had them ALL printed, until we started crossing off what we had and realized we were missing at least a page... whoops. Then we started printing the return address labels. We went through and ENTIRE package of labels and got ONE usable page. 80 usable return labels out of 400 something in the package. Thank you Kodak ESP 7200. You rock.
So I went to plan B and had Matthew print the return labels on the regular sized address labels. This is when Mr. ESP 7200 really decided to push our buttons and only print a row and a half. SERIOUSLY?! So matthew gave up and it was my turn. Me and the printer fought. He jammed twice. We fought some more. In the end I won that battle and got enough return labels. But the war had just begun.
It was at this point that we actually realized not all of the addresses had printed. So, Matthew tried printing the 35 or so we had left. Mr. ESP 7200 dished out a row and a half. AGAIN. So, I surrendered, and hand wrote the rest. Some battles just aren't worth wasting the ammo, or in this case, the labels!
Moral of the story- our printer hates us. Keep an updated address book. & some wars you will fight together, you will never see coming!
Oh my gosh. I can relate to this part of the process more than I want to admit. We've had countless label issues with our save the dates too. I finally just decided to hand address them, but unfortunately that has slowed down the process by, well, a lot...oops. :)
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