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I'm starting to feel really self conscious about not lining our envelopes!
I know it's silly, but the liners are so pretty and it seems like I see so many people say, "I never thought we would do this, but ..."
It's just not in our financial budget (already stretched too thin), or our time budget, or, I don't think, my patience-with-crafting budget. We're printing our own invites (created by my amazing cousin and emailed to us) and cutting them, stuffing the envelopes, printing labels, etc. all ourselves already and I just can't imagine cutting and creasing and glueing envelope liners too.
I do know, realistically, that most people won't notice or miss the liners (or lack thereof), but I still feel like I'm being a bad bride, or missing out on something, by not doing them! :)
What about you? Were you on the Liner train from the start? Did you convert? Or are you resisting like me?
I don't think people will notice at all! Really, I've gotten wedding invites & have no idea what the envelope looked like. Usually I just opened it & hung up the invite on the fridge & throw away the envelope. For my wedding, I used plain white envelopes, but we stamped the outside of it just so it didn't look so plain.
I didn't do a liner and I have never received an invite with a liner. I can honestly say I had never even heard of them until I entered into the crazy world of online wedding blogs ;)
Sure lined enveloppe ARE awefully pretty, but I just couldn't stand the idea of having to DIY these as well. I DIY every single aspect of our pocketfold invitations already (from designing to printing to cutting&folding&glueing and what not) and wasn't able to buy lined enveloppes in the right color etc here. It was simply too much work to also create liners and glue them into every single enveloppe.
Plus, like you said, realistically, most people will indeed not even really notice the liners and toss out the enveloppe soon as they take out the invitation. So I decided to put my energy in the pocketfolds rather then the enveloppes. I also just used cream addresslabels with colored lettering on it for the addressing instead of having them calligraphed or such ;)
No, we didn't do them. My envelopes were silver and pretty heavy, so I didn't have to worry about them being see-through.
I was a convert from the start. I adore the look of an envelope lined with a dark, nicely-textured paper. They really weren't that much extra work, though I suppose that's easy for me to say since FI did them all.
we opted not to do liners either. while i love the look, our invites were pretty expensive, so we couldn't justify spending even more money just to line them. i looked into DIY liners, but they dont have them in our size. so, they will just go out naked!
I wasn't going to line my envelopes but the other day when I was looking for envelopes at Staples FI said, "Can you make them a little fancier than that? I just don't want them to look cheap." So instead of buying the really complicated/confusing, really expensive envelopes that he was eyeing, I appeased him by volunteering to line roughly 80 envelopes. Since we're not doing that many super-detailed DIY projects, I figure lining some envelopes won't be too awful bad.
@LittlestBirds: How'd you get your FI to do that!? Hahah... I've already got J printing and cutting with me. Guess I should be grateful for all the help he has been already :D (and I AM!)
@Twista: I know ... they're so pretty! We're doing recycled paper envelopes (in the kraft brown) with 3" round stickers for addresses (which one of the blogger Bees did as a save on some of her last invites, but I just love love loved), so I hope they'll still be fun/funky enough. I just really want our wedding to have personality, you know!?
We totally skipped it for the same reasons that you did! It wasn't in our budget Money or Time!
I DIY my invitations and I completely didn't think of DIY envelope liners. It was one of those things that I didn't think of because I didn't have my invitations done professionally. It looks quite simple to do it and it does make it pop.
Well, anyway, for my invitations, I didn't have liners and I don't think would people notice them missing. I think it's one of those things people won't notice if it's not there but will notice if it's there. Now, I wish another friend of mine was getting married, so I can offer to do this for them. I think it would be a cool craft project.
Come to think about it, even if I did see the tutorial, I probably wouldn't have the time to do it. :)
Sorry, but with everything else to do with wedding planning - I just decided it was not worth it for something people would throw away anyway. Yes, they look nice...but don't let it make you feel bad! I am sure your invites are beautiful.
No one will notice but you and other recent brides or brides to be. I promise!
This is another thing that the wedding complex has convinced us that we "have" to have, but in reality, I think the ratio of time/money spent on them to the enjoyment they will give your guests is really very large.
Definitely not me! I am wayyyy too lazy for that stuff.
We did them ourselves, as well as the whole DIY invite suite. We lined both the outside & RSVP envelopes, and we stamped the outside of both envelopes. Here's the catch: we only sent out 25 invites! And it was a LOT of work!! I can't even imagine lining envelopes for a medium or large wedding. OMG how do you brides do it???!
Right now I am planning to use them, but that will only be if time permits. I think it will though because I am way ahead in my planning and DIY. Michaels and Joanns have sales on paper quite regularly, so I think we will be able to manage it budget wise.
I probably won't. My family/friends are in the camp that they will probably throw the envelope out without even notice. So in my mind it isn't worth the time/effort.
No, we could have afforded it but I think it is a waste of time and no one notices or cares! Do what works for you :)
I didn't line mine. I would have liked to but I was too laz.
We did kraft paper envelopes so I think they had some pizazz even without the lining. :)
@daydreamwanderer--I didn't even think of doing kraft brown envelopes, but I'd like those so much more than the ivory that I thought I'd end up with. I'm trying to make sure our wedding (and invitations, of course) have personality without being what FI describes as a cluster f*ck.
I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only one being lazy/cheap/not letting myself care (much), haha...
I do think they're pretty, and I wish we could do it (and, let's be honest, a lot of stuff!) ... but you're all right, I shouldn't let myself feel bad or worry over it! Thanks for the encouragement :)
Nooooooooooooo.
1. I am lazy
2. I am cheap
3. I would probably screw it up (even if it is really really easy) and end up spending more $$ (see#2).
4. It will be thrown away in the end, and I would hate to add more to the landfill than I already am (I wanted to do e-vites, to be green and all that, but 85% of the guests are computer illiterate, so yeah, paper it is).
Not that I don't think that they look gorgeous though!
everytime i see a lovely lined envelope, i decide i want to do them, too. then i remember i'm probably the only person who would even enjoy them. i guess it's just not enough reward to justify the effort for us.
We thought we were going to do them. Then I came to my senses! We have a guest list of 375ish...that was about 170ish invites! There was NO WAY I was going to cut out and glue (or ask my bridesmaids to) all of those liners...just to have them thrown away! And we had really pretty paper picked out too!
I have zero interest in "paper goods" so my invites went into naked envelopes... I'm pretty sure no one noticed or cared. 
I was totally on the liner train to start with. In the end we ended up not doing them. We DIY'd all our invites and that was enough to do without fussing with liners. Our guests thew away the envelopes anyways!
My invites have lined envelopes and, as much as I'm sure they will be pretty (haven't gotten them yet, they're in the middle of being shipped), I kind of regret paying the extra money for it, as it's something almost no one will notice.
What are liners?
Oh, okay. I looked them up.
I don't remember if I ever got an invite with a liner, I bet I did. Ours were nekkid.
They are on my "if we have time and money it'll be the last thing i do before sending them out" list. Which means 75% we won't do them.
And honestly, I REALLY don't think anyone will notice. So I'm not sure why I'm contemplating them.
i skipped them because basically adding them would make me gover over .61 cents of postage so i would have to buy additional stamps - um NO THANKS lol
so no liners but my envelopes are colored (shiny sparly gold lol)
To be completely honest, envelope liners are really really pretty and I think they look great overall. But from the start I never had a desire to do them? I prefer a much more simple, streamline look myself.
Again, I love how they look and will certianly ooh and ahh if I ever got one in the mail. And definitely appreciate all the work it took to do them by hand. But it's personally not our style.
So no envelope liner for this couple.
Wow, an overwhelming majority of people are doing them. While I think the blogging bees on the main page are great, awesome, creative, etc. (I mean, that's how they got there, right?) I think they tend to start and use trends that a lot of people in RL don't do (See thread: What online trend have you never seen in real life?). Envelope liners look really great but I just don't give a damn and it looks like most people don't either!
I thought lining envelopes was one of the easier DIYs I've done. It took me longer to pick a paper (mmm paper) than it took to make the liners. I lined our STDs, RSVPs, and Thank You envelopes too. I've actually gotten a few comments on our liners, but that's because they're punch-you-in-the-face bright. I would notice the absence of one, but I like none better than boring ones.
guess what? not to take away from people's crafty DIY skills...but those envelope's, the one's with the nifty liners that people spend time and money crafting? get thrown away once they open up the invitation. So all that hard work gets trashed within seconds of the recipient opening it. Most people don't even recognize the liners and if they do, they aren't going to care. Yes it looks pretty, but I would say if you want them, buy them like that.
It was only an extra $12 to buy our envelopes lined, so I just went for it. The liners gave the invitations a nice pop of color. I wouldn't have spent the time to DIY it though.
wtf are envelope liners?!?!?!
haha. I don't think they're necessary =]. Save yourself the time and money
The ONLY people who'd notice much are if you have any engaged/newly married brides on your invite list. But really, I use a letter opener, toss the envelope in the trash, and get to the good stuff and stick the invite on my fridge!
Lined envelopes would have cost us more money that we don't have! I didn't think anyone would care about envelope liners so they were sent without them. To me it was no big deal and I was just happy to have sent the invites out on time!
we did not have liners. Granted I love them and wish in a perfect world we could have - I don't regret not doing them. Everyone just throws the envelope out once they pull out the invite anyway! Don't worry about this- I'm sure you have plenty of other things to spend your time and effort on!
I HAD to because you could see thru our envelopes too much for my liking. Plus we didn't do inner envelopes.
They really only cost me 3.99 for a roll of wrapping paper and I did them as I was stuffing the envelopes to send so it didn't take me a lot of extra time. I just precut a bunch of them which was easy to do with a ruler and exacto knife (I could do like 15 at a time).
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