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Nice tip! thanks for sharing. Also, thats pretty cool about the astrological sign thing hehe
Awwww - sorry you had to deal with this! I've always heard it's best to take one to the PO just to check the weight.
Don't sweat what the stamps look like, most people probably won't even notice (I know that isn't what you want to hear, but it's the truth).
Thanks, I tried to remind myself of that too. I began to think "do I ever pay close attention to the stamps on the wedding invitations?" So now it's done and over with, but while I was sticking those blue rams on, I was kinda mortified.
And about the astrological sign, I figure it's something positive, at least it wasn't some duck or historical figure or something. It could've been worse I guess.
I am glad you got it worked out; maybe it is a sign. My FI and I are also both Aries.
We sent my husband's dad to the post office to weigh our final invite and so we bought the 60 cent stamp. It was nice of him to take care of that for us. 
Thanks for the advice. I've bought a bunch of those pretty gold ring stamps. Now maybe I'll save them for our thank yous.
It's a good advice, no one really remembers to do the little things! :o) Thanks for sharing!
I never thought of how much it would cost, that I couldn't use a regular stamp. I don't know why I thought this. I mean I am a secretary, I send out mail all the time that needs more postage. So I sent out my invites and realized... HOLY CRAP! I didn't weigh them! So hoping for 3 days that they didn't get returned was pure torture. Thankfully we had really, really light invites, and used forever/ first rate stamps. So they made it! But gosh, what a rookie mistake!!
LOL sorry but the ram cracks me up... at least it has some significance! don't worry it just gets stamped over anyway. thanks for the advice!
Yes, the ram is def weird, but at least we can try to pull it off and say that it has significance. I just showed the pic I took with my phone to my sister and she cracked up.
You're welcome about the advice, I did not see that one coming, another detail to remember now for any future invites.
Our was a weird rate for postage. To top it all off, every post office within 50 miles had RUN OUT of the wedding stamps!! I couldn't believe it!! Yeah, apparently we weren't the only ones getting married in the summer, go figure.
I took a sample to the post office and it was about 61 cents. I ordered 64 cents customized stamps from zazzle (just in case). I used the stamps with the weeding rings and ribbon for the reply cards.
I didn't even know they HAD 17 cent stamps! Crazy. Thanks for the heads up, I'll defiantely take a sample to be weighed before sending my DIYed babies out into the world!
Another thing you can do is order your stamps online at usps.com. You have to pay $1 for shipping, but it's totally worth it. It's so much better than having to go to the post office and then finding out that they are out of a particular stamp. Plus, they are delivered right to your door in just a couple of days.
Oh, thanks for the advice! I would've never thought about the extra postage.
my FI and i are both aries too! our birthdays are only 4 days apart! thats kinda cool that the stamp ended up being your astrological sign! if it makes you feel any better....i never really pay attention to the postage on things that i get in the mail. i wouldn't sweat it. :)
Im an Aries too! I would of made the same mistake too but thank goodness I went directly to the post office to have the envelopes weighed and got 61 cent stamps with a cake on it
I weighed mine at home on a food scale, then brought one in to the post office to double check, then checked again before I mailed them... I was pretty concerned. :) Luckily mine came in at $0.44, because I was annoyed enough at the polar bear on the RSVPs and I would have been *really* annoyed if I'd had to add a ram to the wedding rings! Neither of us are Aries, so it would have *just* been silly. ;)
good advice, we actually just got back from the post office. Bought 50 international stamps ($.98 each- yikes)! Now just settling down into the DC winter storm for a weekend of addressing our STDs!
Hehe, I did the same thing! I posted a wedding invite to a friend of mine who was moving soon and I didn't want to bother redoing her envelope so I popped it in the post box with a normal 1st class stamp and the invites actually needed an extra .30pence! We only found that out two days later when we took the rest of the invites to the post office!
And all our overseas invites ended up with a printed "POSTAGE PAID" label on them - so not pretty! But oh well. Nobody will notice.
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So I finally had the invitations ready to go, and I had purchased the regular USPS wedding stamps (gold rings with the ribbon) well those are the regular 43 cent stamps. Our invitations needed an additional 17 cents!
Naive me asks "do you have any pretty 17 cent stamps?" Nope. The postal worker hands me the 17 cent stamp and it's a blue ram. But, she did say they had a 60-something wedding stamp which would cover the postage for those invitations without any postage, and btw, those are very pretty. Thankfully I had run out of stamps for about half of my invites, so half had the pretty ones. The other half had the gold rings with the ram.
But...maybe it was a sign? I know this sounds corny and all, but the FH and I are both Aries, thus the Ram! So I still took a pic of it to show him later. It's just an odd combination, the blue, fierce looking Ram, next to the classic gold wedding rings.
So my advice to you is (now that I look back, it's like, duh, common sense!) put one sample invitation together and take it to the post office before making any definite postage purchases.