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The easiest thing I think would be to download a "handwriting" font for free from dafont.com or another type of website with free fonts. It looks natural but neater than most people's handwriting, stays level and is quick! Print directly onto the envelopes (order a few extra--this task may be a little daunting with lining them up at first) and voila, "hand-written" envelopes :)
Do you have a printer at a friends house that you can borrow? That'd be the easiest thing to do - print straight off.
Well, I don't want to burden any of my friends :) My husband and I both have printers at work, so we don't have one at home for that very reason! Does anyone know whether it's possible to use embossers or rubber stamps for DIFFERENT addresses such as the case here, or that's just for the couple's return address? Also, does someone perhaps know of a service online where I will send them our guests' addresses, and they will create labels for me!
You can print labels off at a friend's house or at work. Maybe that's the best option for you. Although I'm sure you'll find that friends are quite happy to help you out, what about asking a member who was quite key to your wedding? Like your maid of honour and then making it into a girly day.
Getting rubber stamps or embossers would get really expensive. You would need to get a different one for each address - and when would you use them again? Just trying to be practical :)
Honestly... if you could afford $40 for a cheap inkjet, it might be worth it. You'd spend $15-20 on labels anyways, so if you just spent the $40 for a printer and printed directly on the envelopes, you'd have something you could use again anyways... printers are definitely helpful :)
Also, none of your friends would mind you using their printers, I bet, as long as you left extra ink! To me.. that would be such a bonus I would totally offer up a printer!
Thanks CinemaParadiso! (one of my fave movies, btw!) Buying a printer is always an option, and we can afford it, but I simply wanted to see whether there were other options out there I wasn't aware of (like embossing or whatever else), or maybe a service that will create labels for me.
Depending on where you order your stationery, I think you might be able to have the company do it (like weddingpaperdivas.com), but that would only make sense for invitations, since you have to write the thank you note first. (I think they print out the envelopes, put the cards inside, and then mail them out.)
The other "stamp-like" option would be an old-fashioned typewriter. It's actually pretty fast to type envelopes on a typewriter, and it gives it an old-fashioned charm. If you don't have a printer, I am guessing you don't have a typewriter though.
Also, I believe according to traditional etiquette, it is probably more polite to handwrite the addresses, regardless of your handwriting quality. I know for me, I always prefer a handwritten envelope.
Some of my fave "handwritting" fonts include:
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Here are a few more. Most of these I probably got on dafont.com.
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I love 'Bitch Cakes' font. Awesome! Thanks for sharing those. I too have been wondering how to address my wedding invititations and thank you cards.
by the way, there is a company that addresses envelopes! I jsut discovered it:
http://www.calligraphy-experts.com/envelope_addressing_design_layouts.aspx
Can you sneak some prints on regular paper at work? I used a handwriting font in Word and laid out 3 addresses on a regular 8 1/2" x 11" sheet. Once I had them all printed, I cut each address out and put it inside the envelope, put it on a homemade light box, and then traced the address on the envelope. My lightbox consists of two stacks of about 5 magazines about 10" apart with the glass insert from my coffee table on top of them and a punch light in the middle. Its worked well so far. My sister was amazed when she saw them because she knows how bad my normal handwriting is!
As long as your handwriting is legible, I'd do that. I've never noticed the handwriting on a thank you note, so I wouldn't worry about it "looking nice."
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Hello Hive, I've been a devoted follower of the weddingbee for quite a few months now, though didn't post here BEFORE my wedding. Well as it turns out I have a post-wedding question requiring the wise input of all you crafty bees! Please pardon my ignorance about this topic in advance!
So when it came time to order our wedding invitations, I ordered them online, and then hand-wrote guests' addresses on the outer envelopes because 1) I didn't want to pay a calligrapher to do that, and 2) We don't have a printer at home. I will say from the start that my preference would have been to NOT do that, because obviously the addresses didn't look as nice hand-written, nor did the names of the guests on the front of the inner envelopes!
To make the long story short, after a less than satisfactory invitations experience, I used a fairly pricy stationary shop in town to take care of our menus, programs, place/escort cards, etc. I would prefer not to use them for this endeavor (see below), and figure out how to solve this riddle myself!
We had our wedding on Dec. 13, 2009 in Carmel, CA, and it was wonderful! I ordered some beautiful photo thank you cards with one of our wedding images through pictage, and they are supposed to arrive early next week. SO NOW MY QUESTION TO YOU IS...what other options do I have for writing the guest addresses on the thank you envelopes BESIDES hand-writing them (doesn't look good) or hiring a calligrapher! I know there are options out there, because we've received wedding invitations where our address on the outer envelope looked...hmm...either printed or stamped, but it looked beautiful!
If you could please direct me to the relevant tools (rubber stamps?) or whatever else I clearly don't know anything about, that would be awesome! The simpler the solution, the better too! From what I understand, rubber stamps can be ordered with a single kind of text, so not sure how I can use them for stamping different addresses.
MANY THANKS!!!