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Absolutely. I don't have the time or the handwriting to write them all out (140 invites - no way!) or the money to pay someone to do it. We ran ours through our printer which is basically the same thing, and people loved them.

Technically, you can do whatever you want, but some people on this board don't like that answer. These days, there are really no hard and fast "rules" about weddings. It's not like if you abbreviate a state, the wedding police are going to come and lock you up. We just wrote it out because I think it looked cooler. Do what works best for you and I'm sure they'll be great. People that you're inviting to your wedding aren't going to turn their noses up because you used labels. And if they do, who cares. You're marrying the person of your dreams, and that's the main point behind all of the madness that we put ourselves through.

I have all of mine on clear address labels too!  I think it's faster, cleaner and prettier.  You can even add pictures and different colors to customize according to your wedding theme/colors.

Some people might not think that it's personal enough, but I believe that if they received a wedding invitation from us, then they should already know that they are an important part of our lives...

There is not wrong way to do anything when it comes to weddings.  You just do what you like because it YOUR DAY!  Have fun and don't stress out about the little things. 

The only reason I wouldn't use clear labels is b/c sometimes in transit, the ink rubs off or the label itself picks up dirt (thereby rendering its "clearness" moot).

I printed ours on our home printer with a fancy font and design. It came out much nicer than my handwriting and looked far fancier than I could've done by hand.

For those who say that doing it by hand adds more of a personal touch: I think it took longer to design and arrange each envelope on-screen than it would have to write them. For those who have them professionally calligraphed, I think it's lovely, but to me it defeats the point of it being "personal" if you pay someone else to do it. I look at it from a design point of view - if you like it and can afford it, great. If not, who cares?!

honestly... how many people are going to remember your outer envelope? It's like people fussing over stamps... i don't think it's a big deal, but then i guess people want everything to look perfect. When it comes down to it... how much time do you want to devote to addressing your invites, there are other things to fuss over :D If KateMW had to do 350 invites i don't think one movie would be enough. Plus I just read in Bride Magazine, you should order 20% more envelopes just incase you mess up on the outside.. which means it's not really 350, it's 350+redos.

We used clear labels and it turned out nicely. But then again, I'm the type of bride where goodness forbid I do anything the traditional way. In fact to tie the envelope to the invite and our monogram, etc. we used the same font as one our invites and didn't use a single upper case letter on the envelopes. So it looked like this:

stafford family
123 hometown road
charlotte, nc 00000 

It went well with our casual wedding. I'm sure the wedding police would have found me and arrested me by now if there was in fact such a thing.  And when it comes to the guests at my wedding, my moto always was... Those who matter don't care and those who care don't matter. They were so excited to be invited to the wedding regardless of whether I hand addressed the envelopes are shot labels through the printer. The super nice thing about setting up labels is you can do it for the Save the Dates and then use them for the Invites and the Thank You Cards! Woohoo!!!! (Note to self: finish up thank you cards tonight!)