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I've heard that wax seals (at least on the outside of the envelope) can melt and smear during their travels through the USPS machines. I've also heard that since the postage rate change, which was like last May or something, they now add more postage necessary for any card that is bumpy inside--bows, knots, wax seals, etc because it's hard or impossible to feed them through the machines when they should be flat. I love the idea of wax seals myself but I guess I don't want the added headache of possible problems mailing them.
Ditto on the Curlysue comments. I haven't used either method before but I would assume the glue gun type supplies are cheaper? Just a guess though.
sboston06 - Glue guns aren't expensive, I bought a tiny one recently for small projects that was $4 at Michael's. I would just be aware that different sized glue guns use different sized glue sticks, so make sure they match up! :-)
The real wax seals are definitely harder to make and more time consuming. So I'm using the glue gun method.
real glue is harder to control than glue sticks, since you have to drip it. also, real glue is not as flexible as glue sticks, so it is more prone to breaking in the mail. i'm not too concerned about the melting issue, but it could cost more in postage, i guess. i haven't taken the whole package to the post office yet to find out!
I'm in Canada, so postage is different and didn't come into it, but I tried sending myself a sample of my invites in the mail with a wax seal and it popped open at some point before it came back to me :(
What's the glue-gun method? Just glue it shut and then use the wax seal as a decoration?
I've got some purple glue stick wax from Paper Source to do on mine. I'm assuming this is the glue stick fake wax? :-)
Good to know about the idea to do them on wax paper, I was going to just go for it (and probably fail)
Thanks! I will definitely use the glue gun method since I'm a novice.
Michelle, the wax comes in sticks like hot glue sticks and then you just squirt it onto a surface and stamp it. I am just learning all about this too!
I'm not too worried about postage because my invitations are pretty light and I'm using a 61 cent stamp so I think it will be plenty. My aunt works for USPS so I will check with her just to be sure. The wax seal will be on the actual invite not on the outer envelope.
OH WOW! lol I just learned what the difference was and how it works! Thanks! Now I don't have to google it lol
Me too! FI mentioned the other day that he wanted to do wax seals on our invites but had no idea how to do this until now!
the faux wax is the glue stick. you can either get them in your color or use regular glue sticks and then spray paint the seal. I got the idea from another post (can't remember which). I tried it last night and it came out great. Not sure about the postage, but I'm sure it'll cost a bit more..everything wedding related does...lol
if I can find the post I'll let you know...
LOL! My FI did the same thing!!! It was so cute because he goes "Oh we'll need to do a wax seal on the invitations. How do we do that?" hahaha Like it is something he reeaally wants done!
found it! this was great...
http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/faux-wax-seals-tips-038-tricks-1
I tried to do real wax seals and the post office wanted an extra like, $2 per invitation to "special handle" them because they don't fit through the regular mail slots.
I used the non-glue gun method on our invitations. I bought wax from nostalgic impressions (it was pretty cheap) that they say is more flexible for mailing. I didn't think the dripping was hard once you got the hang of it and I didn't want to invest in a glue gun. We didn't have to pay extra postage and from what we've heard the seals were all intact when people got them...
I sealed our bellybands with a wax seal (from the glue gun). We didn't have any problems mailing them. The glue wax works really well and stays adhered to the paper better than wax. I bought the seal and glue wax from Letter Seals.com. They had a lot of options as far as colors too! Good luck!
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This post was inspired by the fabulous idea of Miss Sewing.
I have never even CONSIDERED this but it's genius. We were just going to use stickers to seal our invitations, but this will look so much better! Is there a reason people are using the "glue gun" method? Is the real method very difficult? I ask because I don't have a glue gun so I will have to start from scratch on my materials anyways. I don't really know where to start...