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5 common mistakes when addressing & mailing wedding invitations

At one point, I spent about a year working on improvements to the code for postal address recognition (in a couple different countries; it’s customized a lot for each country, but the basic ideas and system are the same).  Based on that experience, here’s my advice to help your letters get where you want them to as quickly as possible…

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How we worded the invitations for our crowdsourced wedding

We have decided to crowdfund our wedding. It won’t pay for everything, but it does mean we can focus on having a good time rather than scrimping and saving on every little thing. The tricky part was wording everything right on the invitations, so we didn’t come off as stingy or cheap. I wrote a little poem to explain the crowdfunding. If anyone wants it, they can steal it…

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5 tips when it comes to DIY wedding invitations – including the oldest trick in the book

DIYing your invitations is a great way to save money and it is much easier than you may think to get jaw-dropping, one-of-a-kind pieces. However you approach your invitations the following five tips will save you from a hand-made disaster and lift you into invitation folklore…

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DIY splatter paint Tasmanian wedding invitations

I’m an artist and I wanted the invitations to reflect our personalities as well as the casual party vibe we want to set for our New Year’s Eve wedding. I printed all the invitations on our standard home printer, and set to work spattering them (and myself) with watered down acrylics in the backyard.