Orders of Service
I said yesterday I wouldn't be posting again for a while but I've become so sad I just had to post about our Orders of Service. I'm half way through and they are going to be gorgeous - even if I do say so myself!
We had the covers printed by the same printers who did our invite inners and I utilised (ahem) the work photocopier to print out the inner pages on thick white paper. The paper shop screwed us by the way. I did 50 copies of 2 pages and we were 4 sheets of paper short. I'm sending Ben along to demand them. :-) I'm using the transparent gold rose paper I used to hold all the bits of our invite together as a kind of dust sheet between the cover and the pages, and then the dark red ribbon I also used on our invites will hide the staples holding the whole thing together. I can see these being the most difficult thing to do, it was actually quite hard last night getting all the pages to fold in half neatly! The covers are fine - they came pre-folded. So I've done all the folding and that's currently where I'm at. I have to bring them into work and trim about .5cm off all the edges so they fit into the covers nicely, staple them into the covers, punch holes into either side of the staples and thread and tie the ribbon. At least we're only doing 50! Well, 46 if we don't get our extra 4 pages!
I should take some photos really so you can all revel in the glory. On a sidenote, why does no-one comment on my journal anymore? ;-)
I'm off to pick up our wedding licence at lunchtime! Two months to go tomorrow...
EDIT: I guess I could also mention we had a 6.8 last night - http://www.stuff.co.nz/4331477a10.html
Ben and I definitely felt it - it was quite scary! I was busy folding my paper at the time and Ben was playing online poker. He got up and stood in the doorway of the bedroom, I stayed on the sofa and said "Save yourself, why don't cha?"
We had the covers printed by the same printers who did our invite inners and I utilised (ahem) the work photocopier to print out the inner pages on thick white paper. The paper shop screwed us by the way. I did 50 copies of 2 pages and we were 4 sheets of paper short. I'm sending Ben along to demand them. :-) I'm using the transparent gold rose paper I used to hold all the bits of our invite together as a kind of dust sheet between the cover and the pages, and then the dark red ribbon I also used on our invites will hide the staples holding the whole thing together. I can see these being the most difficult thing to do, it was actually quite hard last night getting all the pages to fold in half neatly! The covers are fine - they came pre-folded. So I've done all the folding and that's currently where I'm at. I have to bring them into work and trim about .5cm off all the edges so they fit into the covers nicely, staple them into the covers, punch holes into either side of the staples and thread and tie the ribbon. At least we're only doing 50! Well, 46 if we don't get our extra 4 pages!
I should take some photos really so you can all revel in the glory. On a sidenote, why does no-one comment on my journal anymore? ;-)
I'm off to pick up our wedding licence at lunchtime! Two months to go tomorrow...
EDIT: I guess I could also mention we had a 6.8 last night - http://www.stuff.co.nz/4331477a10.html
Ben and I definitely felt it - it was quite scary! I was busy folding my paper at the time and Ben was playing online poker. He got up and stood in the doorway of the bedroom, I stayed on the sofa and said "Save yourself, why don't cha?"