I was under the impression that the invitations would all be stuffed and ready to go with the exception of the outside stamps that I would place on before mailing. I was surprised to find the majority of the invites not in inner or outer envelopes. My husband and I spent over 3 hours putting them together, which is what I was trying to avoid when I asked if they were assembling and addressing the invitations and agreed to pay the fee for that. I didn't understand why about 30 or so were all stuffed but the rest were left for us to do.
Also I was disappointed to find that a few invites were poorly made, the adhesive was coming off due to the inner square not being the correct size, causing the invitation to bubble and not fit in the envelope, and ribbon being frayed on the ends, and these are just the few I noticed and I was just having to hope there weren't others. Also, the list I gave her had names with no addresses which still needed to be printed on envelopes as I was hand delivering those but still wanted them to look nice. I didn't see those anywhere in the box of invites.
I know that it is difficult to have such a large quantity of invites all turn out to be identical but I was disappointed to see that there wasn't consistency and that I paid extra so that I wouldn't have to do extra labor that I didn't need to do.
Overall the invitation were very nice and pretty. I am just upset at the lack of communication. I appreciated her providing extra services, but that was not communicated. And if I had 185 invitations but only 180 stamps why didn't they mention anything to me? Or kept them in a seperate box so that I would know to keep the ones that didn't have stamps in the extra pile for the envelopes that weren't addressed. I was so embarrassed to find that some RSVP cards went out without stamps.
Also, the name labels for wedding column was filled out all the way to the end, including the people I didn't have addresses for, I did that on purpose so that even if I didn't have an address at least there would be a nice name printed on the envelope.
What's done is done, I am overall pleased with the turn out of the invites.