Envelope Addressing Help?!

3. Get silver pens and just hand write the addresses (cheapest, a little less time consuming. Risks of looking less pretty. My handwriting isn't bad, but after writing out 200 addresses, it might get sloppy.)

4. Suck it up, get silver envelopes and just have the shop print the addresses in black.

In all reality, it's an envelope. The first part of the invitation to be ripped up and thrown away. I really want them to look nice, but at the same time, spending $200- $300 to have them done just seems ridiculous.

I'm also open to other ideas and thoughts. For those who wrote out yours, how did it go? Do you wish you would have just had them printed?

I would never ever ever hand write 200 addresses! (200 invitations, or you're inviting 200 people?)

Honestly, I would just get it in black. Nobody cares what the envelope.

I would just do the silver envelopes with black font. By the time the envelope gets to your guests it's likely scuffed up from the mail delivery process, then they literally rip it open and throw it out. It's really not a big deal. I had my envelopes printed, and I never would have chosen to handwrite them if printing was an option. I have terrible handwriting, so it would have stressed me out way too much and the printing just looked so much nicer than anything I would have been able to do lol.

Get it in black. Print labels on your own in a white text or something. They have clear matte labels that disappear once stuck on something. I'm not handwriting at all, even though FH offered. He's nuts. Lol

How bout...Black envelope with white addressing ?

There's 150 on the guest list, I'm guessing I'll need to send 75-100 invitations, then I'm planning on writing our address on the RSVP envelopes. So 150-200 total addresses, if that makes sense.

I know no one will care, but me lol. Just deciding how much exactly I care.

Not sure if this would pay into your decision, but USPS discourages dark envelopes with metallic writing because it's hard for their sorting machines to read the addresses and invitations could get routed incorrectly. You'd be better off with silver envelopes and black lettering

Jennifer, I actually did see an Etsy shop that sells those types of labels. I was half asleep scrolling through, and forgot until you mentioned it. That also sounded like a great idea.

Mrs.Ski, I never thought of that. Very good to know!

Consider this a blessing. The machines at the usps can have issues reading metallic ink. The white light they use can reflect back. This can either cause a delay in deliver, a return to sender, or dead letter. Now this doesn't happen all the time but it could. I had wanted black envelopes with silver writing too. It's cool af. I did white envelopes with a black liner. It's not as cool but at least my shit will get to where it needs to go.

The reason they can't do the addresses in silver is being those need to be done using a digital printer that only has the standard CMYK. Anything personalized is always done digitally. Imagine your home printer, but the size of a photocopy machine.

Metallic inks aren't CMYK, they're Pantone colors and they actually come in cans like paint. Metallic colors can only be printed on large-scale presses (not really printers). These typically take up the size of your bedroom. They print on massive sheets that then get cut down to size.

I hope that explains why you can't do metallic silver on the envelopes unless you're using a silver pen.

Other than that, I guess it just comes down to how badly you want your vision and how much you're willing to spend (calligraphy) versus if you're willing to hand-write them yourself using a silver pen (time and your handwriting skills factor).

I vote pay for a calligrapher, or get them printed in black! I'd go crazy hand-writing that many envelopes!

Option 4. People arent going to pay attention to the envelope

@Sara So true. The envelope is just the vessel to deliver your invitation. That's it.

I'm handwriting all our invitations, and did the same for our STDs. What I did to make sure my handwriting didn't get sloppy was just do a few a day. It took about a week to get it all done, but it was worth it in my opinion!

Also, for RSVP return labels, I bought a return address stamp that meets specifications to be used as regular address and I'm just stamping all our RSVP envelopes with it!

Sara, I keep trying to tell myself that!

GamblingWoman, I like the stamp idea. Even if I get the others printed, I might consider that. I'm sure that'll be cheaper than printing our addresses.

Lynnie, I really love the look of calligraphy. All the pictures on Etsy are just gorgeous. I just don't think I can bring myself to pay $2+ per envelope, when no one will actually care.

I just found a shop that makes those labels Jennifer was talking about, for 30 cents each. So I could still do silver writing. And that's cheaper than doing the silver envelopes with black printing from the invitation company. But now I'm concerned with them getting where they're supposed to be because of the USPS sorting issue.