Invitations and Stationery

What Should I Do About Forgotten Invites??

My fiancé and I realized we left five people off the guest list—and we’re all out of invitations! Should we call these people, make our own invitations or try to find somewhere that will rush new ones? We have only six weeks until the wedding!


This is exactly why we recommend ordering 10 or 15 more invitations than you think you need! If you forget someone, you’re safe; if you don’t, you have a few extra wedding mementos. But that doesn’t help you in your current predicament. With six weeks until the wedding, you probably have just enough time to call the stationery store or mail-order catalog where you got your invites and ask for a rush re-order (at a premium price, naturally).

If you’re down to the wire (four weeks until the wedding), buy a few sheets of nice paper from a stationery store and use a simple word processing or design program to create something nice. If it’s less than three weeks before your day, the phone is the fastest (and surest) way to get people. Just be ready to do a little apologizing!