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24 Jul, 2008

Does Your Wedding Need a Box Office?

Yesterday I came across this wonderfully unique invitation set created by Kansas City- based designer Lilah Paper, and I’ve been gushing over it ever since. I love the simplicity, love the design and most of all I love the concept. What can I say, I ski and I’m a sucker for creativity.

Nowadays, there’s an average of six “cards or notes” that are sent to guests before a wedding. There’s the Save the Date, the Invitation, the Reception Card, the Response Card, the Informal Note and often a map or hotel reservation card. This doesn’t even include invites for the engagement party, bridal shower, bachelorette and bachelor parties…. whew! Kinda makes you appreciate Evites.

So what happens to these expensive little pieces of art once they’ve arrived and done their informational duty? For a Lift Ticket invite, I would gladly hang it on my refrigerator and admire it every day until the wedding. Most of the invites I receive however, get stashed in a file soon after the details have been transcribed to my palm pilot. Which leads me to the story of Lauren.

When Lauren came to my office to pick out her invitations, bringing along her two bridesmaids to help, it quickly became apparent that both bridesmaids had no idea when or where the wedding was going to take place. Lauren’s Save the Dates had gone out two months earlier and neither Bridesmaid had bothered to keep the card, much less memorize what was on it.

“You threw them away”? Lauren whimpered to the girls, as if a knife had come crashing down upon her back. Rather than feeling insulted that they hadn’t hard-wired the date to their brains, Lauren sat with tears welling in her eyes over the thought of her beautiful stationary gone to waste….. then the Bridezilla emerged!

Lauren decided that not only would these two Bridesmaids not receive the formal invitation, she also added a line at the bottom of the invites that read: Please Present this Invitation for Admittance. ““That” she exclaimed, “will teach you not to throw MY stuff away!”

Although Lauren eventually made nice with her girls and opted not to kick them out of the wedding, she did feel quite silly on her wedding day when the two groomsmen, in jest, decided to play bouncers. Lesson learned – there are only a few appropriate instances to treat your invite like a ticket stub. Unfortunately for Lauren, she was not marrying Tom Cruise in an Italian castle.