Last week, we tossed our invitations to the winds of USPS.
And judging by the hits on the website, people have received the little books in the mail.
Let me say this now… I wrote the paragraph about the lilacs. The rest of invitation was Ryan’s design with some helpful hints and guidance from our printer, Arie. And I think they are beautiful and unique and very much us.
Now all we have to do is sit and wait for the RSVPs to roll in. Roll, RSVPs, roll! Mush!
It’s been a couple days and we’ve no RSVPs. It’s strange the anxiety that settles with the releasing of the invitations to the wind. I’ve heard from a couple people that they’ve received theirs, but not many. And we won’t know who received what until the middle of March, when we find ourselves calling or emailing those folks we’ve not heard from.
Did you like the invitation? Did you appreciate the design? Have you realized our one glaring error in the entire book?
We forgot to say where Frog Belly Farm is located. For the record, I don’t know where we would have fit that information in. Perhaps a whole page devoted to our literary venue? (It is named after a children’s book Frog Belly Rat Bone.) Luckily, there is only one Frog Belly Farm and it is in Longmont, Colorado. And we’ll be getting hitched there in a little less than 90 days.
And we’ve given our guest the Ides of March as a deadline… Because who doesn’t want to associate their wedding with Julius Caesar and friends? Outside of Bloomsday, I couldn’t think of a better book related day; and while Bloomsday may be better, it’s also after the wedding. Not so convenient.
Plus Ulysses is also a parallel of the Odyssey, and that’s not the happiest of epic poems. Not to mention I took a lecture on Joyce while I lived in Ireland and I wanted to throttle the man.
So Joyce is out and Shakespeare is in. And our plans are coming together.
As Ryan said in the invitation, we do hope to see you there.
EDIT: We’ve received some RSVPs back! It’s been awesome getting mail nearly every day! But! Someone sent back their card without filling it out. So apologies when we call you in a couple days to ask about the RSVP and you argue that you sent it back. -ril