The Invitations saga

I know I really should scan them but there have been so many mishaps & false starts with the invitations (much like the wedding itself) that I couldn't resist taking a v. fuzzy photo with the iphone and loading it, the camera having gone kaput during India trip.

First I got frazzled at Madona (no, not a typo), a tiny print shop in little old Kottayam, where the nicest owner sat with me for hours while I detailed what I wanted.
I think after hours of not being able to get the Redhead's design out of my flash drive into Madona's comp, I showed them the printed copies and the scanned, printed, cutted & pasted them to create invitations & then immediately got seduced into going for a nice square one with
transparent flaps that open into the redhead's design.
Pretty, but after agreeing to it and then mulling over it, I scurried out of bed at 6, woke the Annmol up & told her I wanted it to be as per earlier vision, done by Redhead.
Annmol grunted & said - sure why not!
So aunt's driver (thoroughly pleasant and so un-communist, unlike my mom's driver) got me to Madona, where I sat for another 3 hours to get original font & design.
After which, owner was squemish about printing font in black (it being bad luck & all), so went ahead with third wedding color & 'molle, ichira (little) glitter' ('its a wedding after all') & got my lovely invites, a gift from the Annmol.

Did not like the envelopes that went with them and confident I would get better ones in States, came over to find the closest fitting envelope for weirdly shaped invitation was too small.
Sigh.
So scouted over to Hobby Lobby where I spent much bewildering time looking at pretty designs and cardstock & embossing stamp.
Chose one that was closest in color, & made envelopes from scratch

After which, I slipped accommodations card (which had its own little saga) and there you have it:
My invitations were finally ready - talk about DIY weddings :)
Off to the post office & sundry friends' places now so that 50 or so guests can know where & when to show up for wedding.




Edited to add:
TEll me its pretty, people!