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That was my biggest fear when I was sending invites!!! I must have triple checked the year and then triple checked again before putting them in the envelopes

I think it's better to have more than not enough anyways.. I over ordered as well.

I made a custom colour for our invites and on the website it was perfect... in person not so much. For weeks I couldn't stop thinking about it so I finally said ok - I want to love them so I have to reorder. I loved the new invites.. they're perfect.. so now I have 60 of the old ones that are useless AND I'm afraid to just toss them because I feel like that has to be bad luck in some way.. so they're sitting in my closet until after the wedding.

Lol! you're not the first, and you will not be the last person to do that! I can't count how many times I've seen people post in groups that they ordered 1 invitation or save the date per guest.

On my guest spreadsheet I've got different columns for # of guests invited, # of guests attending, and # of invitations, with totals at the bottom to help me keep track. Spreadsheets are my friend haha

I was short on invitations not realizing how many I needed for 75 guests. I also ordered from Vistaprint and 50 to start thinking it was enough. Once put together with the address labels, I realized I was short by a few and one went to the baker for the design of the pattern/colour of the invitation to match. Luckily, I still have about 6.

LOL that's funny! I totally understand how you over thought it all and made that mistake, but it gives you something to laugh about! The only brain fart I had was when I was ordering table linens and I forgot the head table.. luckily I was able to add it to the order with no issues but imagine if I had completely forgotten.. it would have been a nightmare!!

We did online invitations, so I didn't run into this BUT, I did for our guest book. We had a shadow box and everyone was to sign a heart and drop it in. I was thinking each person would sign a heart, not each couple. So, I bought almost twice as many hearts as I needed, and the frame was too big! But, it just means there's room to add a photo of us in the centre of the frame now!

My biggest gaffe, was the date! We got married last July (2018) and sent the Save the Dates out the October prior (2017). Well, for the year I put 2017 instead of 2018. They were emailed, so for those who hadn't opened them yet, we were able to change it. But for those who had, we sent out a funny "we didn't get married in the past" email. It was mostly my husband's family who had seen the mistake--and I had never met his uncles, so it was a great way to introduce myself to the family! It's funny now, but in the moment, I was so upset!

I did the same thing with the envelopes. I didn’t realize this til way after 😂😂

My best friend did this too!

I ordered way too many save the dates for some reason. I did the same thing where I thought we'd need more, but I was counting children in the mix, so we ordered 100 when we only needed about 75. Now with our invitations we've smartened up, but we still have lots of save the dates leftover lol. OH, also at one point I thought our guestlist was about 50 more than it actually was. Silly ways the brain works.

I didn’t do this but I’m not gonna lie it’s kinda funny! 😂 Just be grateful it wasn’t the other way around! Best to be over than short!

This basically happened to me with my Save the Dates, only I ordered 70 (having around 140 guests) but Staples duplicated the order (luckily not the payment!) so I ended up with 140 and now I have 70 extra Save the Dates lol. I did the math and figured out I needed 70 but ended up with enough save the dates for each person!

I'm so happy to see i'm not the only one hahaha

LOL!!! I DID THE EXACT SAME THING!!! I was so worried about stamps and things costing so much for our 280 invites but like... pretty sure we only ended up sending out 100 Haha!!

I did the same thing!

I also was NOT paying attention so I ended up ordering my first batch of invites with the WRONG ADDRESS. Thankfully Vistaprint was amazing and let me order new ones free of cost.

The biggest mistake I've made so far was just completely passing by the appropriate time to send save-the-dates, so we just didn't end up sending any at all. It's not a huge wedding, so it doesn't really matter, and we're having ours on a Sunday which should cut down on conflicts, but yeah. By the time we realized, the window had already closed.

I thought the same thing! I was like I need 250-300 invites and then I finally realized, I need about half - maybe less 😂

I actually had a similar thing happen when I was ordering my Save the Dates. We did magnets, so origionally I thought " oh 1 magnet for each couple" but then I have cousins who still live at home, so there would be 2 or 3 being sent out to the same address... for them to all put on the same fridge? lol or have throughout the house.

I think I ordered 50 STD and have only sent out half. THEN, I found that some of them have a weird ink stain in the middle, so I had to contact vista. I thought they would just refund me the money (this was the goal lol), instead they sent me 20 new STDs.

Long story short I have a box of Save the Dates that will not be sent out.

When I was first looking into invitations I had this exact ah-ha moment!!!!!

Maybe if you get a your "No" rsvp's back soon enough you can send one out to somebody else?

I would have done the same thing. Thanks for the heads up!