aaaaannnd.....exhale........
Our biggest conference is finally over! It's been a long few months scrambling to get everything done for our conference in Quebec City but it's done. Finito.
I came home from a long 1.5 weeks in Quebec City. I love Quebec City, but man, were those days ever long. From 6 am to midnight every day. I'm zonked.
It's been tough planning the wedding and this huge conference at the same time, but for the next 6 weeks (SIX WEEKS!) i can focus on wrapping up the wedding stuff.
Did i mention the wedding is only 6 weeks away??!!
I never did tell you the story of the stamps, did i?
Well, if you didn't think i was a bridezilla before, this should change your mind.
So, i'm a bridezilla as my friends often tell me. But i'm not the mean kind of bridezilla. I don't boss my friends around and tell them they have to buy a certain shoe, or buy a certain dress or wear their hair a certain way. But i AM a bridezilla when it comes to the details of my wedding (which, by the way, i often don't think of as my wedding when i'm in planning mode, but just another event that i'm planning). I'm pretty detail-oriented.
So, yes, the stamps. One element of the invitations is of course the stamps on the outside envelope and on the reply card. I wanted to get stamps custom made which you can do through Canada post, but it works out to being about twice as much as buying a regular stamp. It doesn't seem like a lot, but if you normally put a 52 cent stamp on an envelope and that doubles to over a dollar and you need to send out about 70, that's of course, over $70 bucks.
On stamps.
To go one direction.
Of course, double that because you need the reply card to come back which brings you to over $140 (probably closer to $150). Add to the fact that your invitations are HEAVY and bulky and you can probably double that again so add another $70 and you're up to (gone to get the calculator) $220. And don't forget about the international guests so you're looking at about $300.
$300 bucks on stamps. And that doesn't include thank you notes.
NOT IN THE BUDGET.
Sooooo, i nixed the custom stamp idea right away.
However, you know i'm not going to put a crummy regular-old stamp on the invitations that i spent so many hours crafting and perfecting. For some reason the queen's face just doesn't go well with chocolatey autumn flowers.
So i scoured the internet and the canada post website for nicer stamps.
And i found them.
And they were PERFECT!
OH! i was SO HAPPY to find such lovely stamps that cost the same as a regular stamp.
They are commemorative stamps of Ottawa being the capital of Canada for 150 years. They had a gold background (um, perfect fall colour?!) with a beautiful picture of parliament (we live in Ottawa!). They cost 52 cents -------> IN THE BUDGET!
I count out how many i need taking into consideration the distance my invitations need to travel, the weight of my invitations and the reply cards. I enter in the quantity and click submit.
A message pops up: "unavailable"
hmm....maybe i've ordered too many. I try fewer. Still the message reads: "unavailable".
I try to order just one, because surely they have just one of these stamps. Message reads: "unavailable".
fak.
Now, i admit to being a pretty stubborn person and when i decide i want something, damnit, i WANT IT!
i drive to the nearest post office and describe the stamp i'm looking for. The girl says they came out a year ago and that they don't have any left.
I drive to the next post office. Same thing.
And the next one, and the next one. They are completely sold out.
Remember how i said i was stubborn? Still not convinced that i can't have what i want.
i call my mom and my dad who live in another city and tell each of them to scour every post office in the city for these stamps. i put a message on my facebook. i tell everyone i know to look for these stamps.
And then. My director comes to me and says she has a friend who works for Canada Post. Her friend is the executive assistant to the CEO.
She calls her friend.
Her friend calls THE DIRECTOR OF STAMP SERVICES.
I get a call from THE DIRECTOR OF STAMP SERVICES AT CANADA POST.
He wants to know how many of these stamps i need because he can get some for me and can have them RUSH DELIVERED.
Our biggest conference is finally over! It's been a long few months scrambling to get everything done for our conference in Quebec City but it's done. Finito.
I came home from a long 1.5 weeks in Quebec City. I love Quebec City, but man, were those days ever long. From 6 am to midnight every day. I'm zonked.
It's been tough planning the wedding and this huge conference at the same time, but for the next 6 weeks (SIX WEEKS!) i can focus on wrapping up the wedding stuff.
Did i mention the wedding is only 6 weeks away??!!
I never did tell you the story of the stamps, did i?
Well, if you didn't think i was a bridezilla before, this should change your mind.
So, i'm a bridezilla as my friends often tell me. But i'm not the mean kind of bridezilla. I don't boss my friends around and tell them they have to buy a certain shoe, or buy a certain dress or wear their hair a certain way. But i AM a bridezilla when it comes to the details of my wedding (which, by the way, i often don't think of as my wedding when i'm in planning mode, but just another event that i'm planning). I'm pretty detail-oriented.
So, yes, the stamps. One element of the invitations is of course the stamps on the outside envelope and on the reply card. I wanted to get stamps custom made which you can do through Canada post, but it works out to being about twice as much as buying a regular stamp. It doesn't seem like a lot, but if you normally put a 52 cent stamp on an envelope and that doubles to over a dollar and you need to send out about 70, that's of course, over $70 bucks.
On stamps.
To go one direction.
Of course, double that because you need the reply card to come back which brings you to over $140 (probably closer to $150). Add to the fact that your invitations are HEAVY and bulky and you can probably double that again so add another $70 and you're up to (gone to get the calculator) $220. And don't forget about the international guests so you're looking at about $300.
$300 bucks on stamps. And that doesn't include thank you notes.
NOT IN THE BUDGET.
Sooooo, i nixed the custom stamp idea right away.
However, you know i'm not going to put a crummy regular-old stamp on the invitations that i spent so many hours crafting and perfecting. For some reason the queen's face just doesn't go well with chocolatey autumn flowers.
So i scoured the internet and the canada post website for nicer stamps.
And i found them.
And they were PERFECT!
OH! i was SO HAPPY to find such lovely stamps that cost the same as a regular stamp.
They are commemorative stamps of Ottawa being the capital of Canada for 150 years. They had a gold background (um, perfect fall colour?!) with a beautiful picture of parliament (we live in Ottawa!). They cost 52 cents -------> IN THE BUDGET!
I count out how many i need taking into consideration the distance my invitations need to travel, the weight of my invitations and the reply cards. I enter in the quantity and click submit.
A message pops up: "unavailable"
hmm....maybe i've ordered too many. I try fewer. Still the message reads: "unavailable".
I try to order just one, because surely they have just one of these stamps. Message reads: "unavailable".
fak.
Now, i admit to being a pretty stubborn person and when i decide i want something, damnit, i WANT IT!
i drive to the nearest post office and describe the stamp i'm looking for. The girl says they came out a year ago and that they don't have any left.
I drive to the next post office. Same thing.
And the next one, and the next one. They are completely sold out.
Remember how i said i was stubborn? Still not convinced that i can't have what i want.
i call my mom and my dad who live in another city and tell each of them to scour every post office in the city for these stamps. i put a message on my facebook. i tell everyone i know to look for these stamps.
And then. My director comes to me and says she has a friend who works for Canada Post. Her friend is the executive assistant to the CEO.
She calls her friend.
Her friend calls THE DIRECTOR OF STAMP SERVICES.
I get a call from THE DIRECTOR OF STAMP SERVICES AT CANADA POST.
He wants to know how many of these stamps i need because he can get some for me and can have them RUSH DELIVERED.
*blink*
*blink*
I got my stamps the next day and i'm as happy as a clam.
All i had to do was ask the Director of Stamp Services at Canada Post. Who knew?
2 comments:
I've missed you girl! I feel ripped off on your whole wedding planning experience...but I completely understand that you've been too busy. The stamps story made me chuckle, lucky you to be 'connected'!
omg! quite the little stamp story you have there. Good thing you got your stamps. :)
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