Mail Order Companies

(1) present you with a gilded edge view of designs that look better photographed than the flimsy stock you receive

(2) are produced in the 100's of 1000's making it highly likely that your guests have received these designs several

times already.

(3) The proliferation of free catalogues offered in bridal publications, gives you, the consumer, the delusion that you have been offered enough selection from which to pick a quality invitation when in fact, you have been offered a tiny portion of the

marketplace. These resources will never expose you to good, better, and best choices enough variety in style and design and selection available in the marketplace.

(4) Offer ZERO guidance regarding an appropriate color of ink for the color of paper or even which to avoid on certain shades of white paper.

(5) Offer no creative graphic typography nor the print forms or a larger variety of fonts and layouts or anything unique to you and to your wedding.

(6) Should something go wrong with a mail order invitation, even if it is not your error, you will have no advocate to assist you in getting things reprinted in a "fuzzy" area where the quality of printing or the layout is not to your liking.

(7) No prepress proof layouts will be provided.

(8) Even if you, yourself, forget just one thing on the order, it can be cause for having to repurchase all or part of your entire wedding invitation order.

(9) 24 out of 25 mail order catalogues feature invitations printed on cheap, flimsy cardstock. Most are poorly designed and produced in plastic-like thermography, not a high grade of calligraphy. No engraved or letterpress invitations are ordered from these magazines.