Okay, not quite. But I'm working on it.

Ed and I actually went to our local Paper Store to look at wedding invitations. It only took about a half hour, actually. Invitations aren't something we felt we needed to spend hours of time on. Besides, it was dinnertime and Ed was hungry. We found simple, white invitations with Celtic knots and called it a day.

If you want to cut costs on the invitations, your local stationary story or an online ordering service can often provide nice invitations at a nice price. However, you will lack the one-on-one attention and guidance that a printer will give you. You'll also lack expert advice. For example: No punctuation should be used in a wedding invitation; don't abbreviate; and if you don't want children to attend, address the invitation to parents only, rather than saying "no children." Printers will tell you that.

But a little online research can help you brush up on your invitation etiquette.

Also there are a lot of fun trends in the works right now. Want to make your invitations stand out? Consider non-traditional shapes, such as squares; monograms; bright colors (I've seen some in the popular clothing combination of pink and brown); tie it all up with a ribbon or consider a pocket folder to organize all the information.

This isn't out exact invitation - ours will have blue ink and silver-lined envelopes, but the idea is the same.