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But not to be left behind, we are engaging in our little wedding preparation exercise too. The tuxedo that I will wear for my reception has already been bought from Men’s Wearhouse. I might be the rare few bridegrooms in a 100-mile radius not attired by India’s favorite, Raymonds. The other item on our two-item list was our set of wedding invitations. Now, my parents have already gone ahead and printed up invitations in India that they would be sending out to people I have hard know. They wanted me to send them an address list of friends I wanted to invite so they would send the same invitation. But we decided to go with our own and I am told that Ash’s family has their own version of the invitation too. So basically for the same wedding, we have three different versions of the invitation. As far as I am concerned, as long as the name of the bride and bridegroom is the same on all three, I could care less.
But having our own invitations for ‘our’ friends and work colleagues allowed us to partake in the wedding preparation activities that most parents live for. Admittedly, Ash did most of the research and I was shown some samples that I pointed to as my preferences. Sadly, we had to drop the invitation that had a Nike Ganpati (don’t ask!) but we were pleased with our final choice. Ash has much more on the wedding invitation process which we did completely online. We tried going to a local American wedding invite printer but it was prohibitively expensive. Fortunately, the web makes shopping even for wedding invitations extremely easy. We got ours printed from All Wedding Cards and were extremely satisfied with the service and results.
We had assumed the invite list would be small but after counting all people we would like to share our joyous moment, it turned out to quite a list. Requests for mailing addresses went out and only after couple of reminders, was the list finally complete. The invitations were mailed out on Monday and are spread over seven countries including India and United States.
by Patrix | on Thursday, October 25th, 2007 at 9:00 am | 
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October 25th, 2007 at 9:28 am reply
Just what I was looking for - an online wedding invitation creator!! Must send it over to the better half so she can leave me in peace and spend endless hours trying to decide which card she wants hehe!!
I am already getting butterflies, though there is still 3 months to go for the wedding!
October 25th, 2007 at 10:03 am reply
Supremus, right you are! Relinquishing control…aren’t we learning the truths of married life even before we are? :)
October 25th, 2007 at 11:32 am reply
Wow…are you going to be overwhelmed after reaching India or what.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:40 pm reply
Good luck to you and Ash. Have a blast. Let the folks take care of the rest ;-)
October 25th, 2007 at 5:35 pm reply
Wows!
We await our invitation!
Btw, are you throwing a bachelor’s party?
October 25th, 2007 at 8:48 pm reply
Ashutosh, Oh yeah! Will probably be the most hectic trip ever. But then I say that each time I go back.
Leela, thanks. Hope you can attend.
Confused, hop over to Houston for the bachelor party. Time and location would be revealed only to those who promise to attend so as to spread the risk equally :)
October 26th, 2007 at 12:47 pm reply
We received the wedding invite today. It’s beautiful. Just saw your wedding site. Lovely too.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:39 pm reply
Chetan, wow! That was quick! Glad to know you liked it. Although it may seem impossible, we hope you can make it.
October 28th, 2007 at 1:29 pm reply
Thanks for the invite trixu.. got it yesterday.. would check the site as well.
and boy, this wedding’s gonna be one hell of a bloggers meet :P.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:38 am reply
Received the invite and appreciate you sending us one. Not sure we can attend, since I just came back from the des. But have a blast y’all :-)
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:39 am reply
p.s Any updates on the bachelor party? ;-)