Postage 101
You’re custom invitation reflects your personality, so why shouldn’t your stamp? Is your invitation fun and retro? Try buying vintage stamps from ebay. A wedding cake that is available from the United States Postal Service is a great complement to a traditional wedding invitation. You can even turn your favorite engagement photo into a custom stamp at stamps.com or USPS.
Weigh Your Invitation
Wedding invitations will most likely weigh more than the regular postage price due to the thickness of the paper and the number of inserts. Pocketfold invitations will take a minimum of a 64¢ stamp. We recommend taking a finished invitation to the post office and getting it weighed so you know the exact amount of postage. Guessing on postage is a bad idea, because nothing would be worse than 100+ invitations coming back to you as non-deliverable because you didn’t place the correct amount on the envelope.
RSVP Postcard
A new trend that is replacing the traditional response card with an envelope is a RSVP postcard. Less paper is involved and less postage is required. As of April 17, 2011 the current, standard postcard postage is 29¢.
Hand Cancellation
To help prevent your invitation from going through the automated machines at the post office (which can bend and damage your invitations) see if your post office will be willing to hand-cancel your invitations. This requires a postal service employee to hand stamp each invitation so it bypasses the machines. However, the postal service isn’t required to hand-cancel and can even refuse this request.
We suggest taking your invitations to the post office at a slower time of day. A friendly smile and asking politely never hurts either. If that doesn’t work, then take your invitations to another postal location. Your invitation designer will be able to provide you with several hand-canceling friendly locations.
More information on hand cancellation