Once you have decided on and ordered beautiful wedding invitations for your wedding, you will soon find hundreds of wedding invitations, cards, and envelopes arriving at your home. One of the most time consuming aspects of wedding invitations is handwriting the addresses of your wedding guests on the wedding invitation envelopes. The more wedding guests you invite, the more overwhelming the process will seem.

Many brides choose to hire a professional calligrapher to fill out their wedding invitation envelopes with elaborate cursive script. However, if time or finances are a consideration, you can take a bit of the work off of your shoulders by recruiting your friends and family to help. A wedding invitation addressing party can give you all a lovely afternoon of fun and friendship while retaining a personal touch on your wedding invitations.

Here’s how to throw a great little party while getting your wedding invitation envelopes addressed:

• Get organized. Gather all of the names and addresses of your wedding guests, and double check to ensure you haven’t forgotten anyone. Also bring enough pens for everyone, along with plenty of extras if you happen to run out of ink.
• Brush up on your wedding invitation ettiquette. You may have discussed the proper wording of your wedding invitations with your wedding invitation vendor. However, the envelopes have official wedding invitation ettiquette too. Be sure that you know exactly how you want them to look, before you begin.
• Bring music, snacks, and drinks for all. While addressing invitation envelopes is a lot of work, it can be a lot of fun as well. Liven up the mood with some enjoyable music, and load up on refreshments. Just be sure to set up a different table with the food and drinks, so your wedding invitations have no chance of being ruined.

Have any of you held your own wedding invitation addressing party? What did you do to make your friends and family feel appreciated as they helped you out?

Kimberlee Ferrell is the Wedding Correspondent for Beautiful Wedding Invitations.