Our Save-the-Date Saga...

This weekend, our goal was to mail out all of our save-the-date cards, email our save-the-date emails and finish up our website so everyone can start visiting it. My desired goal was to finish this all on Saturday and maybe a few extra hours on Sunday, because I also needed to get cracking on my graduate thesis. Well, of course things didn't go as planned.

Saturday, we spent the entire day finishing up our website and tweaking our email so it was ready to send. Everything was coming together nicely. We didn't get through everything but thought we'd finish the next day.

We didn't get back at it until Sunday night, when we tried to print our home address on the back flap of the envelopes. We ultimately decided to print our address from our computer but hand-write our guests' addresses. My print handwriting is neat and will work fine. I wish I had the ability to write in a pretty script, but it's just not going to happen! Our save-the-dates aren't very formal anyway, and I think the personal touch will be nice. Anyway, we spent way too much time trying to figure out how to format a word document before we finally found an A7 envelope template online that worked. We ran our test envelope through our printer and--success!--it printed on the correct side and in the correct area. BUT the ink didn't look good. It looked grainy and I'm too much of a perfectionist to ignore it. It turns out it was because our printer is a laser printer (not ink jet) so the ink prints differently. I never noticed when I print documents, but it was really obvious on our envelope. SO, we decided to take the envelopes and our template over to Kinko's the next day to have them printed. We're only talking 40 envelopes so it wouldn't be too much of an expense.

We both had yesterday off from work but Steve has to do something in morning. Our plan was to to head to Kinko's when he got back. While Steve was gone, I worked on gathering the addresses we needed. Then, while I was sitting on the couch in my bathrobe, my apartment buzzer rang and I heard my neighbor in the hallway say that the fire department wanted us to evacuate the building.

SAY WHAT?!

I panicked, rushed to throw something on, grabbed my bag and my laptop and went outside. Turns out a there was a gas leak somewhere and a manhole down the street blew up. So that was what that insanely loud sound was 45 minutes earlier! (I'd thought it had something to do with the construction down the block!) I guess the whole gas line was affected because our nearby subway station was also shut down temporarily. WTF?! Everyone on our block (it's a tiny street with mostly single-family brownstones) was evacuated from their homes because the fire department wanted to make sure the CO2 levels in the buildings were normal. So for two hours, I sat outside and waited. I couldn't do anything productive. I was PISSED. I called my mom, I spoke to Steve (who still wasn't back yet), and I went on my laptop (since I was two buildings over from my building, I could still connect to our wireless network) until the battery died. At least it was a nice day and not too cold. When the nice fireman let me back into my building, Steve arrived shortly thereafter. We called Kinko's to see if they were open (they are located right near the subway station so we thought they might have been evacuated too.) They didn't answer so we figured they were closed.

UGHHH!

New plan: bring the envelopes to the Kinko's near my job on Tuesday (today). I'm going during lunch. But then today another issue has come up. I checked our wedding website with Internet Explorer at work (we'd been testing it using FireFox and Safari at home since we both have MACs) and the pretty font we downloaded and are using for the site and our paper products isn't showing up! Ahh! It turns out that when you create a website using iWeb on a MAC, people with PCs may not be able to see the special fonts if they don't already have it downloaded on their computers. Our solution is to make the pretty text sections into images so everyone will be able to see it. I'm passing that job over to Steve.

Sigh.

I really can't wait for this project to be over!! Anyone else having issues with something they're working on?