Last night with Jose’s help, I finished our wedding invitations. This morning I almost strangled the woman behind the counter at the post office. Fun times. You can read about it on the wedding blog if you care. I’m happy with our invitations, but surprisingly making them was the most stressful wedding-related item I’ve done thus far. There were lots of little issues like 1) procrastinating on starting them, 2) thinking it would take less time than it did, 3) figuring out a couple features on the new printer and 4) Microsoft Word, which kept rotating the addresses 90 degrees when I tried to print envelopes. Good thing I ordered about 25 extra just in case of issues like that!
The other lesson learned is that at 31 years old, I should still listen to my mom. She started asking me in early March whether I’d started the invitations yet. “Oh no,” I always replied. “They don’t need to go out until early April. I have PLENTY of time.” But of course Mom knew that I would do items #1 and #2 above. So. Listen to your mom, people.
We’re going to go check out the house again either tonight or tomorrow. It’s supposed to pour down rain for most of the weekend, so I’ll be curious to see how much they did over the past few days, and whether they do anything to protect it from the weather. If it pours down rain on the frame, we’ll see how they react. My research says that the wood should be fine as long as it’s allowed to dry before anything gets sealed up, and I don’t think that will be an issue. I’m also willing to bet that there is rarely a home built in Houston that doesn’t get rained on at some point prior to having a roof.
