As I mentioned, I have been frustrated by invitation shopping. My sister and I had been toying with designing our own invite based on what I like, finding paper that is what I want, and DIYing the invites. So Laura, who is a whiz with designing and photo editing, started at the project. She did a great job - and then we realized that some printing websites allow you to upload your own image and they'll print them on whatever paper you choose - a perfect solution! We are almost finished with invites...RSVP wording left but that's about it! I am really hoping that this ends up working...
Wedding bands - James and I went back to the jeweler that he got my engagement ring from to buy our wedding bands. The store is in Falls Church, right outside of DC - so it's not very close to Williamsburg. Because James worked with the jeweler to custom design my ring I couldn't find any bands in store that really worked with my ring. I want the rings to fit together like a set. So after trying on a number of options, we decided to have the wedding band custom made as well. We ordered the ring about a month ago and James went to pick up the finished rings yesterday. (They had to keep my engagement ring to match it, so I've been without it that whole time - it sucked!) He went to DC himself and brought them back today. I was SO EXCITED to see the set together... When he got home we checked out both his and my bands...and mine is wrong. The design and idea of it are right - it matches the band of my engagement ring perfectly, but the prongs of my engagement ring are on the outside of the band so there are supposed to be notches in the wedding band for it to sit flush with the engagement ring. There aren't. The rings don't sit flush on my finger. It may seem minor, but that was part of the reason I wanted to have the wedding band custom made - so it looked like a set. We paid way too much money for it to be wrong. I don't like to feel like I am complaining, but I feel that this should be right, what they said they'd make. I may be being picky right now but the feeling of disappointment in my stomach and the feeling like I am going to cry is enough to tell me that they need to fix this. I will wear these for the rest of my life, so I should get what we paid for. They aren't open today, so I wil call tomorrow and see what they say - stay tuned for an update.

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