...she said facetiously...
let me tell you a little story about our wedding invitations and the USPS. as you might have noticed the envelopes are square. i was about to put regular stamps on them and remembered that square envelopes require additional postage. i brought one of the invites with the 42 cent stamps i had to the post office and asked the lady how much more postage they required. 20 more cents. ok not a huge deal i will just exchange my 42 cent stamps for the 62 cent stamps (excited because i liked the image on these much better). nope. you can't exchange stamps...what?? why?? you just can't. ok what are my options for a second stamp... a clock or a butterfly...yuck. i reluctantly stuck 100 butterfly stamps on our invitations and sent them off.
the following day i mailed out a few more invites in the morning. that afternoon i came home to a key in our little mail box. this is very exciting! it means that there was a package that was too big and had to go in a larger mail box. open it up.. 100 invites! they need 17 more cents?? WHAT!?!?! apparently the woman at the post office was out of her mind! arrgggh! I took the envelopes to yet another post office to confirm for the last time. yes. need 17 more cents. ok. what are my options? a ram. sweet. lets just add those to the heart (barf) and butterfly (BARF!)...
so if you recieved a lovey dovey zoo-esque envelope we are very sorry!
oh but wait. there is more. remember those few envelopes i mailed out after the initial bunch and before i knew more postage was required? oh don't worry. those didn't need an additional ram stamp. those all arrived just fine.
what the f***???????
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so sorry about this! but it did provide me a good laugh. the ram is a symbol for aries and i think it's on the chinese horoscope thing (that goes by birth year). are you or grant an aries?
http://www.rainfall.com/horoscop/chinese.htm
this website tells you what years fall under the ox or the sheep (the closest animals to a ram) for the chinese zodiac -- perhaps one of those applies to you!
there's always a bright side (unless you and grant are not aries or a sheep or ox according to the zodiac)...then you just have rams on your wedding invites!
but who keeps the envelope anyway.....
~Emily
no oxes or sheep here.. just wedding invites with random stamps!
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