Comments on: Alternative invitations http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/ Manolo Loves the Brides! Tue, 22 May 2012 18:25:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: La BellaDonna http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/comment-page-1/#comment-1523 La BellaDonna Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:44:47 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/#comment-1523 Hola to the Kourtney! What a wonderful dress! And to preserve it properly, I direct you to http://www.si.edu/SCMRE/takingcare/acidfree.htm, which not only chats a bit about the correct storage of textiles, but lists numerous suppliers of acid-free tissue, including <i>by the roll</i> (instead of those tiny little comic-book sized sheets) and acid-free boxes. My own suggestion would be storing it flat, in an acid-free box, with plenty of acid-free tissues stuffed under, around, between and above. This way it can be tucked under a bed (less prone to flooding!) and safely out of the way, and you can take it out once a year, shake it, and re-fold it so that the creases are in a different spot, reducing the tendency of silk to crack along the folds. Make sure you have plenty of lavender to help ward off Mothra. I would recommend <i>against</i> hanging storage; most people cheat and don't use cloth garment bags. Plastic is bad, bad, bad for storing clothes; inert gases build up, discolouring fabric, among other horrors. The dress also has much more strain placed on specific areas, when it's hanging up instead of lying flat. Remember to label the box on all four sides and on the top! <i>You</i> may recognize the box instantly, but not everyone will. This way no one will put it under a pile of boxes in the future. *Always remember to store silk by itself; when silk is stored touching another fabric, it causes silk to deteriorate much more quickly than when it touches silk only. **Yes, I know this is a quandry when you have silk combined in a garment with another fabric. ***No, I don't have a solution for that. Hola to the Kourtney! What a wonderful dress! And to preserve it properly, I direct you to http://www.si.edu/SCMRE/takingcare/acidfree.htm, which not only chats a bit about the correct storage of textiles, but lists numerous suppliers of acid-free tissue, including by the roll (instead of those tiny little comic-book sized sheets) and acid-free boxes. My own suggestion would be storing it flat, in an acid-free box, with plenty of acid-free tissues stuffed under, around, between and above. This way it can be tucked under a bed (less prone to flooding!) and safely out of the way, and you can take it out once a year, shake it, and re-fold it so that the creases are in a different spot, reducing the tendency of silk to crack along the folds. Make sure you have plenty of lavender to help ward off Mothra. I would recommend against hanging storage; most people cheat and don’t use cloth garment bags. Plastic is bad, bad, bad for storing clothes; inert gases build up, discolouring fabric, among other horrors. The dress also has much more strain placed on specific areas, when it’s hanging up instead of lying flat. Remember to label the box on all four sides and on the top! You may recognize the box instantly, but not everyone will. This way no one will put it under a pile of boxes in the future.

*Always remember to store silk by itself; when silk is stored touching another fabric, it causes silk to deteriorate much more quickly than when it touches silk only.

**Yes, I know this is a quandry when you have silk combined in a garment with another fabric.

***No, I don’t have a solution for that.

]]> By: jenny http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/comment-page-1/#comment-1518 jenny Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:31:47 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/#comment-1518 Gorgeous dress, Kourtney! Beautiful color, and so flattering! Gorgeous dress, Kourtney! Beautiful color, and so flattering!

]]> By: Never teh Bride http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/comment-page-1/#comment-1511 Never teh Bride Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:56:57 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/#comment-1511 Hey, cool! Maybe I'll see you at their wedding. And, of course, congratulations on your own upcoming nuptials! Hey, cool! Maybe I’ll see you at their wedding. And, of course, congratulations on your own upcoming nuptials!

]]> By: Julie http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/comment-page-1/#comment-1510 Julie Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:40:05 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/#comment-1510 So I'm reading this and I'm thinking...."Oh! What a coincidence." Then I click the link and realize it's MY Willeah you're talking about. Damn! So I’m reading this and I’m thinking….”Oh! What a coincidence.” Then I click the link and realize it’s MY Willeah you’re talking about.

Damn!

]]> By: Never teh Bride http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/comment-page-1/#comment-1509 Never teh Bride Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:13:53 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/#comment-1509 Oh, and what a gorgeous dress, Kourtney!!! Love it! GK: I do believe Wedding Window allows you to export your RSVPs into other programs, but does not do it automatically. Oh, and what a gorgeous dress, Kourtney!!! Love it!

GK: I do believe Wedding Window allows you to export your RSVPs into other programs, but does not do it automatically.

]]> By: Never teh Bride http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/comment-page-1/#comment-1508 Never teh Bride Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:08:42 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/#comment-1508 jenny: I hate to admit that I'm rather like that. I used to have a collection of the cards and invitations I'd received over the years. Then it began to get out of hand, growing beyond the boxes I'd alotted! So to the recycling center they went...yet I still find myself surrounded by paper! Kourtney: Great topic - look for it later in the week :-) jenny: I hate to admit that I’m rather like that. I used to have a collection of the cards and invitations I’d received over the years. Then it began to get out of hand, growing beyond the boxes I’d alotted! So to the recycling center they went…yet I still find myself surrounded by paper!

Kourtney: Great topic – look for it later in the week :-)

]]> By: Kourtney http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/comment-page-1/#comment-1507 Kourtney Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:59:40 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/#comment-1507 We had magnets that had our names, the date & an email address to rsvp to. Worked quite well. Website would have been VERY groovy... Another question, N-t-B, dahlink,... so, the wedding is done, I've experienced the post-wedding blues, I'm working on the thank-you cards... but what is proper for storing the dress? Where can I find a box, or a garment bag, or acid free tissue, or something to keep ANYTHING from eating or fading my fantastic red silk dress? It's currently sprawled with abandon across my spare room bed, but sooner or later, I'll have houseguests, & I NEVER want to do as one cousin of mine did, & leave it hanging in the basmenet to be wrecked by a flood. It really was a great dress. (And a fantasticly fun wedding!) Check out the photographers website to see: http://www.rosannaparry.com/darkroom/wedding_kourtney_pat.htm (& here's a recomendation: Rosanna Parry kicked butt - she was fantastic to work with, and she posts photos on her website afterwards. Yes, free advertising for her, but so easy for my techie friends to get copies of the pics! Brilliant!!) We had magnets that had our names, the date & an email address to rsvp to. Worked quite well. Website would have been VERY groovy…

Another question, N-t-B, dahlink,… so, the wedding is done, I’ve experienced the post-wedding blues, I’m working on the thank-you cards… but what is proper for storing the dress? Where can I find a box, or a garment bag, or acid free tissue, or something to keep ANYTHING from eating or fading my fantastic red silk dress? It’s currently sprawled with abandon across my spare room bed, but sooner or later, I’ll have houseguests, & I NEVER want to do as one cousin of mine did, & leave it hanging in the basmenet to be wrecked by a flood.

It really was a great dress. (And a fantasticly fun wedding!) Check out the photographers website to see:
http://www.rosannaparry.com/darkroom/wedding_kourtney_pat.htm

(& here’s a recomendation: Rosanna Parry kicked butt – she was fantastic to work with, and she posts photos on her website afterwards. Yes, free advertising for her, but so easy for my techie friends to get copies of the pics! Brilliant!!)

]]> By: jenny http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/comment-page-1/#comment-1503 jenny Tue, 04 Apr 2006 05:25:45 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/#comment-1503 At this point whenever we receive a paper invitiation, my husband enters the info into his computer---and then promptly throws it away, no matter how tasteful or beautiful or expensive it might have been. I always cringe (and often try to rescue said invite); but in his book any more paper is just that...<i>more paper</i>. And do any of us <i>really need</i> more paper? I hate to admit it, but in many ways he's practically, brutally, unsentimentally right... At this point whenever we receive a paper invitiation, my husband enters the info into his computer—and then promptly throws it away, no matter how tasteful or beautiful or expensive it might have been. I always cringe (and often try to rescue said invite); but in his book any more paper is just that…more paper. And do any of us really need more paper? I hate to admit it, but in many ways he’s practically, brutally, unsentimentally right…

]]> By: Gigolo Kitty http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/comment-page-1/#comment-1501 Gigolo Kitty Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:38:46 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/#comment-1501 For a brief while I was associated with planning large scientific meetings and online registration of attendees was the best. How about online RSVPs that can get fed directly into spreadsheets? For a brief while I was associated with planning large scientific meetings and online registration of attendees was the best. How about online RSVPs that can get fed directly into spreadsheets?

]]> By: Never teh Bride http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/comment-page-1/#comment-1500 Never teh Bride Mon, 03 Apr 2006 20:03:36 +0000 http://manolobrides.com/2006/04/03/alternative-invitations/#comment-1500 Ahahaha, awesome, ginevra! Thanks for the tip! Ahahaha, awesome, ginevra! Thanks for the tip!

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