wedding invitations: typed or hand written?

Oh... Ashley P. - Did you design your invite yourself or use a certain website to order from/get ideas from? I love the folder invite & LOVE your little map!!

Sarah M I'm with you, if machine printing was "good etiquette" I'd be screwed lol.

I think the "rude" comment was a reference to general etiquette around stationery, I think the general understanding is it's poor etiquette not to hand address envelopes. Sometimes people use rude/poor etiquette interchangeably.

But if you really get into "traditional" stationery etiquette there a bunch of funky rules that nobody knows or would notice one way or the other. I agree, do what you have time/budget for, but if you have the ability and time, I think hand writing is nice.

I don't love my handwriting but I think I might hand write them anyway...or print them on clear labels. I don't want to spend money on a calligrapher.

I definitely don't have the nicest handwriting, but I just took my time and printed them all as neatly as I could - no cursive, I think that would have looked worse than my printing!

@ Kris S. and whoever else commented on or read what I said earlier...

So my opinion on the topic was pretty strong...I just mean that it's not that big of a deal if they are handwritten or not. I really was just trying to make the point that it's ridiculous when others get upset or say it's rude or really even just make a big deal about whether or not you hand wrote your invitations because it's not that big of a deal.

Thank you everyone, I soooo didn't mean to start an argument on WW. Sarah I know what you mean. I tried printing out my invitiations last night and the printer sooo didn't work with me. It had a mind of it's own. I will be taking them to the print shop to get them done in the morning. I was wanting to send them out tomorrow so I guess this put me back a little bit and will be sending them out when they get back to me. I can be "handwritting" the envelopes until they get back. Thanks again for the advice.

I have been debating this too since I have terrible handwriting...

Probably just gonna hand-write them. I figure no one was ever insulted by had writing even if it is messy, but I think I am gonna cheat and use return address labels...

I'm handwriting the names and addresses of guests, but i did consider printing until i realized oour printer does not take envelopes well. So, to help save my hand, i got a stamp from etsy that is vintage typewriter style for the response envelopes and return address. they fit the theme perfect, and saved me a lot of time from writing our address over and over. well worth the $25 to buy the stamp. I will have no problem handwriting 60 addresses. there are no inner envelopes which helps too.

I will not be hand writing the envelopes. I have awful hand writing, will have around 100 to address, plus the envelopes are black, so a white label with black typed addresses will look better.

Every invitation I've ever received was not hand written on the envelopes and I had no problem with it.

My handwriting is also abysmal, but we did our invites yesterday. I addressed the envelopes, using a brown ultra fine sharpie and printing with block letters. We used a return address label that coordinates with all of our printed stuff on the flap of the envelope. I think they look fine. And what a wow moment, to see those lovely envelopes with wedding stamps stack up on the couch--I did the writing, FH did the stuffing, licking and stamping. It was another "OMG- this is really happening" thing for us.

I ordered a nice Hindu wedding invitation from Parekh cards online and got it hand written from my mother. Those are beautiful, most of the people who were invited liked it since it was something different.

Ok, thank you Monica! I've been stressing over this issue and I was just going to say screw it and print them on my printer, but I'm happy to hear others feeling the same way. I will be printing them directly on the envelopes b/c I think it just looks better. It may be more time consuming, but it's worth the effort. I think we all know our invitees and what they will think about handwritten vs. computer printed. Do what you want and don't worry about tradition. Wedding are an expression of the couple, some traditions don't apply.