Progress has been made! After weeks of fiddling in Photoshop and Illustrator during my lunch hour at work, the wedding invitations have been printed out, cut to size and folded neatly as you please. I'm inordinately proud of them.
I'm really fortunate that we have a kick-ass graphics department here at work. I was able to make use of their insanely expensive A3 printer and use all their paper handling paraphernalia. It took about two hours to get everything printed and cut to size to millimeter precision. I'm a geek, and a perfectionist (sometimes, when it's important to be). The Illustrator file is symmetrical to within a micrometer. Did I mention that I love Illustrator? I do. It rocks.
And the thing that makes me the most happy about the invitations? We made them. By hand (well, sort of, you know what I mean) and they're unique to us. Another thing that makes me happy, even though it sounds really bad when it's said out loud, is that including the nice stationary and envelopes and printing costs, our hand-made, personalized invitations only cost £0.50 apiece. (Yes, I know it sound like I'm a cheap sod, but we're trying to make the most of our wedding budget).