Wedding Invitations

by Errolyn (do I even need to say this actually????!!!)

We finally finalised our Invitation Cards!!!!!!!!!! We are getting them printed at Sunflower Paper Products in Ikano Power Centre (why DO they call themselves that????!). Anyway, yup. We went to look again at their stock. The first time around, there was a guy there who wasn't very vocal but then when we went on 10 Jan, Kartini was there and she told us which ones were good value etc. She showed us all the different kinds of inserts and envelopes - she is a true believer in 'seeing is believing' which is great for Ju Han and I. So we found a nice non-traditional but not completely out of being Chinese card, personalised it, wrote our text out and waited for proofs to be emailed to us.

Here is where it gets dicey. Several things needed to be changed, for example - missing text, wrong spacing, misspellings….it took us 4 tries to get everything right and it still isn't perfect - not for these two anal people at least. The work seems to be done by someone who just does not coordinate his brain with his hands. I am not saying the designer is dumb. I am just saying that when you put 2 exactly the same items on 2 separate pieces of paper - the items should still look the same - but….well, apparently for some people that's quite difficult. At one point, I wondered if 2 people were doing our cards because there seemed to be no continuity!

Sigh! They are fast though…..and we are hoping the cards will get done before Chinese New Year so we can distribute them back in Penang already!

So ratings for Sunflower are thumbs up for speed but need more work on proactively anticipating what the customer would like - for example, centralising a graphic on the card and ensuring that it LOOKS centralised! Aiya!