Bride issues viral warning after post office wedding invite snag
A blushing bride turned beet red after discovering she’d committed a postal faux pas while mailing out invitations.
Tennessee bride-to-be Lindsay Adkison just wanted to add a special touch to the envelopes, choosing ornate wax seals, without realizing that specialty postage is required, which would ruin her all-white aesthetic.
“Did you know that these wax seals are a pain in the butt to get through the post office?” Adkison said in a now-viral TikTok clip that has scored more than 726,000 views.
Regular stamps, she continued in dismay, just “don’t cut it.”
She found that out the hard way when she arrived at her local post office with her invites — smartly sealed and stamped — only to be handed the bad news by the counter clerk.
When Adkison asked what the specialty stamps were, it turned out to be a stamp adorned with “an ugly little fox,” she exclaimed.
“I was like…I’m not putting that on my wedding invite,” she said. “Maybe a ‘thank you’ card, maybe something else, maybe a bridal shower…but not on the wedding invites that I spent so much money on.”
The clerk informed her that she would either have to remove the custom wax seal or embrace the “ugly” stamp.
Instead, Adkison returned home and embarked on a hunt to find a better looking alternative that would cover the postage of the heavier-than-normal card envelopes.
“I actually had no idea that you were supposed to have a specific stamp for the wax seals,” she admitted, using her experience as a warning to fellow or future brides.
Women in the comments were shocked to learn of the rule, saying they wouldn’t dare ruin the look of their envelopes for something as pedestrian as postage. Others, however, assured the bride-to-be that no one would care what the stamp looks like.
“I would dedicate a day to hand delivering them into everyone’s mailbox,” one user commented.
“I know it’s your wedding and vision but no one will think about the ‘ugly’ stamp,” another disagreed. “In fact most…will immediately throw away the envelope and care more about your actual. pretty invites.”
Others, however, told her to just throw them in a blue mail box instead of taking them to the post office, but Adkison feared her guests wouldn’t receive the invites that way.
Some viewers also suggested that she put the small invites into larger envelopes to remedy the issue.
“I would, but I paid for special envelopes — I already stamped all mine so I would still have to buy more stamps,” Adkison explained, adding that she forked over $1,200 for the beautiful invites.
