Some of you who know me, know that I'm getting married soon... Yesterday I ran into an issue that I felt was worthy of a short story. My girlfriend and I are trying to do a modest wedding and are keeping costs down where we can; one of the places we cut back was on wedding invitations and rsvp cards. We stopped into Michaels and picked up 3 DIY packs that should suffice our 100+ crowd of adults plus children and created them in MS Word. I have an small-office laser printer in my home office that prints faster than I thought was possible and it was WAY easier than I ever expected and we only spent $100ish dollars.

So 2 days after we printed them all and put them aside I get a call during the day: "Honey what are we going to do? All of the wedding invitations are still wet, and they smudge at the smallest touch!". When I got home that night and surveyed that they were in fact not drying that she wasn't nuts, I came to the most obvious conclusion that any sain purson could: "Lets put em in the oven".

So for all of you DIYers out there who ever get in trouble here are the steps for successfully baking wedding invitations.

1. Preheat Toaster Oven to 300 degreed (Tests show a marked improvement over standard oven)
   
2. Stack in small stacks of no more than 1/3 of an inch. My toaster oven allows two stacks side by side.
   
3. Place the stack(s) on top of a piece of tinfoil that is large enough to be folded over the top of the paper with a ruffle 2 inch overlay
4. Make a top (2 layers think) that is the same dimensions or sslightly larger than your entire "package".
5. On the lowest rack (if an option) bake for 2.5-3 minutes.
6. After baking, remove and let cool. Repeat process 2-3 times depending on the ink issues
7. Laugh at self and in awe that it worked!!!