Inviting the VIPs

Of course, all of our wedding guests are VIPs!  But the people I'm talking about here are the ones who don't fall under the "family," "friend," "coworker," or "strange neighbor" categories.  I'm talking about the people who are invited but who are not exactly expected to come.  Mrs. Lemon previously discussed inviting the president, among others, and we decided to do the same.

The White House apparently has a separate greetings office that deals exclusively with invitations and announcements.  If you send your wedding invitation to this office, you may receive a personal greeting from the president.  I don't believe it's guaranteed, but it's certainly worth a shot!

So why is an April bride blogging about this in October?  Well, upon further research, it seemed that brides who successfully received a White House greeting sent their invitations approximately six months prior to their wedding date.  Sister Lioness designed our invitations and we're printing them ourselves.  We were putting off the daunting task of printing until just before sending them out in January, but we figured we could assemble some a bit early.  I wish I could show y'all the whole thing because I'm so psyched about Sister Lioness' fab design, but I gotta let the guests see them first.  Til then, enjoy these gray envelopes with wrap around labels!

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As you can see, we chose to "invite" four households: the President and First Lady, the Pope (you may recall that Mr. Lion is Catholic), and Mickey and Minnie.  Okay, that's really three households...but we sent one to Disney World and one to Disneyland.  We figured this would help increase our chances of getting a response!  Here are the addresses in case you're interested:

The Honorable and Mrs. Barack Obama

The White House, Greetings Office, Room 39

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, District of Columbia

20502

Pope Benedictus XVI

Prefettura della Casa Pontifica

00210 Citta del Vaticano

Italia

Mickey & Minnie Mouse

The Magic Kingdom

1675 North Buena Vista Drive

Lake Buena Vista, Florida

32830

Mickie & Minnie Mouse

The Walt Disney Company

500 South Buena Vista Street

Burbank, California

91521

I'll definitely keep y'all posted if and when the responses come in!  Who would you invite?  I considered adding one more person to the list, but I wasn't sure Mr. Lion would approve...

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