Last year, I entered and won a contest through Jennifer Herrington for free wedding invitations. A steal right? Well, not quite. After being in constant contact with her and providing her detailed information as far as the number of invites we would need, and filling out questionnaire, we were so excited to work with Jennifer for our invitation suite. Then, literally 3wks before my invitation mail out date, she informs me that she will not be able to produce the custom invitation suite I requested because it was outside of the scope of what she was willing to offer for the contest (which was not previously specified). She did apologize for this and offered to still do our custom suite but it would take like 6wks to get it produced (which would set us behind schedule with our invitation mail out for a destination wedding) or we could pay her $700-$900 (in addition to the worth of the package we won) to produce our invitation suite. Obviously because we'd won a contest posted on her blog several months before, this was not something we budgeted for. So there was no way we could afford to pay her after she'd already promised to do our stationary for free. She then offered to give us thank you notes and menus instead, and as I began to send her correspondence to accept those instead...she stopped answering my emails. She advertised her contest because she wanted to 'pay it forward' it seems to me she was just out to make money. I ended up creating my own fabulous invitations through my stationer, Sara Goff of 'Signatures by Sarah' and printing them locally. The total cost: 1/3 of what Jennifer was charging me. Do not give this lady your business, find someone more willing to keep their word and follow through with their promises. read more