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A bride-to-be has shared how she spent over $600 on wedding invitations, only to discover a big problem when they arrived.
Jennifer Meyer, 23, lives in Minnesota and is currently planning her wedding. But, when she ordered 200 custom invitations, she read them through and was stunned to find a small but glaring spelling mistake.
"I ordered the invitations on January 19," Meyer told Newsweek. "I read them through about 20 times and had my parents check them as well. The company even caught that I didn't include an RSVP date, so I added it and approved the proof a second time. I have no clue how I didn't catch it—and neither did my mom."
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The big mistake? An extra "d" in the word "wedding," turning it into "weddding."
When she first opened the box, Mayer was distracted by the gold foil detailing and didn't notice the mistake. "My mom said 'oh no!' and I thought she was joking. She was not joking. All I could think about was having to pay to redo them," Meyer said.
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Instead of panicking, Meyer reached out to Minted, the company that printed the invitations, expecting to pay for replacements. To her surprise, the firm offered to reprint them at no additional cost. "The customer service for Minted was the best I've worked with in the wedding industry. Otherwise, I probably would've sent them out and hoped people didn't notice," she said.
"We understand that wedding planning can be stressful and we're here to support our engaged couples and make the experience as seamless as possible," Sarah Veit Wallis, chief operating officer of Minted told Newsweek.
"Minted Weddings offers unlimited rounds of digital proofing with our design team allowing for as many edits as you need until your design is just right. Before approving the proof and sending it to print, we recommend that customers enlist a fresh set of eyes to read through your stationery order. Even when you do that, mistakes happen! Our Customer Service is always standing by to help."
Meyer shared the invite issue on her TikTok page in a video that has over 1.8 million views. In the caption, she said she was "trying not to have a meltdown."
Viewers were quick to share their reactions. One user wrote: "Quite literally paused the video AND had to search the comments to see what the typo was!!"
Another joked, "I would embrace it and have a banner at the ceremony that says 'Welcome to our weddding.'"
Other viewers shared their own stories of spelling mistakes on wedding stationery. Viewer Ari said: "Ours had the same wording and 'families' was spelled wrong. I didn't notice until one of my friends told me (of course they had all been mailed out)."
TikTok user Regan wrote: "It's okay. My invitations said 'February Sevententh' instead of Seventeenth and I didn't catch it until I had mailed out 40 of them. My brother in law said it was the old English spelling lol [laugh out loud]."
Meyer, who shares fitness, nutrition, and wedding content on TikTok, was stunned by the response. "I used to make running content, and apparently, running a marathon won't get you a million views—but a spelling error will," she said.
This isn't the first time a wedding spelling mistake has gained viral attention. In 2022, another bride's hilarious X-rated spelling mistake left internet users in stitches.
UPDATE 02/05/2025 10:10 a.m.: This story was updated to include comment from Minted.
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