I fell in love with one particular design that American Wedding offered, and I bought a few samples and had them sent to me. I should have known by the lazy way they packaged the sample that I should have avoided them.
The invitations are tw...o layers, with the bottom being a card stock, and the top with raised thermography printing. Firstly, they sent me the wrong sized top layer; the top and the bottom layers were the exact same width, which was absolutely incorrect. I called the company to complain, and they had to search their warehouse for two days to find their sample of my invitation to verify my concerns. While they were searching and though they had promised to, they did not inform me of anything, and they suggested that I use some of my invitations to mail back a copy to their warehouse so that they could confirm the problem. They finally found their copy and eventually sent another set of invitations to me.
The company only put one glue dot on their samples, and I thought it was the worst thing I had ever seen. I read reviews from others that said they popped for the pre-assembled 2-layer invitations, and it was the worst mistake that they made. Keeping this in mind, I decided to assemble them myself, and it took me days to get them perfect. I paid for the envelopes to have our return address on them, and this process caused small, clear ink droplets on the outside of most of the envelopes. The worst part about the envelopes was that they seemed to have paper particles on the inside. I had to blow air inside each envelope to get that stuff out, and I ended up praying that no one would notice.
The thank you cards were horrible in quality, and because of the way that they were packaged, the ink from the top of one thank you card bled to the one underneath it. I was embarrassed to send some of the cards to my guests.
Spend the extra money and buy from a better vendor.