Invitations -- too much, too little, and more

For the love of pete we've been through about 6 iterations of the invitation.
Today, however, a thought struck me... I like to write, I like books... why not make it a book? Just a handy little book with all of the information (and the map). And so, this weekend, Jeff will lay eyes and hands on my attempts at this. Hopefully he digs them.
It's important that this is done, now. You know how most of us are "deadline driven"? How mothing seems that important until the proverbial "11th hour" and then suddenly you have a creative rush of energy and miraculously complete the task in JUST BEFORE IT'S DUE..? Or, if you don't complete it, you sweep the entire idea under the rug and pretend it never existed. I do that too. I gave myself a deadline of Wednesday (next week), invited my girlfriends to an envelope-stuffing party, and THEN the invitations will be done, whether they are perfect or not!
I have an acquaintance who was married a while back. You know what they sent out? A bunch of pages of information, typed in Word, stapled in the corner and plunked in a manilla envelope. Not even so much as clip-art peeped from those pages. I bet that they didn't even use some fancy font. They had about 7 days worth of events planned, so there were a lot of pages. It was one of the most memorable invitations I've received, seriously. No frills, just pure focus on the fun. I wonder where they are now.