When I graduated from Cal I was able to order some really nice graduation announcements as part of the commencement package (cap and gown rental) from the school bookstore. The bookstore here, too, offered a package of personalized announcements with cap and gown rental. Great! Right?
Not so much… Not only does the cap and gown rental cost an arm and a leg (we don't even get to keep it!) but the graduation announcements are disappointing. The ones at Cal were really nice: they were custom printing on nice, heavy card material and even came with etiquette envelopes… The ones at BU are on nice paper, true, with an inlaid BU seal, but they're 8.5 x 11 pieces of paper that are run through an inkjet printer(!), that I then have to fold (which is impossible to do neatly), and also lists the time of graduation as 11am on Nickerson Field (which is true for the undergrads) and not 6pm in Agganis Arena (which is true for me).
Meanwhile the law school is giving out free ones with better information (and likely better quality), but I really wanted to get ones with my name on them. I decided this was important to me (a) because I earned it, dammit! and (b) because I wanted to send them out to people I've lost touch with after I moved across the country in order to renew the connection. So ultimately it won't matter too much that the information is kind of wrong since it's not like they're coming. But it does bother me that I feel like I'm sending out crap. And expensive crap, no less.
It's so irritating. I'm not the kind of person who generally insists on having the Rolls-Royce of things. Basic functionality is usually completely fine (if not also more desirable). But every so often I like to get something nice, so it's incredibly annoying to be foiled on that rare occasion when it's actually important to me.