Purple wedding help (again)

I need your help again, and yes, it's still about stuff that is wedding-related and purple. But first, let me rant, because maybe it will make me less bitter.

Originally when we were making our invitations, we were going to print them at my office for free, using black ink. But the printers at my office that we could use for free weren't great quality, and the ink looked a little light on the cardstock. Then we decided we'd print at Torsten's office using the fancy printer there, with the added bonus that it was a color printer, so we could print in purple. But the printer couldn't handle cards that small, so with quality in mind, we decided to pony up the money to have the cards printed professionally. We used a great printer that Torsten has used a million times before for work--great prices, great quality.

Except not so much, this time. The first mistake was that they erroneously assumed that we wanted more cards printed than we did. The second mistake was that when we hadn't given them enough cards for the number they thought we wanted, instead of calling, they just printed them double sided, so that the RSVP card, which has to be sent back to us, was on the back of the information card, which the guests need to keep.

That was frustrating, but they were good about it, and ordered new cards from Paper Source after I sent them the link, and reprinted them immediately. Torsten picked them up the other day, and last night I sat down and started working on sorting and numbering the RSVP cards and putting return address labels on envelopes. Which was when I discovered the third mistake, which is that the ink on the invitations and the English insert cards is too light.

It looks great on the return address labels and on the German insert cards, but it looks like it was done on a printer that was about to run out of toner on the others. It's not terrible, and not worth the time it would take to order more cards and reprint, but it's frustrating because if we had wanted that quality of printing, we could have done it ourselves on a friend's crappy LaserJet.

And then I discovered the fourth mistake, which is that two sheets of the return address labels are totally smeared and completely unusable. This mistake is easily rectified because I discovered an extra pack of label sheets that we can just bring to them to reprint, but it means that Torsten will have to make an extra trip to the printer to drop them off and another to pick them up, which is not convenient at all.

ANYWAY. We sent an email to the printer tonight, detailing problems three and four and saying that since it's too late to reprint, we would please like a partial refund. Because the whole reason we paid for this was to have gorgeous invitations that looked absolutely perfect. Invitations that were printed in such perfect ink that the beautiful font that I spent ages choosing will really pop. And it doesn't. It looks fine, and most of the guests will never notice. But it doesn't look fabulous.

And the whole reason we're making our own invitations is because we wanted them to be fabulous. That's why we--and our friends--bothered spending the time punching holes in the pockets and putting cream-colored paper behind them for a polka-dot effect. That's why we bothered lining the envelopes with vellum even though it adds a tedious extra step to the whole process. Because we want our invitations to be fabulous, down to the very last detail.

Plus, we paid for fabulous. So we will see how they respond.

Actually, writing that all out did make me feel better. So now I can move on to the actual point of this post. I need you all to help me find wedding earrings. I'm looking for something that's purple, formal, and dramatic but not insane. My hair will be up, but loosely so and still curly, and there's the veil, so I don't want anything too over-the-top that will just mean that there's too much going on around my face. I've found a few options on Etsy, but I'm not sure anything is quite right.

1. I found these first:


They're really pretty, but my sister pointed out that they're a bit casual, and I think she might be right. Plus, it's hard to tell how big they are from the photo.

2. Then I found these:


But maybe too small? Or again, too casual? Something seems not quite right.

3. I like these:


But the wires are a little too funky for me, I think, and also maybe the beads wouldn't be formal enough in person?

4. These were even made "with a wedding in mind":


But was it MY wedding the artist had in mind? I just don't know. Which is why I need your help.

Do you like one of the above pairs? If so, which one? Or if not, do you have suggestions of earrings to buy instead? You all found me my shoes, and now I need you to work your magic again!