The original “The Lego Group” started as a wooden toy shop in the year 1932. The workshop’s carpenter and founder was a man named Ole Kirk Christiansen from Billund, Denmark. The company name became “LEGO” after the Danish phrase of “leg godt” meaning “play well.”

As the company began to grow, it evolved from producing wooden toys to producing plastic toys by the year 1947. Soon after, in 1949 they started transforming into the infamous company that we know today. 1949 was when LEGO began producing interlocking bricks that were called “Automatic Binding Bricks.” The interlocking bricks were designed after the Kiddicraft company’s self-binding bricks. Lego examined these bricks and then modified them into there own version.

“The Lego Group‘s” motto was det bedste er ikke for godt which means ‘only the best is good enough’. Ole Kirk Christiansen used this motto as an encouragement to employees to never skimp out on quality which he believed in very strongly. Today this motto is still used within the business.

An interesting fact to take note of was that during the early years, manufacturing using plastic materials was frowned upon. Many of Lego’s early shipments to retailers were often returned to the company because retailers felt the product were of poor quality being plastic material and did not live up to the standard of wooden toys.

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We just mailed out our invitations at the 6 week mark and let me tell you, paying postage sucks. We seriously spent $20 more on postage than we did on our invitation and that includes not stamping 50% of our response cards and hand delivering the invites to our college friends who won’t be at their homes.

Wait! The Lilacs didn’t stamp response cards? What a wedding sin! We are managing our RSVPs online so we went through our guest list and marked how many stamps we needed for each invitation. For mailed invitations with unstamped response cards we only had to pay 44 cents in postage. For the stamped response cards it came to 88 cents per invitation. And our hand delivered ones were free of postage!

The people who regularly use the internet and who we believed would not be hung up on tradition received response cards with my email, our online RSVP and and envelope if they really wanted to mail it. Everyone else did get stamped response cards.

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