Wedding Blog

That’s Save. The. Dates. Mind out of the gutter, people!

Save the dates were my first major DIY project - and since I was SO excited, they went out NINE MONTHS before the wedding (I think the “etiquette” is at least 4-6 months before, but 9-12 for a destination wedding - mine is not a destination wedding, but heck, I wanted to keep people informed).

I thought the simplest way to do this would be a calendar (since, really, the objective is for our guests to save the date) such as this lovely one from weddingpaperdivas:

We ended up going for a “pages torn from your calendar” look, and here’s how it turned out!

Baby Girl Bubblegum (we’ve added Baby Boy Bubblegum, a.k.a. B^3, since her first introduction, so she is now BGB), who is an expert in all things paper.

My shipment from Paper-Source - again, happiest day of my life (y’know, until the wedding).

Before assembling.. All parts done on my nifty Canon Pixma!

The completed save the date.

And finally, an exhausted Miss BG after all the STDs were contracte–err–made.

The best part is.. they were CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!

~75 6.25″ square cards from Paper-Source = $15
~75 6.5″ square stardream envelopes from Paper-Source = $43.13
~Whole pack of 28 lb. paper from Staples = $9
~150 41 cent stamps = $61.50

The grand total to send out 75 save the dates: $128.63.. that’s $1.72 a piece!

The most expensive part was the stamps.. and here’s the deal: within the last year, the post office started charging postage based on size and shape rather than just weight. Not knowing this, I stood in line with my 6.5″ square envelopes, thinking, “these are so light.. no way could they take more than one stamp.. should I even be wasting this woman’s time?” And, as it turns out, square envelopes count as “large” envelopes and take 80 cents to mail. Boo.

All in all, I think they turned out well. Now if only we could finish invitations…