Wedding Blog

Like all graduate students I know, I am a terrible procrastinator and find it all but impossible to get things accomplished unless there’s an impending deadline (and usually some threat of a cut-off of funding). Well, it turns out, according to my Martha Stewart online wedding checklist, that we are supposed to send out our save-the-dates in less than two weeks. Naturally, we are woefully unprepared for this. We haven’t finalized a guest list. We have no addresses yet. And, of course, we have no save-the-dates printed. Martha is tsk tsking at us right now.

Just to get my imaginary Martha to take a chill pill, I spent this weekend putting together some mock-ups of possible save-the-dates. Here’s one of them. Behold: our almost save-the-date bookmark:

I came up with this idea while thinking about what Mr. Hot Cocoa and I do best, which is go to school. We’ve both been in school for an ungodly and embarrassing number of years, so we thought we’d create an homage to that with a bookmark. The plan was to Gocco these on purple card stock. I would have used silver ink for the printing and a slightly darker purple ribbon for the tassel.

Since I already had the Gocco supplies, these bookmarks would have been relatively inexpensive to produce. All I had to purchase was the card stock, the ribbon, and letter-size envelopes for mailing. But as I contemplated my schedule over the next two weeks, I realized that I would go batty if I had to create 150+ bookmarks while balancing my teaching and writing responsibilities. I especially recoiled in horror at the thought of having to punch the double happiness symbol into each bookmark, since punching on card stock is a carpal-tunnel-inducing nightmare.

So basically what I’m trying to tell you is that this once-ambitious DIY bride got lazy. Very, very lazy. And this bookmark idea had to go bye-bye.

Did you have DIY ambitions that were thwarted by real life? What projects have you had to scale down or reconsider?