Weddingbee Blog

We did postcard Save the Dates, and I thought it would be fun to write a note to each recipient like a real postcard. Oh, yes, I did just say I thought it would be fun to write a note on a ton of postcards. Right… in any case, I found myself in starts and fits and I finally made a schedule to get them finished.

Bee reader MissCamera posted in our month twin board (Go August!) that she had the resolution of getting out her Save the Dates by January 15th, which sounded great to me! Unfortunately, mine made it across the Atlantic in February. Why didn’t I just mail them from England? The Royal Mail must hate me, because they’ve done things like sent Mr. D’s suit from England to Colombia (South America) instead of Columbia, MD, USA. I also did a price comparison and found it would be cheaper to send a tiny package to the US and send each STD domestically than to send each postcard from England to the US.

I’m not going to lie to you guys; if I had gotten my act together before we left the States it would have been much, much easier. I thought this would be a fun project and when I sat down and thought about how excited I would be to have these people with us on our wedding day, I was happy to write each of them a note. That said, it took me a very long time for me to get off my bum and finish them.

I also miscounted and sent my mother too many extras so I didn’t have enough to finish sending a few of them out! What’s worse is that my mother misplaced the extras (she had agreed to send) so several guests didn’t end up receiving a Save the Date which I didn’t find out ’til I arrived in the US in June… a bit late to send one at that point.

So without any further ado, I’d like to introduce you to our Save the Dates:

On the other side I wrote a note to each of our guests. We reused the lower bird stamp from our invitations for the Save the Dates.

Regrets? Not being ultra clear about which side Kinko’s should print on. There is a textured linen-esque side and a less textured side on the recycled cardstock. Our invitations printed/embossed perfectly on the less textured side, but the Save the Dates and RSVP cards were printed on the linen-esque side, which led to a few cards not printing quite right and the embossing process not working as well.

I’m glad we embossed these last, because our heat gun died with 10 extra ones to go. Moral of the story? give your embossing gun a rest so it doesn’t overheat and die. The silver lining? I won’t be attempting to emboss anything else for the wedding.

Any one else do postcard STDs or have any other STD mishaps?