Weddingbee Blog

You know how when you spend a lot of time with one person, you kind of create your own language? Mr. Bear Cub and I spend a lot of time together. We live together, we walk to work together, our offices are next door to each other, we shop for food together, go to Spanish class together, run together, eat (almost) every meal together… you get the picture. We’re what happens when you move someplace new (and very different) together - you spend buttloads of time with just that person.

For us, it works out pretty well. We’re both kind of freaks.

Remember this picture?

Yup. Let’s just say we’re really lucky we found each other.

It should come as a surprise to you then that our save-the-dates were a bit less “unique” at first. Way back in February (when I had my head on straight and thought it was a good idea to get the STDs in the mail fast!), I cooked this little guy up in Picnik:

This picture was from our trip to Thailand - we took it the day we got engaged! Unfortunately, I just couldn’t get over how shiny my butt was:

So I sat on the STDs for a little while (no pun intended ).

Then we met Kyle Hepp, and suddenly we had awesome pics from which to make a better STD! And so I now present you with our (very belated) save the date postcard.

We went for something straight-forward for the reverse of the card (with info on our awesome FREE wedding website). For the front of the card, I decided our guests should probably get a sneak peek of who we really are:

Mr. Bear Cub - eyes unmistakably closed in the photo, per normal.
Miss Bear Cub - a giggling mess staring at my goofy guy.

Oh yeah, and swizzle sticks. We have a feeling only 1% of our guests will understand what “swizzle sticks” means. “Swizzle sticks” means “cool” just as “fiddle sticks” means “bummer”. Pretty obvious, no? I thought so. Swizz!

Our children are going to have an interesting array of vocabulary when they enter grade school.

Are you introducing your guests to some of you & your fiancé’s quirks before the wedding? Do you say swizzle sticks? It’s pretty much the swizziest thing ever!