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I loves me a good double entendre…

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I have to be honest here, I never actually understood the purpose of STDs (and of course I’m referring to nothing other than Save-the-Dates). I look at an STD as a sort of warning. I have never gotten an STD that really helped me at all though, because they force a person to stop and think about their distant future (and I don’t normally plan things that far in advance). I’ve been given all sorts of STDs - STDs of all different colors, fancy STDs, what the heck is this STDs, even STDs that stick to my refrigerator. To some, STDs can seem like a nuisance and be a bit irritating.

You get one and think to yourself, “What the hell am I supposed to do now?”

You talk to other people that have gotten an STD from the same person as you and they’re just as confused.

So you call a friend and ask for advice. “I got this STD and I don’t know what to do with it.” Your friend tells you to look at it and maybe show it to your significant other.

In the end, since travel arrangements needed to be made, we did what everyone else was doing and gave STDs to our family and friends.

I looked around online at different options for something that went with our theme, and here are some of the cute ideas I found (yes, I am now totally referring to save-the-dates)…

Paper Glider Save-the-Date

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Starfish Magnets w/ Personalized Tag

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Flip Flop Luggage Tag

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My future mom-in-law actually suggested luggage tags and Scott and I loved the idea. We went with these….

Let’s Celebrate! Luggage Tags

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I made the inserts in Microsoft Word, printed them out on nice paper, then put them on top of the inserts that came with the tags. They were mailed out on a Saturday and almost everyone had gotten them by the following Tuesday, even our guests on the West Coast. The postal service actually came through and helped us spread our STDs very quickly!

Here’s the finished product (date and website were blurred out for privacy reasons):

Finished Product

When I got a call from my mom letting me know that she got the STD, she asked what she was supposed to do with it. Apparently she didn’t know what it was and thought it was pretty enough to wear as a bracelet. An STD bracelet? I’ve never gotten one of those. I told her to put her STD on her luggage. None of my sisters knew what they were, either. I guess after staring at the STD for so long, I just assumed it was obvious what it was. Oh well. At least in the future, I will only be on the receiving end of STDs, so I won’t have to worry that someone won’t know what I gave them.

That’s a relief.