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I promise, this is the final post about our Save the Dates!

I know that I already lamented about our printer problems, but there are a few things that we learned with our Save the Date process that I’d like to mention… because if I could do it all over again, I would change a few things! Perhaps you will be smarter than me, and potentially learn from my mistakes?

• First, make sure you are using a computer that isn’t going to freak out on you when you’re printing. Unfortunately, Mr. Buttons and I are the not-so-proud owners of a very basic, very slow, and very dumb printer. And yes, we printed each of the envelopes one by one. I know some of you are probably screaming at the computer saying “Miss Buttons, why in the WORLD would you not use mail merge? Really now… you are so silly!” Sadly, when I downloaded the free font that I used, I didn’t realize that the font did not include every single character (there was no apostrophe, comma, etc.), and when I tried to merge, the font did not apply to everything as I wanted. So, it was either do a mail merge, then go through and fix each address individually, or just type them all one at a time and hit print. I figured that it would take the same amount of time… so, this leads me to the next point:

• If you are downloading a font to use, make sure all of the characters you want to use are included! Oooops.

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• Third, I would make sure that our magnets/Save the Dates included the city where the wedding is taking place. Since our current address is in Virginia, and the wedding is in Florida, I didn’t realize that it would cause confusion! Someone called my parents and asked if the wedding is in California! I am really not sure why they thought that… perhaps the VA on our return address looked like CA to them???

• Next, I would be certain that we sign both our first and last names in the cards for guests who don’t know us well! This wasn’t a problem for most of our guests, as most of the guests were aware they were receiving a card in the first place, but there were a few of my dad’s coworkers who had no clue who we were based on first names alone. D’oh! I felt incredibly dumb.

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• Last, but not least, we would make sure my mom checked the glue dot package strength before sticking them to the magnets/cards. As we were doing it, I thought to myself that the glue dots felt pretty strong, but we kept going anyway. When I got home over Thanksgiving, I asked my mom if she still had the package the dots came in (she has just given me the roll). Sure enough, on the package the box was not marked “low tack” ,or “medium tack”, but SUPER HIGH TACK! Well, no wonder people were having a hard time taking the magnet off of the card… sorry everyone!

All in all, I’m glad that we were able to see what problems arose while creating our Save the Dates. I’m thinking of it as a practice run for the invites, and I am hoping that we won’t run into similar problems with those!

Did you learn some important things while creating your invites/Save the Dates? Do you have any good tips to share to keep people sane?