Only a Bride Would Notice or Care

Only a Bride Would Notice or Care

March 15th, 2010 @ 3:31 pm by Mrs. Jellyfish
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Once the postcards were ordered, I started looking for stamps. Well, I quickly realized that the USPS only has 1 design for their 28-cent postcard stamps…the polar bear.

Only a Bride Would Notice or Care : wedding pleasanton postage 13 polar bear stamp

Not. a. fan. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against polar bears, but it’s just a “meh” design in my opinion. Last year’s 27 cent tropical fruit postcard stamps were so much cuter!!

Only a Bride Would Notice or Care : wedding pleasanton postage 23 tropical-fruit-stamps1

Orange you sad they don’t make these anymore? Me too. But I can’t find them anywhere, and it would probably clutter the back of the postcard to have two stamps (a 27 cent and a 1 cent).

I think this whole stamp thing is a perfect example of something that only a bride would notice or care about. When I Googled the Polar Bear stamp, I found numerous websites with brides complaining about the same thing! Even Miss Hamster blogged about the dreaded polar bears! See, I’m not alone – I’m just a crazy bride, and these things matter.

Or do they? If I really cared, I could just bite the bullet and order custom stamps from Zazzle.com:

Only a Bride Would Notice or Care : wedding pleasanton postage 31.jpg

But I had to remind myself that the whole reason we went with postcards was to save money, and with custom stamps costing almost 4 times the value of each 28 cent stamp, it’s just not worth it, even if those Polar Bears feel completely out of place on our autumn wedding postcards. *cringe*

Have you compromised on any of the details for your wedding in the name of common sense?

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Miss Giraffe (message) 4,216 posts, Honey bee

Haha, I’m totally with you on that one! I bet you’re right though - no one else besides you is going to notice those bears!

3/15/10 @ 3:40 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Moonbeam (message) 1,732 posts, Bumble bee

Maybe go halfway, and just put the 44 cent love stamps on there. I was really disappointed with the polar bears as well, but I just used them.

3/15/10 @ 3:43 pm (reply)

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Will

nice post … i really like it ! GO ahead !

3/15/10 @ 3:44 pm (reply)

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SanDiegoAli (message) 3,076 posts, Sugar bee

Hopefully you’ll find this funny:

http://themessage-board.blogspot.com/2010/02/message-board-great-std-stamp-debate.html

3/15/10 @ 3:46 pm (reply)

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farmersdaughter (message) 1,656 posts, Bumble bee

Ugh I’m frustrated with this too! We’re doing a postcard guest book (guests will fill out a postcard, and my parents are mailing them to us throughout our first year of marriage) so I really wanted something cute since I’ll be keeping the postcards as a momento from the wedding. I’m open to hearing any creative ideas on how to get non polar bear postcard stamps!!

3/15/10 @ 3:47 pm (reply)

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jaydee1125 (message) 453 posts, Helper bee

Thank you for this post b/c I’m not alone.

I am sending my save the dates this week and I didn’t want to use the wedding rings stamp (partly b/c of the yellow gold pictured) and the love stamp is just eehh…but 96 cents - $1.19 a stamp on zazzle is just way too much, and who would notice?

3/15/10 @ 3:49 pm (reply)

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Miss Jellyfish (message) 1,423 posts, Bumble bee

@SanDiegoAli: HAHAHAHA!!! That’s hilarious, I love it.

3/15/10 @ 3:49 pm (reply)

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Miss Chapstick (message) 2,098 posts, Buzzing bee

We had autumn colors on our invites, and it made me CRINGE to put these stupid polar bear stamps on them! I totally giggled out loud when I read this post because it was just a crazy flashback from when we went through this

I love the polar bears at the zoo and in the wild, but they totally didn’t belong on my fall wedding reply cards!

3/15/10 @ 3:49 pm (reply)

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Stesse (message) 136 posts, Blushing bee

You can significantly bring down the cost of personalized stamps if you are a Costco member - they have an arrangement with Stamps.com. Might be worth checking out - we joined Costco b/c we wanted to buy the booze for the wedding there - ended up finding all sorts of other benefits like stamps & also photobooks!

3/15/10 @ 3:49 pm (reply)

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alivoo01 (message) 2,622 posts, Sugar bee

Where’s the queue for disappointment in the variety of wedding postage by USPS because I need to stand in that line too! I too have contemplated back and forth between custom Zazzle.com postage and USPS. For money sake, I think USPS will win this battle, unfortunately! I even thought about doing 50/50 (half zazzle for the younger invitees and just regular postage for the adults)! Sad, I know…

3/15/10 @ 3:50 pm (reply)

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Curlysue (message) 1,703 posts, Bumble bee

Yeah I feel the same way. While other stamps are better no one really notices or cares. But really, why they have to be so boring?!

3/15/10 @ 3:55 pm (reply)

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iswimibikeirun (message) 1,355 posts, Bumble bee

I can totally relate. I’m so glad my invitations weigh between 1 and 2 ounces because I really like the wedding cake $.61 stamp. I hated the gold rings stamp too . . . I used the Year of the Tiger for the rsvps, but would have “settled” for Celebrate or the Simpsons! My oversized postcard STDs needed $.44 stamps, so I bought cheap envelopes. No idea what the stamps were (probably better b/c I would have obsessed!). My mom mailed them for me!

3/15/10 @ 3:55 pm (reply)

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TexicanMexican (message) 104 posts, Blushing bee

Don’t stress about it! No one is going to notice the stamps, anyways. They’ll be too busy opening the envelope as fast as possible to look at your STDs. It’s so rare to get mail that isn’t a bill these days, the stamp will be the last thing on anyone’s mind.

3/15/10 @ 3:56 pm (reply)

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Miss Hamster (message) 4,045 posts, Honey bee

Yes, the polar bears!! I just don’t get it I got some zazzle stamps with major discount codes, but if I couldn’t do that, we probably would have just gone with the bears

3/15/10 @ 3:56 pm (reply)

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Miss Jellyfish (message) 1,423 posts, Bumble bee

@Miss Hamster: Hammy - I loved your post about the zazzle discounts! We may do that for our invites if we don’t like the stamp that goes on those, and if we can find a great deal like you did!

3/15/10 @ 3:58 pm (reply)

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rachel_leigh (message) 1,106 posts, Bumble bee

That polar bear! I wish the post office would catch up with wedding trends and make pretty wedding stamps not just in 44 cent and 61 cent stamps but in 28 cent stamps as well! I agree with others that I am probably the only one that noticed, but it still drove me nuts! I had to use them twice: once on the STDs and just recently on the RSVPs. It is almost worse on the RSVPs because those polar bears are the first thing I notice in the mail box.

3/15/10 @ 4:01 pm (reply)

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LisaM (message) 160 posts, Blushing bee

I totally agree with you. Nobody cares actually with having a boring guest book. I don’t know with the bears.

3/15/10 @ 4:03 pm (reply)

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Mrs. DG (message) 8,491 posts, Bee Keeper

We loved the polar bears!

3/15/10 @ 4:15 pm (reply)

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Shyness76 (message) 122 posts, Blushing bee

I ended up going with photo.stamps.com They might be more reasonable price per stamp than zazzle. Not sure didn’t compare. If I read the price explination thing right, the more sheets you but the better deal you get. But don’t quote me, I never got an A in math. It’s worth a look anyway.

3/15/10 @ 4:43 pm (reply)

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