Weddingbee Blog

Okay, now that I’ve jumped the proverbial gun and shown you almost all of our STDs’ business, it’s time to slow down, backtrack, and check out the glorious little details that if I’m honest with myself most likely will end up in our guests’ recycling bin. Oh well, I love ‘em anyway and I hope you will too!

First up - The Envelope/Label/Stampy goodness. Yes, I went the Zazzle route and I couldn’t be more pleased with the result! AND I took your advice, stuck with my fabric inspired wrap-around label and tweaked my printer a little bit to achieve a brighter label.

The front:

How much do you LOVE our stamps? I die. Most of our guests got Macaroni and Cheese, a few got Nautical Love, and our lucky international guests got both!!

And then the back:

Yes, we really did send our Save the Date to the Obamas!  The one with the Mac & Cheese stamp, actually. They’re busy peeps and we wanna make sure we get in there before their dance card fills up. And we wanna make sure they remember to fight for our rights too, especially our right to wed! So slap our magnet up on the fridge at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue yo, and think about us when you grab your OJ in the morning Mr. President!

Moving right along… when our guests ever-so-carefully open the envelope and slide out our STD, they will be greeted with this kraft paper card that I created in illustrator and printed on our printer:

After following the incredibly direct directions (not to be redundant) our guests will flip the card over to find our piece de resistance, that’s to say the most excellent refrigerator magnet that ever lived, aka our custom-made photo-strip caricatures from the amazing Stinkerpants. Behold:

You might notice that the frame is the same one I used for our guests’ addresses on the envelope label, no?

And SQUEAL! Don’t we make the damn cutest cartoons you’ve ever seen? Don’t our pets make the damn cutest cartoons you’ve ever seen? DOUBLE SQUEAL! In case there was any question, I am absolutely ga ga over our STDs! No joke—I actually have two on our refrigerator at this exact moment. I LUUUURVE ‘em! Anyhoo, here’s a few more pics just in case you’re not totally convinced:

It was such a pleasure to work with Sara in creating these amazing little pieces of art and we are so pleased with the final result! Thanks a bajillion Sara! Any day now our STDs will start arriving in our guests’ mailboxes and I hope they’re even a little bit as excited about them as we are! I really do think our STDs set the amazingly awesome and super fun tone we’re going for with our wedding and am so super excited to finally announce our celebration to all our loved ones! I didn’t think I could be more excited for our wedding, but sending our STDs has really made it feel real, ya know? It’s fantastic!

What about you? Did sending your STDs make you feel like your wedding is the real deal?