Weddingbee Blog

Let’s recap what’s happened so far:

1. The Design. I tried to create my own design but then my friend made one that was better.
2. Edge painting. What? You don’t remember this? That’s because it never happened. I even went so far as to buy 6 bottles of seafoam green acrylic paint (that’s too many, by the way, for 50 save the dates).
3. Envelope liners. Again, I wanted to be creative and custom make them but then nothing came to mind. I found some great Paper Source ones instead.
4. And finally, addressing the envelopes. How to address them without using a label but without handwriting them (this not an option given my chicken scratch). Ultimately I printed most of them but feared my printer would only spit out something horribly gray and ruin my lovely bright white envelopes. I got over it.*

*I realized that the envelopes were at the mercy of USPS already.

To prolong the detail madness, I added a rubber stamp border in midnight blue from my favorite paper store, Paper Source. Here are some selections from their website:

Paper Source

I debated this for days. (No, really, is there nothing else going on in my life??) In the end, I picked the birdcage because it was more fun and less formal than the vintage marquis. Of course, I had trouble actually using the stamp and unlike many others before me, I didn’t test it out on any scrap. I just went head-on. So here are the mixed results:

See how some are faded and some are blotchy? In the beginning, I wasn’t inking it enough. Then the blotchy ones happened because I pressed too hard and shifted the stamp mid-press. However, most of them turned out OK and I can attribute the variations to “artistic quality”. We all know I’m not making new envelopes anyway.

As for the return address, (GEEZ will the details not stop coming??) I gave in and just hand-wrote it as carefully as possible, hoping most people wouldn’t notice the scribbles.

Now, the FINAL FINAL product (what’s the point if I blur some of it out anyway? Sorry).

YAY!! Now they’re done and off to the post office. BOO YA, save the dates!!!

Tip: When you are sealing your envelopes, just do the tip and maybe half inch on either side. Any more than that, your guests might have to rip open the envelope and thus not see your beautiful liner! I learned that the hard way.

Did you obsess over minor details with your Save-the-Dates? How did you make your decisions?