Weddingbee Blog

My STDs were designed and printed in Stamford, Connecticut. I took the Metro North up to Stamford and met with my bridesmaid LA. Immediately, LA got to work in her home office. (She does this for a living!)

This is me giving her a thumbs up! I was pretty useless. At some point I have so many ideas that I become indecisive, so I just provide general statements of approval.

We finally got them printed!!! The above photo is LA checking out the prints and making sure they were consistent, the black was black, and all the edges were clean. She even washed and cleaned the printer after every four or five sheets. I love that my friends are perfectionists.

Then she cut and hole-punched the individual save the dates. She punched little semi-circle notches in the sides of the STDs because we tied a piece of twine around each invite. I thought it was a cute symbol of sorts, since we used “tying the knot.” I know it’s a little cheesy, but I like it.

Because were were ignoring her cat, he made sure to remind us that he was around!

My job was to put holes in the calendars for the little heart-shaped brads.

After designing the STDs, the next step was to line the envelopes. We went to Paper Presentation and picked up some high-quality kraft-paper envelopes and loads of scrapbook paper. I clearly couldn’t pick just one, so I picked up everything that caught my eye. Mr. Pancakes picked the one with the pink elephants.

Then I traced an envelope onto some card stock to make a template.

Once I had the basic size of the envelope, it was easy to figure out the size and spacing I wanted for the liner.

Then I cut out the template and just traced it onto the paper. This is actually the back of the paper. Mr. Pancakes was in charge of the cutting and the stuffing, and I did all the gluing.

Here’s what they looked like when they were done!

Super easy and the whole project, envelopes and paper, cost a little less than $50.

And this is the final product!

Are you sending save the dates? What do yours look like?