Weddingbee Blog

You possibly read our drama with borderless printing, part 1…how it was supposed to happen, how it almost didn’t happen, how people in various printer departments told us it couldn’t happen, and then how we spent hours of our lives making it happen.

But wait, what’s that off in the distance sitting in front of a bird picture and a stack of plates I’ve been meaning to make into this for my dining room wall for the last 6 months?

Could it be…a BORDERLESS save the date?

Why, yes! It is! If you ask me how it worked, I really don’t know. But angels sang, and it was beautiful and borderless.

The front of the postcard-sized STD (thanks to our unfortunate point-and-shoot, you can’t see the seriously cool paper texture going on with ’em, so use your imagination):

And the back, showcasing a date-covering heart I slapped on using computer’s trusty Paint program:

I found a huge ball of twine in the garage when we first moved in to our house last spring, and I hoarded it all to myself for a rainy day. Who would have thought that meant hot-gluing 83 twine bows onto STDs?

It was a small, free detail that spruced up the cards and tied in our “Tying the Knot” theme. Downside: The bump in the envelope added extra postage. Upside: We got to use awesome butterfly stamps…

…which looked killer on our mustard yellow envelopes.

As far as the addresses and labels go, I didn’t really care that much. You want to know why? Because of all of the invitations and save the dates and announcements I’ve ever received, I don’t remember any of the labels or fancy addressing tactics because I was too busy excitedly ripping them open to uncover the goodness inside.

So, I now present labels created in about five seconds by Avery Design & Print Online:

I bought a huge pack of on-sale Avery shipping labels #8163 (which gave us more than enough for all STDs, invites & thank-yous), yanked a cute design from an online template (although I claim to hate bunting, the birds are presh and the colors just went), and created it all on the template design program.

It was so easy-peasy, I almost feel guilty about not putting more thought into it.

Sending them away in the mail was like sending a child away to visit their grandparents for the entire summer: I was a little sad, but also incredibly happy to share the love, and simultaneously joyous to have some free time back. I was also terrified something would happen to them, because we weren’t thinking clearly and only made ONE extra. I know. It kills me.

As it turns out, my worrying wasn’t for naught: One of the bridesmaids finally received hers in the mail more than two weeks after we dropped them in the box. The kicker? She lives just four hours away. I may not understand your mysterious ways, USPS, but thank you for finally letting her know that she really will be invited.

And for your pleasure, our save the date on a crabby Cha Cha cat:

How did your DIY paper projects go, hive? Still working on ’em and need some encouraging words? Were you sad to finally mail them out, or were you too busy happy-dancing to care? Have you had anything wedding-related get lost in the mail? Nightmare city, I tell you what.