Weddingbee Blog

No, I don’t have venereal disease.  This is an issue with save the dates, which I suppose is a better issue to have. This post could also be titled How I Came up with My Crazy Wedding Theme.

Before I delve into this story, I’d like to say, great minds think alike…my little (in my sorority) and I came up with the same theme independently. In the beginning when I had first solidified my theme, it was Mad Hatter, and hers is Alice in Wonderland. Sigh. Her wedding is two months before mine, so I have been a bit apprehensive that we’ll have the exact same elements.

The good news is that she is getting married in her backyard, so her wedding will have a much different feel than mine. I decided to forge on with my theme, hoping that our different tastes would prevail and that our weddings would still be different.

But yesterday, her STD came in the mail. First, I’ll show you the file that I had originally designed for my STD:

I planned on using my trusty Cricut to cut these out in the shape of a tag; attached would be our date in vintage-y paper, with a skeleton key attached to the end. (Please ignore the iPhone pictures…I can’t find my camera.

Twine!!!!

And here’s my friend’s STD:

It was far more attractive in person. Remember: bad photos today.

I’m not going to lie: this small piece of paper brought me to tears. I know it’s dumb, but I spent quite a bit of time on these things, and now it would look like I just took my friend’s idea. After I pulled myself off of the bed and thought about it, I realized I had a few options:

1.) Say to heck with it and send mine anyway.

2.) Design a brand new STD/use the hankies.

3.) Use my backup design, which has a more “Down the Rabbit Hole” feel to it.

4.) Hit my head repeatedly with the closest blunt object.

I chose to go with option #4 for a while, then realized that there was a better solution: go with my original STDs, but use the backup design for the five or so invitations that would overlap with my friend’s guests. One of my BMs (who was nice enough to listen to me freak out) agreed that this would work. I’m not going to lie, having the last wedding of the summer (out of my friends) sucks big lollipops. I come up with these ideas independently, but others get to execute them first.

While I’m glad that the issue is mostly resolved, I feel like I had a real bridezilla moment about a piece of paper. I’m embarrassed that my wedding has made me act this way and, to prevent further meltdowns, I’ve decided to shift my theme a bit. It is now: “Alice attends the Mad Hatter Vintage Garden Tea Party in a Ballroom. She Thinks That the Venue is Odd for a Vintage Garden Party, but is Tripping on LSD, so She Doesn’t Really Care.”

Have you guys had similar issues? Any of your friends have the same color scheme or theme? How did you deal with it?