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Side note: I recognize the difficulty in ignoring the misfortune of the STD acronym and will not blame you for giggling—I happen to chuckle to myself every time I type out those three little letters.

As with the bridesmaids’ cards, this non-crafty gal had lofty do-it-yourself dreams when it came to our save the dates. I think I first started imagining how the STDs would look around January of 2009—nearly a year before we would even send them out. You would think with all that time, I would have been able to accomplish something cute like this:

Image via Martha Stewart Weddings

Or creative, like this:

Image via Martha Stewart Weddings

Perhaps something a bit more fun, like this?

Images via Martha Stewart Weddings

Ultimately, I learned a life lesson: an abundance of time is not always your friend. With over a year to design, assemble, and send off the world’s most creative STD (*chuckle*), I felt overwhelmed! My STD taste bounced from balloons to magnets to bookmarks, and I kept telling myself I had all the time in the world to figure it out.

Well. Then eight months passed.

With our wedding date landing on a Friday and our elevated number of out-of-town guests, I knew we wanted to send out save-the-date notes at the start of 2011 to give people sufficient time to make proper work and travel arrangements. After twiddling my thumbs for so long, I surmised it was time to get down to STD business.

I sat down with myself and had a brainstorming session. Could I really see myself assembling over 150 bookmarks or calendars? Did I really want save-the-date magnets? I eventually concluded that the answers to those questions were “no,” and I felt helpless. Until I remembered 1999.

In October of 1999, Rob Thomas married Marisol Maldonado in Santa Ynez, California.

Image via Wedding Sutra

Now you may be asking yourselves what in the world they have to do with our save the dates, so I will explain.

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What influenced your STD style?