Weddingbee Blog

During our planning, our wedding invitations have been my baby. I have rounded each corner with love. When I found out the address stickers on the RSVP cards had our zip code wrong, I cried as Mr. H and I disassembled each invitation. I can picture that proud moment as each invitation, ready to take on the world, leaves our nest and arrives in each guest’s mailbox…

And I adamantly did NOT want to do save the dates. I planned to skip them entirely; that is, until the week of Thanksgiving 2010, when I found out no one—friends, family, bridesmaids, groomsmen—knew when the wedding is.

By the time I realized that I had to do save the dates if we wanted people to not plan their vacations during our wedding, we were already past the less-than-six-months-to-go mark. After pouring all my time and energy into “my baby,” I just wanted to get the save the dates designed, get those puppies out, and be done with ‘em as quickly as possible. So I did just that.

Considering I only spent, like, two days on this project, I’m very pleased with how they turned out! I decided to do postcards to save on stamps, and only one side in color to save on printing costs. (As I didn’t plan to do these, there was no budget money set aside for them.) Yes, yes, I am aware that really both sides are in black and white, save for the text, but I love the way they look in B&W! It reminds me of newspaper announcements.

I had them printed from CatPrint with a full bleed (that means all the way to the edge) on heavy matte card stock.

How about a closer look?

Sorry, the light made the back side show through a little…

Stamps…those little polar bears don’t match anything in the history of everything. Boo. But the new evergreen Forever stamps are kind of cute. I also printed off the polka-dot address labels for our guests, since they tie in with our invitation suite (and keep this side of the STD from being totally black and white).

And of course, all engagement-photo credits go to Bridesmaid J!

What’s your planning “baby”?