Weddingbee Blog

When I decided that I actually needed to get my act together with the whole save the date STD thing (yeaa, we’re just gonna go that route), I totally hated all the old ideas I had. I mean, they were OK, but I just kept seeing so many other fun, cute, unique ideas and my originals just felt…lame. Or generic. But let’s be real…in all actuality, anything we do will likely have been done before.

::letting it go::

I was also feeling very uninspired. I’m sure I mentioned this before, but my creativity got thrown out the window when I threw my high school graduation cap up in the air.

Poof. Gone.

I knew the natural solution would be to have someone else create the STDs, or just use a template. But I really wanted to at least try to be creative. I originally wanted to design the invite suite myself as well, but I quickly learned that that would not be happening and we’d be using a friendor instead. So I at least wanted to take hold of these STD cards.

That being said, I had been browsing the interwebs for inspiration a while back and realized that I very much loved a lot of the pre-made STD designs on Minted.

Some of my favorites:

All images via Minted

Aren’t they all just super cute and super fun? The only not cute thing about them is the price—I wasn’t so much a fan of spending $180 (+ tax, + S&H) for 100 postcards. So I decided to fiddle around on my computer, hoping to make my own version of some of the samples up there…and one of them actually came out pretty decent!! Mr. Foxy also happened to be a fan of my original artwork.. we may very well have finally found an STD to give to everyone! That’s what she said.

It may not be the most unique or fancy or artsy thing anybody has ever seen, but I’m OK with that.

Some foreshadowing: don’t be too surprised if/when I scratch this idea as well.

Did you have a hard time finding an STD or was it an easy-peasy decision for you?