Once Again, It’s Never Too Early.

Once Again, It’s Never Too Early.

October 18th, 2011 @ 5:42 am by Miss Fox
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We don’t have a save-the-date picked yet. I haven’t printed out or assembled (or even decided how to assemble) our invites.

But you know what we do have?

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Stamps!!

180 stamps, to be exact.

I have no idea if this will be enough, or too many. Or if we can get our invites to an appropriate weight so that each one will only (hopefully) need one (or exactly 2) stamp(s). What I do know is that I couldn’t resist USPS’s new Forever stamps. They are not only incredibly fun and say “love” on them (as all mush-tastic wedding stamps should), but they kind of totally match our color scheme in a non-matchy kind of way. As in, the background color is a certain shade of teal. Which is similar to turquoise. And some of the flowers are orange. So it works.

Huzzah!

I guess I should probably explain why I seemingly went out and spontaneously bought “wedding” stamps real quick, though.

See, I’m not really a fan of the usual wedding stamps - you know, the cake, rings, hearts, etc. It’s cute and all, but it isn’t really mine or Foxy’s style. I feel like I have come to expect those stamps on wedding invitations, and it always comes as a nice little surprise when a couple decides to do something a bit different. True, most people don’t even notice silly things like the stamp on the envelope, but I do. Hence, I needed to find some stamps.

I first saw the new Garden Love Forever stamps a month or two ago and instantly fell in love with them for the aforementioned reasons. I bought them now because they always seem to change up the Forever stamps, and I didn’t want to miss my opportunity. Easy peasy. Pretty stamps = happy Fox.

Though I’m sure everyone and their mom will be using these stamps by the time I send out anything.

CRAP. I just realized I didn’t factor in stamps for the RSVP envelopes!!! Ugh. Back to the post office I go.

Anyone else care about really, REALLY trivial details…like stamps?

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20 Responses to “Once Again, It’s Never Too Early.”

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kimberlee10 (message) 186 posts, Blushing bee

I went and snatched up 120 of those flowery bad boys when I bought the postcard stamps (flowering herbs) for our Save the Dates. And if they weight too much - I think we are going for the 64 butterfly stamp. I am not sure the “wedding stamps” are really for us either.

10/18/11 @ 6:07 am (reply)

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SnowflakeDS (message) 343 posts, Helper bee

I care too much about the teensy invitation details.

10/18/11 @ 6:07 am (reply)

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futuremrswifey (message) 170 posts, Blushing bee

Oh my gosh!! I was at the post office last week sending a care package to my FW (she’s deployed to Iraq til Christmas) and I saw these on the wall o’ stamps! I promptly bought 200 of them even though our invitations don’t go out until April. I love the little details!! And these stamps - I love them too!!

10/18/11 @ 6:11 am (reply)

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csulbchica (message) 25 posts, Newbee

hahaha OMG I am exactly on your same boat!!! don’t have any of the paper stuff ready but i have the stamps too..and since i couldn’t decide which ones i wanted i got these and the king/queen of hearts (i thought it was something cute as my future last name is Reyes (kings in spanish!!!!)

10/18/11 @ 6:23 am (reply)

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Mrs. Waffle (message) 1,121 posts, Bumble bee

Ahhhh! Those are so cute! Wish they had those stamps back in March!

10/18/11 @ 6:24 am (reply)

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soyjoy222 (message) 3,188 posts, Sugar bee

I am a ‘trivial’ detail person, and you can bet that I will be obsessing over stamps in the upcoming weeks. I love love loooove the ones you found, and I also love the Go Green ones, because they are so friendly looking!

10/18/11 @ 6:28 am (reply)

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Mrs. Pony (message) 4,171 posts, Honey bee

Those love stamps are perfect, I knew I had to have them when I first saw them! And you’ll be happy you got them early

10/18/11 @ 7:18 am (reply)

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Jenn

Save the date cards were probably harder for me to pick out than the invitation itself. You can have a lot more fun with the save the date card as far as design, colors, photos, etc.

10/18/11 @ 7:23 am (reply)

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atlas.wed (message) 94 posts, Worker bee

I totally wanted fun stamps like that… but the frugal side of me went with normal stamps and stocked up when they went on sale for 10% off.

Love the stamps you choose!!

10/18/11 @ 8:13 am (reply)

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Miss Honey (message) 1,069 posts, Bumble bee

I want some, they are perfect! Post office at lunch today, I think so.

10/18/11 @ 8:41 am (reply)

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Viviana

Oh I used those for my shower thank you’s…they’re so pretty! At first I didn’t think much about stamps when it came to my wedding invites but as the design process went on and I read more blogs on weddingbee, I came to realize that it was really important! And i’m glad that I did put thought behind it because i have actually gotten some compliments on my STAMPS! Who would have thought! I used the purple heart ribbon stamp. Not only was it significant because my fiance is in the military but it matched my entire invite perfectly!

10/18/11 @ 9:04 am (reply)

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Miss Porcupine (message) 428 posts, Helper bee

I thought I did. Then we got 30494 save the dates back in the mail and I was basically like “GOD DAMN IT. FIND A NEW STAMP, ANY STAMP. AND GET THESE OUT OF MY FACE.” ha.

10/18/11 @ 10:23 am (reply)

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SadieBee (message) 771 posts, Busy bee

I used these bad boys for our save-the-dates - they’re adorable! And yeah, I get the obsessions with silly little details (that, in all honesty, most people probably won’t even notice). I had to get the special “Celebrate” neon stamps for our rehearsal dinner invitations

10/18/11 @ 11:03 am (reply)

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oatmealpie (message) 152 posts, Blushing bee

Yep! We went with the Katharine Hepburn stamps.

https://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10052&productId=10006834&langId=-1

10/18/11 @ 11:15 am (reply)

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Mrs. Parasol (message) 2,132 posts, Buzzing bee

Love those! They are perfect and don’t scream “WEDDING,” which is a plus in my book.

10/18/11 @ 12:22 pm (reply)

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Miss Sunhat (message) 865 posts, Busy bee

I used these stamps for our STD’s! But I’m using the more traditional stamps for the invites.

10/18/11 @ 6:17 pm (reply)

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Ms. Shinie (message) 6 posts, Newbee

We also used those stamps for our save the dates. They matched our colors, plus they are so cute. We had to go to two different post offices because the first one was out of them. Totally worth the extra running around.

10/18/11 @ 7:29 pm (reply)

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Rachael432 (message) 904 posts, Busy bee

Those are pretty nifty : )

10/18/11 @ 8:59 pm (reply)

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kirabee (message) 1,402 posts, Bumble bee

They are awesome! So great that they are forever stamps, I JUST heard on the radio they’re raising postage in January. These are so cute. Is it totally insane crazy if this not-yet-engaged girl stocks up on these now? Yes? Okay, I won’t. Thanks for talking me down, Fox.

10/18/11 @ 9:17 pm (reply)

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Msbryt

I too used these stamps for our STDs– I’ve had them sitting waiting patiently for about 5 months until it came time to be sent out. So I was FINALLY allowed to go to the post office last Tuesday and sent them out wednesday!! I’m so excited.

I designed our STDs myself so stamps were definitely a big issue. I love how fun these are but still love related without being the stamp you’d expect on anything wedding related.

10/19/11 @ 11:04 am (reply)