Weddingbee Blog

Just before Thanksgiving, I mailed our save the date envelopes to the woman who was going to address them. I had just come off of a string of business trips and my busy season at work had started. My original intention was to learn calligraphy myself, but there didn’t seem to be enough time in the day for practicing, let alone actually writing out all the addresses of our guests. This was a project I had to outsource. Luckily, I had put the addresses of our friends and family into a spreadsheet last year when we sent out Christmas cards. I merged the addresses into the correct format, printed the document out, and our package was ready to go.

I edited my address list a little bit / Photo by Miss Mink

I found our calligrapher, Jasmine Lee, through Weddingbee. Mrs. Peach has a friend who worked with her a while back and was very happy. The comments on Mrs. Peach’s blog post were all positive, too. We loved that she was able to use a modern style on our Save the Dates. Our design doesn’t really call for a super traditional font.

Jasmine and I chatted by email a few times and I was tickled to find out that she lives about 25 minutes from my hometown. It’s amazing how often I can find a Jersey connection, even living in Central Virginia.

Our package arrived at Jasmine’s home the Saturday before Thanksgiving. She had them back in the mail to us on Monday afternoon. I didn’t think to have a “dummy” envelope addressed, so here’s one with some blurred information. I’m kind of sad that I had to do this to Jasmine’s beautiful work.

Photo by Miss Mink

We stuffed and stamped the envelopes on Tuesday morning and had them in the mail by lunch time. Amazingly, some of our local friends had them the next day. My family in the NYC area had them within 48 hours.

Photo by Miss Mink

So, our guests have hopefully penciled us into their schedule and my out of town family is starting to make travel arrangements.

Though we are by no means early in our wedding planning, this very simple action felt like a very big step. We are actually at a point where we aren’t just talking about something that’s going to happen in the far off future. We’ve actually given our guests a somewhat-formal notice that they’re invited. We’re *that* close to our wedding!

Did anyone else have a moment when the wedding “got real” for them?