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There’s a funny side story to my paper search: Limitedpapers, the company from which I purchased the save the date and invitation paper, is in Brooklyn. I was like, “HA! Brooklyn is not far at all, and particularly not from my office in lower Manhattan. I’ll go pick those babies up and save myself a shipping fee!”

So that’s how I found myself on a Friday afternoon, in 90+ degree heat, walking an interminable distance from the subway (it was midday and no shade), in business casual clothes, to warehouses and docks on the Brooklyn waterfront. You know, the kind of place where at night you might see Vinnie with a chair and baseball bat waiting for you.

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I’ve been planning the wedding for a while (we got engaged in July 08), so there are a bunch of things I want to tell you about. Let’s start with the save the dates.

As I mentioned in my last post, I fell in love with Gocco-made invitations, daydreaming about the “squish” of the Gocco ink as it gets pressed onto paper. I knew Goccoing the save the dates and invitations wouldn’t save a ton of money considering the cost of a Gocco, so that’s why I made my sister buy it. Ha! (Lest you think I’m a horrible person, my sister is actually quite artistic and crafty, so the Gocco is right up her alley.)

Despite the cost, I had decided it was the best way for us to personalize the save the dates and make them say “it’s us!” to the guests, as well as print on paper that was a size and thickness that I wanted.

So, in addition to the actual image that would be printed onto the save the dates, what was going to be my canvas? Rectangle, square, circle, triangle, trapezoid? Ivory, white, metallic, vellum?

I browsed through many websites for inspiration, such as Bella Figura (I almost made out with the computer screen) and Sanskripts. And lookee lookee what I found. Who knew that rounded corners could push such an emotional button?

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Let’s not dwell on niceties and instead jump right into wedding things, shall we? Researching stationery was one of the ways I found Weddingbee, so it’s a good place to start.

Invitations and Save the Dates are the first glimpse that guests have of your wedding, and therefore take on a certain importance–you want it to say something about the couple’s style, as well as convey the feel and tone of the wedding. In my search for invitations to purchase, I continually came across brides who had made their own invitations. Make my own invitations? I hadn’t even considered it, didn’t know it was possible (beyond writing with magic marker on posterboard).

When I saw the variety of homemade yet professional-looking invitations, I also saw a lot of the word “Gocco” flying around. This is old hat for some of you, but for those of you new to Gocco (and may have missed Miss Pretzel’s cool tutorial), here’s a short intro: Gocco is a screen printing process that allows you to create your own design for a variety of media, including stationery. You create an image on paper, make a carbon photocopy, burn the carbon photocopy image onto a screen with the bulbs provided by Gocco, and then ink the screen with whatever colors and press it down onto your media.

There are already a lot of posts regarding Gocco and the basics of using a Gocco, like Mrs. Pretzel’s posts and these videos:
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Hello all! Here I am! Ta-da!

(crickets chirping)

What, you’re like, who? It’s me, the Weddingbee reader who’s been avidly following this site for over a year, voraciously reading the daily posts, meticulously combing the archives of all my favorite bees (I know I’m not the only one who has spent a late night or a “work break” clicking “more by Miss/Mrs. ____”!), applied once to be a bee and was REJECTED, tried again, and now I’m here!

Still not helpful? Well let me give some specifics and me and Mr. Pug (the husband to be).

Mr. Pug and I live in a small apartment, with our pug, in NYC. Within a few blocks of our apartment are several delectable bakeries, which is important because I don’t think we can function without constant supplies of sugar. It also doesn’t hurt that there is a cozy neighborhood wine shop nearby—nothing like a bottle of bubbly stashed in the fridge 24/7. Who’s with me on that one?

I like to cook and bake, and we love to have people over for dinner and serve them food on funny paper plates (shaped like skulls or candy corn in October; Barbie princess plates for birthdays) because our “dishwasher” putters out (i.e. Mr. Pug doesn’t want to do the dishes). We enjoy horrible TV shows (him: Korean drama series and me: Girls Next Door), and bestow unreasonable amounts of attention on our pug. In short, we are big dorks.

We met over three years ago when a friend set us up on a date, and we got engaged two years later while on vacation. Here’s the fam:

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