Our STDs. Haha, no, not that kind…
At first, I had wanted to do something really creative with our Save the Dates. I’ve seen some pretty extraordinary ones around the wedding blogosphere (messages in bottles, newsletters, playbills, silk-screened tea towels, movies, etc.). I would’ve loved to sink my hands into a project like that, but then reality set in. Sending out 100 sets of any of the above would’ve costed us a pretty penny. Also, a large portion of Rob’s invitees were friends of his family or extended family that he hasn’t seen in a decade or more. Some might have forgotten who he is and most don’t know what he looks like as an adult. They certainly don’t know who I am or what I look like either. That was about one-fourth of our invitees by the way.
We loved our engagement pictures so much that we decided to go simple and use one of our favorites as our STD. It’s one of the more intimate pictures and it partially revealed our faces so that people would be able to recognize us. We photoshopped all the vital information* on one end of the photo and printed them out via Costco’s photo services. We made a whole bunch of magnets with our monogram thanks to Mrs. Pineapple’s tutorial on Weddingbee. Then we printed out envelopes, stuffed them with the 4×6 photo/cards and threw in about three of our monogram magnets.
These were a huge hit among our close friends and family. I still love how artsy it looks!
*Vital information is apparently subjective. I thought it would be important to include our first and last names. You know, for that fourth of invitees who might not know who we were? Rob had so much confidence that everyone was going to figure it out themselves via our wedding website that he only included the url to it. Turns out, pretty much no one paid any attention to that url and very few guests went on our website. We still got questioned even after the invitation packets were sent about travel and accommodations. “Lazy people = clueless wedding guest” post will be forthcoming. It sucked a$$ because I stayed up late working on that website for several weeks to make sure it has all the info guests would need. Anyways, sorry for the side rant. C’est la vie!
