Sunday, December 28, 2008

I Need an STD!

Quite obviously not a Real STD! But a Save The Date! I've technically missed my window to send a Save The Date, which are generally sent six months prior to the wedding, But I figure if I jump on it now, No one will notice that they are really being sent out 5 months before the wedding!
I had really hoped to have decided on invitations at this point, so that my Save The Date could coordinate, but again, sadly I have not...I'm really slacking on all of this wedding planning!
I knew I wanted a Save the Date magnet, which helped narrow the field, but then came the decision of whether to have a picture or no picture. Since Zach and I have yet to take our Engagement portraits, I've been waiting till there are leaves on the trees again, initially I thought it would be best to stick to a STD with no picture.
I found this Damask Print Magnet on the Magnet Street Website which I thought carried some of the theme and the basic colors of the wedding.
However in the end I decided that this magnet was a little bit to formal for my outdoor reception wedding and looked a bit too stuffy for our personalities...
Then I came across this STD From the Website Pioneer Color which I felt like was much more whimsical and "Us" and super cheap, less that a dollar each, with envelopes included!
But the issue was that this magnet has a picture! The only pictures that I really have of Zach and I, while numerous, are taken at football games, fraternity parties, and at bars...Not really the capture the moment romantic picture that I feel like I should feature on the refrigerators of every person attending our wedding...With no time for engagement photos, and a Fiance out of town for the next three weeks, and on a time crunch, I had to make due with the pictures I have...I ended up choosing a picture taken in front of Zach's Fraternity house before a Georgia Tech football game. Its a good picture of the both of us, but took alot of work trying to edit out the beer cans in the background!
I should be getting a proof soon, which I'll post as soon as I get it!
The next question I encountered was whether I should do a details card in with the Save the Date, to let our guests know where we have reserved a block of rooms and where we are registered. The sample magnet on the website featured the couples website, which reminded me that I too have a Knot wedding web page! So I ended up going back, and doing some more work to it so it could be more of a resource for our guests. Our Website.
While the website will be able to be a resource for most of our guests, there are still a few who are not quite "up" on computers, so for those people I have decided to go ahead and order a few details cards to include in their STDs. Only including the details cards in the STDs of our computer illiterate family and friends and depending on everyone else visiting the website ended up saving about $200! See I am budget conscious!

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