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Sidenote: I recognize the difficulty in ignoring the misfortune of the STD acronym and will not blame you for giggling—I happen to chuckle to myself every time I type out those three little letters.
As with the bridesmaids cards, this non-crafty gal had lofty do-it-yourself dreams when it came to our save-the-dates. I think I first started imagining how the STDs would look around January of 2009—nearly a year before we would even send them out. You would think with all that time, I would have been able to accomplish something cute like this:
Or creative, like this?:
Perhaps something a bit more fun, like this?
Images via Martha Stewart Weddings
Ultimately, I learned a life lesson: an abundance of time is not always your friend. With over a year to design, assemble and send off the world's most creative STD (*chuckle*), I felt overwhelmed! My STD taste bounced from balloons to magnets to bookmarks and I kept telling myself I had all the time in the world to figure it out.
Well. Then eight months passed.
With our wedding date landing on a Friday and our elevated number of out-of-town guests, I knew we wanted to send out save-the-date notes at the start of 2011 to give people sufficient time to make proper work and travel arrangements. After twiddling my thumbs for so long, I surmised it was time to get down to STD business.
I sat down with myself and had a brainstorming session. Could I really see myself assembling over 150 bookmarks or calendars? Did I really want save-the-date magnets? I eventually concluded that the answers to those questions were, "no" and I felt helpless. Until I remembered 1999.
In October of 1999, Rob Thomas married Marisol Maldonado in Santa Ynez, California:
Image via Wedding Sutra
Now you may be asking yourselves what in the world they have to do with my save-the-dates, so I will explain.
Next post!
What influenced your STD style?Next post!
Lots of love,
Miss Seal
3 Comments:
You know, you could have sat me down with a glue stick and told me what to do. I like making silly things!
This was probably better though, because they're classy and all that jazz.
Two posts in two days? You're a machine!
well, we only had a 6 month engagement so.....no STD's for us. i remember wanting to do them. we always have done photo booth pics, and i saw a really cute PB STD (i'm into abreves) where each photo had 1. save 2. the 3. date 4. 11-11-11 on a card held by the couple. cute. i love your
STD style too. simply elegant.
@Tracy: My little helper! I should've known you would help...
And thanks! I'm 3 for 3, now!
@Jen: I didn't realize your engagement was only 6 months, my goodness! I couldn't even imagine...but you are superwoman, so it doesn't surprise me that you pulled off such a beautiful wedding so quickly! And I looove the PB STDs too--they are super cute!
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