Save the Date Cards

The Save the Date postcards arrived yesterday. I'm in love with the printing company. It all started with me looking at various printing companies when I thought about designing my own invitations. I then ordered invitation samples from them and fell in love with a design.

As of now, I'm still undecided about the invitations so I held off on ordering the Save the Dates because I felt they had to match. I've come to terms with this -- my invites may or may not match my Save the Dates. Did I just say that?

I initially wanted Save the Date magnets and then I started messing with the online designing feature of the postcards. I loved the fact that I could put important information on the backside of the postcard. With a magnet, most people will open the envelope and toss the envelope. I wanted people to have our mailing address handy just in case. The postcard has our phone numbers, my email address, our wedding website address, and a little message to our guests encouraging them to visit our wedding website. I still like the idea of the magnet then I looked at our refrigerator and wondered why I had no magnets on the front. Our refrigerator is not magnetic on the front side so all of our holiday cards are stuck on the side.

I addressed most of them today. I had to visit three post offices in order to buy postcard stamps. At the second post office, the worker suggested I buy a bunch of .20 and .01 stamps. I reminded her the current postcard rate is .29 and adhering 10 stamps onto a postcard may be problematic.

I realize that they are going out a little earlier than usual but our wedding is semi-destination and all guests will have to travel. Las Vegas is not very difficult for many of our guests to get to but we wanted to make sure people had a heads up -- even though, we've been talking about it to our family and friends so they're aware.