Like a Boomerang...

it came back!

Our Save the Date that is.

We sent a Save the Date to ourselves from the next county over last week {to make sure that all my formatting was good...and able to make it through the rigorous USPS standards, see below} and it came back to us!

Yay! This means we can get to addressing and mailing ALLLLLL of our huge amount of Save the Dates! {at this point our estimates are for over 115 households. Households people -- not guests. Yikes!}

Since I have been talking about them forever, and haven't shown y'all anything, here is a picture of the original design of the back of the postcard...

We couldn't use it because of the aforementioned rigorous standards {read: after I spent hours perfecting this design I found out that there were certain dimensions I had to adhere to for borders, and that there were no colors or writing [besides the address] allowed on the 'address side' of the postcard...booooooo. So, while I hope they will still be delivered with care, Mr. Postman has no explicit instructions.}

BUT, the new design doesn't really differ that much, and I still love it...seriously.

Yay! Get excited for mail!

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Save the Date!

Our Save the Dates have arrived!

As I was leaving the house to come to work this morning, imagine my surprise as the DHL man came traipsing up to ME!

"What can this be?" I thought to myself for a quick moment...and then it dawned on me that this little package held 250 postcards - of my own design {!}- much sooner than expected thanks to the lovely customer service at Vista Print.

Yay! More later on why we decided to go with postcards, and the design itself...

As an aside, let me admit to you all that as much as I adore blogging, sometimes I find it a struggle with whether or not I should reveal things on here, or leave them a surprise since I suspect the majority of people who actually read this will be guests. Luckily, more often than not my naturally tendency to have someone with me to jump around and scream and be excited wins out - though now that only happens via comments - but whatevs, you get my drift.

So here it is, in writing, the day that we will be getting m-a-r-r-i-e-d!

When, when, when should I send them? In Martha this month it said you can send them up to one year in advance, if your guests are traveling (which a majority of ours are) BUT I feel that may be overzealous? And then I have to factor in them getting lost in the holiday card shuffle...so maybe middle of January? Can I hold onto them that long????

Married friends, planning friends, when did you / do you plan to send yours?

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