Well, it’s actually the ugly packaging!

My future brother-in-law said it best, “why not a magnet, a card, or a postcard like everyone else!”, my response “because I’m not like everyone else”.  Though he was only messing with me, the truth is I did opt out for the non-traditional Save-the-Date.  Since I wanted it to be different, I spent a lot of man hours trying to put it together; I spent hours practicing in a program I had never used just to get the introduction I wanted.  Well, the point I am trying to make is that I spent so much time on the Save-the-Date, that I overlooked packaging them.

Since I was overdue to send them, I created a quick cover to print at Kinko’s for the Dvd covers.
It was going as planned until the rep at Kinko’s told me it would be an additional $1.50 PER CUT, in other words $6.00 per cover. I decided to use  a paper cutter, I mean how hard could that be.  The same night I went to meet up with the ladies at Elephant bar for dinner; we ended up asking to borrow scissors to try to make it work. (They didn’t see it coming, I turned dinner into a working dinner, hehe! it didn’t last long 🙂

Thou art chosen to be amongst….okay so it’s not that serious!

Picking the bridesmaids (bm’s) seemed to be a harder task than expected. There is no scheme, technique or practical method just a load of confusion. A confusion simply because when I jotted down the names of possible bm’s, I had over a dozen names. I could already see faces reading the previous sentence and thinking “do you seriously think you have that many close friends”, answer yes (at least I think) and I have 6 sisters.  Now, as many articles suggest and as a good friend of mine said, “make sure your bridesmaids are ladies you can count on and know they will be there for you”.  Made perfect sense but the list didn’t budge so much.

In the end, I made a decision that I knew would be best for both parties; besides not everyone can be a bridesmaid! but they can still be lovely ladies without a title.  Though, I may have not picked some of these ladies they knew I still loved them and that is what mattered.

Moving along, next was the task of asking. A simple phone call couldn’t complete it for me so instead I created a card.

Or more like initials in lights…

I never realized there were a million and one fonts until I was looking for the best one to use for our monogram.

I went the easiest route (in my opinion) to create the monogram…entering PowerPoint! I looked into two possible fonts that seemed appealing for our monogram.