Well, I think that people make some good points about save-the-dates. For instance, this discussion over at East Side Bride makes me nervous about sending postcards, which is what we could afford. And Meg notes rightly that paper save-the-dates just confuse older people, who are the only people we'd send them to, anyway.* BUT. If we could afford gorgeous, letterpressed save-the-dates in envelopes, these would be the ones I'd choose. The teal! The lettering! The asymmetry! The typeface! I love them.
Christine of .cevd. (who, by the way, has an awesome blog over at pretty.pretty.paper) is the goddess of custom stationary. And it isn't just invites and save-the-dates, either (although isn't this red lace set perfect?). She can hook you up with everything from programs to bulldog thank-you notes.
And if you live in SoCal, you should also go check out her new shop. And her real bulldog. Who is awesome.*Sorry to Mouse's mom, but everybody fifty and younger gets electronic save-the-dates.
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POSTCARDS ARE FINE. I mean, you are going to talk to people too, right? Mention your getting married, right?
Fine. Envelopes are expensive (we did them) and like doing your invites twice.
Haha we mostly only sent our save-the-dates to the younger people! The date gets passed on by word of mouth anyway, the save the date is more of a way to say "get psyched! It's happening! Woo!" than to actually inform people of the date. And ours were kind of jokey (see: http://accordionsandlace.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/saving-the-date/) so we only sent them to people we thought would enjoy them. As postcards, yes. And some got lost, it's true. But they weren't actually that important, so when we found out some got lost, we just resent them, no biggie, and they happily adorn most of our friends' fridges to this day.
I'm starting to think that phone calls would be plenty sufficient.
But I liiiiike postcards, too...
We're sending postcard save-the-dates. I'm not worried about the "getting lost" factor.
Did you happen to catch this week's Mad Men? Peggy's idea for the Western Union ad campaign come to mind here: "You can't frame a phone call." I still believe there's something special and romantic about receiving mail. Letters and cards. Not bills and junk.
Love your blog. Congrats to you and He-Mouse.
Nicole, I totally agree about having something tangible. As a hoarder of bits of paper, ephemera, and random flat stuff, I always save other people's save-the-dates, invites, programs, and anything else that will squish down.
Glad you like the blog!
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