STDs

To those in the wedding blogosphere, that usually very scary acronym stands for "Save the Date".  This is a sort of pre-invitation listing only the most basic details of the wedding (couple's names, wedding date, and city).  They're usually pretty casual compared to the invitations, and are totally optional.  I decided to send these out because we're going to have so many out-of-town guests for the wedding.  I wanted to give them as much notice as possible so they could look for good deals on airfare and hotels and, knowing me, I was afraid I wouldn't send out invitations until two weeks before the big day.

So, I knew I wanted to make STDs (teehee, that makes me giggle every time!), but I'm generally lacking a craft gene and didn't think I could pull it off.  I showed my sister a link on Martha Stewart Weddings for this project, just because I found it adorable, but with no expectation to actually make it happen.  The next weekend she called me from Michael's to let me know she was buying supplies and what color paper and ribbon did I want?  She's pretty awesome like that.

Once we got all the supplies, I printed these out on my home printer:

Sorry for the blurred-out details.   Internet anonymity and all that jazz.

The next weekend I went to Jaymi's apartment and we spent an entire evening hole punching, stamping, and tying bows.  Here's the finished version:

 
 We got about half of them assembled, and then the next weekend my sister and my wonderful bridesmaid Danielle came over to my house to finish things up and add address labels and stamps (don't worry, they were paid generously in pizza and sangria).  After all was said and done, here's the final product:
 

So there you have it!  The STD project that would not have been without some gentle shoving from my sister and tons of manual labor from my two besties.  Next post: the invites themselves.