Weekends are for weddings! If you’re like me, with 9 weddings each year, the weekends are, quite literally, for weddings (attending them, that is). Also if you’re like me, the weekend is a time to think about planning your own wedding. Lots of people carve out a certain time each week for to wedding planning (Wedding Wednesday seems to be very popular). It ensures the wedding doesn’t take over their whole lives; however, I find that confining wedding planning to a specific time is too pressure-filled and bicker-prone. I plan my wedding when inspiration strikes. Weekends, in particular, offer the time to let my mind roam and plan my own wedding in a stress-free environment. In this series, I’ll take you through some of my major planning steps – hopefully this will help you plan your own wedding!
The save the date is the first guest-facing item that goes out for your wedding. That’s big. Don’t screw it up! That’s what I kept saying to myself, at least.
There are so many invite options that I wasn’t sure where to start. Albert and I wanted something FUN to announce our wedding. All of the more unique options I found were picture free. It seemed I could go one of two ways: photo-centric OR witty/original, not both. “But we took all those engagement photos for a reason,” Albert said. While I pushed for a more unique format, Albert wanted to make sure there was a picture people could put on their fridge, just like we had done with all our friends’ save the dates.
I give Albert so much credit here because when I said it couldn’t be done to have something we hadn’t seen before AND a photo, he did a little digging and found the most perfect save the date ever via Paper Truly. It’s a custom mailer that looks like an old telegram. We wrote the copy to include a pun with the traditional telegram “stop” language (see below). Then, attached to the “telegram” by paperclip was one of the photos from our engagement shoot that the artist antique-ified. The whole thing was sent in an envelope designed to look like airmail.
This save the date could not have been more “us”. Albert and I both love the tradition and nostalgia of old-timey things and have a particular fondness for the Gatsby/prohibition era. We were looking to include some of those wistful elements in the wedding itself and this invite set the tone. I’m pretty much OBSESSED with them.
Peaches to Apples 