Save the dates sent!
First, a big yay that my partner thomwatson has joined the community! (His intro is here, and here's mine to refresh your memories.) Thanks for being so welcoming. Now that we're both on here, we kid about it:
Thom: I thought you were going to post on LJ about our save-the-dates.
Me: Yeah, I better do that soon ... or you will!
[actually in fact he did already have a post about it on our wedding blog!]
or
Me: Wow, you have like 50 comments on your intro post!
Thom: Is that more comments than on yours?
Me: Yeah.
Thom [condescendingly]: It's not a competition.
Haha, we crack each other up.
So we sent out our first wave of save-the-date cards last week. Our wedding is September 26, 2009, so I know it's traditionally a little late for STDs, but we have relatively few out-of-towners and actually we'd already informally told those folks about the date beforehand. And anyway we fell in love with this design, so we couldn't resist!
Thom had come across the stationery company Hello!Lucky just while websearching about invitations, and only later did we find out they'd been in Martha Stewart's wedding magazine/blog and so forth. I guess we just knows what we likes, haha. They were great to work with, and made up for a delay on their part by including rush processing for free.
(These pics are from Thom's Flickr account.) Front and back:
Front:
Back:
Thom came up with the rhyming couplet on the card: "In the city of the Golden Gate / we're getting hitched, so save the date!" OK, teh cute, no?
One of the default color schemes was chocolate and pool (perfect for our colors), but the sample we saw in their shop also had red accents, so we asked for that too. The design is called "Visit San Francisco" and is like a vintage postcard. We're not having a destination wedding per se - we live just minutes outside San Francisco - but I love the feel of it, especially since our wedding will be at the Cliff House, a historic landmark restaurant overlooking the ocean. It's like a beach wedding without the sand in your shoes!
Our default plan is to go with matching invitations, but we may push our main theme (retro tiki/tropical) more and go in that direction, think like tiki masks, travel posters, palm trees, etc. We'll see!