Snafus

In my excitement about finalizing our save the date bookmarks, I completely forgot about some important details:

Envelopes

Stamps

Labels

Oops! This created a whole new set of questions that needed to be answered. For some weird reason, Ohio could not figure out what the big deal was. Couldn’t I just put them in a normal envelope, print out some labels and stick some stamps on them? Well, I guess I could- but I really didn’t want to. So instead I proceeded to spend a ton of time online and at local paper stores trying to figure out what to do.

Step one I decided would be to figure out the right envelopes. Since our bookmarks are earthy looking- I decided to try and find brown envelopes. Luckily I happened across these awesome recycled brown envelopes on Amazon.

I think these are perfect for our save the date bookmark! And they are just $18 for a box of 500 (Just 3 cents each!). Seeing as we only need to mail out about 80 bookmarks, this means we have a lifetime supply of envelopes leftover.

For our postage stamp, at first I wanted to create our own postage stamp online using the monogram that our Etsy designer created for us. But then I had to put my frugal bride hat back on and I decided that going with the King and Queen of Hearts stamp would be just as cute.

Now came the hard part- the labels. I did not want to use plain white or clear labels. I searched everyone for cute labels. I searched tons of websites, visited several paper and craft stores- and didn’t find anything! Then, just as I was giving up hope and resigning myself to using blah boring labels I ran across these Labels in Curry from Papersource.Com: Perfect! Even better is that they have matching envelope seals.







All in all, deciding on labels, envelopes and stamps has set back sending our save the dates by over a week. I guess this teaches me a lesson to think about all the details of a project at the beginning to avoid wasting so much time at the end!

Did you run into any snafus with your wedding planning or get caught up in little details like envelope labels?