Save The Date! Halloween 2010

I am very excited to say I've just placed my order for my save the date cards to be printed! I used my graphic design skills to totally make them myself. Phew! It took a while, but I'm quite happy with the way they look (in PhotoShop anyway.) They should be printed and shipped in the next few days and I can work on addressing them over the weekend. I wanted to get them out soon because there seems to be quite a bit of confusion and people think I'm getting married this year. I don't want this Halloween to pass and anyone thinks I just didn't invite them to the wedding. I've happily been having a money-saving day today and before I checked out online I searched for a coupon and found one for $20 off my order. SUPER SWEET! So, I'm quite happy. I always am proud to see my hard work being printed out anyway, but this is just way more exciting than usual since when people get these cards they'll be preparing for our big party next year.

I don't want to wreck the surprise when it comes to your mailbox, so here's just a tiny glimpse of how it turned out.

Now I need to work on my mailing addresses for the labels. Yikes. That will be a challenge all in itself. I should probably put a little effort into it and make myself a mailing list on my computer so I can use this again for printing out invitations and for Holiday cards and stuff, huh? Let's see how this goes.

I ordered some cool crafty items for Oriental Trading co last night. While I have some free time during the summer, I'm hoping I can make out save-the-date mailers. I read since our Date is on a Holiday, we can send those out 1 year in advance, and that's just a couple months away, so it's not too crazy to get started with them if I'm making them by hand I think. I like the idea of a post card, because then you don't have to waste an envelope, but I also like the idea of a magnet. I'm not sure which we will go with, but I got some lace & ribbon looking stamps that can be used to dress up either type of invite. They will also work nicely with the scrapbooking stuff I've beend doing. So, it's a double hitter there. =)

I registered at JC Penny today, thanks to the advice of Kim. They hook brides-to-be up with some good information and free stuff, so it's worth it already. I even found some cool stuff on their website to add to the registry. I think we will also be doing an Amazon registry, since that's more of the stuff we always are spending our money on. But, a gift is a gift, and we'd be totally happy and grateful for anything we'd get to kick start our married life together.

I also added a wedding date countdown to the blog today. How exciting! 480 days to go! =) So much to do! teehee.

We've narrowed down the sites at least. Now we just need to go visit them and see which one we want. This is really getting official now. It's going to be such an awesome party!