Save the Dates

So, one of my biggest undertakings thus far in the wedding planning process has been my Save the Dates. I feel like they deserve a bit of an explanation for various reasons.

First off, I did not intend on creating save the dates at all. I felt like it's somewhat pretentious of me to think that people need to know months and months in advance when I am getting married so they can be certain to be there. I just don't feel like I have that much pull in this world. However, I was given a surprise 19th birthday party (I am not placing blame on anyone for this) in the basement of my parents' home a few years ago where approximately 8 people showed up. It was painful and awkward and something I vowed to avoid at all costs ever again. There is a part of me that is worried that those doors are going to open for me to walk down that aisle to a church of 8 people (okay there would probably be more than 8). Either way, I want people to come to my wedding. I do.

In the midst of my wedding planning, I have become an avid reader of some wedding blogs. I didn't even know wedding blogs existed before I got engaged, but they are addictive. One day I came across a save the date idea that a groom oddly enough had created. The concept of this couple's STD (haha, I just realized the acronym for save the date is STD. I will be using that from now on!)was What John and Sue will be doing the 189 days leading up to getting married. It was funny. The groom explained his idea was to document their engagement through Facebook status update sort of snippets. It was random stuff they were supposedly doing like starting wedding diets and watching specific TV shows.

I decided the idea was really clever. I then took it a step further and decided to make ours about our relationship leading up to the engagement, rather than the time after we got engaged. I spent a few hours writing it (I loved this part and would suggest anyone else to do the same thing if you want to remember the good stuff about you and your significant other). Cody even got involved and as you would assume thought of some really funny lines. I then had to print them and go through the unbelievable process of proofreading all that junk!

In the end, I love our STD's (hehe). I think they're cute and very Cody and Katyesque. I realized that they became really personal throughout the process though and felt somewhat weird about sending them to acquaintances that I am planning on inviting. I was afraid people who don't closely know Cody and me would be a little freaked out by a card that provides too much information. So if you did not receive a save the date, don't assume that means we're not inviting you to the wedding. I mainly sent the STD's to people that I really felt close to.

If you'd like to see the save the dates my superstar MOH posted some pics of them to her blog at http://theschluter.blogspot.com/. You should defintely go check them out!