180 Days to Go - Save the Dates

Save the Dates

This past weekend, I finally got to print my save the dates. As someone who is going by a strict wedding schedule (i.e. sending save the dates out 6 months from the wedding day), I was kind of anxious to get them sent out. 

I enjoy it when I'm working on something rather monotonous, and I find a way to make it fun. Doesn't everyone? For me, color & a change in perspective can brighten any situation. My choice of the colorful Save the Date pattern (it matches the material from the bridesmaid dresses), magnetic paper, colorful envelopes, and romantic stamps made the experience much more exciting. 

Within the first ten minutes of printing our save the dates out on magnetic paper, I found that when a printer gets hot, it starts to melt the magnet... needless to say, I lost a few good ones.

The only thing I am not excited about is the way the photo printed with a green tint. It blends with the fabric background, but our picture looks more greenish blue than black and white. :-/

In the end, we decided to skip the fate of ruining the printer, and instead just print them on cardstock and glue them to the magnetic sheets. 

After printing 15-20 pages (4 to a page for a total of 80 Save the Dates), I bought a bottle of Elmer's Adhesive Spray glue from the nearby grocery store, took a few pages of newspaper, and sat down to experiment in front of two huge metal closet doors.

The beauty of the magnets is that once I sprayed a layer of the glue to the magnetic sheet, and stuck the cardstock carefully on top, I would put it on my closet door to allow it time to dry, and dry flat. 

Then, I had to slowly cut each page evenly into four separate Save the Dates. 

I started to put a few into the envelopes, and because I wanted to wait to seal them, I decided to stick those to the closet doors as well. :-)

 After assigning each printed envelope a Save the Date magnet, I continued to line them up on my closet door. 

 The wonderful thing about these envelopes: not only were they pastel colors that matched the inner Save the Date decoration, but they also had "Peel to Seel" closures!

  I went down each line of envelopes, peeling each one, then in one fair swoop, closed an entire row at a time. It went by so fast. I'm thankful. 

 Adding the colorful bouquets of stamps to my colorful bouquet of envelopes was not as exciting as the rest, but it went by fairly quickly. 

Save the Dates are officially sent... Less than 6 months to go!!!