Guest List.

Who knew finalizing a guest list would be so difficult? Not me, but I think we've finally done it-or so I hope. We've recently been sending out our Save the Dates, and now that that's done, I suppose I can blog about it. 

I spent a good two months designing our Save the Dates. I'll admit I got a little head over heels with the idea of doing everything myself, but I've learned my lesson. I went through 3 separate designs for the Save the Date cards, and made little changes to those about 50 different times. I finally settled on the ones we sent out, printed them out at home on paper, and at the photo store to make sure they looked alright printed. I thought they looked great. So I sent them out for printing through a photo company that printed them on pearl card stock paper. The colors printed out a lot darker than I wanted, and they added a border on them because the "image was too close to the edge". Ahhh! I let them sit here in the box for a few weeks before I got over it.

I ordered a set of kraft paper envelopes, and USPS' Garden of Love Forever stamps. I ended up addressing each envelope by hand, which was nice for the first half of them, until I got a hand cramp. 

After all was said and done, I don't hate these Save the Dates. They definitely make me realize that I cannot do everything for this wedding myself, and I will not be attempting my own formal invitations. 

Hopefully in the next week or so, I will start a few DIY decor ideas working with burlap, paint, tissue paper, and beer bottles-not all for the same craft, but I have high expectations for these ideas! Wish me luck.