Save the dates (all the dates)...

Knowing for the US wedding we would have several people traveling we sent out the STD very early in September. For less than $100 we were able to make send and get them out. A brief way of doing this was as follows:

1) Get a great picture of the two of you without hiring a professional. ex- take it yourself, have a family member or a stranger in the park. Our best one after all that turned out to be this:


2) Browse places that print photo cards. We happened to be on a tight time line and needed to have them made and addressed ASAP so we checked out templates and CVS.com (and the like) and walmart.com. Examples of what you can get are as follows (with much in between):


3) Insert photo, write up text, order (pick up an hour later)

4) Hand write, attach stamp and get in the mail in under 24 hours.....



Luckily... for the UK we had a bit more time. Also both of us feel that this is more a celebration and party and less formal. I also had become obsessed with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiELDUYnQfA

Dinosaurs and Hellogoodbye singing our cake cutting song.... its too perfect not to use. So Mr. FMB took the reigns and has sketched this up for our UK STD:


Very much less formal... but also very us. Any thoughts or suggestions?


Did you design your own stationary from scratch or borrowed a template? As a STD is sent out early (before out budget was discussed) did you end up spending more or less on it? How much should it cost just to let people know?