Random Wedding Related Errands pt. 2

I found myself in Staples today shopping for labels to stick on our SAVE THE DATE card envelopes. There's a whole wall of different labels to choose from, but quickly I narrowed it down and discovered there were really only two choices to make: what color and what size. Seems simple enough right? I mean, it's just a label. Does anyone actually pay attention to it at all? Plus, it's not the actual wedding invitation, it's just the SAVE THE DATE card. Not that it isn't important, but let's not get too crazy about the labels.

Naturally, I called Dana from the packing/mailing aisle of Staples to make sure I didn't come home with the wrong labels. What a catastrophe that would be! So, with the cell phone to my ear, I walked her through the two major decisions. The first one was made relatively quickly. "White or clear labels?" I asked, though I was fairly certain what her response would be. "Clear," she responded with a firm and confident tone (it turns me on when she makes decisions). Next was size. There were basically three sizes to choose from, best defined as small, medium, and large. Last night Dana was very concerned that we would not be able to fit an entire address on a small labels because of her choice of font. And the large labels were almost the size of an envelope itself. So we decided on the medium sized labels, TOGETHER. I'm really excited about them.

Gathering addresses and putting them together is a story in itself. I've been sending text messages and emails out for the past week or so pretty hardcore to my closest family and friends. I can only imagine what it would be like if we were having a bigger wedding. We're only inviting about 180 people, and since my sister is getting married next month, my Mom had most of our family addresses already saved in a Word document, which SAVED ME alot of time. Still, the SAVE THE DATE cards are not in the mail. But hey, I got the labels!

I must say, picking out the SAVE THE DATE cards was surprisingly painless. We stumbled into Papyrus in Bronxville, which is a sick little hidden Westchester town by the way, and ended up getting them on a total whim. Papyrus has a bunch of binders filled with SAVE THE DATE cards and wedding invitations to flip through. And considering the amount of choices, we both gravitated pretty quickly towards one in particular. It was simple and classy, no picture or cheesey theme. So without even planning to do so, we picked our SAVE THE DATE cards out. The girls that worked in their were flipping out over the one we picked too, as if no one had ever thought to use it in the history of love and marriage. "OH MY GOD, THAT ONE IS SOOOO PRETTY!!!" Even when we went to pick our order up last week, they were still in awe of them. It was as if they had been talking about our SAVE THE DATE cards for three weeks straight. Were they just gassing us to make us feel like we made a great decision, or did they really dig them that much? Seems like a pretty unnecessary gas to me. Either way, we like them, and we certainly didn't need a co-sign on them from the Papyrus staff, but I admit it was cool to know that the one we picked out was well-liked and not that typical or common. Then again, what do I know?