Enveloped by Envelopes

Details, details, details...the stuff that wedding blogs are made of! Few brides miss these glorious opportunities to turn paper into noteworthy style. I count myself among the detail-obsessed, and perhaps not for the better.

Envelopes. You need 'em to mail things. Insert item. Lick.
Seal. Address. Stamp. Release. Simple, right? Hardly.

After receiving our lovely Save the Dates, I became obsessed with their presentation. You may remember them from my earlier post, but here they are again:



The portion with the date and name information is a magnet that peels off the card. Awesome, huh?

Originally these came in ivory envelopes. Our plan was to run them through our handy-dandy home printer, and throw on some stamps I'd created at zazzle with our monogram. Then, I hit the blogs. With all the creative STDs out there, I started thinking ours were, well...ordinary.

What about wraparound labels?


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They will make our envelopes really stand out! So, I asked the lovely Jessica to make some for us, and they were awesome. I set to assembling them for mailing.

But, something was bugging me. The labels had an ivory background, like the envelopes. The stamp, however, had a white background. D'oh! Ok, so let's nix the stamps. I know, let's use a photo stamp instead! Those are so popular and cute. So, I spent more hours than I care to admit perfectly centering our photo on a zazzle stamp and sending links to Mr. McBriderson. Sometime during that period, I decided that I HAD to have colored envelopes. Why? There is no rhyme or reason, my dears.

So, here we are, photo stamp in hand, brown envelopes delivered speedily to my workplace, and we're ready to pull the trigger. Right? Right?? Ummm, no. Sorry. FAIL.

While sitting on the couch in front of Jersey Shore (don't judge)ready to assemble, I tell Mr. McBriderson that I just can't do it. A look of panic crosses his face. The wedding? No, silly, the stamps. They just made the whole thing look too, I don't know, gimmicky...

Behold (the terrible quality that is my phone camera):




It was just too much. The magnet with the colored envelope with the wraparound label with the photostamp. It's like I'd crammed every Save the Date trend into one. Although, I should've put a photo on the magnet, too, if I really wanted to make that statement true!

So, after careful consideration, we went with a wedding cake stamp. I don't yet have a photo of the finished product as it went out, but it looked good. Classy, even. And thank goodness, because reliving the envelope/stamp debacle as I was writing this was a bit exhausting.

Have you been guilty of over-detailing your wedding?